Day 2 of Final Filming : Tunnel and Subway

Our second day of filming was in Harold Wood where I live. From researching locations in Essex and from previous experiences I had knowledge of the locations that we used for our next day of filming. The first was a large tunnel located in the Harold Court country park. This is at the bottom of my road: I knew about this as I walk my dog around the area. Before entering the park there is a bridge that overlooks a small running river. Overlapping the river are a variety of trees. We thought that this looked interesting so we filmed the artist sitting on the edgy looking wall that is shown in the picture to the left. We did not film her lip singing here as we thought that there was too much going on in the background for Karina to be the main focus in the shot. However, the abandoned looking location fits in with our genre and angry atmosphere. The facial expressions that Karina pulled were very serious and she looked angry which is good for our genre. Her body language showed her to be fed up as she was slouching and leaning back into the background.                            

The picture to the right shows the tunnel. Running overhead of this is a train track. The darkness that is created by tunnel fits our negative tone, however it came across to dull on camera. This was when Frankie had the idea to use her car headlights as a spotlight to enhance the presence of our artist Karina. In the chorus of our song the words 'can' 'see' and 'heart' are repeated. In our practice filming we used Adobe Premier titles to have these words flashing upon the screen to made our video modern, unique and to emphasise these repeated words even further. Frankie used the car headlights to give the flashing effect when Karina was lip singing this section of the song. We all loved the idea. As this section of the song is repeated four times we are going to use the flashing words, then the lip singing, the flashing words again and then finish of with the lip singing. This is an attempt to have a greater impact on the audience and to make our video, overall, more interesting. There was graffiti spray painted on the tunnel shown in the picture behind the artist. I used the rule of thirds when filming these shots to have the audience focusing upon the artists face, and graffiti. Using the rule of thirds also made the shot more interesting.