Practice Filming

A constant theme throughout the song is the use of the numbers "1,2,3" and "4,5,6." As we realised these numbers appeared quite regularly, we felt that we should show them in an interesting way in our video. After long thought we decided that we would use objects that related to the video to create the numbers. For this "1,2,3" we used some stones from the "Girls Room", as it relates to the girls we will be using. We then tried a variety of different ways to film it so that we could decide how we are going to do it when it comes to the actual filming.

For the next set of "1,2,3" we decided to use the microphone wire, as this fits in well with the music band, as we have someone singing into the microphone. We carefully constructed it in the way we thought would look the nicest, which was in a nice italic writing. We then filmed different ways that we would film it for out real music video.

We then did the exact same thing, but the time we did it for the "4,5,6" parts of the song which come later on in the video. We once again experimented with different types of shots.

Here is a photo I have taken of Charlotte and Sarah creating the "4,5,6" made out of microphone wire. Here they are tieing bands around the wire to keep it in place.

Here is the last sequence of filming we did for the numbers. For these ones we did the "4,5,6" in the stones to continue on with our theme. Here are some of the shots that we came up with.

The last sets of shots we did were the "memory" scenes that we are going to be filming near the end of the music video. These shots will be of the girl arriving at her house walking round it and seeing flashbacks of "good times" with the boy (the lead singer of the band). She walks down the drive, in the house, to the kitchen, up the stairs and then walks into her room and sees the band waiting for her- which is where Adam will say the last lyrics of the song to her which are "Will you be my girl?" 

However, fortunately for us, as we filmed this we came across some problems which means that we can fix these when it comes to the real filming. Here are some of the issues we came up with:

• We originally filmed Sarah wihout a coat, and we realised half way through hanging the coat on the bannister was part of our timeline so we had to change this, and next time we need to ensure that we keep to the coat idea.
• Next, we have a scene following the girl up the stairs, but we found that it was very to hard to follow Sarah up the stairs smoothly, without the camera boncing up and down and the angle looking awkward. We tried different attempts at doing this, and the one we thought was best can be seen in the video above.
• Another issue we came up with was the lighing. In some of the shots it is quite dark so we need to figure out a way to ensure that every scene has a sufficient amount of light.