Fifth day of filming

Date: 20/02/13
Location: Tottenham cemetery and Great Cambridge roundabout
Schedule: Re-film exterior shots, Rooftop scene and cemetery scene

Crew:

 Me: Actor/ 2nd Assistant Director

Michael: 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 initially 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. When we arrived at the cemetery we set up our equipment and looked over our storyboard to see if there was anything we could do to enhance the viewing experience and add a depth to the story. We decided to play around with 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 I 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 ain'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 cause of the characters 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 scene, Michael suggested that we film the rooftop scene on a underpass below Great Cambridge roundabout. We thought this would be a perfect location as it was right over the A10 motorway and so it meant the POV shot would be very menacing as the protagonist looked at a large fall into speeding traffic. It was also a public area meaning there would be no legal problems with us filming in the area.

I felt the filming in the location went very well. 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 come up 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. I and Tyrell were both acting in most of the shots and I felt we both did a great job we both improvised really well and also had a lot of input into the different shot ideas that were used.