RIsk Assesment

Not filming at school means that there are many risks that we need to take into acount.

Risk: Going to far out to sea and equipment/actors being pulled out into deep water
Precaution: We shall only paddle in the shallow water and not tke any equipment into the water.

Risk: Filming the last shot in the road and obstructing cars
Precaution: we will have one person looking out for cars in the roads at all times and will warn us if there are any cars coming

Risk: getting burnt or catching fire to things whilst lighting and filming with the tea lights
Precuation: we will take extra care when lighting them, making sure there is no hair or clothing in the way and will also have one person checking the tea lights whilst filmiung is taking place

Risk: Our artist dropping the girl whilst he is spinning her round
Precuaition: he will pick her up in the proper manner and we will stop frequently so that he can put her down and not hurt himself

Risk: Sitting on the sharp rocks or falling off rocks
Precaution: we will look around the various rock pools and pick the safest and most suitable place for him to sit, making sure that it is level

Risk: falling when trying to sit on top of the beach hut
Precuation: someone will help Harris climb on top of the beach hut whilst someone is watching and standing beneath him in case he falls

Risk: filmer or actor falling off the beach hut whilst filming
Precaution: somone will be watching them whilst they are filming whilst another stands beneath the hut to advise the two where to postition themselves

Filming Schedule

Because we only have this one day to ilm we thought it would be a good idea to plan out our day. It will also help us sort our footage and make sure we have all of our shots.


9:00am - everyone meet at my house to set off for Frinton.

11:00am - arrive at Frinton beach.

11.10am - Shoot the car scenes, have our artist drive the car, park up and get out with female.

11:30am - Check the shot list, and check that we have all the relevant car scenes.

11:35am - Go down to the beach and start filming all of the beach scenes.

1:30pm - Check that we have all of the relevant beach scenes.

1.35pm - Start filming all of the rock scenes, making sure that he sings the full song through for every shot that we do.

2.30pm - Check that we have every rock shot.

2.35pm - Start filming all of the beach hut scenes, and again make sure that he sings the whole song through for every shot.

3:00pm - Check and make sure that we have all of the beach hut scenes.

3:05pm - Start filming the kite scenes (have to make sure that the weather isn't too dark to film this, as the kite needs to be very visable)

3:30pm - Check and make sure that we have all of the kite scenes that we need.

3:35pm - film the pavilion and ice cream shots. 

4.15pm - Check and make sure that we have all of the pavilion shots that we need to have.

4.20pm - Film the tea light beach scenes, making sure that it is the right light. This means that we need it to be dark enough to use the tea lights and have them visable, but not so dark that you can't see our artist whilst he is performing.

5:00pm - Refer back to the shot list and check that we have every shot that we need. Check the shots and make sure that they are a good quality and that none need to be re-done.

Final Props and equipment List

The final prop list for our filming day at the beach are:

-CAR
-GUITAR- electric and acoustic
-SMALL GUITAR AMP
-KITE
-ICE CREAM
-IPHONE
-TEA LIGHTS

The equipment we will need is:

-CAMERA
-TRIPOD
-REFLECTOR BOARDS
-STRIP LIGHT
- CAMERA CHARGER

Actor organization

There has been a slight change of plan with our actors as we have been unable to find a day which is suitable for everyone. We therefore have had to consider using our group member Harris as the artist. We will hopefully still use Sian as our female actor and find a day during our half term which everyone is happy with.

Credit storyboard

This is a storyboard that i created showing all of the shots in order over our song. This will then help when making our shot list and when we come to edit our footage.

This helped a great deal in intergrating our narrative with our performance shots and also showing uo how much footage we will need. The cutting rate was faster than i had first thought.

Filming days

We have decided to film during half term as one of our actors is not at our school and we needed a time when all of us were free. It will either be tuesday or wednesday.

Looking at the weather we think that Tuesday would be the best option as there is less chance of rain and more wind. The wind would be quite important in creating a windswept "hair blowing" type effect.

Location photographs

This is frinton beach that we would like to film at. We would like to film the majority of the performance shots on the beach and also amongst the rocks. Because this is a public place we would not have to seek permission to use it but we will have to be more careful as to not have unwanted people invading our shots. Filming outside also means we will have to be careful with the weather and protect the equipment if it begons to rain.

This beach would be the ideal space to film the candlelit beach performance section of our video as there is a vast amount of sand and the beach wall is behind it which would be perfect for us to film higher angled shots. We do however realise because we are filming this outside nearer night time we will have to sort out a means of lighting the scene as we know that when the footage is exported, it becomes darker. We think we may have to get a battery pack to then plug spot lights into to light the artist.

We also want to film some of the performance elements of our video sitting on top of some beach huts. We will take the appropriate health and safety precautions when doing this. 

We will not be filming the entire video on the beach. We want to have some elements in the pavilion shown above as well as on the grass and in the town of frinton. Again because this is public we will not need permission to film here.

Location Filming

 Wanting to film on a beach we wanted to look at a similar product that effectively films at a beach. The long establishing shot at 0.11 shows a "postcard" shot of the beach. In our video we want to create a romantic setting for our artist. Framing the beach shot and frequently returning to it will emphasize the romantic setting and enhance the relationship between our characters.

The slight sepia color filter when filming on the sand of the beach highlights the sun rise and gives the video a softer overall look. It also gives the shots a yellowish tint much like the color of the sand on the beach.

The performance part of the video is soley set on the beach with mid and long shots from the back of the artist. This creates shadows and emphasizes the sun and the water. This is something that we want to emulate in the performance part of our video

Planning meeting

Our planning meeting discussing shot lists and locations for our music video.