Filming 3 Saturday 16th

Firstly, I began the day by creating the mise-en-scene. I did this in three different rooms, the bathroom (used for the print work) and my sisters bedroom (also used for the print work.) I tried to make sure that the mise-en-scene was very similar to the print work to allow continuity.

Secondly, I started creating the mise-en-scene for the party scenes in my garage. I did this by collecting lots of empty wine bottles, beer cans etc and littering them all over the side. I then threw streamers, party poppers all over the room and littered it with wine glasses. I also dangled fairy lights from the ceiling to add to the glamorous feeling. I also placed lots of random objects about the room to add to the interesting effect in the video, for example; cowboy hats, a duck with sunglasses on and a tractor go-kart. I felt that this would inspire the cast to use the objects around them and then it would create the wild, crazy atmosphere.

We had planned that Sam, Emily, Leah and Cat arrived at 3 to film the separate shots of them in the house. However, Emily was really late so we had to film her shots later on in the evening. This did not set us back though as we filmed the 'getting ready' shots of Sam relatively quickly and she was very enthusiastic and efficient. We then filmed the shots of Leah and Cat kissing in the bathroom. I had filmed the panning shots through the house earlier that day so we didn't waste time filming those rather than filming the cast.

Once everyone arrived, we began filming all the group shots. Although some people didn't turn up, we had around 20 people and this was really good as we could create lots of good dance shots and shots of various people. We provided them with food so that they would have the energy to do a long shoot, as we expected it would take around 3/4 hours to get enough shots.

We put loud music on and just allowed them to dance and drink alcohol while filming them, that way it didn't look staged. We referred back to the shot list but also improvised a lot of shots, for example, Leah and Emily walking in and dishing out the alcohol and various close ups of people dancing.

We had to change part of the video as Jordan and Sam Ruane became too embarrassed to dance, so we had to use George. We changed the storyline to George walking through the door and Sam looking flirtatiously at him. He then got approached by lots of girls but only wants to talk to Sam. We filmed lots of shots of Sam and George looking longingly at each other. It looked really good although it was quite funny to film.

We filmed lots of shots inside the house, such as shots of people 'crashed out' on my bed and shots of Sam 'waking up' from her 'dream.' Overall, I felt the shoot went really well. I feel that the mise-en-scene and lighting came across really well on the camera and the acting looked really natural and it seemed as though they were having a really good time.