Weather

We set out today to film some shots at the town park, but when we arrived the weather took a turn for the worst and haulted our filming with some rain showers. This was so agrivating and disappointing but it was not suitable to film, this taught us to watch the weather forecast more often!

Mirror and Instrument shot

As the drama studio was free today and we had our filming equipment to hand we decided to attempt to film a few shots. We tried to film as many different shots as we could within the space of time we had, using different angles and shot distances, however it was a lengthly process with the need to keep checking over each one, on top of that the light angles needed to be changed every so often to ensure that there were no shadows.

We thought it may have been a good idea to use a mirror, so we hunted around for one and upon finding one, we layed it on the floor and began to set up the shot, I got into position ready to play the guitar while my partner layed on the floor trying to get the camera out of the shot but with me in the shot. We film it but after reviewing it, it didn't seem to have the effect we wanted it to so we filmed over it.

Location Hunting

Today was the day to find a good location to do some filming. We thought for a while where we could go and we decided about a local place called "Gibberd Garden". It is supposed to be a beautiful area with great scenery, we thought this would be perfect.

During our filming time we took a trip down there, about 10 minutes drive away, only to find that it was closed for the winter.

We had to rethink our strategy and with time against us we thought we would create something with the best we had which was our local town park, it had some aspects which could be highlighted as looking quite nice.

Album cover design

Today would took an insight into planning our album covers. I decided I would like a random shot and that I want to include the actress and the guitar. I want to image to represent the randomness of Kate Nash's personality and include a good dress style. I not sure if i would like to stick with this album cover and im open minded and may use innovation on the day to capture a better image.

Plannning our story to the lyrics

Today we printed off the lyrics of the song and annotated each line to guide us into our filming stages.

The song is around 3 minutes long and the pace is quite slow, with this is mind there are alot of lyrics and it will take some time to get through them all, by doing this we felt that we would have a better chance of filling up the song with good quality filming and we would not be struggling to "fill in the gaps".

Further Research

We looked on the internet today for some pictures of Kate Nash and looked at how she represented herself. We studied her different poses and how she looks, did she look cocky or shy? We also looked at the clothes she wore and we impression these gave. From her songs such as Foundations, Mouthwash and Nicest thing, it can be said that she is quite down to earth.





After searching the internet would put together a page of pictures to annotate.

We took a lot from these pictures, mostly from our predictions that came to light. Pictures with her and guitar started giving us ideas for our Album covers and her dress sense and her attitude all seem quite random but down to earth. Most of her shops do not appear to have been air brushed, they are just stand alone natural poses that display her character as being happy and lively.

Planning Our Video

Today it was necessary for us to decide the final decisions for our video so that we could create our research in more depth.

Firstly we decided on our locations we were going to use.
- As the video will be based around a love story we thought it was be a good idea to have various places to shoot the video, in the outdoors and within two seperate houses, implying one is the boy's, and the other is the girl's. This would help create the emotion of separation between the characters and appear more distinct about what is happening within the story.
- Our second location would be the drama studio, as one of my previous A levels was drama, I was fairly certain we would have permission to use it. The plan was the seperate the instruments and have spotlights to add a delicate touch. There are only 2 instruments used within the song, guitar and the violin.

We then thought about about characters.
- We wanted to keep the story to the lyrics of the song and thought it would be best to have just one girl and one boy, anymore than this may disrupt the delicacy.

Next was our genre.
It did not take long to decide our genre was romance. With a story line of a girl crying out for the love of her soulmate and trying to get across her love for him.

We then discussed our camera shots.
We decided that a wide range of shots, from extreme close ups to panning shots would be relavant. We don't want to over complicate the video and take away what is already there, but we would like to include a variety to keep it visually attractive.

Finally we decided on our editing.
We concluded that we were going to limit our special effects and create lots of emotion from the slow pace of the song, and allow to meaning to take over. We want to make all the syncing perfect, with instruments and vocals.