Date: Thursday, 3rd January 2013
Location: Edmonton Green and Wood
Green shopping centre car park
Crew:
Me: Director/ Camera Operator
Leyon: Actor/3rd Assistant Director
Shayne: 1st Assistant Director/Production Manager
Tyrell: 2nd Assistant Director/Location Scout
On this day me and the other team members decided to begin
our second day of principle photography as it was the most suitable day for us
all due to the Christmas holidays, however we were still
able to communicate with each other through social networking and
instant messaging this enabled us to set a date for our filming schedule and
also to plan what scenes we were going to go ahead with to film on these days.
the timing also pretty crucial as the time of season meant that the days
were shorter and this would affect our lighting and meant that we had to work
efficiently and also had to be time effective, however the fact that it was
winter helped set the tone for the video lighting wise as it gave it a dull and
depressing feel.
We began the day off by meeting up in Edmonton Green at
11.00am to check our location it was then that we met our first problem of the
day. Although the roof itself was perfect visually the roof itself was not high
enough and this didn't work for our POV shot in which the protagonist
looks over the ledge, this would give a sense of the danger which faced our
protagonist and his decision. To sort out this problem me and Tyrell
decided to lookout for a few of the nearby flats to see if we could find a view
which would be to show the view of our protagonist, so began our long and
rigorous climb up 24 flights of stairs. The view itself was aesthetically
pleasing; it was ruined by a dirty window. So we decide that we would just have
to use the view from the original roof. As we got down to the roof we were met
by two security guards who kicked us off the roof, as it was private property
and we were not allowed to use it as a filming location.
Location: 24th floor of a flat in Edmonton Green
Wood Green
After getting kicked off the roof
we luckily remembered another location one of our friends had
suggested to us. So we headed for the roof of a parking lot in Wood Green. When
we arrived we realized that the location was perfect it was exactly
what we were looking for and much better than the first location. This location
was good but once again there was a setback as another security guard told us
that we were not allowed to film in that scene without permission from the
building manager. We had to go to the management office and wait for the
building manager to come and give us permission.
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