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The weather whilst filming the dog scenes was really good. Although it was cold, the sky was fairly clear and the sun going down created a nice effect. The ground was not wet which was important because if the dogs had got muddy it may have disrupted the flow of the scene.

Our fourth day of filming was to film the dog walking scenes. The scenes were overall successful, with the sunset creating a soft effect on the scene. The shots, therefore, are very aesthetic and create a 'romantic' atmosphere. However, some of the issues we had were with the dogs. They didn't always cooperate with what we wanted them to do There was also the issue that boxers, as a breed, head wrestle when they play. This therefore looks quite aggressive in the footage as the dogs are supposed to have just met each other. On the other hand, in some cases the fact the dogs wanted to play was successful. In the final scene where they re-meet, we planned to have Jordan and Peggy running towards Claudia and Suzie. Due to Peggy's want to be with Suzie, we were able portray the scene as if Peggy had spotted them and lead Jordan over. Overall, the shots we got were successful and usable in our final product.

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Our third filming day was again, at Claudia's house. We began by setting up a back drop for Jordan to perform in front of, the pattern of this back drop will then be used to create synergy throughout our digipak, video and tour poster. The back drop was successful and reacted very nicely with the changing colours of the light we used. We then began to film Jordan lip syncing our song. The idea is that it looks as if he is filming it for a YouTube video but we still have shot some slight angle variations to make it look more professional. Although his lip syncing is not perfect, I believe it to be of satisfactory standard for our video. We had also planned to film some party scenes on this day but were unable to get enough actors to make this look realistic. Therefore, we will need to brain storm some different narrative ideas that we will be able to film.

Our second filming day was at Claudia's house where we filmed an array of scenes. The first scene we filmed was the indie girl's wake up scene which consists of the character in various positions on a bed, followed by her walking to a mirror and then a shot that shows our artist playing on a YouTube channel. The shots in bed were extremely successful and I think they will work well when it comes to editing . However, our plan to green screen the laptop may be harder to edit because we discovered that the wallpaper in the background also features the same shade of green which may result in us needing to refilm. We then filmed shots where the other female character throws clothes out a window onto our artist in order to create the implications that they are breaking up. We got many angles and variations of these shots because the weather was good for filming these shots. If we were to find we needed to refilm these, we would have to wait for another dry day. We then got som...