Test Footage [filming]

Above I uploaded a Test Footage that has been taken during filming one of our scenes. The aim of this was to see and rate how our main artists looks on the camera and if there will be any problems with the overall look. During the filming, we also managed to get the rest members of the band and record part of one of the scene and see if they actually work well together on the screen. The result was very positive, so after we begun to film   the rest of the music video. 

Animatic of the Music Video

Response to the idea

 After choosing the artist and planning the whole music video, I was really happy with the idea that we had. One of the main reasons was that the artist that we have chosen is non-mainstream and he does not have his own music video for the chosen song. So this made me think that we have a lot of space for creativity and we don't have to follow anything or be influenced by any of the things that we see in the Official Video. I was really happy with the way our story board looks and the way we are trying to tell the story. I think our music video will be different from the rest as it will be not only showing the performance of the artist, but also tell the story within. You can see our story board post here: Click here!. 

After couple of days we were discussing an issue of the narrative being too complicated, so what we have done is to go through the story board that we already have again and do any modifications which will help the audience to understand our message and intentions. Instead of the main artist singing all the time, we are going to have some kids singing which will represent the idea of running away from adulthood and going back in time. All the member of my group are also happy with the idea and we think it will look great as there will be a lot of lighting involved which also took us a lot of time to think it through so it looks like it should and creates the effect needed.

Reasons for Choice of Artist

We had many options when it came to the choice of artist. We did not want to work on a video of any artist who is already known worldwide and is on music channels (eg. MTV Music) all the time. So we decided to choose unknown artist, still sticking to our main idea of perfect artist. The are many reason why we chose to work on Jamie T's music video and him to be our main artist.

Jamie T - Sticks and Stones Official Music Video

• First reason for choosing him was that the artist is very local and he lives and records his music in Wimbledon which is in South West London, about 30 minutes travel from our school. This made it easier for us to relate to his music. Also people from our class and those who we are going present our music video to may already know him, not from YouTube videos but from the "word of mouth". 
• Another reason is that the music that he represents is easy to catch people's ear. His music is a mixture of different music styles which made us think that it may lead to the music video having wider audience out there. It is the kind of music that youths/younger people can realate as he is singing about his life and experience/parties/alcohol. This makes the younger people being more attracted as this is the kind of right life style they want to live in too.
• The last point we have is that the artist visually is attractive for the public. He dresses following the latest style and brands. This was alsom easier for us to choose him as there is a lot of people that followe the same style as him, so there will be no problem with the costumes during filming.

Casting Choices

After the initial discussion about the choice for the people who would act as our main artist we begun to sort everything out. From the three people that were considered, we chose only one. It was Archie Harris-Eva. As we were looking for people that fit into our main idea of the artist, he seemed to be the right person. After test footage of him, we realised that he co-operates really well with us and the camera "loves him". After couple of days of planning, we found out that Archie was unable to film the footage most of the same, because he couldn't take free time from work and school. This made us to choose the second option.

Archie Harris-Eva

We contacted out second casting person who was Sam Barnham. He was also considered to be the main artist before, but as we though Archie will be available most of the time he finnaly decided on him. Unfortunately the time management issued made us to finally start filming with Sam who was a great person to work with. He co-operated with us all the time and listened to director's advice. We managed to film the whole footage really quickly without any majot problems. After couple days of filming we realised how well he fits into the main idea of our artist.

Sam Barnham

After couple of days, we contacted Archie to ask him if he wants to be part of the backing up group "TheLetdowns" who would help our artist Freddy and make the whole project work. He did agreeand we started to take scenes with the whole band which also consists of: Tom/Harry too who can be seen on the group photo below!

