First day of filming

On the 9^th of December my group and I went to Wimbledon Common to film parts of our music video. We used our time wisely and shoot all of the scenes that will be used in the forest location at one time, so we would not be running back and forth to capture shots which would probably be different as the natural light would be different. We filmed at around 2.30 to 4 so during filming we were able to capture a beautiful sunset that allowed us to film silhouettes of the trees. Personally I found that the whole filming experience that day went very well, we go all of our shots done in good time and we are now ready to move onto the next location and continue shooting our music video. On the other hand, the only bad thing was the temperature! As it got later the temperature plummeted and we were all half frozen, until we wrapped ourselves around a Starbucks coffee. Wimbledon Common offered some lovely wildlife and horse riders too, we attempted to capture some riders for cut aways but fear of provoking the horses stopped us, in case of an accident.

For the filming we used one of the school cameras with a tripod which proved to work well for tracking and panning. However, while documenting our filming with Iva’s iphone4 we found that the camera on her phone was of incredibly high quality, even more so than the school cameras. Because of this we decided to use both and see if we could incorporate them into the music video together. The only downside to using both types would be the difference in quality of screen creating an amateur look to the music video. Nonetheless, on our next venture into the cold wilderness to film we will use both and if we are able to stabilize her phone properly, we see no reason as to not use her camera for the whole thing!