Shooting Schedule

In order to make sure that we achieved footage of a high standard, we devised a filming schedule, so that we would not find ourselves needing to go back to re-film things that we may have missed. We thoroughly went through our storyboard, planning the locations and accessibility of props. We also considered timing, as the woods shots were necessary to be filmed in good daylight in order to create the clear crisp shots we desired. Having considered all of these aspects, we decided to film the outside (woods) scenes first, on the 7th of November 2012.

We decided to begin early in order to set up our outdoor scene, and found that we were successful in choosing a day with plenty of daylight. We set up a tea party scene in the woods and filmed between 9am and 11.45am, which gave us a good amount of time to film exactly what we wanted in the variety of scenes we wanted outside. This was very successful, and we managed to capture all the tea party footage we needed.

We next went on to film the scenes in the dark room on the 14th of November 2012. We were able to arrange 4 free lessons between our group which allowed us plenty of time to film our dark room scenes. We used lighting equipment from the art department, and created a dark scene with flashing lights to give the eerie appearance we wished to have in our music video.

Having filmed our footage, we uploaded it to our computer and began filtering through the shots that we had. Although we began editing, we all felt that something was still missing from our footage, and that we were in fact lacking important shots. We also felt that our footage was not particularly diverse, and that there was not enough movement within some of our shots, which we decided was vital when conveying the crazy atmosphere and message within the song. We then decided that it would be necessary to film some more footage, so I arranged for the group to come to my house on the evening of the 7th of December 2012 to film some more shots. We planned to film more creepy and dark shots with much more movement. We successfully gathered enough footage, and when back at school found that we no longer needed to film, and began to edit our music video.