Filming 'Home' - Day 3

Filming 'Home' - Day 3

All shots with the teenage couple in

This day of shooting included taking all of the shots of the couple when they are in their late teens - this meant that we had to get all of the individual shots of Jess and Teo, and then the shots where they are together. It took approximately 3 hours to film these sections of the music video.

Below are a few of the shots that we took: -

This is one of the shots where Jess is alone (below is one of the shots where Teo is alone). Here Jess' character sees the flower, like the one Teo's character gave to her when they were little near the beginning of the music video. Jess handles the flower carefully and stares at it longingly, remembering Teo's character. The flower symbolises their love.

You can hear me directing in this video - telling Teo to keep his hands where they were in the previous shot in order to keep continuity. 

This is a birds eye view shot showing Teo's hands in the foreground and his feet in the background. Teo is looking at his hands, fidgeting with them and embracing Jess' character - his character's love, they have been apart due to the mishaps of life. Teo's hands are the focus of the shot, in the foreground, showing that he is thinking of Jess and that makes him happy, however his blue shoes in the background suggests that he is emotionally hurting without her. The greyscale treatment that we plan to put on this shot will reinforce this.

In this close-up shot of the flower, Teo and Jess' characters embrace on the bridge - they have found each other again - the flower is discarded by Jess in the previous shot that will be seen in the video because they no longer need it, they have each other. However, the fact that the flower is in focus in the foreground while the couple embrace, blurred in the background is significant - the flower is a warm, bright symbol of their love, and it has seemingly bright them together again, we almost see them meet and hug from the flower's perspective on the ground, hence the low angle shot.

Here the couple embrace on the bridge, we plan to put this in slow motion; they are reunited - the treatment will be warm again like it was in their childhood memories when they were friends. 

Here is another low angle shot, that I took - we deiced to make this our ending shot and cross-fade the music video into white after this, doing so makes he sun look likes it's shone brightly over the couple. The white represents their happiness, and pure, innocent love.