West Park is a central park in Wolverhampton.
On a freezing cold Saturday, with wind that pushed the cold right through you, we decided to film the wonderland parts of our music video. Seeing as it is supposed to quite dark the weather worked quite well. The contrast of the green grass to the grey sky made the whole thing seem a little more surreal, although this was just a coincidence it re-affirmed the reasons we chose west park.
We chose to film the cheshire cat bit first and had placed the camera in the right position on the tripod. Paul shot this scene as me and Zoe were in shot. After half a take we noticed the equipment we were using was in shot... fail! Attempt 2... This went well and only took a few attempts.
After filming this i realised why everyone was happy to let me be the cat... wet knees and feet are not comfortable.
We had planned to shoot the caterpillar scene next but our actor had failed to turn up. Dan a close friend and Zoe's boyfriend kindly stepped up for this part but had to make his way. We decided to film the Mad Hatters part while we waited for dan to arrive.
The long shot of the hatter was done by me and zoe. the tripod was being blown by the wind but we finally got a shot that we were happy with and gave the right effect for the music video.
After we had filmed this bit, our stand in caterpillar arrived. After a quick break with a trip to the local supermarket and hundreds of weird looks we continued filming. Our next shot was the tea party and seeing as all three of us were in shot we positioned the camera and asked dan to keep an eye on it while we acted through our scene.
We quickly shoved Dan into the sleeping bag and had Zoe sit on him mistaking him as a bench. The separate shot of his angry face took quite a while as we were all laughing at the face he was pulling. Finally, after Grrr couching he pulled the face we needed and we got our shot.
Last but not least we did the birds eye view of zoe on the bench. I did this as i have the steadiest hands and knew how to do the shot.
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