9th November 2017 - First filming session

Introduction

On this page i will go through in detail my first day filming my music video, where i went, the shots i got and why.

Day one 

First i went up to my local park area called 'Castle Hill' in Mere, Wiltshire. I decided to go here because it was the highest place within miles and very local. It was here i wanted to film some shots of the second half of my music video which featured me dogs. I went up and spent around 10-15 minutes location scouting for areas to film, on the very top of the hill i found a stone which navigated north, east, south and west. It stood still on its own near the edge of the hill which is around 20-30 metres high and looked perfect for some shots i had in mind.

I placed my tripod and had my camera film myself from metres away whilst i stood on top of it for one of the shots, this shot being very symbolic, representing freedom as the character stands high up and looks down on the empty fields of freedom. I then spent the next 30 minutes led down with the camera taking shots of my dogs walking around. I didn't want to just film any shot of them walking, i was waiting for the perfect shot. As the area was quite large the dogs would barely make it close into frame or make it into frame together, but every so often they would as i was very flexible with my camera angles, and with more than enough shots taken, i went home and looked at them.

Reviewing my shots i realised that the sun exposure on the grass was not clear enough as it was not bright enough for when i left to film, this was a problem, i also recognised that some shots were blurry. I went through shot by shot and reviewed which ones needed to be fixed or reshot. Although this was my first day filming it was a start and a time which would allow me to make mistakes and fix them for next time.