Thinking ahead - difficulties

Once uploading our footage and trying to fit it to the song, we realised that some of our footage was just completely irrelevant in what we want to portray in our video and irrelevant to the tempo and genre of the song. For example the train situation, we particularly found did not match the song...
 

< Amelia's outfit put in practice

 Also felt it was unnecessary in portraying our message the audience. And we decided me and Amelia need to be more simple with our ideas and the idea of taking the audience on a journey through the eyes of the main  girl character would just be too hard to portray, and at this stage can not afford to get this wrong.

We felt that even though we didn't use any of our footage in Cambridge we did not feel it was a waste of time, for example it highlighted how we definitely needed to change our strategy in portraying our message of our video.  Cambrigde magnified how uneasy it was to find unfortunate events in a typical city setting on the day. This led us to brain storm more simpler ideas in order to portray the same message but in a more effective and less complex way.

Cambridge

When we filmed in cambridge we realised we had our work cut out for us. Although we found good locations for example, abandoned garages, train stations and centre or town...

We came across numerous dilemmas, for example we discovered it would be very hard to find random unfortunate events on the day and they needed to be staged. This is shown from our difficulties in getting footage of a big issue man.

Also when filming and we began to think about how we were contrsucting our narrative to the audience we realised how complex our narrative was, and how it was be hard for the audience to follow the story. For example the constant change in locats, times of day, just would not sugest fludity to the audience, and would not reflect a successful final outcome. This made us realise we might need to simplify our ideas in ord

er to make the video and the message of the video work.Image of me opperating the equipment in cambridge

London Tube difficulties

Whilst doing our research major difficulties and complications have occurred already. One of the main ones being the restrictions on filming on the tube. For example in order to film on the tube, you need to apply for a permit, which comes at a cost. 

Filming finances ranged from £40 to £400, also we the added financial fee of £150 if you wish to publish or broadcast the footage. Me and Amelia can not afford these finances and are very reluctant to pay these.

Also, the guidelines on the London underground website ( http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/corporate/media/lufilmoffice/ ) also present further problems for our filming:

For example the restriction on begging, busking and anti social behaviour will mean we will have to jeopardise some of our content to our video, and wont be able to film it to the best of our ability. These restrictions made me and Amelia re evaluate our plans. We came to the conclusion to change the location. Instead we decided to use Cambridge to film.

London Filming Preperations

Next step for our video is to film the bulk of the video, this being unfortunate events around London that occur day to day, but people overlook.

Our inital sterotypes we want to target are :
- the homeless
- Rioters/ Troublemakers
- fights and arguments
- anti social behaviour
- prostitituion

     


We plan to film the train scene at the begining of the video on the way up to london. We believe the tube will be the best place for this, as it will demostrate the main characters journey around london on a normal day and all the unfortunate situations that arise when shes about.

On our first trip to london, we do not plan to take extras in order to act out these unfortunate events. Instead we want to actually get the proper feel of the unfortunate events, by actually having real life situtaions filmed, rather than pretended situations. Me and amelia think this will have a stronger impact. However if we do not manage to film these unfortunate situations, then we will take a later trip to london to re act these situations.

Research into good locations to find the unfortunate situations:

- The tube, outside and around stations for homeless shots.

- Speakers corner

- Campers outside Houses of Parliament for rioters. 

- East end flats                                           

                                                                                              

Editing Progress So Far and Editing Plans

So far we have uploaded the draft band footage and the white room footage. We still have a lot to film. but to help keep us on track we set out a brief plan of our timeline. The timeline shows the bits we need to work on, and bits we need to film. This should help us have a more wider overview of what needs doing, and aid us in keeping track of editing.

Further Editing

The editing develops, now experimenting with many editing techniques, for example i have in particular been looking at the method of overlaying footage, i found this worked incredibly well, when over laying shots of fire with Amelia in the white room, i found that it worked very well with her costume. This being as the the fire over layed looked like it was coming through the holes in her tights and through other flesh which was revealed. However in terms of this helping to portray the message of our video which is- to highlight the unfortunate situations which occur in society and how easy it is to make wrong decisions - this does not help the audience receive this message. Therefore although it has significantly increased my knowledge of editing, we most probably will not want to use this in the final edit of the music video.

Reseach into effects for editing

After we uploaded the footage we had filmed already we then set about research into editing, and the effects we could create.  
Some of the video filters that we experimented into were;  
- Glow, Dazzle
-Glow, Light rays
- Glow, Overdrive (stroppy)
-  Channel, invert
- Channel, Compound Arithmetic 
- Distort, Insect eye
- Distort, Wave