Initially we thought that within our film we would show Josh traveling to the city and therefore were going to use many different forms of transport i.e. car, bus, train. However as time went on we realised that this was not going to be a strong enough story-line to keep the audiences interest during the song and so therefore came up with a new plan. We would use just a pure performance from our actor and then cut away to different shots of the city and other random things to keep interest and also to show different sides of the city. We did however use transport in the form of a car to get some good on the road shots, simulating the traveling we originally wanted to include but without actually showing him on route. These were very successful and will give our video a sense of movement and direction.
Next we needed to film some more city shots. We decided to do his at night to get a glimpse of the nightlife into our music video. We went outside of The Hippodrome and filmed the traffic passing by. This looked really good as we see both the traffic and car lights, making it seem more atmospheric. We also re-filmed some of the earlier test shots taken to get a better angle and view.
Another thing that we needed was to have a few different interesting shots to cut away to. We decided to create a cryptic symbolic message (arrow + heart = ?) This can be translated into deciding where to go (arrow) and finding your love (heart) leads to not being able to make a decision about what to do (?). These symbols we decided would be used as a motif throughout our film. We got different people to hold onto them, this showing that the feeling of confusion and not knowing what to do is common amongst others.
This now meant we had enough footage to start piecing together and so we now begin the editing process.
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