Seeing as we were in Dartford for the first day of filming, we had to start off by filming a small part of the chase scene and the ending of the video as this location is where we had planned for this to take place.
Here you can see Josh, me and James filming one of the chase scenes in Dartford High Street.The first location that we filmed in was Dartford High Street. This shot consisted of Dan, Ryan and Phil running out of an alley and along the highstreet, and was filmed by tracking our actors using a pan shot. Within this location there were quite a lot of people which turned out to be a slight problem as we kept getting people accidentally walking in front of the camera when we were trying to film some of our shots and others who were purposely getting in the way as soon as we started each shot. There was however one benefit that having the public near when we were taking our shots brought, and this was that when our actors ran past large groups of people they would naturally turn around and look at what they were doing. This natural reaction helps to enhance the sense of realism and intensity that we wanted to create in our music video.
Still on the highstreet, we decided that we needed to get a shot of the actors running straight past the camera, with absolutely no camera movement to make the shot quick and them look like they were running as fast as they could. The short length of this clip also allows us to cut quickly to the beat of the music, helping us with our editing.The next location that we filmed in was an alleyway just off of the high street. In this alley we wanted to get shots of the actors' feet as they were running. To take these shots we ended up taking the camera off of the tripod and using it handheld. Using this alley carried the same problem of people getting in the way of some of our shots so we had to be patient and wait for the way to be clear before we started filming each shot.
Below on the left you can see me, James and Josh setting up ready to film the shot and below on the right us filming the actors running past.
The last set of shots that we took were in the underground walkway in Dartford. We had to change from the original alley that I wrote about in my location post. As you can see below, the original walkway that we had planned to film in was flooded and had rubbish everywhere.
Therefore we decided that this couldn't be used, even if it did add to the urban look, and decided to look for another location to film in. We ended up finding another walkway in Home Gardens that was very similar to the one we had originally chosen.In the picture below you can see all of us planning and working out what shots we were going to film in the underground walkway. This is the location in which we were going to be filming the last scene of our music video, and being the final concluding part, we wanted it to look as good as possible so took a lot of time and effort to make sure that the footage was perfect. If any detail was slightly wrong we would film it again. For example, in one shot James noticed that Ryan's tie wasn't straight so we filmed it again.We went over these shots in great detail due to the fact that they were more focused on the end of the story than the faster paced shots throughout the rest of the video We decided on using eye line shots, over the shoulder shots and shots from either end of the walkway as the action takes place in the middle. These types of shots would be much more suitable for filming in the tight space and woulld emphasise the sense of the theif being trapped in the walkway.
Here you can see one of the shots being filmed in the walkway. Ryan is slowly walking round the corner and into the walkway to block off the path of dan who is trying to escape.
The next shot we filmed was the last shot of the video. Within this shot we planned to have Ryan and Phil stand in front of Dan as he surrenders the CD, they would then remove their masks and the video would fade out to black. This shot took particularly long to film as I had to shoot from a very low angle and film dans face as he walked backwards, whilst also making sure that I had framed it correctly so that the masks would be seen at Phil and Ryan's sides after they were taken off.
The shot below is of Ryan walking past Dan, bumping into him slightly. I was filming this shot, josh is using the clapperboard and directing the actors, and james is filming the 'Making-of Video'. We have decided to film this shot again after our rough cut as we noticed that Dan smiled slightly as Ryan bumped into him, ruining the effect that we wanted to create with this shot.
The next shot that we did was a point of view shot from Dan's perspective of Ryan and Phil as they close in on him.
Following on from the shot of the actors running through the alley, we set up this shot to capture them coming out of the alley and heading into underground walkway. This shot took the most planning out of them all as we had to figure out a point where Phil and Ryan would split up and head off to cut Dan off as he enters the walkway. In order to get this shot right we spent a long time filming Phil and Ryan stopping and splitting up at different points so that the split looked as effective as possible. We made many changes to the point where they would stop, look at each other, and split up, and the speed that they run.
The final shot that we filmed was of our actors running along the bank of a river in Dartford. Seeing as the path was quite narrow, and due to the variety of shots we wanted to get for our chase scene, I decided to film a panning shot from the other side of the river. In the picture below you can see that I actually had to place the camera on the tripod into the river to allow me to film the shot from the best possible angle. Whilst I was filming the shot James and Josh were over on the other side of the river directing our actors.
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