After reviewing what we had recorded on our second shoot day, as a group, we felt we needed more shots in different locations. So we chose to film in a local park. However, this shooting day was postponed originally due to the heavy snow, meaning we were unable to drive to our locations and carry the equipment, as we feared it may break.
We chose the location of our next filming day a week in advance. We did this because we wanted to go check out the park beforehand and make sure it was a suitable location with enough space and good surroundings. This made for a relatively successful shooting day.
Our advance planning and reheearsal with our actor helped with our shoot day preparations because he knew his lines off by heart and we had given him enough time to practice his lip-synching skills at home, which he did brilliantly.
Additionally, our animatic helped prepare us for the shoot day as we had a set of guidelines to follow when filming our different shots. This is important because without one, we would be filming aimlessly without any structure, causing us to perhaps repeat too many of the same shots or miss some important shots, such as a tracking shot.
In order to prepare better, the only thing we could have done was check the weather forecast as we were supposed to film a couple days before we actually did, but due to the snow we had to postpone our film day. However, this hasn't seemed to be too much of a problem, so generally our shoot day was good.
Our filming went well in the sense that we captured all the shots we wanted to in our location. We managed to stick within our time-frame without staying in the park too late as it would get dangerous.
There was some improvisation within this filming day. For example, the park had a big log which we believed would be useful in our video. So we recorded our actor, Yoni, walking along the log from left to right, and then from right to left, in a wide shot. We felt this shot was useful as it showed his surroundings and the emptiness of the park, highlighting his isolation from everything real in the world.
The group as a whole worked extremely well together as we all had a specific role for the day:
Yoni - the actor in our music video. He would listen to instructions from other members of the group and portray them in the video.
Ethan - the camera-man. He would film any shots he felt were neccessary and make sure the camera was fully charged to prevent the battery from dying mid-filming.
Ollie - the director. He would suggest shots to the camera-man as well as explaining to our actor what specific expressions he wanted to see from him, as well as describing the emotions the actor should be portraying.
As good as this day of filming was, the later it got and the darker it got, we realised that we would have to end our filming day there and go to a new location the next day to film more. This was also due to the fact that we understood that the location would soon become boring to watch for the viewer, therefore we needed a new one.
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