2. We all met up at 9.30am on Ley Street
with all the props and cameras ready
3. We then got the 169 bus
towards Ilford, on the
way we filmed the bus
journey and then once
we got to Ilford we got
off and headed towards
the exchange. Firstly we
remembered we had to
get batteries for our
travel speaker so we Whilst in the Exchange Mall in Ilford we took
went and bought some. the liftsaround Ilford we filmed random As we
walked
and filmed some location shots.
scenes, including
underpasses, libraries, passing buses, buildings
4. As we walked past the Library we spotted a brick wall in a
secluded corner in which we could film the close up shots of the
female miming the lyrics so we set up our tripod and camera. We
managed to film this within 10 minutes. So far, so good. We was
on schedule.
5. As we walked around Ilford, I spotted a car pack. I suggested to
my group to go up to the top of the car pack as we may get some
good location shots. Once we got the top floor we were shocked.
The views were absolutely beautiful. Even Canary Wharf could
be seen from there. We quickly decided to use this rooftop
location instead of the Excel one. Because of this last minute
decision, we fell behind our schedule but it was all worth it as we
gained some excellent shots from this location. We filmed
location shots aswell as the female character here. We used this
location to also film the ‘walking shoe’ shots.
8. We then made our way towards Newbury Park train station to
meet up with our artist. Once we met our artist, who also
bought a friend along, we all made our way to Excel.
9. One problem we faced is that, as it had rained
the day before there was a lot of puddles which
the artists kept stepping in whilst filming so we
had to keep avoiding puddles. Also near the
stairs in excel some of the pavements were not
level so the tripod fell abit wonky so it was hard
trying to make sure the camera was straight.
Also all the leaves had fallen off the trees in
Excel so the trees did not look as nice as they did
before. However we had to work with these
difficulties and everything still went smoothly
10. As we was setting up the travel speaker to
play the song, we realised we had bought
the wrong size batteries, we bought AA
instead of AAA. With no shop in sight, we
had to work with just playing it out of our
iPhones. Luckily our artist was more than
understanding and did a great job
11. To our advantage, we discovered a bridge right near
Excel :o
we went onto the bridge and changed our plan slightly
and filmed some parts of the video here instead as we
fell in love with this location
12. We then made our way to our final location:
Piccadilly circus where we filmed the final
version and some extra location shots
13. One major difficulty with filming at
Piccadilly Circus was that it was very
busy, there was huge crowds of
tourists, so this took us longer than
expected. But finally at 5pm with our
iPhone batteries on 2%, we officially
finished filming!
14. Whilst we was on the Bridge at Excel
we took some original photography to
use for our digipaks
Heres some photographs we took..
20. As we walked
along the
bridge, we
stumbled across
a letter ‘D’
carved into the
bridge. We were
so lucky to have
found that and
we quickly took
a picture of it.
We figured we
could use this in
our digipak’s as
our artists name
begins with a ‘D’.
The background
was also very
appealing so
everything was
in our favour!
