Music Vid (Update)

For a while now Harry and I have been considerably weighed down with work and haven't actually found time to film the last lengths of our video. We agreed at first that the video shouldnt have a narrative as most MV do, unfortunately, try as we may our own storyboard kept on staying towards a narrative of some form yet we still wanted to keep the video as random as possible. So we decided that we'd have a bit of both, a fusion almost between spontaneity and narrative. So in the end we had a shot of where the main character in our MV gets sent out of his girlfriends house for being too "playful" and goes out in a mood and spots another attractive girl who he entices into his red van and Harry and I drive off with the pair in the back.(Very Provocative.)

We decided that due to the spontaneity of the band's overall and the genre of the music they make that the location of the "band scene" should be set in a entirely random place, like someones back garden on the decking, thus keeping up with the mise en scene of the music video.

We got quite a lot of filming done today and I can honestly say we are near completion of the video. In terms of shooting the band, we wanted to get as many different camera angles and zooms of the band to allow us to edit the overall amount of shots in to a quick changing transitional part of the band playing the song.

Because we wanted a variation in the "Lets Make Out" Montages we went on a totally spur of the moment idea and decided to film both Harry and I shouting LMO at the camera, but in each transition we were wearing a different item of clothing.

Just recently we had time to shoot the band scene, which from what I can recall we didnt want to use, but on review we drew up a storyboard and checked whether it fitted in nicely, to which it did. After doing a few test shots we got busy into shooting a proper band scene. this took us the better part of three hours mainly because we brought all the intruments to Harry's house and set the instruments up on his decking, which placed the band at a higher level which made shooting low close ups much easier, with the spring sky complementing the mise en scene (the general 'feel good' feeling of the band and the music video) showing continuity.

The day seemed almost perfect except when we wanted to start filming and we'd realised that the battery had run dead, unfortunatly we hadnt any time to recharge it the last time so we had to charge it now which took and hours worth of out time. Once the battery was charged we had been shooting the band scene for no longer than half an hour when the heavens opend and rain started bomabrading us, what seemed like the perfect day was just getting worse. However we agreed that we'd come so far that we wouldnt give up, just then the skys cleared and blazing sunshine poured through (just a passing cloud apparently), both Harry and i took turns in shooting at different angles and lengths to hopefully help create a fast paced band scene when edited of course.

We are now on the final legs of shooting and are near completion of our music video...