Our first day of filming was on the 30th October 2011 seems so far away but I can remember it like it was yesterday. We decided we wanted to shoot the dancing scenes first because Eleni (The Female Dancer) was not a part of our group and she also done media and we did not want our video to effect her schedule. Not all of our group could attend this filming day but we still pulled through, I met up with Stephanie and Eleni at the Barbican where the dancing scenes were to be located. When we first got to the Barbican the first thing we done is that we just walked around and got used to the surrounds as this was the first time any of us have been to the Barbican, The first thing that hit me when I was at the Barbican was the beautiful architecture, I remember when we was planning for the video I told the group that the first shot's should be an establishing shot of the Barbican. So what I did was I quickly grabbed the camera and literately ran across the Barbican capturing different shot's of buildings, object's, fountains from different angles. I done this so we can have many shot's to choose from and we all know that we need as many shot's as we can get for our music video.
After a few minutes of running around and trying to get different shot's of the Barbican I returned to the other's who thought I got lost. I then told the group I found a great spot while I was away where we could film the dancing scenes. For the dancer's costumes I wanted them to wear less clothing because I really wanted the audience to be able to see their body move while they dance. So I went topless for the dancing scene and wore black skinny trouser and shoes while Eleni wore a bandu and a black and white harems pant's. You can wee the picture of what we wore on the picture on the right, I think we looked very edgy and interesting and with the mis en scene and us placed there it made a great shot. The weather was not on our side as it was cold but after we began to dance our body got warmer and we could not even feel the cold no more. 
The first thing we done was we shot a scene where me and Eleni ran towards each other and when we met I picked her up onto my shoulder's, we done this because we thought it could add to the meaning of the song and create some kind of plot or a new meaning to the video. We filmed this from different angles we got a shot of me running towards the camera and one of Eleni doing the same. After this scene we then started to film the main dancing scene, me and Eleni had some move we made before the day that we wanted to use for the video so we quickly practised and played the music to see if the moves suite the music. Here is a link to the video of me and Eleni practising the dance routine http://candipop11group22.blogspot.com/2011/11/making-of-music-video-little-video.html
After we filmed our dance routine we decided to try and get some shot's of us free styling to the song so we can get some extra shot's we can use for the music video. We had to do this really quickly as it was getting dark. We got a shot of both of us dancing and some shot's of Eleni free styling. we just wanted as much shot's as we can get as possible so we experimented shooting Eleni though a gate we got shot's of us laying upside down, shot's of me jumping in the air and more. Some shot's will be used in the video and some shot's will not we wanted to get the best quality ones, some shot's the lighting was really poor or the angle we shot it in was not straight but we got some great shot's .We was really productive this day we filmed and worked from the moment we got there until we had to leave as we could not film no more as it got too dark. If we could do it again I think we should have known how to use the lighting we got given, as we got stuck when it came to using it (IF) we did know how to use it we could have even gotten more dancing shot's and even some dancing shot's at night. But I was still happy with the final outcome of the day could not wait to film again,
- Prince
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