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For the last hour or so I have been going through my notes and highlighting key outdoor recordings we need to carry out, and grouped them into four main locations. One, is to be located in a field, for the diary scenes - judging by the quantity of this it will probably take the best part of a day to complete, so it wasn't really realistic to try this in less than three hours. The other parts were located: in school (on and around a bench, in the common room, on stairs and out by the front of our school); across the road and in Amy's car, and at Ray Park (a large, local child's park). I thought it would also be a good idea to record random footage of us in character throughout the morning, in case it could then be used - as fillers or as a new fresh idea for the odd frame. I've thought about what I need to wear first, and what I need to bring with me - several changes of clothes to show temporal progression, and I've kept my costumes lightly western and closely iconic to Taylor Swift. I'm also going to use black eyeline to draw '13' on my left hand, and go over it in different glitters to represent the fact that she changes it each day. It's unlikely that any audience would notice, or even if it will show up on each frame, but it will be there in case it does. For the diary scenes I plan to make sure that it can be seen as I'm holding the diary, so that it is guaranteed to be in the video. I've also been looking around for white horse nail design stickers on the off-chance that they exist, as a self-referential alusion to another of Taylor's tracks - White Horse, but so far I've had no luck. I've decided to only use light make-up so as to be decoded as natural and wholesome, to exaggerate the juxtaposition between myself and Amy.

For a fair part of tomorrow's filming we need 'the guy' to be featured in quite a lot of our recordings, and as it is me that has to act all content and in love, we have decided it would be more believable if my boyfriend, Rhys, played the part. Luckily, he has free periods whilst we have our media lessons, so he's available and willing tomorrow, and said that usually he would be available if we have to re-shoot anything at a later date. Whilst going through what parts to film tomorrow, I made sure that every part that Rhys is in, in these locations, will all be filmed tomorrow so that we don't mess him about. He asked what to wear so I said casual American. He knows of Taylor Swift so he understands her 'look'.