Todays Shoot

Today we went to London to film our music video. We got the 8:10am train and arrived at London Liverpool Street at 9:13am. We then immediately began shooting our performance material outside the station on a step which gave a great view of the Gherkin building and surrounding buildings in the background.

We then went to to the multi-story car park we had found on Google maps in Hanover Street which is near Liverpool Street. However, on arrival we did not feel satisfied with the view from the top of the car park as it wasn't revealing any interesting landscape from where we were able to get too. All was okay though as I knew there was a block of flats in Barbican where my friend lives that we may be able to access the roof from. We then got onto the Tube and went to Barbican and to the block of flats. Unfortunately, the key needed for rooftop access was held by the caretaker who was nowhere to be found. This meant we had to improvise and use what we had. We filmed from the balcony between the flats with a lot of high-rise buildings in the back which created a great shot for the performance.

We then decided that we would also use a set on stairs across the road which went up at least 5 stories whereby we used the top of the stairs to film the whole song through twice again. This was also a great location and despite James' fear of heights, he managed to film Nick and I perfectly without any faults in this location.

We then decided to break for lunch at MacDonalds and then go around London and film lots of the performance and have fun with the locations to create the happy mood we want our audience to feel when watching the video. This footage included shots of Nick and I messing around in the street and pushing each other around and just having fun. This seemed to work really nicely and will look great once edited.

Then we went to Covent Garden where I took charge of the camera and managed to get lots of photos of street entertainers to put into the video. I then managed to persuade 5 out of the 6 street entertainers to feature in the video which was great! Unfortunately, one street entertainer was not willing to help as he said that a donation of £5 was not enough so we left it at that. Along with this, I got some footage walking through the huge crowds at Covent Garden to link in with the street entertainers unorthodox looks. This will tie in nicely once edited.

Overall I feel it was an extremely successful day and we got everything we had planned for on the shot-list and storyboard done way before it even started to get dark which was brilliant. We encountered no problems during the day and therefore everything went to plan.