To begin with, I decided to start by filming the main actress in the video, playing the role of the artist. As I was using areas of my garden to do the filming, I was able to film this smoothly and quickly. Luckily for me, the weather was sunny on this day, which suited the brief I had given myself. The advantages of this was also that I would not have anyone around and walking in my shots, but I did have to overcome challenges, including equipment etc.
After filming this, I decided that it was important to have more than one setting for my singer to be, giving the narrative some variety. With this in mind, I decided to go to the local park because I still wanted to keep the theme of fields/grass, but knew that this would look different and be more open.
When going to my local park, I located my shots in the field itself, as well as a path in the woods and a bench.
I did want to use a swing/play park of some sort, but there was not one available, so I had to relocate for that scene.
After filming the majority of my singer, I decided that I needed to film the 'flashback' scenes with the other actor. I decided to use the park as a starting point, to show continuity and represent the singer looking back at those specific memories.
Once filming in the local park, I realised that I had filmed enough of the couple in the park itself, that I decided not to film any daily things in my house. I did not deem this necessary but still had this idea in mind just in case.
Though I didn't need footage of the couple, I realised that I needed some more of my singer. I decided that for this, I should use my house. This shows a new setting in my video, giving it variety but also because it was appropriate for that certain scene and I hadn't yet used this location.
A challenge I had to overcome was the weather. In my house, I wanted to film a scene where the artist was crying and looking out of the window. For this scene, I really wanted it to be dark and raining to denote sadness and being lonely. Unfortunately the weather was not as expected and instead it was sunny on the certain day I filmed. Though I was annoyed about this, I didn't think it was a disaster because the other footage of the artist was set in sunny locations too. This represents continuity.
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