Production Diary

Week 7:

• This week was our first week of filming where we were going to start our actual music video but before doing this we felt that we should take some practice shots. We started off with the 'photo-booth' shoots that we wanted in our video and from shooting these we realized that we couldn't have our artist and actors in the same shots as it would become difficult for the audience to establish the difference between to artist and the main narrative character. We also felt that these shots would look better if there were more of us in them which wasn't a problem as we could ask our own friends and plan to do it in a lunch or a free available study period. 
• We then began to film our actual music video which we had planned to do around London, we aimed to get quite a lot of lip syncing done that day as our artist is supposed to be quite urban which meant it was easy for us to do so. When filming we shot some of the artist in front of a graffiti wall, on a rooftop, in a small enclosed area surrounded by trees and tables, fountains etc. However, we filmed some of our narrative in these areas which we didn't use in the end due to it being too confusing for the audience and then decided we wanted the shots of the narrative to be in a variety of different places. During the day we faced many problems, the majority being, filming in a busy place but also, due to us filming for most of the day our camera had ran out of battery and memory. Luckily we were near a Starbucks which meant we could charge the camera and there was a lot of old work which we could delete off the camera therefore, our problems didn't last too long.