Filming at the train station

First Filming Session

We filmed the shots which were located at Beeston train station on our storyboard on 25th September, and styled our actress to look sophisticated, stylish and slightly retro with the hair and make-up. We looked at our moodboard for inspiration of the costume and hair/make-up which would look best at this location, and styled her hair and make-up like this.

Before

 Doing her hair style: I styled a retro roll at the front of her hair which looked really good on the footage, and Laura-Jo curled her hair to make her look more like a star and less ordinary. We felt that we needed to add a hairband behind the roll to make her hair look more interesting.

 Doing her make-up: I did her make-up by applying natural foundation and blusher, but emphasising her features such as eye brows, eye lashes and lips which we painted red. This made her seem more natural which was the style we wanted at a casual location, but still showed she is glamorous.

 After

 At the location

Costume: We planned for Georgina to wear something sophisticated with an edge for these shots, and after looking at the images on the mood boards we previously created, decided on a white shirt as this is classy, with jeans to make the costume more casual for the location. We originally put a brown satin jacket on Georgina, however after seeing her on the location, decided she looked too dressed up and opted for a more casual blazer which still made her look sophisticated. She wore wedged heels as these give her star image at a location which we wouldn't expect people to necessarily wear heels at. The only prop she has at this location is a brown leather tote bag as it makes her look like she is living her every day life.


Problems: The issues we faced on the day we filmed these shots were that it began to rain heavily as we started to film, however we waited until it calmed down and as the station was sheltered we were able to continue. The theme of our music video about summer being over worked well with this lighting anyway. We also had to try and avoid people getting in the way of shots as they got of trains or walked down the station, however as we filmed on a Wednesday morning it wasn't too busy.


Snap shots from the footage we took:

We filmed from the same platform as Georgina in this shot, and as she walked past the camera it showed her costume, and we asked her to stop at a certain position and turn to look for the train so that we are able to see her face and sad expression, before she continues to walk down the platform.

We also did a few shots from the opposite platform to show her in long shots, walking across the platform reminding the audience of the current location.

We waited for some trains to arrive to make the location clear for the audience, and in this shot the train goes past without stopping and shows Georgina on the opposite platform.

This shot was not planned, however we thought it might be interesting to involve a handheld shot in the music video to make it feel more personal to the audience. I followed her walking with the camera which gives an eerie sense of somebody following her.

Another hand held shot that we tried out was a close up of the platform sign, which could be put into the music video to look like it is the artists own footage as Lana Del Rey often involves her own videos into her music video, again making the video more personal.