4th Day of Filming - Tower Hill scenes (16/11/2010) by Alex Brown

On 16th November, we went up to the Tower Hill area of London to film the opening scenes of our video, as well as part of the 'London montage' scenes.

We got off the Tube at Tower Hill tube station, and found a 'business like' area close to Tower Hill.

We decided

to film the opening scenes for our video on Cree church Lane (around the area of Aldgate and

Fenchurch Street), which we thought was an ideal location.

The area we choose was fairly quiet, but still had many people walking past, like most areas in central London.

This scene shows the homeless bear sitting on a towel in the street, and with a tin. He was sitting against a fairly run-down bu

ilding, which was in quite a rich, business area. This helped to show how he was an outcast of society, similar to the run-down building amongst the smart and modern buildings.


We spent around an hour and a half filming here.

We then moved on to the Tower of London and Tower Bridge, to film part of the 'London montage' scenes. Here we filmed the homeless bear looking at Tower Bridge, as well as sitting outside the Tower of London. We enjoyed filming here as there were many tourists who were also filming, and some even took a photo of our bear.

Before leaving to go home, we also successfully filmed birds flying in the sky (which would go with another scene where the bear is the target for bird droppings). We managed to film everything just in time, as after this it started to get dark fairly quickly.

This day of filming was a good day of filming for us, as we managed to film everything we intended to.

Photos courtesy of Alex Brown.

* All group members shared the role of camerawork and directing.