Editing 3

This is the final editing version of my music video.
Overall I am very pleased with its outcome because it is filled in with different types of scenes, and no scene is longer than 10 seconds or so meaning that this video is more likely to keep the interest of the audience.
We have no more footage to film as we are happy with all of the scenes we have shot and made extra sure that errors were made.
For the purpose of making our music video a bit more interesting we also included some more transitions and messed about with the lighting and brightness to change the mood of the video nearer to the end, this will hopefully increase interest from the audience.

Filming Day 3

On our third day of filming we completed the remainder of the main scenes that we needed to shoot in order for the completion of our musice video, although after that Lewis went and shot a couple of scenes of book titles in order to use as minor cutscenes to convey a message to the audience.
I feel our third day of filming went very well, as we created no continuity errors and in general no mistakes on the cameraman's or the actors behalf, and due to this we have all of the footage we need.
Overall I am pleased with the progress we have made, and this will lead to us finishing our music videos very soon.
The picture above is of one of the scenes where we film Simon on a park bench figuratively spiralling downwards and drinking alcohol to drown his sorrows.

Editing 2

At this point in time we have most of our footage covered apart from the last couple of scenes, and I am now starting to fiddle about with editing effects in order to increase the surrealism of my music video.
Effects that I am currently using include transitions such as hard flashes, as well as special effects such as filming effect i.e. jitter, scratches and grain to make the video look older or antique or to give a certain sense that the viewer in not in a normal state of mind.
Overall I am pleased with the outcome of my video so far, although we still need to get more footage for a couple of the scenes missing my music video is close to being finished.

Filming Day 2

On our second day of filming we returned to reshoot some parts of the house scene due to continuity errors, this was mainly to do with the scenes outside of the house as we shot two scenes with the same door open and closed, but for the majority of the day we were filming the introduction scenes, where Simon and his friends are sat drinking.
As shown here:



Overall, the day was very successful as we have gotten most of our footage for the introduction scenes as well as the corrected footage for the house scene, meaning we only have two more scenes and a little more footage for the montage to do.
What I wish went better was a couple of the pub scenes where Simon was backing away from the tempters, to me it didn't seem realistic enough, also we needed some way to show that the tempters are all in Simon's head, and not just a couple of people wearing masks and following him around.

Editing 1

We have started editing our music video, although we have not filmed all of the footage yet we have solidly started our music with what we believe to be a decent introduction, although we still need to get some more footage including reshoots of our house scene, the street scenes and the train station scenes.

Filming Day 1

On our first day of filming we started shooting the house scene where the three friends go after the pub scene to hang out. This is also where another appearance of the two tempters occurs, this was done with Ella Kirk operating the camera as me and Lewis took part in the majority of the acting.

This was Lewis's costume as the upper class tempter, with the costume being a black suit and tie with a trilby hat and the Guy Fawkes mask. We also created face masks from black tights to cover the eyes and create a surreal look.










This was my costume as the lower class tempter, the costume being a grey hoody and tracksuit bottoms with the hood up and the Guy Fawkes mask. A face mask was also used for my costume.

This is a picture of both tempters sat together in order to show the emphasis of difference between the two classes, the upper class tempter being sat up with a straight back whilst the lower class tempter is slouched over on the couch.





Overall, the filming was a relatively successful day as we acquired footage to work with, although we had to reshoot some of the scenes at a later date due to continuity errors.
What I wish went better is the looking over of the scenes before we start filming, i.e. taking note of particular objects and adjusting them accordingly, this is because one of the main reasons we had to reshoot our house scene is of a continuity error where James ran out of the door and shut it behind him, then in the next scene the door is wide open.
We had to adapt the idea of a party scene in this house and make it more of a site where the two friends went to hang out, this is due to a limited number of people being available on that day.
Things that we may also need to change in the future include some locations, due to a limited amount of time where everyone is available, and transport difficulties we may not be able to shoot in places like Lincoln.