Day 3 Filming - Glenn

On the afternoon of 25th January, Jay, Adam and Glenn went up to London to do some more filming. I was unavailable due to work committments, however the others went up anyway as we needed some footage! Again, there was a race against time with the light, but the footage that they got was of a good standard and we managed to use it to put into the rough cut. Below is some of the shots that the group managed to get that appeared in the final cut.

 The shot on the left is one that we originally wanted from our story board ideas. It is our model holding a sign reading 'What'. There are other shots that with him holding signs that say 'A', 'Life' and '?'. They are not all shots of him in front of the telephone box. When they went up, Adam and Jay just asked Glenn, in different places that they came across, to stand holding each sign for a few seconds. The idea is then to almalgamate all of the sing holding shots together and have a montage of them shown on the screen.

Dark and Overcast

The shot on the right is a pan shot of London from Waterloo Bridge. The shot over looks the train line leading into Charring X station. Jay and Adam thought that it would be effective to have a few pan shots of the city, which I also agreed with, and when walking over Waterloo Bridge, noticed the view so decided to take a shot of it. The only poblem wth the shot is that it is a bit dark with heavy cloud cover which may ruin the continuity of the video fro going to broad daylight to overcast and darkness.

Bright Lights on Traffic

Another shot that was taken on the day was of moving vehicles. As it was dark, the vehicles had their lights on. Glenn put forward the idea to Adam and Jay that filming the traffic and speeding it up in the actual video would look effective with the bright lights. In order for us to speed the footage up, we had to film for a substantial amount of time in a neutral position. Shooting for a short peridod of time, say 10 seconds, would only be about 2-3 seconds on the screen. So they filmed for 2 minutes to get a decent amout of footage with differet vehicles, people and volume of traffic.

Some of the best footage that Adam and Jay got was the shots in the tunnel. When they were up in London, no one could remember where the original tunnel was and I was unavailable to be contacted, but luckily, the lads came across another tunnel. The location is instantly recognizable to anyone who loves and listens to Coldplay.

This is the tunnel that Chris Martin and his band filmed the beginning of their video to 'Fix You'. A link to their full video can be found here. The tunnel is exactly what we wanted with the high brick walls