Filming Day 1- (11/11/11)

Today was our first day of filming so we went to Brent Cross Shopping Centre after school to film the first and last scene of our music video. However we were unaware that filming was not prohibited within the centre and were forced to erase all the footage shot by security guards. We were quite disheartened as this would change our storyboard ideas significantly.

After leaving the shopping centre, we decided to visit a retail park close by. Learning from our previous misfortune we asked permission to film from the store security, and were successful. The light conditions were not ideal - it had become quite dark and we were afraid the footage would not come out right. However we did shoot regardless. Towards the end the camra was not fastened to the tripod properly and had fallen so when I ejected the disk tray to check whether the disk was damaged or not. We found that the disk had been moved from the holder. When we switched the video camcorder we found that the footage had been wiped. As were shooting our final take the camera battery had also ran out. So we thanked the Next security guard and went home.

At the end of this day we concluded that despite the fact that we lost the footage, we had learned valuable lessons - we learnt that we were to ask permission from the centre beforehand. Another lesson that we learnt is that we should have carried a spare battery. We now knew how to film the footage with practice that we had on this day.