Construction Post 2: Week 2 production

In our second week of production we had another location shoot in Wood Green, and planned our studio time, which was booked for the third week of production.

Wood Green Location Shoot

A picture of the car park in the daytime.

On Thursday 16th November we left school at 3:45 as a group with our actors and took the bus to Wood Green, where we walked to the top level of a car park, by which time it was night. Here we took several group shots and a handheld solo shot of our singer before our battery power ran out and we had to leave. Although I would have liked to shoot some more solo shots, the material we did get was very atmospheric and fits in with the aesthetic we want for our video.

Similarly to in Brick Lane, I did work as an actor, as a camera operator and as a clapperboard operator, and I also suggested some parts of the car park to use in our shoot. We also encountered some issues, such as when two men started watching us film, which put off the actors in our video, but they quickly went away when we stopped filming. We also had to ensure that we were very careful when shooting on the ledge as there was a large drop below it, but we managed to do this successfully.

An example of some of the shots taken at Wood Green

The audience feedback was a bit more mixed on this shoot, with many suggesting that we should have got more footage, because they thought the car park was "a cool location" and we could have got more shots within it.
Planning our studio shoot

For the rest of the week, we planned for our studio shoot scheduled for the following week. In order to do this we created a shootboard, an example of which is below.

Our shootboard for monday. All of our shootboards looked similar to this.

In-School photo shoot

Throughout the week we had two in school photo shoots to get images for our digipak and website, which went very well. We had planned the shots we wanted for the digipak beforehand, so we were able to quickly get these photos, but since we hadn't planned any specific setups for our websites we took turns posing and using the camera in different costumes and positions. Overall this was a quick and trouble-free experience and I believe we have got more than enough shots for our website. Some examples of photos are below: