Construction Post 1: Week 1 production

For the first week of production we had our first location shoot at Brick Lane and planned our second shoot in Wood Green.

Brick Lane Shoot 

This shoot took place on Sunday 5th around a specific corner of Brick Lane covered in graffiti. All of the shots we planned to shoot are visible on the shoot-board to the left, which we followed closely to get all of the shots we needed. We utilised some of the most colourful walls to get a variety of solo and group shots that embody the gritty, urban feel we were going for. We also filmed several narrative shots that will help give our video a sense of progression. We faced several problems, such as having to try and avoid traffic while filming, but this was solved naturally as the time moved beyond lunchtime as the alley we were using became less busy. We also had several revisions, such as choosing not to film a planned shot of Aisha stepping on a sweet wrapper, as we decided it was too cheesy and against the image of the duo, but apart from this there were no major changes to what we had planned.

Overall, it was a successful shoot, as the actors all turned up on time and helped us to achieve what we had planned.

Some examples of our group during the shoot.

My personal contribution to this shoot was quite large, as I helped to transport the tripod to and from the shoot, acted in many of the shots, operated the camera on several narrative shots and also did the clapperboard.

The audience feedback we received when we showed the raw footage to some members of our target audience was generally positive, with them praising the urban location and Aisha's performance as the singer, but also commenting that the external group members looked slightly uncomfortable in some shots.

 Planning the Wood Green shoot

We also planned our Wood Green shoot, which we had scheduled for Thursday 16th November. We had to contact a different set of actors, as we plan to have many different people in our location shots, and we did this across Monday-Tuesday. The location we plan to use is the top level of a car park at night in Wood Green, so we also had to think about safety precautions, such as seeing if many cars would be coming in and out of the car park and about the precautions the car park had.