Filming Begins

Today myself and Liam began filming our music video, due to our limited space to film we decided that my lip-syncing work should be filmed today due to our limited time as well.

I feel that the process went well and whilst we did only a little bit today it's a good start and hopefully spells out good things for the rest of the process, in terms of further work this week Liam will be producing a sort of collage of some of the filming, and commentate on it as i will be otherwise engaged with other commitments, however i should be back next week to add some additional work and the return of the on-location videos

How the new music video plan works out

After Thursday's session media myself and Liam decided to try and do some filming whilst i explained my new idea which was an Internet romance and then heartbreak idea, which Liam thought was a good idea, i explained that the advantages of it were that it was modern but something that hasn't really been done, and because of the use of the Internet it can be done by 1 person and a camera man, which really helped us a lot.

So it basically works by having Liam as the main character who through facebook meets a girl(who will be a fake profile that we will be creating for the sole purpose of the media project and will then proceed to terminate the profile after filming is finished, after a few conversations they flirt a little bit and then he decides he would like to meet her in person(which leads to a long wait and when she doesn't show up he shows signs of being upset)
after this he says that he loves her but he's hurting to the degree where she then says she likes him but she just wants to be friends(which happens a lot these days)

after this he will switch off the computer, i will be doing a cameo to a degree where I'll be lip-syncing the song, because of this i will have to sing it so my mouth matches up to the words, apart from that filming should start on Monday with no further issues

Re-writing the story of our music video

Our music video idea was originally well thought out and we planned well for what we could at the time we concieved the ideas in our group, certain things have affected that however me and liam have agreed to do a re-write that would only require us two to do filming, which makes everything so much easier to finish to a hight standard, the new idea we will be basing the film around is an online dating sort of romance, this is because online dating is a big thing nowadays and people who would never have met can find people who are very like minded, not all love stories will have a happy ending, in the case of ours the person liam will be talking to will either reject him outright or be some scammer from a distant land, and i will also be doing a small performance part and singing for parts of the music video.

The overall filming time should be 1-1 1/2 hours and we plan to shoot the majority of things near some form of computer.

in further posts there will be some video and on scene takes to show our development to the finished project.

Working out another way of doing things

After some deliberation, me and liam agreed that the music video idea that we came up with was limited because we tried to stick to the idea of a love story but forgot that we could produce an abstract video or one where the singer is shown to sing or dance or even both, with this it means a re-write of our music video and changing from a narrative to a performance based video.

we understand that we happen to be working to a deadline, however I'd rather spend 2 days of doing a re-write and only needing 1 maybe 2 people to film than spend 3 or 4 more weeks waiting on cast members who will waste time, and because me and liam agreed on this a slight re-write will be needed but not too much of one which is really nice.

Encountering Difficulties

A few weeks ago we finished creating our storyboards and ideas for the music video and we sorted out casting and everything else, so me and liam booked a camera out so we could do some filming before Christmas.

The problem is after that casting was suddenly an issue and even though we tried to sort it out we did find ourselves at a point of stagnation, in order to try and resolve this i suggested liam take the role as the male actor as this solved about a fourth of the overall issue, the actual trouble has been in finding a female cast member who has some time on their hands, i recently suggested to liam that if we couldn't find anyone by the end of the penultimate week of January then we either needed to rethink our idea or re-write it so only one actor is required, of course we will be trying to to keep our original idea but in the worst case scenario, it will end up being re-worked and still based on All For Love By Seal.