Shooting The Video

Compromise. Our initial ideas of how we planned our video had to be seriously compromised due to difficulties of the shots and timing. We did however before making serious compromises, get a lot of decent footage in Brighton and especially on the pier. We managed to capture the exact shots we wanted apart from such shots as the sun coming through the window and running through the arcade. What we learnt from that is that we needed to plan out properly permissions to film inside the pier and plan out so we do not get horrible weather.

Weather became quite a problem especially when filming on the pier. We started majorly filming in January which is not exactly sunny and so establishing shots were compromised, as well as long shots and low angle. Taking risks with driving all the way to Brighton to find weather was proving non-productive so we decide to shoot the majority closer to college so we would know the weather and less risk taking.

We did take a risk however with trying to film with light rain. This did land us with serious problems when looking back over footage as droplets on the lens really did ruin our filming and we lost a lot of time due to this.

One setting we did find quite resourceful was the Lewes forest by our college. One thing that we did find a problem for when shooting footage was there was some housing close by so we tried to shoot as little as possible in their direction as the idea was to think Lily was in one giant forest, seemingly on her own.

We managed to get a quite large amount of establishing shots done in Lewes in the form of time elapse. We believe this would be very useful to bridge between Brighton and Lewes but to also use, if necessary, to bridge bad filming also.

One problem that really did become a routine to fix was the balance of the tripod we were using while recording. Every different shot used we had to make sure the camera was straight as otherwise what we were filming would look crooked and not the shot we were trying to achieve.

I also had to make sure I made note or remembered what I was wearing every time we filmed in case we were to go back to the same location to do more filming or re-do any parts. Throughout the whole time we were filming Olivia had to think about what to wear to target the right audience, which is mainly twelve to twenty year olds both male and female. The age as young as twelve because that's roughly the youngest age Lily Allen's fans are and as old as twenty because of the moral issues and themes of the video. The reason why we believed 20 was a good age to stop at was because they will understand more of the morals behind it whereas the 12 year olds will be more concerned on the exciting shots and the fast editing.