First Day of Filming - Wednesday the 30th of November

We all met at Jessica's house at 10 o'clock, from here we went to Debden shops to buy all of the props that we need throughout the day. This included 24 balloons, a bouquet of flowers, selection of confetti and heart shaped sweets, a big selection of cakes and a bottle of champagne. Once we had all of these, we went  back to Jessica's house to prepare for filming. The first thing we shot was the close ups of our lips with different coloured lip stick. This went very well as once the camera was in position all we had to do was to make sure it was focused and then sing into the camera. We had an idea to have a cake fight so we decided to have shots of the lips but with cake around them. After this we wanted to take a shot of the balloons going up into the air. We had to make sure that we could see balloons as they went up, so we did a couple of test shots. Unfortunately because the sky was too light, the camera could not pick up the balloons as they went off in the distance, so we decided to wait until it was a bit darker to set the balloons off. For the line 'Your love pours down on me surround me like a waterfall' we wanted to have a waterfall effect. For this we had to use a clear shower screen and have Chloe behind, again we had some problems so we decided to do it a bit later on. In our story board, we had imagined a shot of heart sweets and confetti falling slowly which we tried to do but due to technological reasons, we could not use this shot. We then decided to use stop motion of the heart sweets and confetti making a heart shape and then the confetti sliding off the surface like a snake. This worked well, however, we may not use the stop motion snake, but this will be decided when we come to editing our footage. By this time, the sky was getting darker and the lighting of the sky was dark enough to set the balloons free. This was a success. We had bought flower which we wanted to make it look like a bride was throwing them. We talked about how we would do this when Jessica realised that we could use her mum's wedding dress. Ashley wore the dress so she was the one to throw the flowers. This went well as each time Ashley threw the flowers the same so we could shoot it from different angles. This is when the rain started which meant we could not do any more. We still wanted to do a close up of the flowers falling another time. It was now getting late and we were all very tired so we decided to do the last two shots and call it a day. Because of the type of shower we needed we decided to pack up at Jessica's and go to Freya's house. While Ashley helped Chloe get her make up and hair ready, Jessica and Freya tried to get the camera in the right place and sure the water poured right. This all went well and the lighting also made the shots look good. We then decided to run a bubble bath and take a couple of fun shots with the champage. From this, we actually got a few good shots we can use. The last thing we decided to shoot was the cake fight. We already had the cakes and Freya had a light in the back garden so the lighting wa not a problem. We put all the cakes on the floor and had a bottle of squirty cream each and started to throw them at each other. Chloe, who was filming, used some hand help shots and some on the tripod. This is so when we come to edidting we can use the different shot. After the cake fight we were all very dirty and tired so decided to pack up. We had now done alot of the shots we wanted to do and now we will have to arrange a day to shoot the rest.