On Sunday 15th January, me and Adam went up to London to begin filming. Jay and our model Jack had football in the morning and were going to follow us up after their match to help us begin filming properly. What Adam and I intended to do before the other two joined us was to film te London Eye. From previous posts I have explained how we intended to have a shot of the London Eye spinning round quite fast. The only way we could have this effect is to film one full rotation of the wheel and then speed it up. This would have taken us half an hour to forty five minutes which is why we went up early so as not to waste time doing it when the other two joined us.
London Eye
When me and Adam reached the London Eye, we noticed it wasn't moving and was in fact shut for 'essential maintenance', the only time it is ever shut in the year. Because of this our filming schedule was ruined for the morning and we had to decide on another day to begin filming. We went and discussed what we could do in regards to filming before Jay and Jack came to meet us and decided on going to our main location of Leake Street and begin filming the opening and closing shots, as well as the still shots of the images on the wall.
Leake Street
When we got to Leake Street we noticed how the street was filled with cars, something we thought was unusual for a Sunday morning. When we entered the street we also noticed a large group of youths in the centre of the street in a huddle. There was also a strong smell of cannabis blowing through the tunnel/street and based on these observations we did not feel it was appropriate to be filming here. It may be OK to film on some days when the street is virtually empty however should we need to re film anything from this street (which is more than likely) then we cannot guarantee that it would be appropriate to be filming here. So, another hurdle that we had crossed and needed to overcome. I mentioned to Adam that on a visit up to London recently with my family I had walked through an underpass/tunnel along the Southbank river which was an even better location to film than Leake Street, so we decided to go and check this location out. The pictures on the left and right are of the new location and you can see that this is identical to our original thought of having our model perform in front of a brick wall, appearing to busk.
OUR DAY GOT WORSE!
Jack
En-route to the new location of filming, we got a phone call from Jay telling us that we needed to find a new model. Jack had text him telling him that he had too much of a workload to cope with and also had no money even though we offered to pay for him... It was obviously an excuse to just not help us out, but either way, our group was stuffed without someone to film. Me and Adam frantically started to think of someone that could appear in our video that would fit the part. It even got to the stage that we started considering someone within the actualy group to film! But then I thought of someone. At the start of the course our teacher mentioned to us that a student from last year, Glenn Rice was in a band and that we should film then, but we decided not to becuase we were not keen on his bands style of music - maybe we should have agreed to doing this and not had all of the hassle of finding locations etc and made it more simple for ourselves by filming a performance video. So I messaged Glenn asking him whether he could help us out, and near enough straight away got a message back agreeing to help us out!! Above, right, is a picture of Glenn. This is not one we have taken ourselves, but it shows Glenns style. It also shows that he is musical becuase of the guitar, which is handy because we need a guitarto appear in our video.
When we got to Leake Street we noticed how the street was filled with cars, something we thought was unusual for a Sunday morning. When we entered the street we also noticed a large group of youths in the centre of the street in a huddle. There was also a strong smell of cannabis blowing through the tunnel/street and based on these observations we did not feel it was appropriate to be filming here. It may be OK to film on some days when the street is virtually empty however should we need to re film anything from this street (which is more than likely) then we cannot guarantee that it would be appropriate to be filming here. So, another hurdle that we had crossed and needed to overcome. I mentioned to Adam that on a visit up to London recently with my family I had walked through an underpass/tunnel along the Southbank river which was an even better location to film than Leake Street, so we decided to go and check this location out. The pictures on the left and right are of the new location and you can see that this is identical to our original thought of having our model perform in front of a brick wall, appearing to busk.
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