Today's shoot was all about the posse scenes that we were shooting down at a car park in Stone-house, much of today was very much improv, by all those involved we tried to make as much use out of the Merlin Steadicam as possible, but whilst also getting the key shots that we had already decided were needed for the music video. First I set up a wide angle lens in front of the graffiti wall with Run Cmd stood directly in front and got them to pose for the static shot and then we added some extra movement, looking back at that Hip Hop style of power and authority over the audience, so I had Rob and another member stand in front of the rest of the posse and got them to move towards the camera and really get up in the face of the audience. The next key shot was the 'beatdown' scene which was reference/homage to N.W.A; this involved me lying down on the floor shooting directly upwards with a wide-angle lens as the posse gathered around a pretended to beat down on me at the camera; this shot was quite difficult to frame as I wanted to get the camera as low to the ground as possible, but also giving me enough space to see the LCD display so that I could frame and direct the posse as to where they needed to be to get the desired framing.
The rest of the days shoot involved the use of the Merlin Steadicam which me and Joe both used, though it was quite a challenge as we hadn't had too much time to practice with it; and also I made use of a fish-eye lens adapter to get some fish-eye style shots without having the black curves in shot, again this style is something that really suits the Hip Hop scene.
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| Still of Rob getting in the face of the camera. |
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| Beatdown shot, reminiscent of the N.W.A album cover. |
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| Wide angle shot of group and their posse, against the graffiti in background. |
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