The reaction we had to our second round of filming was much more positive this time as the couple we wanted to be in our video were amazing actors. It was an advantage to my group as they are an actual couple in real life therefore were able to transfer their emotions for us to capture on camera, which looked really natural and effective. We also changed our actress for the performance based part of our music video to me, as my group felt that i matched the persona of the singer well.
My group decided we would film the 'love birds' scene in our local park - Highlands, which was convenient for everyone as it was local and we didn't have to travel far for filming, but also if there were any scenes we would need to re-film after we had left, we could always come back with our couple to do so without any hassle. This park is very quite and isolated, so it was easy to film without there being any disruptions or people in the background to ruin the shots we wanted to capture. The atmosphere in which our filming for this scene was set was ideally autumnal - lots of leaves, the sun and a lot of nature, as this reflects passion and romance which refers back to the couple. The contrast of warm colours additionally reflected the happiness of the couple's relationship in the past, but also matched the soft melodies of the song.
We also had various locations in which we had the performance based scenes, me lip syncing for that day - a room with a white background, which i thought was very effective as it contrasted me singing against it which would be more exciting for the audience. Unfortunately, the shots we filmed turned out too dark, we needed more natural light to fill out the room. We also used an electric fan behind the camera to make it look like my hair was being blown in the wind, but the fan was blowing too much, which we didn't realize until we had uploaded our footage onto final cut express. To solve this, we might either edit the shot, or depending on my group's schedule re-film these scenes again ensuring that there's enough light in the room. We had an alternation of filming locations outside and inside, including bedrooms, gardens/parks and pathways which ended up looking visually appealing for our audience as there wasn't too much of one location. We also tried to include lots of shots in our footage such as high angle, low angle, movement shots. We were able to capture many distances and alternating angles as we experimented during filming by filming inside a car, which allowed us to test out any unusual shot ideas we had.
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