SET REPORT

Well what happened today?

Let’s see, as usual I was late, but not because I wanted to be. We even pushed back our meet-up time from 9am to midday due to weather concerns, but it still didn’t help me. The gardens are huge, and parking was especially difficult to find. Yet the start of my day was not deterred, and while walking around I got to immerse myself in how beautiful our location truly was.

We had a good shot list prepared the night before, not detailed heavily, but it outlined what was needed. The sequences were supposed to be shot in reverse order of the linear timeline, so the first scene of the day was the last scene in the music video. This was so we could get all the big scenes with lots of people out of the way, and then as the day progressed people who were done with filming could go home. The only people who were definitely not allowed to leave early were Abby and Jon.

Right I completely forgot to introduce our cast for the video, but whats the point in spouting out names now, when you can’t exactly see them yet. Or can you. For now lets enjoy this image of Jon Miranda.

A man who has helped me my entire uni life, albeit still a short lifespan so far, and has been a lifesaver for my degree time and time again. The whole crew were pulling at strings to find a suitable “Elvis Hair Guy”, and I realised that Jon would always be open to help me.

But anywho, more about shoot day. Well, since we went from a full 9hr shoot to half that time and started at 1, we didn’t plan any catering for cast and crew. It was mainly because we didn’t think we’d be able to squeeze in the time, and trust when I say that our biggest concern was time. Since we were technically only allowed to legally shoot till 6pm we knew that we had to work extremely fast. Maggie was the badass boss that with kept us on track, and with Blair and I acting as production assistants that only left the wonderful and amazingly difficult job of Director of Photography to our esteemed Jordan.

Below is a few more photos from today taken from various individuals. I can’t remember who took which because we all just shared them in our group chat to have a bit of a laugh.

As you can see the shenanigans were a plenty. Also this posts music video share is one that shares our fun vibes. Paramore’s “Ain’t It Fun” made me smile, laugh and is one of a kind, breaking the world record for the most word records in a music video. I would have definitely loved to be a part of this production, I mean you can just tell they had a lot of fun, just like we did on set.