Friday 14th October

Friday 14th October 2011- Ryan, Jacob and Connor- Central London- Various Locations:

Today 3 people out of the group travelled up to Central London to complete a whole day of filming for the music video. Today's aim was to lip sync the main parts of the song and with a new group member who is now miming pretty much everything. We started our journey at Carshalton Station were we travelled via National Rail on Southern trains to Victoria; despite the diabolical travel fare one way we arrived at a good time and got the number 11 bus to St.Pauls Cathedral. From here we made our way down via several points of interest within London.

We did about 15 minutes of filming around the St.Pauls area and then made our way down to the Millenium Bridge that is in line with the Cathedral. We walked across the bridge and did a lot of filming including a time lapse showing people walking past the main character whilst looking over the River Thames, tracking shots of the main character walking down the length of the bridge and also a long shot showing the entire bridge at the end of it with St.Pauls perfectly positioned in centre in the background with the main character walking towards the camera.

After the bridge we were by the Tate Modern art gallery and we then filmed some more there and also down by the South Bank were we did some lip syncing with the Thames in the background. From there we had a lengthy walk and we made our way to Blackfriars Bridge were we did some more lip syncing and another tracking shot. We then continued over it to the other side of the river.

We then made our way down to Embankment which was quite a long walk but time soon passed and we found ourselves by Charing Cross station. From there we crossed the road and went to the London eye were we filmed some shots with the attraction directly centered on camera. This was a very useful shot and we had our subject doing some more lip syncing and playing the guitar. We also got some more 'behind the scenes' that we have been building up on quite a lot in previous locations and on previous film shoots on other days. A member of our group also brought with him his camera that he used to get some pictures and various shots on that. After the London eye we walked past the Houses of Parliament and by Parliament Square and then went past Downing street were we got some telephone box footage. We then made our way to our final destination of the day; by now we had done about 3 hours of filming.

Our final location was Trafalgar Square and we positioned ourselves by Nelson's Column. We were right in view of the National Gallery and we set up the camera to film a final time-lapse of the public walking about the area. We also had our main character walking with the public very slowly so it would look effective when we speed up the shot into a time-lapse. We got a few more shots in the square which then concluded filming for the day. In total we were in London for about 4 hours that both included the time to film and to make our way to the various locations that we required. It was all planned ahead and the day ran smoothly; the weather was also on our side and there no security or safety issues.