Whilst we filming we came across quite a few problems which we had to deal with. First of all, we planned film an Ellie Goulding song and started to film quite natural, abstract things. We started to go to our chosen locations which was the park and chorlton water park. We started to film Jade who was wearning knitted clothing and a woolley hat. As we started to film we found that Jade wasn't confident enough and got quite shy when miming the song, this immediately became an issue and the other people in the group were also quite shy. We had to find a performer which was crucial if we wanted our video to look good. We had to change our plans massively, last minute.
Another issue which we came across is that when we looked back at our footage there was only a tiny amount which we could save. We had started to film our footage by just using a hand held camera as we wanted to use a shakey effect. When looking at the computer at the clips we thought it looked really amateurish and we didn't like them one bit, we therefore had to do more planning and start our filming again.
We also came across an issue when we had Jade as our main character. When we did our planning in class we planned to film at Jade's friends farm. We also went through planning of how to get there by looking at google maps on the internet. When the day came to come Jade's friend wasn't free which really slowed are filming process down.
From doing our planning we had also planned to film Jade in the drama studio playing the piano, we thought that it would be quite simple to do this as most of the time the drama studio is free. When it came to our filming times we realised we had to plan it and arrange it as it wasn't avaliable in out class times when we wanted to use it. Also the college production was going on around this time and they were using the drama studio quite a lot which became a problem.
After this we found that we really needed to get our head in gear and find someone suitable and flexible and also confident who was willing to be in our music video. First of all, I asked my friend Leah who is part of a dance group if her and her friends would like to perform. Leah was very understanding and was willing to perform along with her friends, we also found they were free in college and also planned to film on our day off college in Manchester city centre. As the day came we got ready to got ready for college and a few problems arised, we found that Leah and her friend became ill so could not film which caused us to panick. One girl who I am friends with called Ruksana was still willing to film and came in college early to film. After a few moments of filming we decided to make a risky desicion and change the song to Jason Derulo - It girl. Ruksana"s boyfriend decided to be the main character which helped us enable to solve our problem massively.
Ruksana and Raees were a great help however it did become an issue at times trying to arrange the filming times when they were free as well as us. One issue which we didn't come across when filming is that we planned to film on our day off college. Ruksana phoned me last minute to say what she wasn't coming because she was ill. This became quite a panick to us as we didn't have much time but we got round it and started to film on our free periods and also lunch time at college.
Another issue we came across when filming was the where would be best for us all to film. We was going to film in Chorlton park and had based our planning around it, but when it came down to it we couldn't get there in time and therefore had to change plans and solve the issue by filming in Alexandra Park instead which was quite near college.
We also had a time where the weather becaome a massive issue. We wanted to look like quite a summery, autumn effect when we filmed in the park and was really hoping that everywhere wasn't wet from the rain. We wanted Ruksana and Raees could do things like sit on the grass and have a picnic etc as we thought that it would look quite cute for a love story. When it came to the day for filming the leaves on the floor were very wet and also the benches, we had to put a coat on the bench for them to sit on. We also wanted to weather to be a bit sunnier but we couldn't control the weather so we had to get around this problem in the best possible way and adapt to it.
The recording studio also came quite an issue. We thought that it would be easy to just go in the studio whenever it suited us but we came across the problem that when we wanted to use it it was either full and someone else was using it, or that someone wanted to use it at the same time. We found this quite an issue at first as we had planned as a group and also with Ruksana and Raees when we were going to film. We had to overcome this by future booking and double checking to see if it was still free.
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