FILMING ON FRIDAY IN THE HALF TERM HOLIDAY:
The persons present on Friday 28th:
-Fatama
-Azeemah in the first part
-Jazzine in the second part
-Renee
On Friday we met up at 2 and we filmed in my area next to my house and at south quay DLR station. It was a good day over all, and it didn't rain which is always a plus! :P we did lost of base tracks of our artist, they were alright, however Renee(our artist) as i mentioned before was learning a different song and had to learn the real song on that day and practice with the music before we could do any filming. Azeemah came for about an hour, we went and picked Renee up from the station and Azeemah gave us the song so that we could start recording and then she had to go. Jazzine joined us later on, about 4 o'clock. and we were filming until about 7:30. Here are the pictures that we took of our filming day :D
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| We did a shot on these zig zag stairs, this shot cam out really nice, we got renee to stand in different position son the steps and we are going to use a jump cut to make it look like shes walked all the way through. |
We, had to put make up on our artist so that she could look that part, this was next to my house so i quickly went upstairs and got the make up to put on our artists: this is her putting on lipstick and me putting blusher on her cheeks:
After we did that, we sat there and helped Renee memorise the song, and sing along to the song on her phone. It took us some time, but we managed to get it in the end. This was really important because the lip syncing has to match the track when we put it together otherwise it will look fake, also if she knows all the words and the tune then the performance will look more confident, and a confident performance makes a music video strong.
We then started to do some base track takes:
I thought that doing these 2 shots would have been quite cool, we took these pictures as test shots. however Renee said that she couldn't get on the ledge so therefore we decided not to do this.
We saw this green, grass hill place near my house and we really liked it and thought it would make a really good shot, also as you can see by the picture the sun was out as well which made it look really beautiful. but when we were getting ready to film a security man came and said that we cant film on the grass so we had to get off.:(
Next we went to the back of the building, there is a staircase with a waterfall on each side; we went to film there. these shots came out really good and we did different takes from different angles.
We then went to the bridge to film and we wanted to do a base track here because the view was really nice, the 02 was in the background, however Renee dropped a bombshell on us..... she had accidentally deleted the track on her phone!!!!! 
This changed our planes because we she was the only one who had it on her phone!! we then decided to do her sitting down playing the guitar on riverside.
We liked this position and decided that Renee was going to sit like this. and we decided to have a low angle shot so that we could catch a glimpse of the sun setting. it looked really nice.. 
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We filmed just outside my house quickly because there
were these floor lights which looked really good in the dark. |
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| Walking to the next location, ^ Renee making a funny face :D |
We stopped on the blue bridge so that we could get some shots of her on the bridge with the background of the 02 as you can see from the picture below. We thought that these came out really nice because of the background but we think that it would have been better if we had light to light Renee up because we couldn't really see her well. Even though the bridge kept moving because of the traffic, i think that these were really good shots.
When we arrived at south quay station, there was an incredible view just by the river, we went down the steps and it was like it was meant to be. there was a massive lamp the lit up the whole river side and an amazing backdrop of buildings with lights. it looked really pretty. we did some takes there;
But first we had to re do the make up because it had faded away :D
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You can't really see the view in this picture, but i will
get a better view and put it up so that you can see. |
We then did a take just near the station with these cool luminous glow sticks:
I think that out of the three days that we filmed Sunday was the best, even though we only filmed for a short time, it was the most productive because by then Renee was really confident in lip syncing the song and she got more comfortable in front of the camera, this meant that we could film without stopping and the individual takes were better. 
