Hannah and I went to film the first and final scene of the storyboard when Jonathon decides whether to shoot her and then he makes the unfortunate mistake to kill her when Hannah are actress couldn't fulfil his demented fantasy.
Before we headed to our location in the park, we went to a toy shop in our local area to buy a gun as an important prop in the scene. They only sold blue or red coloured guns for £1.99 to prevent people use it for other misleading ulterior motives. These were the reasons why most shops don't sell them in black like they use too. We spilt the money to buy the blue gun for our video considering the song is called 'Blue Skies' by Noah and the Whale. Other props we prepared for the shoot was a blue rope Hannah got from home and an antique guitar from home to use for the performance part in the storyboard.
To shoot we went to Lea valley park which was more than enough space to shoot our video, our first mission was to find the right tree to have the actress tied up when he tries to keep her from getting away. We walked down a long path for about 20 minutes and all the trees we saw were either to big to get her arms or even the rope around it. To make use of time and location we stopped by an area in the park with a bench and trees around a dry muddy path and shot the performance scene with my guitar down this path and around the natural scenery.
We then ventured further into the woods and found the perfect tree to shoot near a bridge right infornt of the bright sunshine, which we benefited from the natural sunlight helped establish a greater intensity of the surrounding. Hannah and I collaborated when it came to directing. She would suggest I get a close up of the the hands coming free and I would give words for Jonathan to feed off of to convey the emotions of a lovestruck psycho. We filmed a lot of scene surrounding this part in the story. We filmed some lip syncing on the bridge and also key in a video extra shots of the surrounding such as trees, the landscape the sky, water, etc.
Some of the issues we faced while shooting were capturing people walking their dogs into the frame. Ensuring spectators from worrying of the position of our actress tied to the tree and Jonathan with the gun that we would kindly approach them explain the scenario of our mission there. Other than that we had a really successful day of shooting the most dramatic part of our video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKzCKEesZ4E&feature=youtube_gdata
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