Third Day Filming

During our third day filming, we was aware that we still needed around 1 minute of space to fill in our music video so what we filmed on our third day, had to be of a good standard.

We started filming around 10:00 am and had a detailed plan of what we wanted to film. We originally planned that we was going to use the influenced ideas from Example's music video, 'Change the way you kiss me'. The scene at the beginning where he is washing his face in a bathroom, we wanted to re-in act it as it could be seen as though he is washing away his sins. As we got to Woodford, we roamed around the council estate to check if there was any locations we could use to fill gaps. We found the basketball court on the side of the estate and decided to use it. We thought we could film Tom standing in the middle of the basketball court and then rotate the camera 360 degrees around him so he would look alone and isolated.


Once we had finished filming at the council estate we then went of to find some lunch in the local high street. Once there, we all thought that we could actually use the high street in our music video. We got Tom to just casually walk along and then filmed him using a mid shot. Once looking back at the shot, we then thought that we couldn't just use the one random shot of Tom walking so we went back to the council estate and filmed Tom walking again. This shot once again, shows that he is isolated.

When we was in the high street there was an alley way and we planned beforehand that was going to shoot a drug deal to show the downfall of the main character. When we saw the ally way, we thought it would be perfect. We quickly went down there and tried to shoot the deal. With the alley way being more popular than we thought, there was quite a lot of waiting around for people to walk past. Eventually after a lot of takes and waiting, we finally got the shot we wanted. This was probably the most stressful part of the day as we had to literally do a drug deal in broad day light down a public alley.

After a long day filming, we finally got about 10 minutes worth of usable footage. I then took it home to check if it was what we actually wanted/planned.


By Charlie Head