Starting filming

As we began filming we had to get used to the new type of equipment, we took a tripod, camera, and our memory card on every filming date, they were easy enough to adjust to from last years equipment; Furthermore we had a new filming concept this year which we were unable to use last year, this was the new green screen where a scene could be filmed in front of the green screen, and then, using the layers on final cut pro, later projected on top of another scene that we had filmed and intended to use as the background originally but were unable to film, for example another group used it to stand somebody in fire, which of course they would have been unable to do otherwise.

Our first day of filming, we got lots of various shots, trying out new ideas, using a variety of close-ups, long-shots point of view shots, as well as high and low angle shots. Our first day went quickly as it got dark fast so we were only able to film part of the Male's part of the sequence. As we had to go back to film, he had to make sure that, to keep continuity with the sequence, he had to wear the same clothes for the next filming date. on the first day, we managed to get him walking down from the bridge, and then started to walk under the bridge he had just been on.

On the second filming date, we started filming in the afternoon so we had more daylight to film, so we were able to finish the Male's role in the sequence, right up until he runs up to the Female. After this we then began filming on the Females part of the sequence, which we did backwards to save more daylight, and so that we could get more shots in before it got dark. After finishing the main sequence, we began to edit what we had, and realised that we really needed a third day of filming for this sequence, which we went back for, and then began filming our amendments to the sequence, and therefore had to wear the same clothes again.



We later had to arrange a date that we could film our additional footage which mainly took place in a derelict area nearby our filming location. We managed to lip sync to lines in the chorus, and we also did a verse each. The stop motion was easily done too, the words of the chorus which were earlier used on previous filming dates, were placed on a field in chronological order to how they appear in the song. Our second stop motion was with the lego which was played to the same sequence as the main sequence, such as the lego men were seemingly walking towards each other, and then eventually begin to run towards each other. As well as the stop motion, we also went into the middle of town and filmed crowds of people with long-range shots to add into the video at some point.