Showing posts with label filming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label filming. Show all posts
Thursday, 27 March 2014
Wednesday, 22 January 2014
First Day of Filming
Yesterday, on the 21st of January, me and Theo went down to the estate in Roehampton and started the first day of filming.
Our original plan was to film his brother play football with his team but he didn't want to go, so we weren't going to force him as he is only little. Also because these kids are very young we wouldn't have permission to film them all together.
As this didn't work out for us, we first went down to the bottom of Theo's block in order to see how it would be when we would be filming between these columns. We found that it was too dark and so we moved to the next block.
As you can see in the pictures below everything was clearer due to the fact that there was more light, but we would still benefit with some more lights. (Eg Matt's car)
After that we went down to the youth club and filmed young kids play basketball. We were lucky and three of the older boys said they would help us as well. Below are the some pictures showing us filming the older guys.
When we filmed the younger boys it wan't so easy. Me and Theo decided we have to get the boys to play in a certain area so that when the camera isn't hand held, it can capture everything that's happening. So I got the boys together and showed them lines on the basketball court and told them where they can go and which lines they shouldn't cross whilst playing. This was quite easy at first but with time, seeing as they were only kids, they got carried away and forgot about our rule. We let them carry on because we wanted to capture the moments when they are fighting over the ball and when they are running around being themselves.
After that we decided we were going to have a little bit of structure to the whole thing. We asked the older boys to play in front of the wide graffiti board because it gave us a nice shot.
Overall, we found the day fun. It showed us what we have to expect from the weather, time of day and locations.
Our original plan was to film his brother play football with his team but he didn't want to go, so we weren't going to force him as he is only little. Also because these kids are very young we wouldn't have permission to film them all together.
As this didn't work out for us, we first went down to the bottom of Theo's block in order to see how it would be when we would be filming between these columns. We found that it was too dark and so we moved to the next block.
As you can see in the pictures below everything was clearer due to the fact that there was more light, but we would still benefit with some more lights. (Eg Matt's car)
After that we went down to the youth club and filmed young kids play basketball. We were lucky and three of the older boys said they would help us as well. Below are the some pictures showing us filming the older guys.
When we filmed the younger boys it wan't so easy. Me and Theo decided we have to get the boys to play in a certain area so that when the camera isn't hand held, it can capture everything that's happening. So I got the boys together and showed them lines on the basketball court and told them where they can go and which lines they shouldn't cross whilst playing. This was quite easy at first but with time, seeing as they were only kids, they got carried away and forgot about our rule. We let them carry on because we wanted to capture the moments when they are fighting over the ball and when they are running around being themselves.
After that we decided we were going to have a little bit of structure to the whole thing. We asked the older boys to play in front of the wide graffiti board because it gave us a nice shot.
Overall, we found the day fun. It showed us what we have to expect from the weather, time of day and locations.
Tuesday, 10 December 2013
Filming
As we haven't still finished the storyboard we can not start our filming process. This is hard to do because we all have lessons and Theo's lesson plan is different to ours. We are all coming in tomorrow at lunch to add the final bits to the storyboard in order to be ready to film on Thursday.
Monday, 25 November 2013
Location
Today me and Theo went to Roehampton to check out the possible locations for filming our music video. We thought of the estate in Roehampton because it sets the right mood for the music video genre and has some interesting filming locations we can use. Here are the following possible locations where we can film ...
We thought that we could film from various P.O.V. one of which was to film from the 2nd floor. At this point the camera would be filming the location and establishing the setting which is the estate. Then it would be looking down on Matt from the 2nd floor down on him. We also thought about standing Matt under an 11 level high block and lying on the ground with the camera to shoot from the bottom upwards in order to grasp the tall building behind him. This is a very typical thing for rappers to do and we want to include this in our music video too.
We also visited the youth club. Unfortunately it was closed at the time we were there but the basketball court was open so I took a shot of it. We thought that for casting possible 'actors' for out music video, we would use Theo's friends from the youth club and he would organize a group of teenage boys who would play basketball. We would then film this and include this in our music video. At the start we were going to film children playing at a playground but we found that we may be having problems with their parents not giving consent for this so this idea with teenagers would work perfectly too.
We thought that we could film from various P.O.V. one of which was to film from the 2nd floor. At this point the camera would be filming the location and establishing the setting which is the estate. Then it would be looking down on Matt from the 2nd floor down on him. We also thought about standing Matt under an 11 level high block and lying on the ground with the camera to shoot from the bottom upwards in order to grasp the tall building behind him. This is a very typical thing for rappers to do and we want to include this in our music video too.
We also visited the youth club. Unfortunately it was closed at the time we were there but the basketball court was open so I took a shot of it. We thought that for casting possible 'actors' for out music video, we would use Theo's friends from the youth club and he would organize a group of teenage boys who would play basketball. We would then film this and include this in our music video. At the start we were going to film children playing at a playground but we found that we may be having problems with their parents not giving consent for this so this idea with teenagers would work perfectly too.
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