Filming with George, 5th Feb 2013

We left college at 4PM, after picking up the cameras which we had previously booked out from the media office, and headed to Birmingham on the way, Jess text George a detailed route of how to get to the Mailbox, which is where we both on planned on parking. When we arrived, we set up the cameras in the cube apartment which is where we planned on filming George, and experimented with lighting techniques and camera angles so we could get the most professional and efficient shots of him, to hopefully look better in our video.
George arrived at around 6:45pm which was a bit later than expected, but it was fine and be went straight to the cube to get started. As our previous shoot, we played his song on Jess's I phone 4S so George could sing along and it would be completely accurate to the recorded so, to therefore get the lip sync perfect. He played his guitar in many different locations around the apartment, getting some good close ups,medium close ups and long shots to make a good variation for our music video; we also had different lighting in many clips, putting the LED lights in various different positions so we achieved numerous different effects, our main idea was to gain a good background of the sky-line, and we did this very well.

After filming here, we then tried to capture shots with him entering the lift which was in the same complex. To do this, we filmed many different close ups and extreme close ups of his hands and facial expressions as he was getting in the lift, and pressing the buttons. We then continued the filming downstairs and this was a 5* lobby of the apartments and this achieved a very good, professional look, this was unique as he was wearing lower/middle class clothes, however we were in a upper class place, and we noticed that this theme is often represented in quite a lot of other videos, and so we thought this would be effective.

We also filmed him outside at around 9:30/10pm, as this was quite a quiet time, we were able to film him singing without distracted passer bys. In the cube, there are many stone men, with hearts as faces and we thought this would look like the love theme in the video, as well as being very entropic which was unique in our video, we decided to involve these in our video by him singing to them, making a very original piece.

After the filming, George then left at around 11pm. We were extremely impressed with the footage we got, and was very excited to carry on editing in the next few days!
Some pictures of the shoot are to the right: