Organisation of Time, Equipment and Shooting Schedule.

Equipment.
The main equipment being used is obviously the Sony Handycam (possession of the College), and the appropriate tripod. I also made use of bikes and my car for interesting shooting styles; for example during the scenes in which Callum (the actor) was riding a bike, I was also riding a bike with the camera fixed steadily to me in order to, not only keep up with him, but to create a sense that both the character and the audience (camera) are involved and interacting. I made use of this equipment over the two days of filming. 


Shooting Schedule.
In regard to my shooting schedule, I split the shooting into locations; for example shooting around my house was all filmed together, shooting in Briningham was all filmed in one block - regardless of the actual order within the final edit. 


Initially I had planned to shoot a large proportion of the video in a coastal location, however due to work commitments and timing issues, I had to improvise and make the decision to re-write those scenes to suit a different environment that was far easier to access in the time I had. 


Key of Locations:
Briningham/Melton Constable
My House
Wood Dalling


Sunday Evening (1st of April):
Sequences and shots for the second verse of the song and the very beginning of the final chorus.


18.30 - Scene in which Justin walks into reflection of the car mirror and approaches the vehicle. Filmed in my driveway at my home.

18.45 - Continue to drive further down the road into a more isolated location situated just off the road between two fields, this is where the low light dusky scenes are filmed where Justin is seen sitting on the car bonnet looking into the distance (from both inside and outside the car)/walking out into the field shot from inside the car/and also the scene in which (with the camera in a fixed position) the car pulls into a dusty side road where Justin gets out and staggers past the camera. This all took approximately an hour to capture due to retakes and experiments with different camera angles. 


19.45 - We then returned home to shoot the last two scenes of the night. Firstly we shot the scene in which a low camera angle (with the camera set on the floor) captures Justin's feet and the whiskey bottle, he then aggressively grabs the bottle - still with only the bottle and feet/legs in shot. 


20.00 - Upon filling the bath up, I set about filming the scene in which you see Justin moodily laying in the bath fully clothed drinking his whiskey. This took two takes, one from a high angle from more the front, and another high angle from behind him. 


Monday Daytime (2nd of April):
Sequences and shots from the first verse and both choruses. 


11.30 - Began by shooting the scene inside the cabin (very first scenes of the video) in which Justin opens the curtains, pulls on his hoody and steps out of the door. Took approx. 10 minutes in order to capture different takes from different angles and such. 




11.40 - Capture of the scene in which Justin looks through photo album in a home movie style.


11.50/12.30 - I then decided to film all of the 'fixed camera' scenes in one block so that we didn't have to attach the camera to Callum again. After experimenting with the tripod etc for a while, it wasn't until about 12.30 that we began shooting again. We firstly travelled up just out of Briningham to Melton Constable to capture the scenes in which Justin is aimlessly walking about with the camera fixed to him during the first chorus.


13.00 - With the camera still fixed we then filmed the entire scene within the dark shed in the final chorus. 


13.50 - We travelled up to the green tin church located in outer Briningham to shoot the scenes surrounding it i.e. the shots of Justin entering the church grounds and leaning against the church walls as well as any long shots of the church itself. 


14.30 - We then arrived in Wood Dalling where Callum actually lives. I took some mid to long shots of the surrounding environment such as the tractors and the bikes before setting off on the bikes.


14.40 - We began to shoot the scenes in which Justin is biking around, as well as the shot of the big red trailer. This took roughly 20 minutes.