Filming Report - Day One...

Today we filmed the performance part of our music video on the roof of college house in our school. Initially, it was quite stressful as there were many unforeseen circumstances that took place but we were ultimately able to overcome all of the obstacles.

Throughout the time we were filming our photographer, Leon, took many pictures of what was happening on set. A collage of all the pictures are embedded below:

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The problems and how they were solved:

- The iPod speakers that we had planned on using to amplify the music so that our actors could keep in time with the music didn't work. However, we were able to use the IT technicians stereo to play the music loud enough for our band members to hear.

- We were missing a guitar strap for the bass guitar, as our school's music department unfortunately did not have one. James, our drummer, knew a guitar player that lived locally and was able to meet us at the park near school to lend us his guitar strap.

- Instead of having two cameras like we were expecting we were only able to use one HD camera as there were problems with the battery on the other camera. In order to rectify this we had to film for longer to make sure that we had all of our shots, so in the end we didn't finish filming until almost 6pm.

- The school did not have access to any working tripods. Therefore, we ended up having you use a broken tripod so some of our shots ended up quite shaky.