MH- London reccie

for our first shoot, we caught the train to london, as our ideas involved shooting in an urban area. as we made our trip at 6.oo pm on a wednesday night, it became wuickly evident that the business of the streets would cause a problem. we had to find derelyct parts of the streets to shot our performance shots, as if they were perfromed in front of a passing audience the camera would cathc them staring at us performing/ filming and would ruin the shot. however to find a well lit area without passers by proved difficult and so we only managed to catch a few useful shots to use ofr our video. we managed to get a good shot over the thames with tower bridge n the background, but could only partly be used because of pedestrians. moreover light proved a major issue whilst filming. because the cameras arent very effective when used in poor loght conditions, sometimes even in a well lit area the shot isnt clear. jonny brought along a hand held torch which was a bright l.e.d and although this improved the light conditions if shon upon the perfromer, the shot when analysed did not look right because of the blueness of the light on the perfrormers face did not look intentional and did not work. the last issue with the filming was the factor of embaressment! erach performer was reluctant to perfrom due to the attention caused by the camera etc. as the night progressed we understood more about what we neded to do to achieve quality fotage in an urban area and so decided to treat the first shoot as a reccie and learnffrom our mistakes.