We have decided to set our music video in central London, mainly the location of Bond Street. As we have visited there before and liked the architecture of the buildings and the boutiques in the lanes away from the hustle and bustle of London.
As V.V. Brown is a British artist and in her previous music videos she has ben dressed in iconic British clothes such as what the guards wear outside Buckingham Palace and the flag also appears as a main image in the background.
We decided to make more of an effort to travel to London as we wanted the music video to look as professional as possible instead of taking the easy option and filming it in school. However, we did encounter some problems as not everyone was available on the dates we set due to illness and other reasons. We had to arrange the date for filming in advance as we had to make sure we was all free as our chosen location wasn't that local and we had to travel up to London with the equipment.
We was also worried about the weather conditions, which as everyone knows Englands weather is unpredictable.
Tuesday 18th January 2011
Today we travelled up to London, Me (Maddie), Jack and Danielle, unfortunately the weather wasn't great! So we had to wear quite wintery outfits. We found the perfect spot outside Bond Street station and began filming there. We played the song on the ipod out loud and sang along to it as we found out that helped the lip-sync be in time.
We filmed each other in different locations to help show the story line and improve on the narrative of Jack who we wanted to show flirting and 'playing' all of us.
The day went well and we got a lot of footage set in different parts of London.
Tuesday 8th February 2011
Today we are returning back to Bond Street to film more footage but unfortunately Danielle is ill so it is just Me (Maddie), Lucie and Jack. But today the weather is very sunny and bright which is great for filming but it will be hard for us to incorporate these shots in with the other ones but it could also work in our favour as it creates a more of a realistic music video as they weather changes and we have purposely wore different outfits to show that the narrative and Jacks 'cheating' has happened over a time period.
We went to a park set in the middle of London today and this worked really well with the Bohemian style of the music video. We continued to work on the narrative of the music video.
Tuesday 1st March 2011
We have set today to go up to London again but another person is missing so there is only three of us, Me (Maddie), Danielle, Lucie. We focused on individual shots as we needed to build up the representation of us being the sole singers but we wasn't able to film us singing together.
We went to different areas of London to build up a variety of shots. I feel that we achieved our aim of focusing on using different types of shots.
Overall i feel that our filming went well as we chose a great location and it represents the song well. We overcame the issue of the weather changing for the days we went up to film as we have fixed this with our edits. Not being to able to film as a group did hinder our progress and the fact we set our location quite far away but we carried on and i believe it will pay off as we will result in having a modern realistic music video.
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