Planning and Research - Filming

In the latest filming session, we went to Kidwells park which is located near Maidenhead town. We chose this area because there was lots of colourful autumn leaves around which we felt gave a good contrast between Dan and the background.

Whilst we were filming we had to play the music out loud in order for Dan to here the song to be able to lip sync in time.We also played the music out loud so that when it came to the editing process we would know what lines he was singing easily.

This is an image of my partner filming the section when Dan is walking down the street singing. We used a tracking shot for this section but did not use the steady-cam as we wanted a slightly shaky uncontrolled shot to reflect his emotions.

Planning and Research - Today's Lesson

In today's lesson we were discussing the definitions of match-on-action and continuity. in a group we all split off into our tables to discuss what we thought and then after 5 minutes we came back together as a class and wrote down on 'The Wall'  

We then had to work in two groups and were given a topic to discuss which was either how to shrink time in a film or make it longer. Our group had the task of shrinking time, to do this we decided that we would take away multiple frames that we felt were pointless and took up too much time.

Planning and Research - Location shots

After our first filming session we then decided to look in different locations. We decided to film in maidenhead town centre in order to give our video an urban feeling as well as the classic cliche of green rural areas. We managed to get a variety of interesting shots including and arc of our main actor, Dan, which we intend to then speed up to use in our dubstep section of the song. We also managed to get some good shots of one of our female actors, Tess, close to a tree, which i feel meets the iconic image of an innocent girl in a natural surroundings.

This is the bench we used for Dans individual shots

We used some of the shops for the duo shots

We used this to practice our arc shot