First day of filming 7th November

YorkOn our first day of filming we did all the shots that we needed to do in York.
Firstly, we did the photo for the album cover and a band shot which can be used on the digipak. We did these in college against a plain wall so we can edit in a pale blue colour for the back which we had already decided would be a good colour to use.
After the photos, we went to the train tracks in Dringhouses and did the shots there. This is going to be the anchoring shot which the video keeps cutting back to throughout the video. We filmed the whole song here so we can use it at any time we want to go back to the band.
We used Jemma's house as the location for the morning sequence until the main character (Craig) leaves the house to go to the bus. We had to make the lighting darker so it looked like it was morning. Everything we filmed in the house went well and to plan, this was: the alarm going off, him getting out of bed, going to the bathroom, coming down the stairs, looking in the mirror and going out of the door. The next shots we did were out of the house at the bus stop. This was easier to do because Craig wasn't singing so we didn't have to really focus on the timing.
We used a park in York so even though we hadn't finished the morning sequence we had to make him do the 'fun side of life' bits. In the park, he was in his casual clothes with his hair spiked up, we had shots of him on the swings and on the slide. All of these park shots went how we planned them.

Difficulties on the first day of filming
In the morning sequence in the bedroom when he was getting up, it was quite difficult to make it look dark and give the effect it was early morning, and to maintain a high quality of video.
All the shots we did in the park were of Craig singing the lyrics, this was a bit more difficult for him to sing the right lyrics at the right time and to get everything in the shot and for it to look natural.
The morning sequence which took place in the bedroom faced difficulties because there was a lot of things going on at once and it was hard to get everything to go right at the same time.
At the train tracks, the band didn't really feel comfortable with not having something to actually do, and to just act natural, this was difficult to make it look good and make everyone look like a band having fun.

Extras
We added in a few extra shots just to make sure we didn't run out of footage once we got to the editing stage. We did all the planned shots on the first day that we could do before the camera ran out of battery.
One of the things we added in was a shot of Craig singing against some garages. On our way back from doing the train track shots, we passed some garages which had the right kind of image for the video and the genre of music, so we got Craig to sing the whole song there and that can be another shot whcih we can keep cutting back to throughout the video.
Originally for part of the morning sequence, we had a shot of Craig walking past the doorway and then the next shot being him looking in the mirror just before he leaves. We changed this and added in an extra shot of him walking down the stairs. This linked the getting ready process a bit more and it looked good having him coming down the stairs, putting his jacket on and singing the lyrics at the same time. The fact that he was looking very grumpy and tired made it more realistic and emphasized the contrast between the two sides to the video.