Filming Process

Filming Process (Shannon and Martyna)

Our process consisted of 5 filming sessions and 6 locations. Our first filming session was filmed during the half term and we filmed at 3 locations on this day: King's Cross Tunnel, One New Change (St. Pauls), and South Bank Tunnel. As it was difficult to access the college roof top, we decided to relocate to One New Change shopping centre, which provided a roof terrace. Fortunately, the weather was decent and the sunset we initially intended to film was present. This is how we first planned on the storyboard to start of with the rooftop. Filming at King's Cross was not as successful, as we came at a time that was quite busy. Although, we believe that it was a very good location in relation to our artist and synergy ideas (lights). One New Change was successful due to the shots we had taken there - unfortunately, we were not able to lip sync there due to the filming regulations. The weather has not been like this since, so we have not managed to reshoot any of that footage. First shooting at South Bank was also quite difficult, as it was similarly busy to King's Cross. Overall, the first day of filming was productive as we managed to go to 3 locations. Although, we had to reshoot some of the shots at King's Cross and South Bank, as it was very busy.

The second day of filming consisted of us reshooting the King's Cross footage. This more successful, as we managed to film from 2 perspectives with 2 DSLR cameras. We experimented with a top light, as we found that the Dido Light was too bright for our preference. We also found that this light was not useful as it did not contribute to the brightness of our footage. Shooting day 2 was successful in terms of getting the footage we initially envisioned. The lighting change along the walls emphasised our synergy idea, at first we thought the changing lights would be a problem as they were not red all the time. However, when reviewing the footage we found that it actually fitted the music conventions of discontinuity and the audience (as they would expect change of costumes) would also be expecting change of lights and colours.

Day 3 of filming initially was planned to be filmed in Peckham Multi-Storey Carpark. Although, it was far from where we were and not as accessible in terms of travel for all of us. In substitution for our initial car park location, we found a small car park in Angel which fit our preferences, as it featured a blue neon light throughout it. Our shoot there was very successful, as there was no one around at this time. Our issue, was that a car came into the perfect filming space we planned to shoot long shots - we resolved this issue through moving and changing our shot type plan: from long shot to side profile mid shot. Another issue is that we had not planned to film there so we had limited time to do so when the opportunity arose, limiting the amount of shoots we would have liked to film.

On our fourth day of filming, we went to a light shop in Walthamstow called God's Own Junkyard. Even though we were not filming the artist lip syncing (due to filming regulations) we got really successful shots of the location, which was a massive warehouse filled with various lights. We specifically found a light which was of red lips. This reflected back on our artist as she has red lipstick in the music video. In this location, we filmed random shots of the different lights which we would then place at the start of the song before the artist starts singing.On this day, we also went to Leytonstone where there was a bridge overseeing the train station and filmed our artist on it. We are unsure whether we will be using this footage, as the lighting was not very good and there were interruptions from people walking past. Not far from the bridge, we attempted to use the sparklers in a darker area. This went well, but may need to be reshot due to our time limitations within this area. This shooting session was successful overall.

The fifth and final day was shot at South Bank once again. We decided to reshoot some of Rihana's (Haze) shots. Also,