Videos from London.

Not the real footage, but MY footage, to visually show Patrick the ideas I had in my head. So here they are for you to see my mind as well.



We originally thought a pan up/down would be ideal, like in a way of, it could be this building, or this one, only the bomber knows, but it was only when filming we realized it would be better to do a pan around shot to show to show the devastation the bomb would cause if it went off in any one of these buildings.. which are below..



For some reason, my phone decided to freeze, mid filming. Clever phone.



Obviously these shots are far too long for a teaser trailer, So Patrick and I, decided it would be good to speed up the shot, or just flash part of it up randomly in the teaser. The shot could also represent a man looking up at all the building trying to find the right building, and realising the difficulty of the task ahead.

kerching - MS

Photos in Londonia.

Soo basically right, as Patrick has already blogged about our trip to London, I thought for all you nonbelievers out there, that I will provide evidence of our trip and filming (and that we werent just watching the rubbish Man Utd game in a Canary Wharf pub with some right cockney geezers. So here is evidence, as shot on my phone, obviously not going to be used as the footage in the film, But I thought it would be good for me to do some camera work as well to show my AMAZING skills and to give an idea of the shots we want.

We did kinda get stopped by security, for filming fronts of buildings (silly law) but managed to persuade them to let us continue, We were clever enough not to give away the plot line of our film, or the outcome might of not been the same.

So we arrived in Canary Wharf to get some shots, for our teaser and literally as soon as getting off the tube, this sight was to meet us. The right type of buildings we had imagined would be perfect for our teaser.

I thought I should just take a picture of Patrick doing a pan down of the buildings. We originally did a pan down/up but later found out looked better to do a pan around.

Directing Patrick on what shots we could include, not that he needs it.

We thought it would be a good idea, if we showed trains along side the buildings, to represent, busyness and that a journey is going to take place.

More buildings from a different shot

Another.. .building.

Lining up another shot.

MORE..Buildings

Samsung Omnia is useless-MS

On the way to London

Currently Matty and I are on the bus on the way to London to do our first bit of filming. We are going to Canary Wharf to try and get some good location shots and Matty has also noticed there is a show for the lord mayor which may allow us to get a good shot of crowds.

PG and hail to the bus driver-MS

Real life terroism application

So recently its been in the news about George Bush, that he used torture techniques to stop terrosims acts in London. Particuarly in canary wharf, which is a location that we have already identified as a good place to film.

Here is a snippet of the news story below...

'Their interrogations helped break up plots to attack American military and diplomatic facilities abroad, Heathrow airport and Canary Wharf in London, and multiple targets in the United States,' Mr Bush said. 'Using those techniques saved lives.'

Tony Blair sent tanks to Heathrow in February 2003 after intelligence warnings that terrorists were plotting to bring down aircraft with rocket propelled grenades.

And in 2004 the Daily Mail revealed claims that an air attack on three towers at Canary Wharf in London was planned. It is these two incidents Mr Bush is thought to be referring to.

But his claims that waterboarding saved the day were dismissed by a series of senior officials familiar with counter-terrorism activities at the time.

magic!-MS

Location ideas.

As we have discussed before, we're considering using London as a possible location. As the Mise En Scene, is more dramatic, more busy, more high rise buildings, just if a bomb went off, it would have the potential of affecting and destroying so many. Whereas If a bomb went off in Oxford, no one would really care, well unless it takes out KFC!!..

So me and the Patrick decided to look on Google maps to find some good locations in London, we used google street view when ever possible, to get a better idea (as if we were walking down the roads ourselves) seeing which buildings, where we could film etc.

The place what fits the criteria best is Canary Wharf. Canary Wharf contains many of the United Kingdom's premier office spaces and tallest buildings. Located in Greater London, if a real bomb was to go off, the devastation it could cause would be catastrophic!

However we hopefully will take a trip down to London before filming, so we can find the right locations ready for us to film.  But we need to decide what kind of weather we want to film in.

A squirrel with toilet roll stuck to its tail MS and PG