Filming Journal - Day 1

First Hour:

At first I gathered all actors needed for filming on the first day at the location of my film, which was at my house. I ensured they were dressed appropriately in their correct costumes, which was a torn hoodie, ripped jeans and old trainers for one actor. This was to create the impression of being poor as the character had no money to buy new clothes. The second actor wasn dressed in slightly smarter attire. This was a clean flannel shirt, black trousers and glasses, to give the impression of intelligence.
I then arranged the set the way I wanted, moving any unwanted objects from the camera because I wanted the mise en scene to be as realistic as possible, which would have been ruined by incongruous objects that would confuse the storyline and ruin my product.
Once everything was ready for filming, I set up the camera on the stand at the height needed to fit both characters in the shot, which involved a lot of trial and error. The camera's height needed rearranging three times and I had to place my actors in the right places to film my master shot and make changes to their positioning to do so.

Second Hour:

After all this had been completed, I gave instructions to the actors and began to film. The master shot lasted for two minutes in which the actors behaved the way I needed to make the music video more realistic. As the shot was of a room with both actors sitting at a table facing onen another, it was clear I would need a wide shot and so I chose the 25mm lens as it gave me a wide enough view of the scene. Occasionally I gave them prompts to make the shot more interesting. This gave me a good base for my music video as it is something I can cut back to when I need.
I then filmed the master shot again from a second angle looking over one actor's shoulder to have a clear shot of the other. This is to give me some more interesting shots to cut to throughout my video so that the majority of it is not the same shot, which would become dull very quickly. I used a 50mm lens for this to gain a more focused view of the actor in focus and gave him instructions on how I wanted him to behave through body language and the expressions he wore.
This was then done a third time the opposite way around, looking over the other actor's shoulder. This again was done with a 50mm lens and was perfect in capturing the emotions he wore and how he expressed himself through body language.
The last shot I filmes for that day was with the 75mm lens and was a close up of something I had filmed in the master shot. This was the better dressed, more wealthy character handing the other some money. The extreme close-up I filmes this emphasises the importance of this moment and causes it to stand out due to how nothing else can be seen in the shot. I plan to slow this down in post-production in order to further emphasise the important of this.