Avenue 1
This was our first planned filming day and we had this idea
right from the start. We wanted to kick off the video with a well thought out
and well planned starting scene. The ideas come from all of us and we had a
location in place. when we got to the avenues we realised there was a few more
cars than we was anticipating. We scoped the area and thought this wasn't the
place for us. We got back in the car and went to another avenue called 5th
avenue. This was much better and there was a lot of trees the sun was shining
and there was fewer cars. We was here for about 30 minutes as we got set up and
did a few run throughs to make sure we had the best footage. Then we walked
down the avenue and saw a bridge over a river and we thought this was a good
location to shoot some dancing and us hanging off the bridge which looked very
good when we got back to school. Also we saw a park on the walk back which
looked sunny and had bright colours. We had many ideas here like mucking about
on the see-saw and on the swings and on a slide and on a round about. These
were nice filling shots to use. That concluded our first filming ay which wad
an overall success. We had the idea of starting off our image.
Avenue 2
We went back to the same placer to shoot some more shots
cause we thought it was such a good location. We did a in time of use 3 walking
down the avenue in the middle of the road. Also we had the idea of 3 of us
running down the road. There was a bench in the play ground which we thought we
could do a load of random photos that would go in time with the beat where
there is no signing. This worked really well and due to Nathans camera the
shoots looked really nice. As you can see by the photo. the sun was out it was
nice blue sky and it looked exactly the same as the first day of filming which
was nice to match.
Drama Studio
The drama studio was a simple idea of us playing instruments
and Jk singing along. We would all be in blue jeans and a white top. Also we
would have a hand print of our designated colours. Harry is blue, Jk is red and
Olly is green. These shoots were simple with a black background and we had to
idea to black and white everything else out expect our face paint. This looked
really good as the colour stood out and popped. We got single shots of us all dancing
and on our own to fill in the video if we needed it. At the start we had the
task of getting and good print on our face. This took about half hour as we
watch Ollie attempt this and it didn't looked the best. We had to get this
perfect before we had our hour slot in the drama studio as there was lesson
either side so we got prepared the hour before and got in and filmed
efficiently.
Dance Studio
The dance studio was another idea thought up by Nathan and
Olly. They had the idea of us sitting down and then Jk would through a white
sheet over the camera and when it falls back down it would reveal a different
scene of us dancing together or just one of us. This effect would happen a few
times which looked really good when edited and the effect was nice and smooth.
We was in full suits again and in the same accessories.
Science Room
We had an idea of doing a science experiment that would
bubble up and be colourful. We went to the science room as this had all the
equipment and the mise en scene fitted the idea of a science experiment. The
white background of the wall looked good and made up pop more. We did have an
idea of using science jackets but the science room didn't provide us with them
as they had one but didn't have the others. They sent us all over the place
saying there was more here but this was not the case. So we just rolled up our
sleeve son our suit and took of our suit jackets. We had other ideas for the
video as we was in these locations. We thought of us dancing on the table and
getting our feet moving. We had a dance move mapped out that would go along
with the lyrics and us dancing as we lip synced the lyrics.
Smoke Bomb Scene - Field
This was a big scene. We ordered the smoke bombs months ago.
We had the ideas in our head from the start and we hadn't set a day to film
cause we wanted together all he other scenes done first. We put a day and it
was very lucky we did wait as the sun was out for the 2 hours we was over there
and blue sky's as far as the eye could see. We strolled over in our suits with
equipment in hand. We had toe cope out the area as the sun was in a different
place compared with the location scout therefore the direction we were going to
film was not useable anymore. We did a few practise shots and filming run
throughs so we had it our head what we was exactly going to do. As we only had
30 seconds of smoke to get all the shots we needed. The first attempt we had
Nathan scoping around us then when he was behind us we would lit the smoke
bombs. Harry had trouble the first time but got under way after a few attempts.
Jk and Olly did it first time. We held the smoke bombs then through them. We
thought i was going to create a wall of smoke inn the 3 colours but this turned
out not to be the case. The wind was strong and going towards the camera so the
smoke ran along the floor. Us jumping over the smoke didn't have the same
effect as planned. So we re-grouped and thought of a way the smoke will fill
the screen like we wanted. The second take everyone lit the smokes bombs when they
needed too no hassle. Instead of throwing them we would hold them while we run
and then wave them about so it would cover the frame. This would be us lip
syncing and dancing to the tune. Secondly we had the idea of us jumping down
onto the camera so it looked like we was flying in mid air. All we needed was a
blue, sunny sky. Overall we had a a very successful day of filming.
