PRODUCTION: Review of the first day of filming

For our first day of filming, we went to Trafalgar Square as our first location. Once we had gotten there, we had not realised that it was the day for the Diwali festival productions, hence there being a big stage in the background whilst we were filming. We had asked the security guards and the manager of the area if we could have a few minutes to get some shots done; luckily they allowed us, once I had shown my C&I college card, to prove that we were students. 

We recorded a few base tracks there, and even got two security guards to be in it too. What was wrong with one of the shots was that we had left the speaker and our team mates phone next to her whilst she was singing, so it ended up being in  the shot. But, if we had not put the speakers that close to her, our artist was not going to be able to hear the music being played. The location was very loud, the sound of the fountain, the practice mic sounds for the festival, and all the tourists around.

Our next location was the 139 bus to go to Waterloo.  The area we were passing had a good view, so we thought we should film on the bus. I think it was fun, we had to hand hold the camera since we couldn't exactly get the tripod out and adjust it. We got permission from the bus driver too, he allowed us since there wasn't many people on the bus, he just told us to not be so loud. 

Our final location for the day was Banksy Tunnel in Waterloo. Filming here was a great place due to all the graffiti  in the background. At one point, there was a group of boys who came towards us, and they actually asked whether they could be in our video. So we started recording them dancing and hoped we could use these scenes in our music video. 

Some of the precautions we took for our safety, were to keep someone next to the camera at all times. Also, one person stayed next to our belongings so they weren't stolen or anything. Since we did have a lot of people next to us in Banksy, strangers, we had to be even more careful with the camera and have every one of us around it and not far away from it. 

It was a pretty cold day, so after 3 locations, we thought we'd do the other locations another day. I think the filming went really well, we got most of the shots we had wanted to in the locations we went to. However, looking back at some of the recordings, I believe that the Banksy Tunnel place was a little dark, and that we may have to alter the lighting when we come to editing it.