TheLetdowns: Archie/Harry/Tom and our main artist Freddy (Sam Barnham)

Another characters that we were also considering were young kids (male) between age of 9-12. After further discussion we made the age limit from 11-13 because we though that it will be a little bit hard to work with younger kids as they might not understand all of our important intentions during filming. The kids that were chosen to act as a police men were: Juliusz Podbielski and Dawid Pedzisz. The main reason was that both of the boys are young actors who already have some acting experiences. This is because since age of 6 they are both playing in the Polish Youth Theatre.

Hannah Watson - Girl playing the woman in the music video

 Another important person in the music video was the girl that Freddy is about to have sex with. Through our casting options that we had, we have chosen Hannah as she's our close friend who is also doing Drama&Acting for her A-Levels. This meant for us that she will have a lot of experience and she won't have problems when it comes to acting in front of the video. Also she will look the performance look realistic.

Background people (Party Scene)

It was obvious for us that scenes like party when we need a lot of background character won't work without our friends. So after school we have decided to invite them to the filming of the footage which took place in professional Drama Studio in our school. Having a lot of people in the background would add some chemistry to the overall look of the scenes and shots.

Music Website Analysis [artist]

In this post I decided to analyse a solo artist website. This is because I think that it will be easier for me to create a website for my artist who is going to be mainly magnetised as a solo, but still have his backing up band "TheLetdowns". I have chosen to analyse Emeli Sandé's website as I think that our artist and her may have a lot of similarities as they are both young and just came out to the UK Music Market. You can enter her website by clicking here: Click here to enter Emeli Sandé's Official Website!

Emeli Sandé's Main Page

When you enter the website for the first time you can see that it is kept really simple and its main aim is to promote the artist to 100%. In the middle of the page you can see "play" button from YouTube. This allows you to play her latest music video and start up the whole play list of her music videos. This is very useful for the fans and the people who get to know her music for the first time. The background photo is also very well chosen, because it shows Emeli Sandé as her own with the instruments in the background which may represent that her whole album is made just by herself.

Links used to promote the artist

 In the right corner of the website you can find many links and logos eg: Facebook/Google+/Twitter. The logos and links are placed there for the purpose of promoting and magnetising the artist. The people who enter the website can also follow Emeli's private Twitter account or be able to send her email and "Like" her page on Facebook. Through those actions the fans or ordinary people are update constantly about her life, what she's doing and updates about her latest singles or album release. At the bottom of the logos you can also find music navigation buttons. You can skip or go back to the previous songs that are played in the background. This is very nice feature of the website, because as you explore it more and more you can enjoy the artist's voice playing.

Emeli Sandé's News Page

 When you go thought the main menu you can see that it is kept really simple so the website is easier to navigate. One of the options is: News. When you enter the sub-page you are re-directed to the site with the latest news about the artist and what she is doing at the moment. As you can see above, the latest news is about her taking part in Sport Relief 2012 on BBC1.

Emeli Sandé's Live Date info page

 The next useful feature for promotional and further artist marketing is sub-page called : Live dates. This allows you and any other fans to see the whole schedule of the artist and you can see all the information needed eg: Where/What country/When/What time. You can even book the ticket straight from the website. When you click on the link you are re-directed to ticket selling website like eg. Ticketmaster. From the menu you can also choose options like Diary where you can read the artist private diary. This makes the artist be one step away from Emeli. This is quiet useful for promotion as the fans are keep updated and they know that they artist is not just making the music for money, but actually care about their listeners.

Emeli Sande's SHOP

On the website you can also go to the Official Shop. The whole website seems to be ready for every person and acts like the artist merchandising medium. When you enter the store you are able to buy her latest and only album at the moment. You can choose from variety of options eg. Digital Album/Hard Cover CD/Single etc. In the top right corner you can see what you bough in the basket and you can choose between the countries you want your order to be delivered too. You can choose from Australia up to Japan. This is another promotional techniques, because you can't get her album in the normal music shop on Australia eg. HMV Australia. So the only thing for those people is to order the album online.

Main Gallery

The last thing you can enjoy on her website is the Official Gallery where you can see all the photos. Above you can see photo of Emeli holding Brit Award. So you can see that the gallery shows important things from her life too.

