Filming - Narrative

The filming of the narrative element of my video, I felt went well. I was especially pleased with the piano sequence between the my two actors, as I felt that this captured the romantic feel of the song. Moreover, I that the lighting was especially good naturally when filming outside, as the sun was just setting which cast shadows and created a 'bleaching' effect which is often used within modern music videos. Equally, filming in the garden as pictured to the left went well as I used my story board which was invaluable to guiding me in the shots that I needed to take, reminding me of the zoom sequences, long shot, mid shot and close ups that I wanted to capture, typical generic conventions in terms of camerawork of the genre. The shooting schedule which I created was helpful also as it kept me organised and ensured that I was able to get the majority of my shots done.

Whilst overall my filming went well, there were a few improvements that could have been made. I was very aware of how quickly it would get dark on the day, and that as a result the footage would not be as good a quality. Therefore I ensured that I had my outside sequence set up with the props of fairy lights, a rope of lights and lanterns, fairly early - the drawback to this however was that the lights were not as visible on camera as I would have liked. Similarly, I was not able to get all of the filming that I wanted to done on the day, and will film the home movie and park bench sequence on another day.