Brad powers on.... after looking back over our shots we found gaps in our video that we didn't have any footage for, this was more than likely down to poor planning, but we needed to sort this, after our experience in the preliminarily task we found that brad was the most adequate and reliable at using iMovie so we decided to leave him in charge of the editing as it would make it easier on the group although we all had input.
after realising we had the gaps brad gave us a list of possible shots we could use to fill the gaps and sent alex and I out to find these shots, we found an area by the local shops that we thought we would be able to film some of the shot he was looking for, after about 40 minuets of filming we recieved a phone call brad asking us to hurry back because he wanted the shots now! so we finished up what we were doing and headed to face Brad.

On our return we found he had gathered together all our shots and sped them up at the end of the video to give the effect that you would be able to relive the whole experience in one quick go. We had discussed this but didnt really think we could do it, but Brad being the trooper he was had found away of doing this and made it look good.

Today we decided to go through the video and see what we had shot and what was left to shoot. This was a good idea as we decieded to change some bits. We also decided to take some shots out and cut them down so that they werent as long. Once we took out some of the shots we realised that we would need to film some of the shots again and get some new shots filmed so that we had enough shots to put the video together.
Up to this point the video is totally in sync with the song and all the editing is complete, we will need to change some bits as we are adding some images to the video to break it up so that will put the video out of sync so we will need to move it about again once the images are in to make it work again.

after uploading the shots from the studio we realised that the some of them were out of sync with the music so we decided to take the video apart and reconstruct it to make sure it all fell into place. how did we do this without wasting to much time you may ask? well brad being the brightspark he is came up with the idea of writing down the timings of the shots on a piece of papaer and then we would know where to put them again.

above is the list which helped us keep sane and keep the video in sync with the music and although this took a bit of time to write out it saved us a lot of time in the long run and made it so much easier to fit the video together.

Today we was meant to be going to the studio to film our shots but because there had been a mistake in the booking we had to change our plans and decided to shoot some shots outside. We had decided to film a shot where we smashed a bottle to make it look like the character in the video was drunk and had fallen over because of this, so again we had to use some props, including a bottle.
We found that each location we had planned to film the shot was either too wet (as it had been raining quite heavy the previous day) or once we had arrived and thought about it some more didnt seem right, we found an underpass that looked like it would represent where someone who was struggling with a drinking problem may spend time, so we decided to film our shots here. We also filmed the shot of the character falling on his face as he has had to much to drink as it would be dry and there would be less chance of us getting wet.

Today we visited the studio and filmed a large part of our video. We filmed a part of the chorus and some other shots that are going to go in the video. We had Lauren with us as she was going to be a part of our video story line some of the shots we filmed included me sitting down and playing the guitar whilst lauren was sitting behind me not paying attention as if she was interested. We also filmed our some of the shots for the verse. We made sure that each shot was filmed 3 times incase we made any mistakes, we would be able to edit each shot to get exactly what we wanted from it.

Above is a picture of the studio we had booked. As you can see we had the lighting available to us so that we where able to make the shots exactly how we wanted them. We also used some other props in the studio including some stools and a guitar that we bought with us. Bellow is a picture of the props used.

Last night whilst i was relaxing at home i noticed that the sky had turned red and it was a lovely sunset... it took some time but my brain finally clicked that we needed a shot of a red sky to go in our video, so i ran upstairs and tried to take the best shot i could, when i showed the boys they were impressed that i had been so quick to react and get the picture so we decided to use it for the video

today we went out and picked up from where we left off yesterday. we looked back over out shots and werent happy with one of the close up shots of my singing so we re-filmed this so that we had a number of shots that we could choose from.

on our story board we hadnt actually stated where we were going to film the next shot so we decieded to walk around the surrounding area of the school to see where would be the best place to film. we found a quiet waterfall where we would be able to film some shots with a nice backdrop. then we found a problem.. we couldnt figure out what the best way to film the shot would be because over the waterfall there was bridge but there wasnt really anywhere brad and alex could stand with the camera to get a good shot. then brad came up with the idea of me standing in the waterfall where there was some larger rocks this would allow us to get a good shot whilst alex who had taken over the filming for today could stand infront of me and capture the whole location, below are the pictures of the location:

 

 

i found that today because we didnt really plan where we were going to film the shots, we didnt use our time wisely and wasted time walking around looking for places to film. also it was rather gloomy today so it made the shots a bit dark when they could of been alot lighter.

 

today we went out to film our first shots. this was fairly easy or so we thought, we used the story board to see what shot we was planning on doing. this was the tapping of the drum stick and the extreme close up of my mouth. it seemed like it would be an easy shot to film but it was rather difficult to get the tapping in time with the music. brad filmed this shot by holding the camera on a tripod directly infront of where i was tapping, then he moved to a high angle shot to capture it from different angles. when we was actually filming we found that we liked the idea of having a PoV shot so we decided to film this shot to see what it would look like.

the next shot we filmed was the close up shots of my mouth lip singing when we did the original shot we noticed that the cmaera was further away from my mouth then we first thought so we filmed the shot again, the next problem we realised we had was that when we zoomed in on my mouth that the camera went out of focus and so we had to move the camera away until it was focused and was easily seen.

here is the email we wrote out to send to the record label to avoid any copyright issues, it also prevented us from having our video removed from YouTube:

here are our the shot lists. We needed to fill these out so we had some idea on what we were going to film on what day.. it gave us a sense of structure, and with 3 boys this was probably a good idea.

today we decided our main character. this was something we had to have a think about as we didnt want to get someone that was going to be unavailable when we needed them and we didnt want someone that was going to find it hard to perform infront of the camera.

we started to think about people that we knew that would be willing to fill the void. i had mentioned to the group that i would like to be in the video at some point wether this be as a main character or as someone that supported the main role. another possible candidate was our friend called matt. we thought he would be good because he was confident and fitted the profile we were trying to use in the video. however we found a stumberling block, he attends college and his college times clashed with our filming times.. this would not work therefore the search went on.

i came up with the suggestion of a boy called harrison that attened the sixth form, we went looking for him to ask if he would be willing to do it and he was, result! we knew he could sing and act as he has played a main role in the school productions so he seemed like the perfect person to play the main character. however alex started to have his doubts about this because harrison looks remarkably like ed sheeran and if we used him it would be like we were copying his video. we started to talk about it and decided against using him.

finally we made a decision. i was to be the main character, although i wasnt what we were orginally looking for i would be available for all filming and i would be able to have close input into the production so we made the decision to crack on and use me as the lead role.