day three of filming

Tuesday 24th January:

Here is our list of footage which we still need to collect:

Today we filmed the main part of the music video, which took part up London. Emily, Charlie and I headed up to London on the trains to begin the filming. First we headed up to South Bank, where we found the best graffiti location. Here, we filmed a location shot, using the tripod in order to create a pan of the area. I think this will look really good when edited and placed into the music video, as it will introduce the area, instead of the main character just appearing there. Again, the tripod was of great use for this as it would have looked awful if we had just free handed this part of filming. Here are some of the images which I took, or the area:

We filmed the parts with Charlie here, thinking, and reminiscing on the memories he had with his girlfriend (Megan) good and bad. So most of these shots here were of him "thinking" and in "deep thought". The image below is also a possibility for the front cover of the CD or poster for our next task. Therefore this image will be kept for later. I really enjoyed filming in this area as it was secluded. I also really liked the bright and vibrant colours from the graffiti, it was so good, it was hard to decide where to film because all areas looked perfect for the filming.

Today we also filmed the crowed part with Charlie standing still in the middle of a crowed as the public pass by. The tripod was used for the filming of this, which came is great use to use, as neither Emily or I had a steady hand for the filming, making it difficult to keep the camera in the same place for such a long period of time. Using the tripod made it so much easier to film for a long period of time without camera movement.

PROBLEM: This became quite difficult as in some areas there was not enough people passing by, leaving Charlie standing there alone, which was not the idea which we was aiming for. However, we decided to change location to a much busier place, where a lot more people were passing by. Although we did get a few funny looks, we got the footage which we needed, and quite a lot of it, meaning that we have a lot to chose from when it comes to the editing.