Fourth Day of Filming

Liverpool

We went to Liverpool to film the first and longest section of our video. The area was suitable for the filming, even more so than we thought, because it was rough. One side of the street was home to a tip and a fast food supply shop named Adam's so our filming space was limited to the other side where there was just a wall. Unfortunately, the wall had too many features that made it clear that it was modern (like graffiti) so we were limited to a small space of the wall. Thankfully that section of the wall was plain, there were no windows or anything, so we could just film from one end of the wall to the other, then stop the camera and reset to start the whole process over again. The main issues we ran into when we filmed were that of lip syncing, interruptions and a prop loss. We were interrupted regularly by cars driving down the road which meant we had to stop in the middle of shots and restart them. Our cane prop broke (it was quite cheap quality), thankfully it broke after we had completed filming so we, fortunately, already had all the shots we needed. The most significant issue we had was that of lip syncing. Ryan struggled to get the lip syncing correct while concentration on the choreography so we had to keep refilming shots that did not look quite right. As a result this was the longest and most difficult section to film.

Later in the day we went to the Echo Arena to film the final segment of our music video, the present day section.

This section was fairly simple to film, once we had sorted out how to achieve a smoother looking pan. We had to wait until 5 O'Clock for it to go dark and the wheel to light up. Once it had gone dark, the filming was done fairly quickly, with only about 3 or 4 takes to achieve the shot we wanted.