Filming- 20/09/09

Today we filmed in and around Anglia Square, with Ross Barber, Owen Reed and Chris Yeomans. The filming was good, and we found it easier with more skateboarders. We also filmed Martha Woodward, and myself as people taking the drumsticks of the skateboarders and having them chase after us. We got many new stunts filmed, and tomorrow we are making a Smaller Than You poster. We brought some marker pens with us and drew 'Smaller Than You' onto a wooden board on a wall near where they were skating which is promoting the bands name, we figured this and other pictures we took today will come in useful when making the bands digi pack cover and advertisement.

Broken Skateboard and our picture of trying to catch a kickboard shot on camera after many attempts! These pictures are going to be very effective for either my digi pack or band advertisement. We took these on the day as the location was perfect for our urban skater atmosphere and is created by the graffiti, desolate buildings and dingy corners. This place was perfect for skateboarding and is a well known skate spot in Norwich. My favourite out of these would be the one with both Chris and Ross holding the skateboards in their hands to the camera. I really like the composition of it, how its almost symmetrical. I also think that the clash of vibrant colour on the boards looks effective against the unglamorous surroundings which would make a good Cd cover. The look of these skaters is exactly what we aspired for and all in all has been a great day!

Nike Commercial 'Today Was A Good Day':

One thing that went wrong today was that Chris's skateboard broke, but fortunately he had a spare board with him. This is humorous as one of the skateboarding video's from Nike which we are influenced by, consists of a guy having a great day on his skateboard until it finally breaks at the end, yet even then he’s still enjoying himself. The Nike commercial is a huge inter-textual reference as well at The Specials Ghost Town to our video. This idea is important with our skateboarding video as we were talking to the skateboarders in our video and after a while of being around them we realised how sacred this sport/hobby is to them. Chris didn't seem effected by his skateboard breaking and had a spare one is his bag, I believe this shows the similarities in the video of determination and talent. The charcater in the video showed signs of anger/astonishment when his board got ranover but still wlaks home with a smirk on his face. This extreme close up of the charcter smiling at the end is what we want to achieve in our music video, particulary through close ups to show empathy. Today we experimented with this but found it quite hard whilst in motion, so on the next shoot we are going to have jake turn around and alsmot smirk to the audience with the drum sticks in his hands. We hope this will create humour towards the youthful audience, as he will be almost looking back at (his apponent) whoever he's being chased by.