Filming-Day 3-The 'good' street.

For this day of filming, we chose to shoot the 'good street' scene. We planned for this scene to be well lit and have lights shown as I pass by, to give a warm, safe feeling as she sings, displaying the stereotypical romantic conventions shown in love videos. This was filmed at marina, between Barclays Commercial Bank and some flats, as planned. The purpose of this scene was to explain the narrative to the audience, and to promote the artist. Therefore, we had the female walking down a street, purely just singing and walking through the scene to show this.



However, whilst filming this scene, the following problems occurred;
The night was very cold as the sea nearby was rising, therefore the camera was very shakey. The next shoot would have to be at a time when the weather was better.
The lighting in this section was also hard to fathom, as although the smaller lights as I passed lit up the environment, they were not bright enough to highlight my face to show my expressions as I sang. Therefore, we decided we would use John's light for the next shoot to solve this problem.
We also wanted to have a cut of me walking out of the shot at the very end of this scene, in order to show me walking down the 'bad' street in the next, expressing continuity and a sense of a different environment, although the next street was very close to this area. However, the street that we filmed on for this scene was too long for me to reach the end to walk out of the shot, therefore we had to practice me starting further down in order to get there in time, so that in the next shoot we knew exactly where to go from. We wanted to get right to the end of the road, as the next street could be seen from this point, therefore establishing continuiting again linking the two, and making it look like I am not suddenly in a completely different place, which would break this and make the audience disbelieve in the story.
A final issue that kept reoccurring in our filming generally, was that the tracking was too unsteady, as Taz had difficulty keeping the camera still enough, especially during cold weather. We therefore decided that we would use a pram/trolley for this scene to balance the camera on. However, after discussion on this, we decided against these and to use a bicycle instead, as the trolley and pram would pick up the cracks of the pavement easier because of the design of the wheels, therefore still giving an unsteady visual approach. We planned that we would use Jacob's bike, as the tyres are designed to defy the cracks in pavements for the rider, therefore giving a smooth and controlled movement, which would show in our filming.