VLOG: 5th Day Filming // China Town montage

SCENES: 

• Various clips of lanterns
• People walking in China Town
• Location shots on Gerrard Street
• Behind the shoulder shot of James walking 

ACTORS:

• James - Gangster roaming the streets 

These scenes are for the purpose of a montage so we didn't need our actors.

During half-term we organised a day out during Chinese New Year in China Town to film the iconography for our trailer. Although this may not be culturally authentic, the location and mise-en-scene fits in with the overall oriental theme of our film. (If there was a Tokyo Town in London we would have filmed there instead). 

China Town was buzzing with activity; the atmosphere, the lanterns and the people provided us with enough footage to create the montage that would be used to present our theme. The wind was actually on our side this time because it made the lanterns shake. We thought about using the shaking lanterns as the turning point of our exposition. 

We didn't plan to film in a specific location within China Town so we just walked around and explored. We stumbled upon a restaurant called 'Imperial China'. The interior was stunning. It had a bridge over water which had Koi fish in it. In Japanese the word Koi is a homophone for 'affection' or 'love', koi are therefore symbols of love and friendship in Japan. 

We particularly liked the scenes we filmed of a man standing outside a restaurant that was painted black on the outside:

His costume fit the role of gangster as the glasses and all black outfit made him look intimidating. We had no intention of disturbing him so we discreetly filmed him from far away. His expression looked stern and his eyebrows were furrowed; he also kept scanning the area so it looked as if he was on the lookout whilst some men brought in some vegetables in boxes.