Diary of a Day Shooting 4

Friday 7th December 2012

4:00 As soon as we arrived to Chloe's house from school, we began getting ready to film as we wanted to make sure we had enough time to do it all. As we were getting ready, we filmed closeups of the girls putting makeup on and doing their hair as this is what we wanted to show in the music video. We thought it would look more realistic if we really were getting ready. We also had an idea to look into the camera getting ready as if it was a mirror as this could be used in the music video although we hadn;t previously thought of the idea. This took quite a long time as we wanted a range of shots including makeup, hair, trying clothes and shoes on etc.

5:20 Ahead of schedule, we prepared for the next scene in which Scarlett had to lip sync to the song on a shoe shaped chair. We struggled to find a good location for it as the chair wouldn't fit through the door frame to go into another room. We eventually found a wall of Chloe's bedroom that didn't have any furniture in the way however there were radiators in the shot. We decided to cover these up with animal print clothing as this is still the house style for our video. Although we should've prepared more for this scene, we filmed anyway just in case though we don't like the results and hope to reshoot this but using a piece of material for the background.

6:00 When the location was prepared we finally began filming. We played the full song 4 times ensuring that Scarlett changed poses throughout to make it different. Although we don't plan to use this footage, looking through it we can see what poses work and what don't so we know what to do for next time. We also thought about changing the outfit as it blended in to the chair a bit too much.

6:30 After going through the song and doing closeups, we decided we had enough footage. Although it wont be used, the footage will be uploaded in a seperate blog compared to the reshoot. We made a video explaining what we thought went well and what could've been improved for this day of shooting.