Filming: Love Interest Scenes - 2nd February

• We had planned exactly what we wanted to film on this day, so were more than prepared when we arrived at each of our three locations: Bradbourne Lake, Hannah's street and Ed's house.
• We were lucky that the weather was (despite being freezing) good so the shots looked bright and everything in the mise-en-scene could be clearly seen.
• We filmed at Bradbourne Lake first because these were the most important shots for us to get and we wanted to film while the weather was acceptable.
• We filmed everything that we had storyboarded at least four times because from our editing the week before we had learnt that it really is useful to have a few different shots of the same thing so we have choice about which one we use. For each shot we filmed at different angles too and tried adding zooms or pans to create movements in the shots. Actually, when it came to editing we normally preferred the shots with movement in them, even though we had not originally planned it.
• A lot of what we filmed on this day didn't require lip syncing, but for those few shots that did we had some iPod speakers so I could get the timing just right.
• The second location we went to was Hannah's road, where we simply set the camera up in one position and filmed Hannah walking down the street and back up again. This was so that we could create jump cuts of her either walking towards or away the camera. (In the end we chose to have her walking away as it reinforced the narrative of her not being interested.)
• Our final location was Ed's house, where we quickly shot a scene of Hannah walking past the lead and then a close up of the lead singing the line so we could cut to this, which obviously acts as the 'meat' of the video and reinforces the star image.
• Our most important piece of filming at Ed's house though was the shooting of the montage to be used for the second bridge, where the lead is seen offering the love interest three different gifts at her front door. We had to be very careful that the camera stayed in the same position so that the cuts looked good and so the mise-en-scene did not move position on screen.