Second day of filming

Date: Thursday, 3rd of January, 2013

Location: Wood Green shopping centre car park roof top

Crew:

Me-assisstant director

Michael-camera man

Leyon-actor

Tyrell- assisstant director

Location of this shot: Edmonton Green

Image taken from the music video 'Not Afraid' by Eminem

The image above is a test shot, which involves leyon looking over a wide space of london area. This shot creates intertexuality between our music video and Eminem's music video for the 2010 hip hop song 'Not afraid' in which the introduction scene involves Eminem standing on the edge of a roof.

On this day, my team memebers and I had carried out our second day of principle photography. We had decided to begin filming on this day as it was most convinent for all of us since we were all available to film on this day. We found our filming schedule to be limited as it was the Christmas holiday which had meant that throughout the whole of the first week most of us would have been unable to meet up and carry out work together such as filming as we were all spending time with our families. This had meant that Christmas and new years day would have been unavailable for us to meet. However we all still had access to communication such as instant messaging and social networking, which had meant that we were still able to talk and exchange our ideas with each other.

We were also able to use this to our advantage by planning our video even further by saying what segments of our video we will film on each day and what locations we will use for each day. Additionally , it was crucial that we had made sure that our filming locations were suitable for us to use on the day of our filming. In order to ensure that our arranged filming days were appropriate to film on  I had checked the weather reports of the days which we had scheduled for filming. To our luck, the weather on the scheduled days were suitable for filming as there were no reports of rain and there were misty clouds which we had used to our advantage as Mis-En-Scene to match the depressing atmosphere of our music video.

Our orginal filming location

Edmonton Green

On the 3rd of January, 2013 we had begun our sceond day of filming and had met at 11 am in Edmonton green to begin our filming . In our music video, the begining scene and concluding scenes feature our video's protagonist on a rooftop. Initially we had planned to film these scenes on the rooftop of a building which is near the edmonton green shopping centre and right in front of the Edmonton Green bus station. My team members had found this location to be suitable for these scenes as the rooftop was quite high up and our test scenes had showed that this location would enable us to film our scenes the exact way we had visualised them in our planning.

Unfortunately, two security guards had then told us that we were in fact not allowed to film in that location since that particular rooftop is considered to be private property. This  forced us to pick another location to film our video.

Our second filming location

Wood Green

Fortunately for us we had then remembered another place that we could use as a setting for our video which was suggested to us by one of our school mates. This setting was located in Wood Green and had consisted of the rooftop of the shopping centre which was actually the nineth floor of the shopping centre car park. We had acknowledged that if we were to go to Wood Green the same situation would be likely to happen again and the rooftop may not be available for us to film, however we had decided that it was atleast worth a try to travel to Wood Green as we did not want to waste a day of filming.

We then traveled to Wood Green by the 144 bus and then onto the rooftop to begin filming when the time was about 1-2pm. When we had arrived in the shopping centre we took the elevator up to the nineth floor of the shopping centre car park and checked the area to see if it was appropriate for filming.

We found that this location was even better then our previous film location as the view was even higher and had provided us with vast amounts of space which had given us the opportunity to include various types of camera angles in our music video.

Within 20 minutes , we were able to begin filming and had completed a total of atleast 6 shots of Leyon on the roof edge.

Sadly , a security guard of the shopping centre had came up to the nineth floor and had told us that this area is unavailable for us to film as the car park is also private property of the shopping centre. Despite of this thesecurity guard had suggested that we ask the shopping centre's manager for permission for us to film on the roof.

We went to the manager's office but the manager himself was unavaible at the time so we had to ask the staff that was available. They had gave us permission to film on the rooftop for 30 minutes on the condition that we do not include any shots of the shopping centre's signs or anything that indicates the setting is property of the Wood Green shopping centre.

Immediately after that we had returned to the rooftop to continue filming which lasted for about 10 minutes, but sadly our camera was low on battery and quickly died.

We then stopped filming for that day as we did not have a charger with us at the time. Michael had bought a charger in a phone shop but we could not charge it any where in Wood Green. As a last resort , my team members and I had traveled back to Tyrell's house to plan the filming that we would carry out on the following day while the phone was charging.

Additionally we had decdied to make the best of our current situation by trying to film any interior scenes that take place in doors while we were in Tyrell's home.

Michael had told us that he would not be available to work with us on Friday so he had given me the camera and the tripod to hold onto until then.

My team hand then decided to film the rest of the shots that would take place on the rooftop in Wood Green and the cemetry scene on the following day.

Music video stills

This is a view of the landscape from the roof which will act as a point of view shot of Leyon's character.

The image on the left depicts Leyon getting into position so he is ready for filming while Michael is setting up the camera to film him.
The image on the right is an image of our storyboards which shows the shot that we are attempting to film.

This image shows Michael filming Leyon near the edge of the roof.