Filming Day Three - Towneley Hall

Today, we went back to Towneley Hall to replace the clips we did with Kerry with Chloe. It was a lot better today though as we was not on a time schedule. We decided that we ould do plenty of narrative shots (with poppies) and singing shots. Also, towneley has quite a few places which are excellent for filming.

Towneley Hall

To start off we did shots around the hall, of chloe just walking towards the camera singing the introduction of the song. we chosen a path for her to work with and me and melissa moved the camera around this area of the hall to get a variety of different shots and angles for the video. Doing this also give chloe the choice to when she wanted to look into the camera or not. With filming the same shot over and over it also allowed me and Melissa to do different camera techniques such as;

.Panning
.Zooming
.Focusing
.Field of View

The shot we think we are definatly going to use for the music video is the first one we did. We zoomed into Chloes feet and then as she began to walk zoomed out and panned us to her face. At this point she had began to sing to the lyrics. As we zoomed out it also gave the audience a better view of the mis-en-scene, and showed them she is alone and upset. To add to this effect, it was cold, raining and windy on the day of shooting these scenes. This can show the way the character feels and can relate the mes-en-scene with the character.

After filming this scene a couple of times, we moved on futher up to the large pond. We thought it would be great to see chloe walking around this pond, as it was a nice place, can be viewed as a romantic picnic place.

The Pond.

We thought that it would look effective if we used the pond to film a long shot. So we situated Chloe at one side of the pond and the camera at the other. This allowing the mis-en-scene to be the fully stretch of the pond.

To start we just followed chloe walking along the pond following her reflection in the water. Showing that she is thinking about 'him'. The second time we zoomed into Chloe and filmed her singing to the song. The only thing that was a problem whilst filming this was the time it taken. With me and Melissa being a far distance away from Chloe, it was extreamly difficult to communicate with her. Chole was struggling to hear the instructions that came from me and melissa. In the end we ended up ringing her mobile phone and asking her to stand in the position we needed her too! However, again this was still a slow prossess as we could not have the phone in the shot, so whilst chloe was doing as instructed she then improvised what to do, therefore leaving it up to me and Melissa to follow her with the camera. This was a little bit of a struggle however, it gave us a good challenge. We could use these clips filmed today depending on how good they are, but i think we will as the majority of them look promising.

We moved on from the front of the hall and moved to the side near a memorial statue. This then inspired us. Why not give ''him'' an occupation? The momrial staue had been covered with poppies as it had been 'Rememberence Day' - representing respect for the men who have died for our country. So we filmed the poppy reefs and shot Chloe acting and singing around them. We tracked Chloe walking around the small pond across from the statue with a track and pan up, simular to the first set of footage we filmed on the path, however this time she sang the second chorus she now had learnt! We again posistioned the camera around different parts of the statue to give us a variety of shots to use for when we are editing. We thought that it would be good to film around this area for the narrative. We all planned that we wanted Chloe to walk towards the statue singing and then drop to her knees crying. So instantly we changed our 'thoughts' of ''him'' from moving on from her to have died whilst fighting for our country. The good thing about this idea is that we do not need to change any of the previous filming it all still fits the new story line. So for this me and melissa inprovised many shots, angles and techniques to film this scene. We filmed this many times so we could have continuity whilst editing.

We decided to call it a day due to the whether and we all needed to stay as healthy as possible for filming day 4 and editing. On the way back the rain had calmed and we saw an empty bench facing the pond we previously shot Chloe on. We agreed that this again would look nice, simular to the backgarden footage we previously filmed. Also, we did one last shot of Chloe walking out of Towneley Hall. This can be extra footage on the music video to show that perhaps they both used to visit there on the weekends?