SW & SC 28th October - Day of Filming Black and White clips in London

Our first day of filming in the half term was up in London where we were expecting to film many different people meaningfully interacting with the camera wanting to be somebody! Our aim was to go up to different types of people making them do what we wanted them to do and we thought that this would be easy. However, many of the people who we were asking to do the acting for us were embarrassed to partake and said ‘no’. We first went to Camden Town as we thought that there would be many different types of people willing to help us with our video; however it was proving more difficult than we expected. Therefore, we had to have a ‘Plan B’ and we got the tube to Covent Garden, which is usually very busy and would be interesting to film in. When we reached Covent Garden, we came up with the idea of filming the street-performers, as they are interesting and obviously want to make a change in the lives by amusing and entertaining the public. We found some very interesting and unique street performers such as a man in a costumes made of bottles and a robotic guitarist. We thought that these images would be interesting for our music video. We also saw this older guy, who was playing this guitar type thing in the underground tunnels in the tube stations and he was very happy to help us and to be involved in the video.
The day overall was very successful and it helped us to be more confident in approaching different kinds of people and we got some really different clips that will benefit out music video and make it more inspiring and emotional.