Change of Song

After all meeting up in the classroom for the first time since filming we started to all blog. This was when Jacob turned to me and said he didn't feel the video was going to work if things stayed the same. I strongly agreed with him and told the rest of the group, Tom and Alex, that we should seriously consider changing the song and using more reliable actors. We then went back to our original shortlist to see if there was one song we could use. The choice that two of us believed to be a good enough song was 'Times like these' by the Foo Fighters. After learning from our mistakes we decided to focus on the prospect of filming a band rather than a 'story'. We had some ideas for shots that we would want to use and quickly drew up our storyboard. After putting our minds into this idea for the past two hours we discovered we had done more work in one lesson than we had done in a week. We have spoke to band we know that cover the song at their gigs which means all thats left to do is find a suitable location.

First Day of Filming

On Saturday we started to film our music video to Frank Turner's Photosynthesis. We all met at our actor Jon at his house where we planned to film in his basement. I had never been there before but was told it would be a good location. Upon arriving i saw that the room wasn't what i imagined and that there was only one corner of the room we could film. As the rest of the group started to arrive we placed our camera and tripod down and we were ready to start filming. Our only problem was that Jon, our actor, didn't know how to play or know the lyrics to our song. This meant a large delay on filming which then made us all lose attention and in the end we had no-where near enough footage to what had hoped to film. This is very disappointing as we had hoped to get a considerable amount done on our day of filming and to make matters worse, our actor was unavailable on the sunday which meant we had practically wasted a weekend of filming. We then discovered we may not be able to meet each others date of availability which put our while project into turmoil.