Monday filming 25/10/10

The plan

1:00 gather at the entry of the broad mash, then take 13 bus to river side

1:15 make up

1:20 camera on the bridge {Quincy and Kia}


{Establishing shot from the bridge}[Quincy and Kia]
Quincy and Cathy playing together in the playground
                                                         on the wooden bridge
                                                         on the other side of bridge
                              feeding the swan                      
1:40  camera under the bridge{Quincy and Kia}
{the close ups}


1. [Quincy and kia]
While they play together

2. [Quincy]{from the point of view of Cathy's}
Only Quincy playing and talk to camera

{a point of view shot} [Quincy]
from a swan to Quincy

{a long take} [Quincy]
only Quincy touching the wooden bridge
              
2:00 camera besides the tree{Quincy and Kia}

{from the point of view of Louri(Femi) besides the tree}

{a establishing shot }
       [Quincy]1. There is only Quincy feeding turns back after he takes picture of them.
       [Quincy and Kia]2. Two girls feeding, Quincy turns around

{a middle shot}

       [Quincy and Kia]Quincy turns back,surprisely
       [Quincy] Quincy turns back

{close up}
       [Quincy]a smell face of quincy when she turns back.

2:20 film from where Quincy stands{Femi}

{the point of view from Quincy,beside the bank}[Femi]

{Establishing shot}
      Quincy notice there is a boy taking picture.

{Close up}
      a face of Femi taking pictures and he moves down the camera

2:30 Film from where Quincy stands{Quincy and Femi}
{ the point of view from Cathy}
{a movement of camera from Quincy to Femi}
 Cathy find Quincy is looking at Femi.

2:40 Film near the actors{Quincy, Femi and Kia}

{a close up}
      [Kia]a jealous face of Cathy
    
      [Quincy]
         1. Quincy's ear

         2. a smell face of quincy when she turns back.

      [Femi]

          a face of Femi taking pictures and he moves down the camera,smiling

2:50 picking up and catch the bus back
3:00 Back to the Broad Mash

filming Quincy taking picture

The shooting 

talking to Femi

The first problem we met is the actress for Cathy could not attend to our filming due to her dog's illness. The lucky part is that we have already make clear the list of actors in each scene so that we selected the actions without that actress. From this experience, we learned how to face the emergency absence of actor or actress. It is very important to change the plan but not follow it steadily.

Olivia and Penny catching ducks

The second problem we met is that we could not find the swan and the water is awful, we do not know what happened, so we have to film the action of feeding swan whenever we saw a swan in the river and catch its eyes by bread.

actress Quincy and her stagehand

filming Penny's hand instead Quincy's.

The third problem is the actress, who is filming the action to feed the swans and ducks, has a phobia towards any animal has fur on it. To solve it, we exchange the top of hers and our assistant Penny, who is a Chinese girl as well, let Penny feed the ducks, we only film her hand instead.

After solving all the problem and filming all we need, we showed actors about where we would meet next time---coffee shop. We plan to film this Wednesday, it is good to have a rest between shootings. 

Our filming day basically finished, we still need to carry on, but we had a wonderful experience in our memory. We knew the plan could not make to be too precise. Everything could happen out of plan, we need to be prepared to solve all the problems and control the situations. We need to learn how to stay calm and co-operate and how to make actors co-operate. we did a great a job today as our first filming of music video. The length of our film clip today is 5 minutes, which is not too long but full of value. WE LOVE MAKING FILMS.