FILMING- DAY 1

The first day of filming was about familiarising with the capabilities of our equipment and the settings we were going to use. We went to hilton as soon as we could and set up our tripod ready to film Ali's (the first hit man's) bathroom part. Before the words "ACTION" were uttered security were onto us and immediatly haulted the filming. One started explaining why we could not film on premises without permission and the other asked us what we were filming for .Because we complied kindly and spoke respectfully they said we could book an appointment which we did not expect and we were pleased with. The next day at 10pm he was free, this was a difficult time for us as everyday we had school but we knew we had to put in a few late nights to achieve the grades we wanted and so we did. The rest of that day we filmed my (hit man 2's) part exiting the london landmark located on the harrow road near Marleybone. After much debate on how to film this we agreed that we would begin with a low angle shot of the top of the building which looked iconic and consisted of a affluent looking clock . The camera would then descend until I came out the door. This was very  challenging as Ali was filiming from across a busy main road which made it difficult to get me in the shot without a few traffic in the way, in addition I was inside the building and the only signal I had was Ali's thumbs up from 100 metres away. We attempted this many times and ultimatly completed it to a good standard. Next Ali filmed a close up of me putting my glasses on (which he had to cross the road for), this came our very well. We know this because the great Canon XM2 DV allowed us to play back and view our recordings on its little screen which was very neat and convenient. One minute later my light bulb lighted and I had an idea. This was to film me in the circular traffic mirror which would conform with the urban setting . Next We did another angle of me walking down a road, we continued to do many other shots we knew would be vital when it came to editing and this would give us more liberty in changing the storyline or improving it.