Shooting the Pop Promo: Exterior Shots

Above are some photographs I took during the exterior shoot for our pop promo.
Day 1:Setting out to Christchurch Park with all our things, we were more than ready to film the narrative. Straight from college, we got changed made our way to the location. First, we were taken aback in quite a bad way; the park had changed significantly since we'd last visited about 8 months ago. Large areas of the forested area had been cut back and the park had been modernised - this only affected one location of our shoot but we panicked slightly and wondered if the other areas we were hoping to shoot in had changed much.
Luckily, everything else was how we remembered so we got back on task and worked out a way to make the first location look (on camera) how it used to be and I think it worked extremely well given the circumstances. The forested pathway was (largely) still existent and it did look a lot fuller on camera than in person with some strategic framing.
With only two of us, the exterior shots were a bit tricky to film and we actually ended up framing ourselves and I'd shoot myself while Kira was in another area doing the same (we were thankful that the monitors on the DV cameras swiveled to face us!).
The shots we got in the park looked really beautiful and the framing and cinematography, for me, really surprised me - I've really improved since the start of this media course and my cinematography has come leaps and bounds since even my last piece of coursework. I think I know how to capture my ideas on film now which I was slightly shaky on last year. The fact that continuity was on our minds the whole time as well was another big indicator as to how far we've come; I think this shoot really made this clear which of course spurred us on!
We started to lose daylight on our first day of shooting (it was quite overcast anyway so we were shooting strategically when the sun reared). We decided we'd already shot a bulk of our footage and we were really working our way down the shot list so we agreed to come back in a week and film pick up shots.
Day 2:Coming back to the park, we were excited to have all of our footage captured and ready to edit so we wasted no time making our way to the final location; the dark tunnel on the other side of the park. We set up our cameras, framing the shot from some really obscure angles including an intensely-high-angled-shot. We then waited for about 20 minutes for the light to get to the level is was on the previous shooting day and commenced.
For some reason, continuity didn't seen to be working so we had to shoot the same thing about 3-4 times before we were happy (which I'm glad about as now we're in the editing process it glides together seamlessly).
Overall, even with the problems we faced on both days of shooting, I'm ecstatic with the results and think we did a really good job. On the whole, the weather was on outside throughout our time shooting and having a knowledge of exactly what we needed to shoot helped us out drastically. If anything, we shot too much (if you can ever shoot too much) so we had a lot to work with come editing time.