LF:Brighton Recce Review

On the 27^th of September our media class went on a recce to Brighton to try and gain some basic ideas of what we would like our video to like and to experience filming in an urban environment and overcoming the difficulties that come with it.

Overall it was a very successful trip as we were thinking of using Brighton as one of our locations for our video. We like the location of the beach, a classic boy band location, combined with the edgy feel of the lanes adding a modern touch to our video. We had a list of shots we had to complete as well as doing our own work.

A shot that we were particularly excited about filming was a sped up shot, however we had trouble filming it. We attempted to film it in the main shopping centre however we had to stop filming because security said we were breaching regulations, however we still managed to complete 3 minutes of filming which we sped up 5000% and created an effective shot.

After analysing JLS ‘Everybody in Love’ a particular shot we liked was one of the boy bands singing directly into the camera whilst sitting down, therefore as we can see from above we decided to film from a low angle shot on Brighton pier. With a fast cutting rate and fading in shots we feel we can use this footage in our final piece.

Here is another still image we captured on Brighton Pier; we liked the background setting of the beach and the sea as it’s a very iconic shot, thus we are thinking of filming certain scenes of the video in black and white. I particularly like the contrast between the city landscape in the background and the picturesque beach. Whilst editing the photo I feel I slightly over contrasted it however on the HD cameras we wouldn’t do that. When we actually filmed this shot the camera would pan to the right as we walked to the left to create some movement within the shot.

In the photo above we tried to convey to the genre characteristics by wearing boy band clothing which combined with an authentic performance would create an authentic boy band feel.