filming day

Filming Day..

We all met up at 9.30am on Ley Street with all the props and cameras ready

We then got the 169 bus towards Ilford, on the way we filmed the bus journey and then once we got to Ilford we got

off and headed towards the exchange. Firstly we remembered we had to

get batteries for our travel speaker so we

went and bought some.Whilst in the Exchange Mall in Ilford we took the lifts and filmed some location shots. As we walked around Ilford we filmed random scenes, including underpasses, libraries, passing buses, buildings etc.

As we walked past the Library we spotted a brick wall in a secluded corner in which we could film the close up shots of the

female miming the lyrics so we set up our tripod and camera. We managed to film this within 10 minutes. So far, so good. We

was on schedule.

As we walked around Ilford, I spotted a car pack. I suggested to my group to go up to the top of the car pack as we may get some good location shots. Once we got the top floor we were shocked.

The views were absolutely beautiful. Even Canary Wharf could be seen from there. We quickly decided to use this rooftop

location instead of the Excel one. Because of this last minute decision, we fell behind our schedule but it was all worth it as we

gained some excellent shots from this location. We filmed location shots aswell as the female character here. We used this

location to also film the ‘walking shoe’ shots.

This was the location…

And filming began here…

We then made our way towards Newbury Park train station to meet up with our artist. Once we met our artist, who also

bought a friend along, we all made our way to Excel.

One problem we faced is that, as it had rained the day before there was a lot of puddles which the artists kept stepping in whilst filming so we

had to keep avoiding puddles. Also near the stairs in excel some of the pavements were not level so the tripod fell abit wonky so it was hard

trying to make sure the camera was straight. Also all the leaves had fallen off the trees in

Excel so the trees did not look as nice as they did before. However we had to work with these

difficulties and everything still went smoothly

As we was setting up the travel speaker to play the song, we realised we had bought

the wrong size batteries, we bought AA instead of AAA. With no shop in sight, we had to work with just playing it out of our iPhones. Luckily our artist was more than

understanding and did a great job

To our advantage, we discovered a bridge right near Excel :o

we went onto the bridge and changed our plan slightly and filmed some parts of the video here instead as we

fell in love with this location

We then made our way to our final location: Piccadilly circus where we filmed the final

version and some extra location shots

One major difficulty with filming at Piccadilly Circus was that it was very busy, there was huge crowds of tourists, so this took us longer than expected. But finally at 5pm with our iPhone batteries on 2%, we officially finished filming!

Whilst we was on the Bridge at Excel we took some original photography to use for our digipaksHeres some photographs we took..

The benfit’s of having a panoramic option on your iPhone

As we walked along the bridge, we stumbled across a letter ‘D’ carved into the bridge. We were so lucky to have found that and we quickly took a picture of it. We figured we could use this in our digipak’s as our artists name begins with a ‘D’. The background was also very appealing so everything was in our favour!

Using a software called ‘PhotoCollage’, I combined and mirrored two images to get this effect.

IT’S A WRAP !