PRODUCTION - Day 1

On our first day of filming we firstly checked our locations and ideas with Rebeca (media teacher) before heading out and then we quickly collected our equipment.

The first location of filming was at Tottenham Court Rd/Morwell St.

As a group we travelled there by the no.38 bus route, which was heading towards Victoria. We were lucky that the bus stop was just straight down from college, Pentonville Rd I think it was. Due to traffic our journey took probably around 30/45mins max to get there. 

We got off at.. I think Museum Street and had to walk down towards Tottenham Court Rd. We walked quite a bit and then we crossed the road. At first I thought Gustavo forgot where Morwell St was, but he didn't as the perfect spot for our filming was located behind a posh hotel.

We filmed both day and night shots, as we arrived to the location around three o’clock so there was still daylight. And as soon as it started to get dark around five o’clock we began to film the night shots. The shots involved the following base tracks: Nimar sat on the pavement with and without the guitar, and a variety of camera movements/shot types in front of the wall.

YES, yes, yes! Sadly we actually ended up having a couple of minor problems. The first problem was my fault because my battery died  

and I was the only one who had the song on my phone. Secondly Nimar had only memorised the lyrics for the first half of the song as he thought that he’d only be singing half of the song.  And.. then there was the lighting problems. We thought that the street lamps would be provide us enough light for the night shots, but as it got more dark, we’ve realised that the light wasn’t as bright enough for the shots (it was still dark).

Oh yeah, there was also a small problem with our location! As it affected our cameraman, Gustavo and our performer, Nimar. This is because Gustavo had to stay in the middle of the road to film and Nimar was sat on the pavement. There was some cars that would interrupt our production.

Well the problems that occurred were easily solved. I remembered that many phone stores allow you to charge your phone, so I and Nimar went to one of the phone stores near by and I happily charged it. While charging my phone, I sent the song to Gustavo’s phone and Fabiolla’s. Also as to the lyrics, we allowed Nimar to have a couple of minutes to himself to memorise the rest of the song (it wasn’t that long).  Furthermore, the lighting was solved by using the camera lighting from Gustavo's phone. The light was perfect and worked great with the night shots. 

I would say that the first day went well, excluding the few problems we had. But were solved! After filming each shot, I was able to look back at them and I saw Gustavo had produced some wonderful pavement shots, as it looked very realistic if it was watched from an audience’s perspective. As for our performer, I think he did really well too, even though it was freezing cold.

On our next filming day, I would be much more prepared and will make sure everyone in the group has the song too, and also I will have my phone FULLY CHARGED this time!