Music Video Shooting - Day One

shooting diary
On the first day of filming I initially set out to film all of the performance scenes of my music video. Originally, the performance aspect of my music video was intended to be filmed as one, continuous long shot of Liam sat on the edge of a bed playing guitar but, after a long talk with my Media teacher, we decided that this would be boring for the audience and more variety and movement was required in order to make it visually entertaining.

The performance was originally meant to be filmed in my room. I had planned to cover my pink patterned wallpaper by pinning a white sheet to the wall to achieve the white background that I had originally hoped for. Although fixing the sheet to the wall was fairly easy the patterned wallpaper behind it still showed up on camera. This caused me to make the choice to move filming into another bedroom with pale coloured walls. Unfortunately, this was very time consuming and the room I moved filming to was very small, proving it difficult to negotiate camera movement.

After the first few set backs, we managed to get the majority of the performance filmed. I also managed to fit in a few, extra unplanned shots which I thought would look good in my music video. These include a tracking shot of Liam slowly sparking up a cigarette and then miming the words directly at the camera, this is an alternative to my planned beginning but I believe it could work really well.  Unfortunately, due to location problems and time restrictions, I didn't manage to get everything I wanted filmed. I am glad this happened on the first day as it taught me to be careful in planning the rest of my filming down to the last detail. Although the first day of filming could have gone a lot worse, it has taught me a few things about the technical side of filming a music video.