3rd Day of Filming - Car park scene (15/11/2010) by Meryl Cariaga

We decided to film in a run down, eerie car park (the Clements Road multi-storey car park in Ilford town centre), as this is the scene where the teddy bear compensates on commiting suicide, this is the last scene of the music video as it reflects his lonliness and has given up on being lonely.

The location of the car park is in ilford as this will add the sense that the bear is still within a

busy environment, we specifically needed to use this location as it has a number of floors, where we filmed at the top to enable more variety of shots to be included. For example, a panning shot of the landscape, not only will this give a sense of busyness but also to convey the mood of the bear, whether or not he will jump off.

Also, we had included shots of the bear walking towards his suicide spot, we found this difficult to film, as the strings we initially used to move the bear were faulty, so we had to hold the bear. This at first, was difficult as we had to think of a way to move the bear without showing the hands of the puppeteer, however we found a way around this. To succeed, we simply lifted the bear above the ground, for the puppeteer to hold it at the bottom, he could then "bob" across, as the camera will only be filming from the waist up (medium shot). We included shots of him climbing the stairs, not making the puppeteer apparant of course. We found this very challenging, as there were positions the puppeteer had to create in order for them not being see in the camera. We found that long shots will not aid this, and only close up shots will hide the puppeteer, as they are cut out of the frame of the shot.

We filmed variety shots, including point of view shots, for example, of the bear looking down, over the ledge of the car park, we did not use the tri pod for this as wanted to create an effect which will seem like it is the bear looking down himself. In order to do this, we held the camera and mimicked the actions of the bear; jaggeg and bumpy, whilst carefully moving the camera over the ledge.

This last scene will create a cliff hanger as the audience will not know whether or not the bear commited suicide. This effect will be created through the editing technics we will use; a fade out of the bear looking down.