Filming Day 6 - Deluxe 142 and London - Luke

8/12/12

On Saturday we went to London to get the last shots needed for our rough cut. We visited my Dad's work, Deluxe 142, where we had booked out the private cinema screen. This is where we filmed our CCTV office shots. It took quite a long time to set everything up in the cinema room so it was a good thing that we got there quite early, allowing ourselves extra time if we needed it. After all of the equipment was set up and everybody knew what they were doing we started to film our first few shots. To start with we filmed a dolly shot from behind Josh and Phil sitting at the desk to give almost a point of view of what they were looking at. We then went on to film them sitting at the desk from a range of different positions and angles around the room to give ourselves lots of options when it come to editing our rough cut together.

After nearly 2 hours of filming at the cinema, the final shots were of Phil and Josh grabbing their jackets and running down the stairs out of the room as they leave to start chasing Dan. These were very important as they provide a clear link between the CCTV office and the chase scene.

After we finished in the CCTV office we went to look around London to see if there were any other locations that would be suitable for the chase scene, and places that could contain stunts and jumps.
The day before filming Josh started looking on the internet for different locations that would be suitable for stunts and jumps that him and Phil would be able to do.

He ended up finding a website called ParkourGenerations.com, which lists many different locations around the world that parkour and free running enthusiasts had found to be suitable for stunts and jumps. This was a great thing for us to find as it allowed us to look for various locations near to where we are filming that we could use for stunts. One of the best looking locations that was close to us was a small area on Whitchurch Road in Kensington that contained a high wall that Josh and Phil felt they would be able to run up and jump over.


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We Filmed many different shots at this location, and also tried many variations of the wall run/jump stunt. The best variation was one of Dan running along the level above while Josh and Phill are down below trying to catch up with him. Josh attempted to  to rund across two walls and jump over and phil attempted the lower wall run and jump. This finished bit of filming looks very effective and I think it will work well in both the rough cut and final cut of our music video.