First Thoughts After First Day Of Filming

After filming in the 5 bells for the beginning of our narrative, we uploaded our footage from the camera to the editing software Final Cut Express and collated the footage into separate sub clips for easy use. When looking back at our shots our first thought was that there were not enough close up shots of the Matt and Ellie's faces to show emotion. We also decided that we needed to have more extras in the pub. We only had to extras when we filmed which showed that the pub seemed empty and was not busy. This also made it hard to film when Matt and Ellie changed rooms as we could not move our extras into that room as well which meant that the room was empty. We came to the conclusion that we should include more extras in the pub to make it seem busy and lively, we also decided that we should included cut away shots and reaction shots of the extras. These shots should be quick and included them drinking alcohol to represent the pub environment, them laughing and having fun and even shots of them entering the toilets to use the symbolic 'ladies' and 'gents' toilet signs. We also found that our shots were to static. We researched other music videos that were of the same genre and style and found that the camera movements were shaking a lot and were more hand held rather than still to compliment the rock style of music. Therefore, decided that we would also include this style and re-shoot the shots. The lighting of the majority of our shots was very good and the clarity of the shots was exactly what we wanted. However, the lighting in some shots was not the same as it changed depending on the direction the camera was facing. We will correct this by using our own lighting to compensate for the change.

Due to recent unfortunate events and the availability of our actors, we have had to change our main characters from Matt and Ellie to Joe Soden and Nikki Balson. Joe will also now be the lead singer in the performance part of our music video. This was unfortunate but now allows us to refilm the whole of the pub scene again which will allow us to correct everything that we filmed before.