Our advance planning for this day of shooting was very helpful with the set up for this shoot day. This is because we knew from the last shoot day that we were going to have to acquire more shots. We decided that we were going to drive to Watford and film inside the skatepark. We believed this was a great location beacuse it was a large open space, filled with graffiti which gives our music video that 'urban' look which we desire.
Once again, our actor had been practicing his lines and his lip-synching at home so that he was perfect on the day.
The animatic came in handy again as we had a set of guidelines to follow, making our period in the skatepark smooth and flowing.
There was little improvisation on this day of filming as we knew what shots we needed to record, however, our director did come up with some shots on the spot after seeing what the skatepark looked like.
One of our tracking shots of our actor worked out better than expected. This was because our actor was free to roam around the whole skatepark, while the camera-man followed closely behind. The camera-man managed to capture the actor from different shots, such as a close-up, a medium-close up and a long shot. The graffiti around the skatepark added extra eye-candy for the viewer too.
We managed our time very well as we had a limit on how long we could park the car in the car park next to the skatepark. We were given an hour and twenty minutes to film all the shots we needed and we filmed them all within this time frame.
The location was also great as we managed to take potential album cover pictures, with the graffiti walls behind our actor.
The same roles were taken up by the same group members for this shoot day as these roles worked so successfully on our last shoot day.
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