Yesterday we filmed for the first time. Unfortunately Sophie couldn't make it, but she said that me and Amy should make a start on things without her. We reserved the entire day for filming, as we were unsure of the time frame it would take.
The first part we filmed was at my house, for the lines:
I'm just another thing for you to roll your eyes at honey,
You might have him but haven't you heard
...
Do you still feel like you know what you're doing
We decided on this part first as this was the only part Amy needed to be in costume for, so we wanted to get it out the way. This was our first time using the equipment properly - the new camera and a different tripod to our preliminary video. It took me a while to get used to the equipment, i accidently recorded the floor for a while, however once I got the hang of it the rest worked well. We closely followed my story board for this as it had been carefully choreographed for the teddy to be hit on "roll", and for Amy to be on the phone at "haven't you heard". We found it difficult to start on time and for Amy to walk and perform each action insync. We hadn't planned how her phone was going to ring at the right moment, so at the last minute I grabbed my sister and asked her to call Amy. We changed my sister's name in Amy's phonebook to "Guy" - Rhys' character's name. We knew it would be a small detail and would probably go unnoticed, but we needed it to be professional, accurate and to build a sense of realism in this scene.
Filming Amy walking down the stairs didn't work as I'd planned, however it ended up better. I'd hoped to track her walking down the stairs by using zoom on the camera, however, the camera went extremely blurry. Instead, I decided to follow her myself, downstairs and stopped as she approached the door. This resulted in bumpy, jolted camera work, which can in fact be good and look intentional in music videos - luckily!
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