Filming Diary - Day 1 - Saturday 29th Dec

Today I had arranged to meet with my friend Kekezza so I could start filming some parts of my video. She arrived at my house at 10:30 and after I had briefed her on what I was planning to do and done hair, make-up and costume we were ready to leave and start filming on location.
Since neither of us are able to drive we had to walk to my chosen location for the day. It took 15 minutes to walk there and set up. I had chosen to film some outside scenes on the riverbank today because I had been checking the weather and I knew that it was not meant to rain, therefore I wanted to take advantage of the good weather. However, even though it has not been raining today it was yesterday, and therefore I knew that it would be very muddy. I decided that it would be a good idea to take some wellies with us when filming, just in case.
We had been filming for about an hour when all of a sudden, quite a lot of dog walkers started to appear. Some walkers did not have their dogs on leads to I thought it would be best if I packed up the camera and tripod while they passed, just incase the animals damaged any equipment. After they had passed we got a couple more shots but by this point Kezza and I were freezing, I had to go to work in an hour and had to get ready and, as we were on the riverbank and the wind had picked up significantly, we decided to go home. I got quite a lot of shots filmed today which I am happy with. I would have liked to stay longer or filmed some more in a different location but due to other commitments I only had a couple of hours available to film. I am already looking into when I have a morning or afternoon off work when I can film again.

These are some pictures of Kezza experimenting with costume before we left to film. We decided to go with the second option.