For our last day of shooting, the day was split up into two halves with the first half of the day used to capture the rest of the shots that we required that could be filmed during the daylight; this involved the 'rip off' scene from the Cher Lloyd video, this was a very diffucult shot to get as I had to use the Merlin Steadicam to get the desired look and camera movement for the shot, but with this being filmed outside and right amongst the elements, it was actually quite hard to balance the Merlin correctly and some of the camera movements that I needed to perform with the Merlin were actually very tricky (i.e. starting very low down to the ground whilst following a crew member walking forward, rising the Merlin and finishing with the correct framing) this section of the day was rather long and did over-run on our schedule, but I feel that the time we spent going over and over the shot, helped to get the shot we had, though I would still have liked to have more practice time with the Merlin before this shot.
The whole day was a case of guerilla style film making with us shooting out in public and this made us aware of our surroundings and we knew that we had little time to set up shots, in case we were ever asked to move on before we got the required shots, but I thought that as a crew we actually managed really well to make sure we got the daytime shoots complete, despite our earlier setback with the Cher Lloyd sequence.
Later that night we all met up again down at Voodoo Lounge where we shot some footage of the band at a fake crime scene; I tried to add some improvised camera movement to get something different from the rest of our earlier scenes, which Rob thought looked good, though we did experience some disturbance from some drunk idiots which Rob decided that we best just move on and cut our shoot short at Voodoo Lounge so we didn't risk running late on our schedule for the rest of the night, this I feel was a very good decision as we couldn't have known how long those idoits were going to hang around and we needed to get all the shots filmed that night.
The last part of the night we shot down at a pedestrian subway near the city centre which involved Joe getting on his skates with the Merlin Steadicam to get some nice smooth action of Run Cmd approaching the audience/camera, I had to pull Joe backwards trying to get the framing and focal length consistent which considering our lack of trails beforehand; me and Joe did a great job and got the desired shots almost straightaway through good communication during filming; we ended the night by having fun and experimenting with filming more footage of Rob's robots that he wanted to be prominent in his music video.
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| Still of stoop shot on North Hill |
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| Still of band shot opposite Job Centre, shot with telephoto lens to try and make the scene look more like New York with the buildings being seen as high rise buildings; the Jeep helped add to the groups character and disguised the location effectively. |
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| Scene shot on escape stairs near a city centre car park; aesthetically in-keeping with the Hip Hop style. |
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| Still from our parody rip-off of the opening to Cher Lloyd's 'Swagger Jagger' filmed with Merlin Steadicam. |
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| Still from Pedestrian subway in City Centre; shot on Merlin Steadicam combined with the use of Joe's skates as I pulled him backwards with the same pace that the group were walking towards the camera, keeping the sharp focus. |
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