Location Shoot

The shoot began at 10:00am where I met josh gracie and the rest of the team to begin discussing our plan for the day. Josh and gracie told us about some interesting urban locations, which suited our ideas very well. 

Josh and Gracie performed a quick rehearsal of the dance, during this we confirmed some key moments where we wanted to use particular shots, for the rest we would simply capture a wide, some mid shots and close ups. Once this was done we headed to the location which we presumed would be most difficult; This was next to the Millenium bridge, on southbank. The main issue we faced here was the people. We had to frequently ask people if they could walk around, in order to avoid having people in the background. We also gathered a large crowd as we were filming, this slowed down our process slightly, however it was not a big issue as the dancers are used to performing infornt of a crowd.

Our second location was the pier. Here we chose to film Josh, solo, for the opening and then the two together for a moment later on in the video. We captured a variety of shots, including some wides with a 25mm lens, the rest was captured on a 50mm 1.4, giving a very shallow depth of field. this caused us slight trouble when trying to stay in focus with the frantic actions. We only shot handheld to support the movement, this was stabilized using a shoulder rig. We started with the wide, the moved to mediums, close ups, then we were able to get creative by shooting specific camera moves and picking out key details in the dance.

We then moved to our final location, which was the most urban looking place. The dance here was most energetic as it will be featured towards the end of the song. I took a directorial role at this point. And ensured the chemistry between the dancers followed our intentions and the mood of the song. I then decided to shoot a quick narritive sequence we had planned, where the dancers run behnd a wall, go in for a kiss then the boy throws the girls face away. This establishes the breakdown of the relationship. We found a brilliant set of stairs to shoot this on. And with a few takes of this, this shoot was finished.

I believe we captured everything we intended, plus a few extra creative shots we hadn't planned. It was a successful shoot with very few problems, and the ones we did come across, we managed to overcome very quickly.