Story Board of our Music Video

Below I add the scans of our music video. Below you can see our provisional story board, because everything can change during filming as well as editing process in future days.

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Analysis of Music Video no. 5

In this post I will be analysing POP Music Video. It will be Rihanna - Only Girl in the World which is one of her best selling songs from the previous album. I have chosen to analyse this music video because it really shows the ideas of showing artist's sexuality/body parts in the music video in order to for better promotion or attraction of new fans. The whole video have accents of red and pink colour second by second which might represent the romance/love which can also be implied from the lyrics.

 We are introduced by a wide shot if the artist in the middle of nowhere. This may imply her freedom that she got, but still looking for her true love. The colours used in the whole video as well as this shot represents romance and need of love which she might not experienced yet. After this shot we see the artist in the place where there is a lot of flowers. In my opinion each of the flowers is representing men.

This shot basically implies what I mentioned before. This music video is the perfect example of selling the artist by her undressing on the front screen. This is showing her sexual side which attracts wider audience and more people are curious about the artist which makes them search for her music and finally buy the album.

When we get to the bit when the lyrics goes: "Want you to make me feel like I'm the only girl in the world" we see the shot of Rihanna dropping on to the floor full of flowers. As I said before in my opinion in the music video the flowers are meant to represent the men and by her laying surrounded by them, she may think that is being surrounded by a lot of men who love/respect her. I can also make this argument stronger by saying that when she she sings: "I will make you feel like a man", she is actually singing and looking at the flower.

The colours of white/yellow and blue are not only seen in the scenes with the flowers but also the balloons that we can see behind the artist in the image on the left. This is another interpretation of the men. This implies that wherever and whenever she moves somewhere they follow her everywhere, but she just doesn't know what to do.


In the shot below we can see Rihanna and the big flow next to her to which she is singing too for about 25 second in the entire music video. This is going to be another repeat, but that flower represents the perfect one she has chosen from the crowd, which is shown in the image number 3 above. She wants to use personification towards the flower by singing: "You'll be my prisoner for tonight" which obviously also have sexual content include in it. This also links to the title of the music video which is "The only girl in the world". It links to have being so full of herself and thinking that it's all the men surrounding her and are being attracted to her, but it actually might be different and completely opposite.

In the last image, you can see the artist in the middle surrounded by the fireworks around. This, at the end of the music video was done to represent her emotion. Firework might represent happiness/excitement/over-reaction.

Specific Album Art Analysis #5

Jay-Z - American Gangster

I have chosen to analyse this artist, because I did not mention any of the Rap/Hip-Hop genre that is being really famous in United States. Jay-Z is very successful artist and I think that his album artwork has a lot of symbolism included in it. The first thing we realise after looking in the centre is the artist who is wearing a suit. He has that "Man in Black" look and walk. This is made on purpose to show the kind of person the rapper is and to show his character in depth. In the front of him as well as at the back there is a lot of smoke which creates an image of him being a supernatural person/angel that has come from the above to save the world. People might feel that when they gonna start listen to lyrics they are going to feel like all the problems are gone and world is just a perfect place. Another thing that might be very important is the simplicity of the colours used. The only colour you can visually see are: black and white. This might be done this way to show the simplicity of the album and the songs that they are on the album. You can hear sometimes people saying that :"This is so easy, like black and white". So this is maybe where the idea came from. The last point that I have links to the title of the album and the surrounding of the artist in the background. You can see that the title is "American Gangster" and every chair and the tables in the back look like they have been cleaned up by someone which may signify that the American Gangster that the artist represent may be sorting things out wherever he is. Also the cover links a bit to American Western Movies when we look closely on the floor and the style of the chairs.

Specific Album Art Analysis #4

I decided to analyse One Republic's Album Cover. The album is called "Waking up". The first thing we visually see are the number of different colours. If you count them properly you come up with 5 different one. This actually links to the number of band members that One Republic consists of. So we can see that there is already some symbolism in case of the whole band. The colour might also represent each member of group by their character and what kind of person they are. As there is not a lot of green colour, we may assume that the band member who the colour is assigned to may be a bit shy etc. Another thing I came up with during analysing process is that the cover looks like a fountain which can relate to ideas or what might be happening in our head in the morning. I analysed this in that way, because of the title of the album which is "Waking up". So I assumed that the cover might represent what happens in our head when we wake up. The red colour of the font may represent that the "waking up" process is something that people might not like etc... The background is kept really simple which may also link to the simplicity of the band and the songs they are making. The front cover does not give away anything about the music inside. In other way, we can also interpret the fountain of colours by saying that they represent different kind of music styles put together on this album, but if we want to find out about that more we need to buy and listen to the album. So it is right to say that the album art work is appealing to wider audience.

Analysis of Album Art [DIGIPACK]

Rihanna - Loud (Album Digipack)

The digipack consists of CD and two dicks that contain Rihanna's music on it. It is made up of three sections.The CD opens to both sides (right and left). In the centre part of the CD there is a plastic part which holds the discs. This digipack is used as an inspiration for parts of my final thing. The main part that influenced me was the inside of it. The effect is created by a one image of an artist appearing in all three parts and therefore it makes a whole photo. The main theme colour of the digipack is red which shades of white. It is all combined with roses all other the photos. The roses represent love, romance etc. She is laying across the roses, exploring her sexual side as you can see bug parts of her body uncovered.  So this is another inspiration, because in my artist's art work I can use a symbol like: bottle of beer etc...to represent him and his life. Another digipack that may influence us more is : SUPER JUNIOR M's Front Cover. This is because I think that the band has some similar features to the artist we want to create. 

You can see below that the front cover shows the main artist biting and apple which may represent the Adam and Eve concept. At the back of the album you can see the other band members which is perfect for us as we want to show our "Letdowns" who help Freddy on the instrumental side of the album. In the middle there are two versions of song and it can be helpful for us as we can have normal songs and the one with censorship put on them for the younger audience between the age of 14-17. 

SUPER JUNIOR M's digipack!

Band Logo [Reflection]

The Main Logo of the Band - Production Company

When it comes to the logo, I think that it fairly represents the overall "image" of the band and is doing its job when it comes to attracting the primary audience (over 16 year old). The smoke in the background represents the youth culture of the people at the same age as well as our artist's. But on the other side I think this is too general and mono dramatic and the colours that are being used in the logo are not really representing the overall mood of the production company and the whole music video. Also it does not use the photo of our artist, so audience might not know who the connected with. So I have tried to create different types of logos after discussing it previously with my group peers.
Below I uploaded another design:

Another design of the band's logo!

For me this design it too suttle for the kind of music video that we are making. It looks very modern and has different variety of colours. We decided as a group that this logo is not saying anything about our artist and if it is...then the message that people are going to get is not our intended one. So we decided to combine both of the logos together and see what might happen.
This is the final outcome:

Final Logo of the Band

As you can see on the final logo it combines things from both of the previous designs. It has black background, but because the writing is white and there is no smoke coming the writing is more clear and visible when it's put onto the album cover. The writing "FREDDY" is made bigger on purpose, so when people walk around and look at the cover the first thing they are going to see is the name of the main artist. The writing below was made to look like it is hand written so it may relate to the letter in our music video which is what ignites the whole music video at the beginning. The last point that I have about the logo is that the "&" that has been added there looks like the symbol used by musicians. So this is open to many other interpretations.

Casting Discussion

During our group meeting, we were discussing what we want our actors to look like in order to make the music video realistic and original. As we already had an image of the main artist, we have chosen 3 things that we are looking for:

• clothing/style
• behaviour
• their age

We think that we don't have to look for the main actor for a long time, as the style that we want our artist to have, a lot of people share and their fit withing the boundaries of the music video. There are a lot of people around the school that have the same style, so when it comes to choosing the right actor we have a lot of options. We can choose the one that has better acting techniques.

When it comes to rest of the actors we did not have put any restrictions when it come to appearance in front of the came. We want to portray the girl in the music video as a medium class/party/sexy person, so the audience don't label her when they see her the first time, but actually make a opinion about her - good opinion! So in order to do we have use rich looking clothes.

The rest of the cast: The Kids are going to be ordinary kids from the neighbourhood. It doesn't make any difference how they are dressed because it is us who are going to give them the costumes, so it will completely change their look.

During discussion, we have also discussed the rest of the band casting options. We decided that the rest of the band will have similar look to our main artist, but they don't have to be ready to perform in front of the camera because we are going to see them only for about 3-8 seconds. So they don't need to be talented when it come to the "performance&acting". 

Specific Album Art Analysis #3

I decided to analyse a cover of ColdPlay's Album "Parachutes". I have chosen to analyse this band's album artwork as this falls into our main artist kind of music in some way. ColdPlay delivers alternative music and if we listen to both of the artist, we can realise some of the similarities. The album mainly uses two colour: black and orange/yellow. Those are warm Colo's which may signify that the music that we will find inside will be written and sung in the same mood. It may also signify a love songs that are put onto the CD even tho there is no red-ish colours on the front of the album which may relate to that. The picture of globe in the centre may be most likely linked to the title of the album which is : Parachutes. It may send us the message that during listening of the album we may feel like we are orbiting the earth using Parachute and that we are able to reach places we were never able before. The dark background may signify that there is still more places to be discovered and there are just under our reach.

Analysis of Music Video no. 4

In this post I am going to analyse One Republic's Music Video for one of the best known songs of 2008: Apologize. The are two Official music videos for this song, but I have chosen something that differs from the other analysis that I have done. This video purely represents symbolism of things related to the lyrics and it links well to the Godwin's theory of representation. Whatever the singer sings in the background we can it happening or there is a symbol appearing that makes us think and link everything into one piece.

We are being introduced to the music video by seeing a pen writing "Apologize" on the letter. This might be for the audience, to make them aware that the music is about to start or just simply to a person writing a letter to the one he/she loves. When the music comes in we see a variety of shots focusing on the woman reading the letter and crying. The tears are the black ink which drops onto the letter. This means that the person writing the letter at the beginning was a guy.

In the next shot we can see males hands hitting the piano to the beat of the music. Because the music video is so full of symbolism, I think that the hitting and the beat that we can hear in the background might represent the heart beat of the person to another person in the music video. 

After for about a minute we are being introduced to all the symbols that surround the lyrics. On the screen we can see a pen, ink dropping, feather which represents the old style pen, old style phone which also represents talking to another person, light which might represent change and evolution in something. The symbols are presented in the montage so the audience can take every one of them into account and come up with the idea and message the music video is trying to pass.

In the video we don't really see the main artist. The only that we can see him in is the one when he is singing to the hanging telephone. This was shot to represent him looking like his singing all the lyrics to the person on the other sing. And in the other bit, where we can see the same shot the song goes: "I'm holding on a rope" which may represent the link between him and the telephone handset. In the next shots we can see a variety of flowers that are all in different colour. They are all well grown and looking really nice and fresh which might represent the relationship between the two of the people before everything went wrong. There is also a shot of plastic hand which has a wedding ring on a finger (woman's hand).

When the lyrics of: "It's too late to apologize" are heard, we can see a shots of flowers opening and growing and juxtaposition of the woman crying and letting her tear drop on the letter that she got which is the letter from the right beginning of the music video. Her tears are from ink. The ink tears might represent that the words that have been written by the ink on the paper hurt her so much that her own ones turn into the same material.

