Filming

Last week was half term and we took the opportunity to use one of the days to commence filming. On the Monday we arranged to meet at school to film the first part of the video, which is of the artist leaving school on his path to fame. As it was half term the school was quiet, which meant that know one was around, giving the freedom of time, and this was very helpful as we could put in lots of different shots, and re film, parts that didn't go to plan the first time. To aid the filming we used a tripod, and this meant that the shots were steady and any movement was smooth.

After this we moved onto a local park (Garden City park), and this is another stage in the journey of the artist (once again the start of his journey, in an area that isn't that well off).

Once the filming at the park was complete we travelled to just outside the centre of Oxford where there were some large, expensive houses, which we had previously researched using Google maps street view. We resumed filming from the point that we got to at the park, in order to get a smooth cut. An interesting shot that we used here was a tracking shot. To do this we put the camera and tripod in the back of one of the group members car (Jenny), and slowly moved forward, at the same speed as Jack who is playing the part of the artist (HB).

From what we have viewed so far my camera work has been good enough for the final piece, and we plan to do a little bit more filming this Friday and then the final bit (in a club environment) within the next two weeks, so while we are waiting for these dates we will start to edit the material that we all ready have.