Production planning

Shooting Schedule 

In our video treatment we included images of our story board and what we hoped to achieve from our video in terms of shots and narrative. We then created this shooting schedule to show where and when we would film to fit around all the characters within the video as well as making sure that the weather was okay for the day, which sometimes caused alterations in which parts we would film - however this is the final, accurate filming schedule of what we stuck to.

We encountered an issue with our product when trying to film, however. One point of the narrative was that the video would show a progression of seasons to show the time passing and the relationship getting weaker as the weather got colder. For this we wanted to start with the Bournville park scene which is the summer scene. When trying to film this we kept changing the date due to the weather being poor, we only have october weather and this was mainly cloudy and rainy. Time was running short and we really needed to edit it all together and get it finished so we came up with a plan B that actually fit the narrative better. 

Our new plan: 
In replacement of the Bournville park scene, we took the time the following monday to take a trip to town where we would film a montage of clips of aaron and Beth together. In all of these clips our aim was to ensure they looked happy together, as well as showing some other shot oft them happy form the other scenes we had filmed. All together this montage would show the relationship when they were happy, the audience will familiarise themselves with the couple as happy and therefore the arguments and the ex girlfriend will come as a larger shock. By changing this we also challenged a lot of stereotypes and theories, which we saw as better and we conformed to more of the narrative theories giving our video more interest.

Shot list
We spent some time creating a shot list. This was created before we filmed, however it went through a lot of stages as we filmed as we added in shots, and in fact completely altered what happened within the time the first verse was playing. Therefore this was an ongoing process and we now have a complete shot list which is accurate and explains the different shots and movement we used which will be useful in out evaluation stages in linking to existing products and the conventional shot of the indie acoustic genre. 

Overall, our shot list really did help us when filming, alongside the story board ensuring that we were taking all the right shots but also helped us realise along the way what shot we could include to improve our video and reflect upon decisions we were making.