❤ ❥Starting our production work ❤ ❥
This week we went out to start filming in Hainault forest which is located in Chigwell Essex.
I first of all checked the Redbridge website to make sure it was open. The park is open from 7am and the closing times differ depending on the day, which you can know from the information boards adjacent to the car park.
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| Hainault Forest ft our tripod |
The reason why we chose Hainault forest was because it was a beautiful location that is large enough to have different areas and location drops for our music video. It is a great public park and has been around for a long time now, you can view more information about the park here.
To make filming easier, we have split the filming over the course of three days. This was due to the natural sunlight setting around 4pm. Therefore, we have decided to film from the early morning and finishing before 4pm so our lighting can be consistent through out our music video.
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| google.com sunset calculator |
Filming went great this week as we had no issues filming at all! We were able to film all the necessary shots, and infact, we finished rather early. We were all prepared to film, I suggested to have the lyrics already printed incase the actor/artist had forgotten the lyrics to sing along to, and I also remembered we needed a spare battery incase it died.
However, one of the main decisions we made this week was based on casting. We changed our actor from Jay to Naveed as he was not comfortable in front of the camera. Naveed happens to take drama so it was a great opportunity for him to add to his own drama portfolio. This was not an issues as we Naveed was our back up actor anyway. It also has given me the expediences with working with trained actors which is something I look forward to in this industry as I believe it makes your production much more effective.
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| San filming our music video artist/actor Naveed |
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| A glance at the natural lighting we used |
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