Me and Samiyah went to film close ups of our main character, we used a fellow student called Paige. We went round Hitchin town where we took our location shots. We filmed for 4 hours as the weather was ideal for the shots and the mood of the part of the video. On our journey to town, we took a shot of Paige from a mid low angle walking, we used the tripod, we experimented with this shot 5 times as we noticed the sun was shining on her face several times. On the 5th take the shot was good as she went at a good speed which was in sync with the music and the lighting was good as it was natural. Our second stop was St Marys church. We took a longshot from the bridge opposite the church to capture an image of Paige alone with a slow medium close up, waiting for her boyfriend, this take was easy to film as we place the tripod in the perfect place which resticted the sunlight running across her face. After filming this take we took a wide shot, also a pan shot of Paige walking across the bridge, this took several takes as the lighting was a problem again as it kept going across her face and it looked unclear on the footage, eventually by changing the position of the camera and doing a little bit more of a close up, we ended the issue lighting. After shooting the St marys Shots, We moved onto the middle of town. We placed Paige in the middle of a busy crowd through town. During shooting this scene, we experienced the difficulty of loss of people and also people wondering what we were doing and worrying they were getting in our way. We were unsuccessful on this attempt but when we are due for out next filming, we are going to try and shoot from the opposite side of the road so we can see more of a crowd and this time Paige may be able to stand out more.
