Glen (our DJ) arrived about ten minutes later to admit a slight problem. JJ had given Glen specific clothes to wear for playing the part of the DJ but Glen had forgotten to wear or bring them in. This left us in a dilemma, whether to quickly try and round up some better clothes for Glen or to have him DJ in what he was wearing. We made him take off his polo top and decided to make him perform with the rest of the clothes he was wearing. We placed him behind the DJ decks and waited for Matt and the others to arrive with the cameras and equipment. They arrived about 20 minutes later and we got going with the filming. Matt first of all took control of the camera and demonstrated some useful filming tactics using hand -held camera.
We shot Glen from various different angles using the hand-held camera method to create a dramatic, realistic and face paced feel to the shots. We took close ups of Glen and the decks using the same hand-held method. We felt like we needed to add some diversity into the midst of our shots so JJ and I shot glen using a tracking shot moving from left to right. It was trickier than we thought it would be and we had to move quite fast to get a similar feel to previous shots. Tamara and Millie then shot another tracking shot, this time coming from the back towards Glen, specifically while Glen was clapping to the beat of the song.
After gaining all of the shots necessary we packed up the equipment and went up to the edit suite to discuss the second half of the days filming. We decided that we did not have enough clothing to do the original idea of having all the cast wearing white fighting against duplicates of themselves wearing all black. We decided instead to split the gangs into two groups of four, their differences being whether they wear a cap or not. We also decided to initiate the idea of gang hand symbols. We searched for some ideas of gang symbols on google and came up with two ideas. We decided to have one gang use a more masculine symbol and the other to use a more feminine, using supposed 'phallic' imagery. We had lunch before taking the bus to behind B Webb where our set was located. It was a run down scrap yard, consisting of lots of things to destroy, useful for our video. We split into two groups, one group with one camera managed by Matt, and one group run by Me, JJ, Tamara and Millie with the other camera. Each group took a gang and we choreographed some destruction scenes involving the equipment in the scrap yard.
