Reflection On First Day Filming

Due to previous planning we knew exactly where we wanted to visit to gain some footage, but also some possible locations in which we could end going to as well. The first location in which we decided to gain footage from was tower bridge in London. In the planning stage we agreed that tower bridge would be a suitable location down to the theme of the song and also for the iconography aspect in which it would offer. This would prove to be a suitable location as we knew that it would allow the audience to get a understanding of where we decided to establish ourselves within the scene.We decided to go filming on the first day with a Nikon camera and simply a tripod in the attempt to gain some effective footage for the core of our production. We also went to our other chosen locations of Brick Lane which is also in London to give our production the urban element for the basis of certain versus of the song. This would prove to also give us a binary opposition effect within the production of having the upper class richer appeal with elements of the more poor areas of London. This was to match the conventions of the song and to give the audience the understanding of the journey that the artist has been on to get to the place in which he is today. When we return back to view the footage on the Mac PC it was evident that the lightening of the footage and certain elements of the footage where very poor quality and simply was not good enough to feature within our music video. On top of this when we tried to match the lip syncing elements of the footage to the soundtrack on our chosen editing software Final Cut Pro, it was abundantly clear that the footage had a delay and was seriously out of time. Due to these factors we decided as a group that the best port of call was to go back to the location and to re - film the footage that we captured, whilst getting the additional footage that we did not end up filming that was needed for the rest of the production.