 As we watch the music video further we can see that all the symbols that were before represented as rich/precious/fresh/gold are not starting to burn and are getting destroyed. So in my opinion the symbols that were represented in the video are making up their love together and we can see the letter and her crying that straight away put a message in our head that the love has disappeared. The same happens with the photo frame where we could see their own photo. It breaks and drops on the floor. The feather pen is burning as well which may imply that he will not be writing any more letter to her.

At the right end, we can see a shot on the letter burning with the only two words left on it which are: "...love you." This creates a confusion for the audience because we don't really know now who is the letter from. If the letter was sent to her from him, maybe she did not read the last few words and this creates an unanswered question. Overall, the music video is very original and contains a lot of symbolism and meanings. It is very open to interpretations.

Moodboard of My Ideas

Jamie T - Ike and Tina (Moodboard of ideas surrounding the music video)

Above you can see the Moodboard which includes all the ideas that we are planning to add to our music video. It includes ideas of the clothes that the artist is going to be wearing. The further information about the way our artist is going to be dressed can be found on our group blog: Click here!

Analysis of Previous Student Work #2

I have chosen to analyse another previous student work which is quiet different to the first one. This music video is in completely different music as well as editing style than our Jamie T's Ike and Tina, but when you watch it couple of times you can realise some of the elements that link very well with our preliminary task and the whole concept of placards. It contains very good shots including close up not only on the lead singer, but also the rest of the band which is quiet important in the music video. It is very easy to guess what is the name of the band. It's very visible in the background during the performance section. MAYBE MAYBE is written in red colour which most likely represents blood, love, romance and from the first second of the video we know that it is going to be a song about love, romance etc. Although the lipsing is not the best, the cut aways to different people and placards fulfil the gap and during watching of the music video you forget about all the mistakes. There is no overall story included in the video, but as the viewer you get to know it from the lyrics and the words that are written on the placard during the section of cut aways. As I said before this song is about love/romance, so you would expect this music video to be quiet slow which compare to our one is completely different. This is why I chose to analyse this one, to show that as a music director I am aware of all the things I need to work on, change, edit, analyse to improve my own work and be able to look at it objectively and see all the mistakes that I have made.

Music Website Analysis [band]

For music website analysis, I have chosen to do Arctic Monkey's website as I already analysed their album artwork. So I know their background information and I researched their music and their overall style. The link for their website is:  Arctic Monkey's Official Website - Click here!

The Arctic Monkey's Main Page of their website.

Above you can see the main page of the Arctic Monkey's website. The website is really organised and kept really simple for the fans. It is using only two colours: black and white, which might reflect the simplicity of the group and how organised everything is kept. At the very top, you can see the main page menu which is really easy for the viewer to navigate. It is divided into main section, so the viewer does not have to look for something for such a long time, but can be just click away from it.

On the right side of the website we see a column called: GIGS. This is very useful thing for the fans and people that want to see the band, because they just go on their website and see the nearest shows. Where they are, when, the status of the availability and you can also buy them straight away from the website. It is very visible and you notice it straight away when you enter the website.

The Gigs column seen on the right hand side of the band's website.

The website is very rich in material like: photos/videos/music videos etc. When you click on the section photos, the page comes up when you can see all of the photos including those private from the tour. You can choose between the years and the places where they were doing their gigs. For the fan of the band this is just perfect, because not seeing them live he/she can be just a click away from them and watch them on the videos as well. You also get access to the Fan's Forum and share everything with you fellow fans and the band.

The last section of the menu is STORE. When you click on it it re-directs you to Arctic Monkey's Official Store. On the new page, you can buy their newest album just sitting in your room. This is amazing and the website is full of this nice features. It is so packed with everything that you can become the fan of the band just by reading/watching or looking at some of the material that has been added on to it. This is the kind of website me and my group are planning to create for our artist and his band. 

The website where you can buy the band's newest album or just a separate songs. 

