It's around 12.30pm and we've reached our location, the secret garden in Golders Hill Park- Pergola and Hill Garden. Filming with Loredana as our model starts and everyone takes on their roles. I'm directing and filming, Christele styles and helps guide some shots and Loredana models whilst also bringing her own style to the table. I think we made a great team.
Since we hadn't been able to come beforehand to properly scout the location, we started off by first walking around the garden and getting a feel for the place. The lighting was great and there were little to no people around with us. I took some shots of the different filming spots to look over whilst Loredana got changed and then we began filming.
We began by following the storyboard which proved to be very useful. There were lots of dress changes which couldn't be avoided as the camera (or rather the tripod) had to be positioned in the same place for a few shots. Because of this, Loredana was constantly getting in and out of different ball gowns, changing over her earrings and necklaces and bracelets all the time. This would be one criticism of today's work- it would have been better had we had more cameras and tripods to ensure continuity in every shot without having to get changed after each small clip had been filmed.
Every now and then, we had new ideas and so we decided we'd film those ideas as well, even though they weren't on our storyboards. We figured that since we had come up with them, we may as well get the footage then decide to cut it or use it to replace an original idea that wasn't as good.
Filming is always enjoyable for me but it was even more so today as I could see our vision for the film unfolding before my very own eyes. I know I must have looked ridiculous scaling the walls and running after Loredana, arms outstretched, knees bent, back hunched over, but judging from the clips we got, I believe everything was worth it.
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