Behind the scenes 1: London Day 1

The first filming day was at London we started early so that we could film what as much as we could before the sun started to set as it sets earlier in the winter months. Also, we chose a day when the whether was bright and the sun was out to have a light vibe, so that people wouldn't think that the theme of the music video was depressing.  Before the day we told Ella the kind of clothing we wanted her to wear for the conventions of the indie pop style, we also told her to have minimal make up which is also a convention of indie pop because artists such as Lorde and Lana Del Rey have minimal makeup in certain ways.


We took the train to Victoria Station and the tube to Notting Hill, here we took a range of mid and long shots of Ella walking along the street as if she was on a date with someone else. While at Notting Hill we came across many pastel colour houses with railings like in the picture to the right. We thought it would be a good idea to get some close up and some mid shots of Ella singing the chorus to our song here.




As we further walked into Notting Hill we came across a local pub and thought that we would film Ella laughing and joking about on the bench as one of the events they did on their date. Here we got a range of different shots. We got a long shot of her walking to the pub bench, this set the scene and allowed the audience to understand where they are and gather a bit of what the music video is about.

Next we went to Wimbledon to film at the grounds of the Cannizaro House Hotel. There was much more to film Ella in than we thought. This was an advantage for us because we were able to film more than expected which gave us a variety of shots to put in the music video. At the time we were creative and was able to come up with different actions for Ella to do in the music video with the scenery we had.

On this day i was responsible for directing Ella and what she should be doing in the shot whilst Catherine was responsible for filming. One point during Wimbledon we swapped roles and i took on the role of filming while Catherine directed.