Production: Part 2

Filming the performance scenes

When filming our performance scenes at Norden Farm, we already knew we would be very pressed for time. So, we made sure all of the children were there early, as well as being early ourselves so we could go in and set up as soon as possible. We also brought sweets with us and took regular breaks to make sure the kids didn't get tired. Luckily, were brought water halfway through filming because the kids got really hot dancing around under the lights for so long. 

We managed to get through a majority of our planned shots by filming two at a time; as we had two cameras. We also did close up shots of some of the instruments e.g. the base drum while the children were having a break, as we didn't need the children in these shots. We were very worried when filming that we would not end up with enough footage in the time that we had, as we would not be able to reshoot (getting this time to film was difficult enough) unlike with our narrative scenes which we could easily reshoot at any time. 

Production: Part 1

Shooting our narrative scenes

The shots which we shot in the bedroom were quite difficult to do. First of all we had to make sure that the room was well lit enough so that we could see, without over exposing the room, which was hard to do with the lights which we had. As well as this we struggled to show depth in our shots as they were close ups and mid shots of the girl laying in bed against a flat background (her bed). We also found that after shooting these shots, we did not have a very big variety of shots to use in our video so we decided to do a reshoot. 

When reshooting the narrative scenes, we decided to record the girl walking up her stairs and into her bedroom, also including shots of her picking up her head phones and plugging them into her phone. It was a lot easier to create depth in these shots as the girl was not just against a flat background unlike our original shots. We also then had a much better variety of shots to use when cutting back to the narrative during our music video.

Some of the shots we took after reshooting:

Pre-Production: Test Shots

Test shots on location

Norden Farm:

Pre-Production: Shooting Schedule

Our chosen date

The only date which our whole group would be able to do is Sunday 13th September at 12pm. However, due to another event being held at 1:30pm on our stage we would only be available to us for an hour and a half, meaning that we would be really pressed for time. We will be taking two cameras to the shoot so that for each run through of the song, we could film the children from two different set ups, in the hope that we may be able to get through all of the shots which we had planned in the shot amount of time.