Filming Day 2 - Beadles Garage Dartford - Luke

For our music video we needed an official office looking area for Dan to steal the CD from. Luckily, we were able to get access to the Beadles Garage in Dartford which had a large amount of offices above the showroom that we could use. Within this location we wanted to create shots that would look like real CCTV footage so that the two anonymous characters could watch Dan breaking in and stealing the CD from one of the rooms. After researching what you would typically expect to find in CCTV footage, we knew exactly what sort of shots we needed to get and how they should be set up.

The first shot that we filmed in the garage was of Dan entering one of the doors on the ground floor and of him making his way up the stairs towards the offices. In order to get the footage for this shot to look like it was recorded from a real CCTV camera we had to make sure that the camera was perfectly still when we were recording, and we had to make sure that we filmed from two different places of the same event happening. This meant that Dan would have to do the same steps twice, while we move the camera to a different location in between shots. The first shot we took was of Dan running up the first set of stairs, and the second being him running up the second set of stairs.

We got plenty of footage of this just to make sure that we had filmed it correctly and we even filmed some shots of Dan running up the stairs that could be used as normal footage instead of CCTV footage just to quicken up the cuts and give us more of an option when we are editing. Here you can see one of the shots we filmed that we intended to use as a normal camera shot.


Some other normal footage that we got in the garage was of Dan entering the code of the door, him entering one of the offices to look for the CD, him grabbing the CD and leaving the room, and one final shot of him running across a walkway above the showroom. These shots would allow us to break up the shots of CCTV and the anonymous characters in their office, and allow for better continuity.

After filming all of the normal shots that we needed we proceeded on to filming the last two of our CCTV shots, which were of Dan walking though the door that he had entered the code on an along a large corridor, and of him running out of the building and out to another location.









Overall we felt that this was a very successful day of filming as we got it done in such a short amount of time. There are however shots we will need to go back and film such as the shot of the CD where the writing isn't legible. Overall we were happy with the shots that we got and are now looking forward to editing them into real CCTV footage to include in our music video.