Week 8 Blog

We planned to film on the 1st of November, 2nd of November and the 3rd of November to cover shots of me in Hainault Forest, Studio shots and flashbacks that our narrative male has with his girlfriend. We obtained all the shots from Hainault that we needed, although due to the difficulty of finding a guitarist willing to film, we were unable to record any guitar playing at the forest. We had to reconsider where we would film the guitarist playing because of the accessibility of getting to Hainault forest.

During the filming at Hainault forest, we had to change a few shots, such as me walking up a hill, lip syncing at the same time. We replaced this shot with me sitting on the hill with my legs folded up to his chest just as i had sat in our photo shoot. This was done because the outcome of the shots whilst walking up the hill were resulting too shaky and completely unusable; we thought about the photo shoot we had done earlier and what positions he had been photographed in, so we could later match the same picture with his position in the forest, to have a faint line of continuity between the digipak and Music video. 

Before Saturday 5th of November, we had not covered a large portion of the locations listed in our shooting script. Me and my partner are very keen on using all the locations planned to represent the artist, however we feared that we may need to change a few of the planned locations. 

This week development with the digipak and magazine advert has been progressing along with every filming session. I have been editing the ancillary products during lessons, to which my partner gave her input and opinion. At the moment we only have rough templates because we need to complete the final 'metal door' shoot. Our byproducts revolve around pictures which need to be taken in front of the graffiti wall we planned to shoot in front of. We would have done this during the school week, however the location is in new cross; as it is so far, we have been unable to film there on weekdays and have planned to film next week Saturday. 

The filming session on the 5th November revolved around filming the Narrative in London. There were a few issues, such as not being able to use the picnic blanket on the grass; it had been raining during the morning and the weather seemed too dreary and illogical to have a picnic in. Instead, my partner replaced the shots, 52, 53, 54 from the shooting script, of them using a picnic blanket with more mid shots and close ups as well as long shots depicting the mise-en-scene. The dreariness of the day ended up working in favour for us, as the grey weather added to the emotion and depressing effect of the 'rejection shots'.



There were florist shots which we had not covered but we ended up filming them at Liverpool st station. At first we asked permission from the florist at the station who directed us to the national rail office to gain official permission from the manager. We had a 20 minute wait and discussion and eventually gained the permission to film at the station with the condition we do not obstruct any one.

The targets for this week are to complete the shooting script and film on the 12th of November along with beginning to edit and creating the final template for the magazine advert.