Construction-First Day Of Filming

What we got done?
In some spare time we had and looking at storyboards we have created we knew exactly what we would like to have got done on our first day of filming. Stuart and George teamed up during this day and was researching what other props and ideas could go into the video. Whilst they was doing this, Me and Charlie decided to get a bulk of filming done the first part of the filming we got done was the intro to the song. We set up a composistion in my bedroom of me dressing in a similar style to 'Ed Sheeran' and playing the guitar,  this is key to identifying and mimicing the original artist. We got various of shots of me playing the guitar and lip syncing the song from various angles by doing this all after each other and repeating the same shots means if there are any imperfections that have happened they can be rectified. By repeating the same shot also means anything that may change in the scene surroundings or anything with my clothing or simple things including my hair style this will not show up as any major differences between shots.

Once Charlie was happy and we both agreed that the shots looked good and of quality we decided that shot zooming into me looking out of a window would look  good. Charlie set the camera and tri-pod up in my garden and continued to start zooming into me. After the first attempt of this we realised that due to the strong winds this shot wasn't looking as quality as we'd like. To overcome this Charlie held the tri-pod still and the shot exceeded expectations and came out fine.

After this we found a green with a tree in the middle, surrounded by houses we decided that we could have a low angle moving shot of me just looking depressed. This took various different shots to capture what we was looking for, due to the moving of the camera  the shot wasn't steady and didn't quite capture what we was after. We decided to then do one which focused onto my face this then worked out to look fine not only did the shot look better but it captured some key lighting which changed as the camera changed.

We then continued to go to the local park, we then had the inspiration to have a shot on the bridge. Charlie set the camera up around 100m away and started zooming in capturing not only the surroundings by of the nature itself including ducks, trees & the lake. This seemed to work okay however due to people walking by meant we had to re-shoot one part. I decided that a swing shot where when we edit make me fade away but the swing continued to move would be an excellent shot. Charlie using his media skills caught this amazing shot this also took a few shots but due to factors including the acting.

Positives
This completed the filming of Day 1 positives from the first day include getting the shots of me on the swings this came out 100times better than we expected this fits in with what we was trying to achieve. We also found that the shots from the garden to me in the window produced a very high quality shot.


Negatives
However there are some negatives we found from the first day, some of the shots including one of me walking in the park came out very grainy due to no fault of our own. Also due to the wind being fairly strong the camera was shaking so some of the shots aren't as high quality as we would have liked.

Conclusion
From summing up the positives and negatives we now have bought a more sturdier tri-pod which will keep the camera still even if this wind is strong this therefore will overcome any negatives and problems that may have happened.

Taylor Goodwin