As Amie and I live on the outskirts of London we can easily get the train to travel up to London. As we live so close we felt the need to use the world famous locations that London has to offer in our music video. We thought that the features that the locations had to offer were too good to miss therefore we filmed the majority of our music video in the Stable Arches in Camden. We originally planned to go to Brick Lane and film in front of the graffiti/street art, however on the day this did not happen due to the rain. As well as this, despite us getting a 10am train we were worried that we would not have enough time to film in Brick Lane due to the time it would be getting dark at. We knew this wasn't the end of the world because we knew that there was similar backgrounds of graffiti in our local area, therefore if need be we would be able to film there quickly and easily. We decided that we would film this only if the rough cut was short on footage or if the footage we had was not usable.
Unfortunately we chose a rainy and busy day to film in Camden, this meant that people were rushing for cover - this is where we substituted some outside scenes. We were hoping that a rainy day would put people off coming out, but it was as busy as a normal dry Sunday. On wandering through Camden we found the famous Stable Arches, we used the Horse Tunnel which was undercover. As it was undercover it enabled us to still get similar shots to what we were hoping for but instead they were inside. Although people tend to be respectful of people taking photos in busy London, sometimes we found this hard as our model was trying to practice her shots and we were filming the shot numerous times in order to get a good one. These were problems that we encountered.
Due to rain in Camden we could not film the shots that we wanted by the canal, therefore we had to think of a substitute location - this was possibly going to be a local lake. Once again, we were going to film this after we had completed the rough cut as we were quite happy with our footage so we thought we would experiment with that first. When we were walking around Camden we took some shots that we were not expecting to, for example, there was a stall within the market which sold luggage carriers/suitcases which we filmed our model looking at them. This stall was something that we did not see when we went on our location scouting trip, however when we saw the stall and when the owner agreed to let us film it we jumped at the opportunity.
For our performance we were thinking of going along the lines of using a stool and microphone, however as we did not find this equipment we just had our model lip syncing. The props that we planned to use and did use were candles and fairy lights (the lights were flowers with a light in the middle). We experimented with the lights by draping them on our model and then putting them around her while she was lying down.
Within the performance, a problem we faced was the lighting. As it was dark outside, we only had the use of artificial lighting of the main light in the room. As this light did not have a dimmer it meant that the light was either on full beam or off with the light of the candles and fairy lights being the only source of light. We filmed the same shots with the light on and then off so we could see which looked better. Something that we were worried about regarding the shots with the lights off was that when the shot was put together with the better lighted shots that it would look too big of a change from going to natural daylight to candle light.
After we received feedback on our rough cut we knew we would have to make some more alterations which would include filming more footage. We were slightly concerned about our Camden footage due to the weather but luckily it was a hit as people thought it suited our song. The audience weren't as impressed with our performance which led to us filming it again but differently this time. We decided on the location of a church because of the scenery with the stained glass windows and the other creative furniture. Another reason for the church is because it was somewhere which had various pianos therefore this could be used for the performance.
The church was not a location that we were initially interested in, in the end we had to use it due to the fact it was inside. On the day of the filming inside the church, it was raining outside therefore eliminating the external locations. These external locations consisted of a graffiti wall, a field and a lake (as substitution for Camden).
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