Date: 20/02/13
Location: Tottenham cemetery and Great Cambridge roundabout
Schedule: Re-film exterior shots, Rooftop scene and cemetery scene
Location: Tottenham cemetery and Great Cambridge roundabout
Schedule: Re-film exterior shots, Rooftop scene and cemetery scene
Crew:
Me: Director
Leyon: Actor/ 2nd Assistant Director
Shayne: 1st Assistant Director
Tyrell: Camera Operator/ 3rd Assistant Director
Redo Cemetery Scene
On this day we re-filmed our third day of filming.
We firstly started the day by heading to our
original location for the rooftop scene. However we were unable to film due to
some legal complications, this added further stress as wood green had been our
backup filming location and other than that we had no idea where else to film
our rooftop scene so we decided to film the cemetery scenes while we looked for
another location to film.
We firstly started the day by heading to our initial
location (rooftop scene). We did face a major problem on this day as we were
unable to film due to legal implications, this did cause a bit of stress for
the group and I as we did not have a backup so we had to rethink of a location
which we could film in but due to the lack of time and possible further
implication, we decided to film the cemetery scene instead.
Once arriving at the cemetery we set up our equipment
and looked over our storyboard to see if there was anything we could make any
alterations in order of improving the viewing experience and add a further dimension
to the story. We decided to alter a few
of the shots by taking them from different camera angles and trying to film
them in other locations of the Tottenham Cemetery in order to see what looked
the best visually.
I felt that this really helped us as we got a lot of good
shots at the end of the filming shoot and I felt that we improvised
and came up with a quite a few shot ideas such as the use of jump cuts while I
walk down a long footpath, this was to show the characters journey and also to
match with the lyrics 'Here today, gone tomorrow but isn’t got to walk no
thousand miles'.
Another shot that we
come up with that day that I felt was very effective was a wide shot of the
protagonist as he crouched in front of a grave stone that was in the shape of
an angel. This showed that our character was close to death and also showed
that the character may have dealt with loss and this may be the reason as to
why the character is suffering from depression. The filming went well and the
only problem we encountered were people walking through the cemetery meaning we
had to stop filming so they could pass by but apart from that we didn’t
receive a single complaint.
After we had finished filming the entire cemetery scenes, I recommended that we film the rooftop scene on an underpass below Great Cambridge roundabout. We thought this would be a picture-perfect location as it was right over the A10 motorway and so it meant the POV shot would be very threatening as the protagonist looked at a large fall into fast-moving traffic. It was also a public area meaning there would be no legal difficulties with us filming in the area.
I felt that other than the difficulty that we had faced in
getting to film on the rooftop, the day was very productive and flowed
smoothly. We managed to film a large chunk of our video. We filmed both the
introduction and conclusion to our Music Video as they both took place in the
same place and at the same time. We also had to improvise with a couple
new shot ideas as we were filming in a different location and a lot of the
new shots I believe helped better the music video as a whole.
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