First Day Of Filming

Today we filmed the first half of our music video. It was a day with many events but we successfully finished the first half of our video. To be honest it was a bit ambitious thinking that we would get the whole music video filmed within one day,considering the various locations that we had planned to use in our music video. The day started off at Walthamstow Mall where we shot the first flashback scene of the video. We spent more time then we would have liked at this location but this was due to problems we faced with the photo booth machine that we were using. Nevertheless, we prevailed in successfully filming the shots that we needed and then set off to our second location which was Nergiz Cafe in Leyton. After finishing filming at the cafe the battery of the camera we were using died. We had the charger with us and we all agreed that we should have a lunch break where we could sit down somewhere and charge the camera. We then moved onto the next location which was Stratford and there we had lunch and charged the camera. After the camera was charged we set of to Stratford Bridge. Here we occurred problems as we were planning to film on the bridge we were approached by a member of the Westfeild Stratford shopping centre who told us that we required permission from Westfeild Stratford management to film at the bridge. This was news to us as we were unaware that we required permission to film on the bridge yet Me and Yasmeen went up to the management office to ask for permission to film on the bridge. Once we arrived however the women on the desk told us that authorization takes up to 3 days and we reported this back to the rest of the group and after discussing it with the group we came to the conclusion that we should not film on Stratford bridge and find a new location to film the scene that we needed to. After coming to that agreement we also mutually decided that we should call it a wrap for the day as the day had gone pretty fast and it was past five. We all arranged to meet up next Saturday to finish off the rest of the music video and everyone was happy with that decision. Also the weather was good to us as it luckily did not rain. All in all we faced difficulties but I think we handed them well and every music video has there fair share of challenges. It was a productive day as we got two of locations that we had to film at done. I'm looking forward to next Saturday and continuing with the filming. Bring it on!.