Week 8

This week was when we decided to start filming some shots for our music video. We started off with many practice shots as we wanted to get to grips with the pace of the song, lip syncing and whether the locations we wanted to film in are suitable. By doing so it helped us to get the best shots we could. After a lot of time spent practicing the lip syncing we couldn't manage to get it completely in time with the song. After we reviewed this footage, we though it would be a good idea to play the song whilst we are filming the lip syncing parts. This helped us get the lip syncing in time with the song so it looked professional and very well done. Although this did take up time practicing, it was in fact very helpful as not only did it improve our abilities, but it also prepared us for the following days when we were going to continue to film.

We then began to start filming our actual music video and the first location we filmed at was weald country park. As our genre was indie, we wanted to create a vintage/natural feel to our video. Therefore by filming in the forest which would have natural lighting, we felt this would be very suitable for our music video. The forest had many different places for our to film with a large lake, giant wall, enclosed areas and a medium sized pond with a bridge. During the days of filming we did come across some problems. One of these was that the memory card broke and would not allow the camera to record on to it. We were able to save the shots that we had on there, but we had to purchase a new memory card in order to carry on filming the following week. This was the main problem we were faced with and the following day I bought a new memory card, so we could get back on track.