FINISHED!

So we planned out filming as i mentioned before. Mahida and i filmed myself and 2 other girls. One of the girls was a bit too shy and it wasn't successful. Zaq and Joe filmed another girl. However, i chose to use a setting in front of a bricked wall which i think represents entrapment ot feeling sad and suppressed. I did mention this to the boys for where they were meant to film but they didn't follow the right instructions and filmed in a different location which changed what we were trying to portray. When it came to the last bit of editing, the boys uploaded the footage, so i came to edit today and couldn't find the footage. After searching the mac i somehow found it, but they had only uploaded myself, the footage they shot, and the girl who was too shy, the other girls footage was missing. So we just left it and edited with what we had. In the end it worked but we had a lot of difficulties and problems. But it is all done now.

Last Min Touch Ups

With our editing fully done up to 3 minutes it looks fine, but the end footage is too long and needs to broken up and we also have a few gaps right at the end. The aim for tomorrow is to bring in the idea of voyeurism into our music video. I have seen in a few music videos where there is a male voice singing but the image you see is a woman. This is not just something in the Indie genre but also in others. This brings in Goodwins theory of the notion of looking. I think have clips of girls singing in between the long footage will not only break up long shots but also make our video a bit more interesting. After telling Mahida my idea we decided to go ahead with it as it was taking too long to wait for us all to be free to film or letting Zaq and Joe do it. So tomorrow Mahida and I have arranged for myself, and 3 other girls to be filmed during a free and will edit this in later on during the day. If we can find any more people then this will be great but at short notice I don't know who we can use.

Here are the videos I have seen with the same sort of ideas..

Photos of Filming, Planning and Editing

More Filming

Finally after so many problems of finding a suitable day and location etc, we got a chance to book a camera for today. We ended up filming as Joe's house which was our original choice.

We also had a problem that we could not use Fraser's girlfriend to act as she was unavailable. We had 3 backups, 2 of which could not make it so we used Hannah. she fits the part very well as she has mousy brown hair and a simple look. She also studies performing arts which meant she was very good at acting and was confident to do everything we asked.

However we did have a few other problems as we only had a few hours to film. We did deal with this very well as we worked really fast and got all the scenes done that we needed to. We only have one scene left which we can film next week before the deadline.

Planning Evidence for Times and Organisation of Film Shoots

I made a table to show what days everybody is available.

Filming - Day 1

We had some problems with the tape as Joe had the wrong one so we were delayed at the start as we had to go Curry's/PC World to go buy tapes. There were 3 tapes each with 60 mins each which we all chipped in for. We then went to our first location 'The Albert' which is a small pub near Richmond Park.

Here we filmed for the lines 'I'm going from bar to bar'. This pub was chosen as it was close to one of our other locations and it had a classic homely pub feel to it which is something we were looking for. We then went to our second location which was Richmond Park - Kingston Gate.

We filmed in several places in the grounds, some of the actor in the narrative and some of the performance section of the song where he sings. I think we had a very productive day, the weather was gloomy which gave a depressing effect which is what we needed and there was enough natural light to film with. We will be filming again next week Tuesday with the male and female actor too.