CONSTUCTION - Day 1 Of Filming - LOCATION 1 FERRY MEADOWS

FILMING IN FERRY MEADOWS

Today we decided that we were ready to film as we have got all our research and planning done.

Today we only filmed in LOCATION 1 - FERRY MEADOWS (because we needed to book the location at school to film and we booked it for tomorrow which we will also film the pond scene as that's also at school which is more convenient AND we need it to be light when we film that.)

We scheduled to meet at 8pm at Jack's house as we needed it to be dark outside when we filmed. What we had learnt from our AS Project is that when we are going to film outside we needed some form of good lighting otherwise the picture quality would not be good, so we decided that we would drive to our location and use the car headlights for lighting which proved to be very effective. We also used to car stereo to play the song while we filmed so our actress could lip sync to the song effectively.

The first thing that we did as a group was to make sure that we were all available to film on this day and that our actress was available, which everyone was and decided to meet at Jack's house.
We made sure that we had all the equipment, props and costumes that we would need for today, which were:

• The video camera and the tripod
• The board (to create the wind in the hair effect!)
• The candles
• The camera to take pictures during filming
• The CD with the song on to play during filming
• The Costume and make-up
• The storyboard
  

When we had all these things ready, Myself and Lottie did the hair and make-up for our actress, which was a white dress and dark-makeup and then we drove to our location making sure we had all the things we needed. We decided that it would be a good idea to take pictures all the way through filming, like we did in our AS Project, because it was good in showing how we did everything and how the filming process went.

We decided that we would all contribute in every aspect of what was happening as we all got together and drew up the storyboard. We all did some filming and all had a say in what shots were working best and what wasn't working.
When one person was filming, the other would be taking pictures and the third would be doing the car lighting and the music and we all swapped round so we all got a chance at everything.

When we actually got to the location we did follow the storyboard and filmed our actress singing the whole song in every shot BUT we also filmed some new shots that we hadn't story boarded because when we got on location we noticed that they would be effective.

While we filmed we decided that we would want a "wind in the hair" effect so we were using boards outside the shot to create this effect which worked well. For the tracking backwards shot we wanted a smooth camera effect so I filmed out the top of the sunroof while the car reversed backwards which was effective when giving the camera shot a smooth movement backwards.

We decided that our best bet would be to film the whole song EVERY SHOT so we would have a larger variety of shots to choose from when we edited it together.
We made sure that we reviewed every shot after we filmed it to make sure whether or not we needed to film it again so we didn't have to come back to our location.

Overall I think that today's filming was very successful as we achieved all that we wanted to as we were fully prepared and worked well as a group.


Here are all the pictures that we took on this day of filming!