Day 4 Filming

We began filming the group and individual shots for the last part of the song on Wednesday 6th October at the barn house.

We arrived at the Barn House at 9am after me and Laura collected a new camera and a couple of tapes from school in the hope that we could find what we were meant to film on Sunday!

The first problem we came across was that the quality of the camera looked much different to the one we had been using previously. The colour on the screen looked like it had a blue tint and we thought we were going to have to go and get a new camera which would have wasted a lot of time. After adjusting the settings we managed to get it back to normal.

We began filming a few basic close-ups of each girl lip syncing to the chorus in the bedroom but we soon realised these shots really weren't that good. As we carried on filming we realised we were faced with a lot more problems than we initially thought. Here are some examples:

• We wanted a lot of our indoor shots to be brightly lit and we thought the barn house would be a perfect location for this to happen due to the large windows. Instead most of the shots came out looking very dull even with the inside lights on. Because the windows let in so much light, when we were in front of the camera we turned out looking very dark.
• Although the barn house is large - a lot of the rooms weren't very spacious as the home is so homely and there is a lot of general things around. This made framing a shot or finding an appropriate background difficult.
• We realised that although we didn't want a totally modernised house to film in, the barn house was just a bit too dated. We wanted old but with a of a modern twist but we just looked odd and out of place.
• The zoom button would not work properly! This was very frustrating as we couldn't film any shots that we wanted zoomed in or zoom in slowly.
• When we thought filming couldn't get any worse -the battery on the camera died within an hour of use! This meant the end of filming today and that we would have to reschedule to film these shots for the 3rd time!

The new plan of action:

We have all decided that the barn house wasn't working and we that we needed a change of location. We will now film these shots in Sophie's house, as well as being better lit, it has more of the old with a modern twist feel that we were looking for.

Because we abandoned filming when the battery died it means we are behind our schedule. Luckily we are ahead of the deadline schedule which means we can afford for things to go wrong. I think the change in location will make us feel more positive about filming as so far a lot of things have gone wrong! It also means that we can film whenever we want as we don't have to have permission from some-one outside our production group.