Filming day 3

Today we filmed the extra shots that didn't need Mossy in. We filmed in Gerrards Cross after school, we were hoping to use the small pond to float the piece of paper with the word hope on, to match lyrics and visuals as the lyrics are "down this river every turn, hope is a four letter word", unfortunately we could not use the pond in the end as when we got there we found there was a specific algae that was poisonous so we couldn't actually go near the pond to film. So we moved onto Abbie's house because we wanted to use her fire pit so that we could get shots that we reflect the lyrics  "make that money watch it burn" but will also add difference and excitement into the video and so we could film our shots of food colouring in water.

We filmed the shots of food colouring in water first which turned out to be fantastic and a very effective shot. We think it will be a very interesting shot to have to break up the shots of walking but I also think it will mirror the progression and journey we are overall trying to show throughout the video. This is because as the food colouring hits the water strands of the colouring develop and extend from the main body of colouring and grow and develop which is like the different paths he could take.

Then we filmed the fire pit which again was a really exciting shot, we had to print out pictures of money to actually burn to fit with the line and the meaning of song. It took us a while to actually get the fire started but once we had we got some great shots of the fake money burning, we had different camera angles, simran filmed above the fire pit, I filmed a closer shot at about the same height as the pit and we had Abbie throwing the pictures into the fire. Abbie practised a few times throwing in blank pieces of paper to make sure we would actually get them in shot and to see how quickly they burned and if then it was actually a good enough shot to use. They indeed were as the money didn't burn too quickly and so should be great to use in the video.

In terms of filming the paper in water I think we are going to have to explore more options such as perhaps going to Marlow and using the river Thames as there is a path just by it or somewhere else. Simran and I are going to try and use a bath tub filled with water and see if we can get the paper moving in that and whether maybe we could work with a shot like that. But this may be too obvious and cheapen the look of the video.