Shooting day 5-30/01/13

Today's shooting was mainly regarding two shots, with Angle and Wretch 23. As our chosen song has a feature in the actual things, who is Wretch 32, we felt it was obvious to have shots whit both artist in the frame, this is what we achieved and with some more very effective shots. {We shot this on the roof of the New Malden car park again, we  now regard this location as one of the most important location an establishing location, so throughout our final video, to bring back shots to this location, in regard to this topic of the car park and our constant use of it, i feel a little description why we use it is needed. I think that we do constantly use and shoot at this car park, as it is a high place and allows good background and scenery shots, this is one reasons and basis for it, but, another reason is that, it represents the level of the artist and comes in with Angle our artist being successful and going to a higher more better place, it shows power and that the person is hardworking, to reach to the top and to have retain that sense of achievement, is in a way described by having the artist at the top of a car park- a high, tall, partially dangerous place.}
Back to today's shooting, we got mainly all the two shots and a few shot with Wretch 23 that we needed, for cut aways for his verses. Below is an example of one of the shots we shot with the two artist, this particular shot, we had a shot were the camera tracks both artists around as they stand in one place.

Shooting day 4- 23/01/13

The shots we recorded today were all storyline shots, following the storyline and the actual part where the story of Angle is shown, of him starting low being bullied and than growing up, learning and trying his best and than finally to make it.
We have three new characters; firstly being our media group member- Ashad, now performing to represent the struggle and achievement of 'Angle', next is the 'bully'- Fahad he bullies and does later motivate Angle to do better and achieve his target of being an artist and finally, 'The girl'- Leianne, who is another motivator and is keen for Angle to succeed and as a classic ending Angle gets her as the girl in the end.

In addition i think we had a very productive shooting session, being able to cover all the storyline shots apart from one or two minor shots that we can do quickly, i feel that we covered a wide variety of angles and shots and overall have got very good shots for our video, we will place these shots in small segments in line with the lyrics and the performance shots ,this will be to try to add that professional touch that you see in very good main stream artist's videos.
I also think that the successful shooting day has been due to a number factors, and one major factor being the  extra cast, i think their acting is valuable and is very important for the storyline trying to best express our storyline to let others who will watch the video easily understand it, this is an important lesson for me personally.

Other important parts of the story we wished to cover included the connection and introduction of the girl(Leianne) and boy(Ashad) and the issues with the boy and the bully(Fahad).
For the girl, we had many contrast and close up shots with the boy, having his glaze always towards the girl, she is the attraction for him and he seems to later have a connection with her, we also show a little period where them two interact and overall this is to show the introduction of each other, later it comes to an attraction stage, where she is willing to actually help him succeed against the bully, she gives her pair of headphones in a method to motivate him to became, what he wants without anyone bringing him down such as the bully.
For the bully we had shots, where the boy tries to interact and in a way be friends with the bully, but the boy is the reject of the class and so is bullied instead. We had shots where the bully looks at his work and tries to copy but instead is found with the boy trying to write lyrics instead of the actual work happening in the lesson. Another shot is with the bully releasing the glaze the boy has on the girl and added with his anger of not being able to copy the boys work, the bully gets up in  annoyance and anger and slaps the boy, we than see a three shot where the bully its next to the girl and like a classic story for a while, the bully seems to have the girl, we than see the boy leave in sadness and frustration. We therefore see the bully mocking the boys lyrics, dissing him and De-motivating the boy to became and artist and also we have shots where he seems to lose out on the girl. After this the shots turn towards there being problem outside, as the bully is not satisfied with him slapping the boy in class. In another period the bully and his friends confront the boy, and take his headphones at this stage the girl comes to the rescue, we see the girl step in trying to help him, boosting his confidence, not only to connote him to have a new pair of headphones, but to denote him to follow up on his dream of being an artist and for him to have a chance to get the girl, she helps with both of these, all represented through the shots that we recorded today.

Shooting Day 3-19/12/12 Location-Highstreet

Today we went out planned to shoot a lot of the storyboard with numerous clips, this is what we achieved. We set out to Kingston and knew about a very good car park, again with roof being in use, although this car park had something different about it, it had one straight piller which figures out the main artist Angle(Harris) from the rest of the scenery and this was very effective, we used this in contrast to some locations which big name artist use in their videos, sometimes we could not entirely do but, achieved it in a similar but not the same manner and it was very effective. In addition for this shoot we used the tri-pod an effective accessory to the camera. At the roof a few different shots, we tried a panning shot, handheld and just keeping the artist center and tracking him around.

 We also went to the highstreet and tried a few differnet shots, we tried a panning shot, tracking shot and stills. Below is a shot where we wanted Angle to connect with the audeince, looking directly at them in a sense by him not looking any where else and he was very close up to the camera. These shots that i just spoke were those shot in the higstreet as you see below.

Lastly our final location was the Kingsoton, Bentalls shopping centre. We only got two shots here, something we could use as a cutaway as the shots were diffeicult to procede with, they were difficult due to the busy christmas shopping period and so a large amount of people were there, this meant taht even ahving a tripod in a space was hard to execute, so many people coming in the way and the tripod being in the way for some, so we had to resort to handheld shots. We got a POV-(point of view) shot that we could use, where we have a person walking past Angle whilst he is listnening.

Shooting Day 2

Shooting day 2 another few shots added, that can be used for the cut aways also performance shots. We did not have that much time, but got some good shots. We based the shots around Angle and we did get one or tow shots that may be unnecessary such as with him searching the actual song.

Shoot Day 1-05/12-Location: Rooftop

We had one of our important locations tested and shooted some of this footage, which possibly be used for the final video. This location was the rooftop of a car park, on New Malden high street. We have thought of some very good ideas for the final video, in addition we had previously learnt the importance of cut-away and so saw a major opportunity to shoot some today at the rooftop, we had learnt this from our research, where we could see a lot of cut-aways used which allowed and let the viewer piece by piece create the location of the particular shot.
We had also learnt something very important to look out for whilst doing this shoot, which was about the lighting, which could show your shadow, in addition is the, camera angle and which way the camera is facing.

You may just be able to see the shadow on the bottom left, this was one of the problems we realised instantly, the cameraman needs to be placed in accordance with the artist but somewhere that the artist is not deeply effected by the natural light in their eyes or the camera and the cameraman are not effected either, as the if the sunlight went into the shot, it destroys the surroundings in the shot, scenery and usually that frame or shot would go bright white and the camera struggles to focus, finding the right positions and angles was difficult but, in the end we were able to get good shots.We were able to find angles where neither factor would be effected, examples of this are shown below.