Third day of filming

Date: Friday, 4th of January, 2013

First filming location: Rooftop of Wood Green shopping centre car park

Crew:
Me- Director/camera operator
Leyon-Actor/camera operator
Tyrell- Actor/camera operator

On this day we had carried out the third day of our music video's principle photography. This had taken place on the day after the second day of our filming in the same location as we had used the previous time we had met to film. In my opinon this day was significantly more successful than our previous days of filming since we had travelled to Wood Green with the knowledge of our experiences of what had went wrong the last time we had filmed. This had meant that we now knew what we can do to prevent all of that from happening again this time.

 Like we did last time, we had checked the weather report of this filming day and had found that the weather conditions were similar to thursday's weather conditions meaning the shots the we had filmed on the last day would match with any shots that we film today on the rooftop.

We had met  at 11am, as we since we had wanted to meet early and have enough time to film all of the shots that we did not get a chance to yesterday as well as some new shots that take place in different settings.

As soon as we had arrived in Wood Green, the first thing we had done was go to the manager's office in the shopping centre so that we could ask him for permission for use to use the roof as a filming location. Luckily the Manager had kindly allowed us to film on the roof for a maximum of 30 minutes with the condition that we do not include any shots of the shopping centre's property such as any shopping centre signs.

With the manager's permission we had then took an elevator up to the roof to begin our filming on the rooftop.

Our first filming location

Wood Green

In this location Leyon was featured in all of the shots that we had filmed so he was acting 100% of the time while we were on the roof. While he was acting Tyrell had acted as the camera operator while I was directing the process by instructing Leyon what to do while he is acting and also providing Tyrell with my advice on how to film each shot.
This part of filming had went extremely well since Leyon was very good at improvising certain aspects of his acting in order to make his performance more believable. Tyrell had also excelled in his job role since he was able to provide a lot of his own ideas as well as use a a variety of different camera angles in order to add emphasis to certain aspects of the music video as well as to make it appear interesting.
I believe that I had contributed a fair amount to the video in my job role as I was directing since I was able to make certain suggestion of how to carry out different filming techniques . For instance , I had created a filming technique which in which appeared Leyon's character was dropping a phone to the floor without actually damaging the phone it slef by filming the phone's hollow case from behind .
Additionally I had also looked out for any mistakes that we had made in our music video. An example of this is when I realised  mine and Tyrell's shadows gotcaught  in the frame while we were both behind the camera so I had insisted that we re-shoot that particular shot.
To help keep the realism of this shot we had used the 180 degree rule in our filming by only filming shots and different camera angles of Leyon from his right side or behind him.
As the introduction scene and the concluding scene of our video both take place on the roof , we had decide to film both of those scenes back to back.
The introduction scene had only required Leyon to act in the scene, whereas the concluding scene had consisted of both Leyon and Tyrell characters meaning that Tyrell would be unavailable to record the scenes.
For these shots, I had taken it upon myself to direct these shots as well as act as the main camera operator for these shots. I had used camera angles such as wide angles, over the shoulder shots in order to include both Leyon and Tyrell's characters in the shots that would require them to interact with each other.
We had spent approximately an hour and a half on the rooftop.
Once we had completed we had then filmed a low angle P.O.V shot of the building and another shot of Tyrell's character running to the building. When these two  frames are put together it will appear as though Tyrell's character chases after Leyon and then finds Leyon's character at the climax of the music video when Tyrell looks up and sees Leyon on the top of the building.

Second filming location:

 Tottenham cemetery

In this setting we will be filming the scene in which the protagonist walks through a cemetery in order to relfect the lyrics of "Here today, gone tomorrow". The image on the top of the page shows the setting for we have planned to film the scene that we had planned in our storyboards. 

We had finished filming approximately 2 pm Wood Green we had made our way to Tyrell's house so that we could charge the batteries and also so that we could have a break of filming. Furthermore this had also allowed Leyon to change into his other costume for the scene that we were going to film once we continue filming after our break.

We had begun filming again at about 3pm in Tottenham cemetery to film a short segment of our video which features Leyon's character in a cemetery  The significance of this scene is that it shows how the protagonist is depressed to the point where he is close to death and that he considering committing suicide as a way of ending his depression.

This is Mis-En-Scene will be used to relate to the lyrics "Here today, gone tomorrow", meaning that the protagonist is alive today but may be "gone" by tomorrow.