Filming

On the 5th of December, the production team and I began our filming for the production of our music video. We had made a schedule to begin filming at 10am however this did not materialise due to many complications. One of the difficulties we managed to swiftly overcome was our plan to film at April's house in her living room due to it being very spacious and convenient for our 'dating scenes', however this resulted in being very disruptive towards the family which resulted in us not being able to use that location we intended on. Therefore, we had no choice but to change the location. This proved a hassle as many aspects such as the mise-en-scene and the lighting were going to be very different to what we originally had in mind. Nevertheless, we all reconsidered the design of these particular scenes and reshaped them to what would mould perfectly into the mise-en-scene of another production team members bedroom. The angles were slightly different, however still overall successful for us to be able to begin filming at approximately 12pm. This consequently gave us a sufficient amount of time to get the majority of the main scenes filmed as we had already planned to make a huge effort on filming most of our scenes on this date. We also wanted to film the majority of the films on this date because this would enable all of the characters to look exactly the same in every shot and it would also contribute to more time for editing once filming was over.

Here in an example of a scene we managed to film. We managed to film all three male characters walking down the road to emhance their role and stereotypes. We used this as a way of creating a jump cut effect to create the massive contrast between the various personalities. This also makes it unambiguous that all three male characters are going to the same place - enhanced through jump cut effect.

Here is an example of a complication we managed to overcome. This is an example of a 'dating scene' which we had to change. This location apparent here is that of Reena's bedroom which was our last resort. As a result, the scenes were grainy and not as clear as what they would have been in our first considered location. On the other hand, the grainy image could work in collaboration with the idea of a romantic feel.

Extreme close ups were other shots we managed to film which helped to emphasise each characters attire, for example, here is a screen shot of the 'Geeks' bow tie which helps the audience to accommodate themselves with the stereotypes before seeing each character as a whole.