Filming my Video (Day 1)

I have arranged to start filming this Friday (1st February). I have asked all the actors to be at my house for 11:00am to start the filming.

Arranging costumes & props

Today, me and my friend Tom (who is starring in my video), went to town to buy all the things I need for my music video.

My initial plan was to have the 2 main actors wearing T-Shirts with crumpets on, if not at least some sort of item of food. I had this idea due to the fact my parody song revolves around crumpets and food in general.

Having looked for some items of clothing with food items on, I was unsuccessful so as a result, I decided that I would ask to see if any of my friends owned any T-Shirts with items of clothing on. One of my friends had one with donuts on, so I have acquired that for one of my actors to wear during the video shoot. As yet, I have not found another T-Shirt with food items on for the other main actor to wear.

As crumpets feature heavily in my video, I had to make sure I had a lot of these in my video. Therefore, I went to the supermarket to buy some and all the other food items that are mentioned within the lyrics of my video.

 

• Crumpets
• Toast
• Frosties
• Munchies
• Snickers
• Twix
• Tea
• Coffee
• McDonalds
• Starbucks

Not all of these I was required to buy as I already had some already. I had a problem when it came to the McDonalds and Starbucks. I wasn't quite sure how to incorporate them into my video. After some deliberation, I decided that I would go and purchase drinks from both stores and then have them on display in my video.

Arranging a date to film

I wanted to initially start filming before Christmas but due to the availability of the 'actors' who will be in my music video, this had to be delayed until the New Year. Another factor in the decision to delay the filming was the fact that as part of my music video is being shot in my own home and it was Christmas time, all the decorations etc were already in place. Therefore, it would mean I either had to remove everything from show or try and film parts of my video from angles where Christmas decorations wouldn't be on show.

I felt that this would be too much effort and relied upon me using alternative camera angles which may have caused the final result to not be as good of quality as if I simply put back my filming a month or so until after the festive period had passed.


Now we are in the New Year, I have started to arrange possible dates as to when I could do some filming. Due to my own and the people who I want to be in my video's schedule I have been very limited in the times I can do the filming. A Saturday morning would be ideal for most and the house would be free to do the filming freely without being interrupted by family members.

Alternatively, there is some time available for some of my actors and myself to film possibly on a Wednesday or Friday afternoon. Over the coming week, I am going to arrange some actual dates where everyone I will need for my video will be available.