Day 2 Filming

We began filming the 2nd day of our music video on Wednesday 28th September at Sophie's boyfriends house.

The aim of today's shoot was to film the flashbacks with Joe and each of the girls that only last about 5-10 seconds at the beginning of the video.

The shots feature Joe (the boyfriend) behind Emily's (the girlfriend) back. The shots will be put together and made to look like he is a compulsive cheater who is cheating on each girl behind all of their backs. We filmed 4 different shots in the same location but made to look like 4 different locations using me, Charlotte, Sophie and Laura separately with Joe.

The first shot we did was where we had Sophie and Joe sitting together on Sophie's sofa and Joe presented Sophie with a ring. We thought a simple medium shot would look best as we want to viewer to focus on what is happening on the sofa and not be distracted by anything in the background. The framing looked very good as the sofa fitted perfectly in the frame. We wanted to make the scene look homely so we had Sophie holding a cup of tea and positioned the actors on the sofa so they looked at home and comfortable. To make the situation look less awkward we decided to add speech which left everyone feeling more at ease. It also made to shot look more realistic, the speech will be muted in the actual video.

The next shot we filmed was the kitchen scene where Laura and Joe were standing around enjoying a glass of wine together. Initially we weren't going to use wine but we came across the bottle at the house and decided it looked realistic. We didn't actually put the real wine in the wine glasses - instead we found a pink coloured fruit juice and used it instead but left the bottle in the background. A medium shot was used once again because we wanted to keep all the flashback simple and in this particular shot we wanted the 2 characters to be emphasized. The framing of the shot turned out well as the kitchen area was small which meant the a lot of kitchens items were in the shot such as the oven and utensils.

Mine and Joe's scene was next to film, we decided to use the bedroom (which is made to look like mine). The scenario was that I was doing my hair in the mirror which was actually the camera and Joe had to come behind me and give me a hug. First of all we tried me sitting on the edge of the bed and looking into a real mirror, but the framing of the shot didn't look right so we decided to use the camera as the mirror which worked really well. We used a medium shot again but took a while to get the right shot as the height difference made it hard. In the end we ended up with a good shot.

The last shot we decided to film was the kissing shot, we are also going to use this last in the line-up of flashbacks as it is the most dramatic. We used the living room again for this shot but opposite the sofa so the 2 shots don't look like they are filmed in the same house. For this shot we thought a close up would look best as it emphasized how much of a cheat Joe was. Once again due to the height differences it was hard to frame but we worked it out by having Charlotte on her tip toes when they kissed.

Today's filming was definitely a success as we got the shots we wanted too without any problems. We managed to get 4 different looking shots out of 1 location and think the shots we did produce are of a high quality and will look good in our video.