Filming - Day 1

Prince Regent Station 

London will be chilly in the evening, bring your sweaters and jumpers
gloves, hats, scarf, socks, get rid of the sandles, flip flops and flats!

We were filming the dancers on a tranquille path. To have a practice run on their choreography.

One of our dancers getting ready to dance.

Complications during filming
When we were at Prince Regent Station we were not allowed to film, we had to film near the station.
It was problematic to film from 4:30 pm because this is the time that it began to get dark. Also the weather was extremely cold, so we had to give the dancers their coats to keep warm. While filming there were people walking on this path who were in our frame, so Elma went to the far background in the frame and kindly asked them to walk on their far right. In addition we had problems with the tripod, we wanted to do a smooth tilt without cutting out the the dancer in the frame but we did not know that we could extend the tripod. We asked the technician when we got back to college, it solved the problem.

Prince Regent at night after filming at about 6:30pm

Canteen Notes

Prince Regent Call Sheet

Calling both dancers for the Prince Regent filming, we hope to get permission for filming here. 

New Actors & Planning

Today we were able to audition Shaun from the performing arts and he is prepared to lip sync, dance and act, but his timetable is quite tight. I spoke to Michael two weeks ago but he was not certain about the genre but he seemed pleased about the dancing and acting due to not knowing the lyrics well, I printed out the lyric sheet and gave it to him hoping that he makes some time to learn the lyrics.

Recently he contacted  Elma and Marvellous because he was interested to lip sync, dance or act. We will ask if he is allowed out of lesson because his lesson can sometimes run through lunch breaks or if we cannot get him for the canteen shoot, I think that we could do it in the morning during college or after college so that we have less people in the video because besides lunch times can get crowed.  

We have Michael and Shaun, now!

Updated Storyboard

Production meeting

we have the kente cloth that we want to use for the males costume, now we have to sew it onto a plain black t-shirt

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Actors complication

In the past weeks we had problems with fitting our schedules with the actors and getting them out of lessons, later we discovered that the male actors were unreliable so we had to find and contact actors who fit our description for afrobeats.

 However finding the two new males actors was difficult. We needed two guys who were brave to dance, confident in acting and in lip syncing. 

Firstly, they should know the lyrics a week before we film. This has stalled set back our filming. There is one particular part of the music video where we have to get all our actors together in the one shoot that is why we could not film from the any part of the story board. Our deadline is soon approaching to finish filming is 10th November! 

In the half-term we are going to film in Prince Regent Station with the two female dancers Lianne and Lauren as they are ready to be filmed.