During our filming, there were a few technical difficulties had when it came to our filming. One of these was the camera quality. Initially when filming, we thought that the quality of the camera was at a great standard. However, when we uploaded our footage onto the computer, the footage seemed to be rather blurry. We weren't able to change this is in some of our shots that we had already filmed, but instead changed the camera to that of a professional quality when filming later shots.
One the first day of our filming, we went to a run down estate in Brompton and a church in the same vicinity. It was a bit of a struggle filming within the estate as we had set up our tripod and camera when there were people walking in and out of their homes. This then delayed our filming time because we had to make sure there were no added people within the shots but also it was clear that some people felt uncomfortable with us filming there. At the church it was quit difficult to get a good picture of the entire location due to there being a lot of woodland area and trying to get the entire church into the shot. When we eventually got back to the editing stage of this scene, we all decided as a group that the church didn't look effective enough within our video and that this wouldn't be included within the video. Although this did waste time, we were able to come forward from this day with our ideas and expectations in a different place to where they were prior. 
For our second day of filming, we decided to film within an abandoned warehouse. We believed that this would be a great location to film in due to how dilapidated the environment was and how well it fitted into the song lyrically as well as visually. Furthermore, due to the breakdown of the building, there was a perfect mixture of natural lighting and also darker areas which allowed for us to make the scene ideal for our filming. However, one problem that we found after the filming within the warehouse was that we didn't film Mikah lip syncing the entire song. This is the only thing that we would have changed when filming here as we found that all other scenes came out really well, but there were a few good missed opportunities to get some more great shots. 
We went to London for our third day of filming. When we were in London, we filmed within Leake Street Tunnel, Embankment Skate Park and on Westminster Bridge. Our reasons for filming in Leake Street and the skate park was due to the backdrop of graffiti creating a great setting for us and the backdrop of Westminster Bridge was also great for us. Although this was not due to there being graffiti, in the dark, the view of the London Eye behind Mikah created a sense of 'it's what she's aiming for' when looking at the lavish lifestyle. Furthermore, the dark lighting created a great contrast between the light shots we had already used. This the allowed us to portray there also being a darker side to being a 'gangsta' figure.
For our final day of filming, we chose to film Mikah driving whilst singing in the Medway Tunnel. We found some difficulty doing this because we had to make sure that we got steady shots although the road was bumpy and there were turns around roundabouts etc. Although the lighting outside of the tunnel made for really effective shots, the bright lights inside of the tunnel weren't as good as we would have liked them because the lighting was a sort of yellow colour, which didn't fit into our theme or style that we wanted to create.
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