Investigation into Star Image from chosen artist

Below you can see a variety of very interesting images and photos of an artist that we are creating a music video for. Jamie T's style is different to the other artists who create the same style of music. His visual image and style is interesting because it is a creation of simplicity. His visual outlook shows a simple, on the line of style clothes that are not falling into any particular category at all. It is very successfully representing to us a image of a typical 21st century teenager who can be influenced by many other pop-culture ideas for example: rock, indie etc or subculture...

The artist image is a whole package. Starting from the visual style that our artist is showing and wearing(fashion)  up to live concerts, filming of music videos and even designing an album artwork. The initial style of Jamie T will help us in order to create an artist which will be our own, but will not stand out from the main idea of "simple and ordinary artist". This will make it easier for us to make the decisions on our own as there is no pressure to make our artist looking completely the same. 

Jamie T - Artist Image

Jamie T during one of his concerts showing his artist image.

Mindmap of My Ideas

Above you can see the mind map of my ideas about the music video and the band that I am going to set up!
Click on the image to enlarge it!

Video Diary [Day by Day]

Tuesday 20th December: Initial planning. Group meeting, where we finalised decisions about costumes and props, and bought/collected any that we would need over the next few weeks. We also filmed a few cutaway shots, but without our artist there was little we could do, and did not want to shoot too much that would then not be usable.-

Friday 30th December: Location research, discussion followed by a scouting adventure. See post for pictures.

Friday 6th January: Filmed the 'sex scene'. Experimented with lighting. Did some photos for artist image. Followed up by shooting the scene outside of the clinic, but due to tiredness/boredom/fatigue, the material we had wasn't as good as we hoped.

Saturday 7th January: Went to London with the camera and cast hoping to capture some of the atmosphere of more claustrophobic city areas (like Brick Lane and South Bank) to contrast the comparatively bland suburban scenes we planned to shoot. However, lack of light became a big issue which ultimately ended our excursion.

Friday 13th January: Due to unavailability of cast members, we were unable to continue shooting, instead deciding to review the material we had already shot to determine any pickup shots we would need to do and the quality and quantity of what we had already shot.

Tuesday 17th January: Re-shot the clinic scene, much better this time. Began shooting the main performance bed of the video, but unfortunately low camera battery cut our day short.

Friday 20th/Saturday 21st: Weather dictated that we couldn't continue filming the performance bed this weekend, so instead we worked on putting the blog together.

Tuesday 24th January: Began uploading the footage we had, and over viewed it to ascertain how our shooting techniques can be improved upon for the next chunk of performance bed filming.

Tuesday 31st January: Shot all the footage required for the party scene, using the school Drama Studio where we had full access to extraordinarily manipulable lighting equipment. We used readily available friends as extras, which took some time to organise (and we weren't able to get quite as large an enthusiastic group as we hoped) but after weeks of waiting for the Studio to become available, we took the best chance we could, and adapted our filming techniques to fill the frame as often as possible.

Thursday 2nd February:  Uploaded the footage from the party/club scene. Despite first thoughts after re watching the footage on the small camera screen immediately after shooting, upon full review we found the footage to be entirely suitable and that there would be no need for a re-shoot (with much relief, after how long it had taken to book the studio and organise a reliable 'cast').

Saturday 4th February: Begun the long process of filming the performance section for the music video in Roehampton.



UPDATE: Friday 24th February: Half term holidays, unavailable equipment and unreliable cast members are all attempting to draw the process out, but nevertheless we have been working on completing filming and slowly piecing together short individual sequences on the music video. Only one more section needs to be filmed, as well as one short pickup shoot.

UPDATE: Friday 23rd March: Filming was completed earlier this month, and now the editing process is finally drawing to a close. Meanwhile, we have been working on the ancillary products of album artwork with photoshop, and of course keeping blogs updated.

Tuesday 27th March: Music video and ancillary tasks have been completed!