Construction - First Day of Filming

We began filming by going to the place where most of our video will be set, the park, we did this as we needed a minute of edited film by the end of the week. We decided to get most of the clips with the main character in and film the flashbacks at a later time to insert them on top of the first layer of our video. Firstly we shot the clips that would be played without singing, such as the establishing shots, close ups of Mitchell's face, shots of Mitchell walking. Firstly we filmed Mitchell singing the entire song from different angles in different places around the park so we began with him leaning against a tree singing into the camera, this allows us to show intertextuality as he knows he is being filmed and recognises this. We also filmed him singing into the camera while sitting on a bench and also looking away from camera as if he is singing to him self. Once we had enough clips of him actually miming the song we needed to film the in between shots to tell the story line. These are such things as Mitchell wandering around the park looking depressed to go with the song. We filmed him walking slowly through the park from different angles for the intro of the song and to be shown throughout the video between him singing. We also filmed close ups of his face such as his eyes and mouth not only does this use fragmentation of the body, a common motif in music videos, but also helps us to show his emotions therefore helping with the story line. We filmed all of the pieces of the storyline with just mitchell in so we had a basis to work with, such as towards the ending of our video when he calls the girl and asks to meet and then runs to meet her. Mitchell phoned me and we filmed this from many different angles including a close up of the phone so we can see he is phoning a girl. We then showed him putting his phone away and running out of the park and down the road, it is then clear he is running to meet the girl. On our next day of filming we will film the other parts to the music video like Mitchell playing the piano, meeting me in the cafe and all of the flashback scenes.

Filming done by Aisleen Dunne and Mitchell Pace
Blog post written by Aisleen Dunne