MUSIC VIDEO DIARY - 22/02/14

Today I went out to my chosen location and began some more of the filming of my music video. The particular scenes I was filming happened in the forest located in Hessle Foreshore, here I had a look around and took a few images of the area. In my opinion it was the perfect place to film, because there was plenty of trees and coverage around to give us a good amount of privacy while we filmed and also, I am planning to edit it to make it look darker in the forest on the editing suite at college. This will give it more of an emotional feel, because we will see the young girl walking on her own in this dimly lit gloomy forest, wondering what she can possiby do to make her situation better. It is a very emotional scene and we see her slumped down against a tree, looking hopeless and upset, we see her throughout the music video not accepting any help and instead isolating herself from the rest of the world however we see a revelation at the end of the music video because as she is sat on the forest floor upset and crying, we see a hand reach out towards her to help her up, and for the first time she accepts this help and reaches out to this person.  I think the idea of filming in this forest was good because in the filming it looks like a very gloomy, isolated place to be, this is why it links in with the young grl and almost reflects her as a person because she herself feels very isolated and upset, and of course this cold empty forest has extremely negative connotations which we will see throughout the music video, again showing the negative situation she feels she is trapped in. The idea of filming in the forest and the way that the branches and tree trunks twist around her surround her, is also portraying the way she feels so trapped. All in all I feel it was a very successfull shooting session.