First Draft Poster

This is the first draft of our poster, using the mosaic effect of the actual pictures as smaller pixels of the actual picture to portray inner conflict the protagonist faces in the narrative of the story. I then imported the same fonts from the digipak to make sure there is correlation between the item going on sale and the poster promoting it. We put emma into the poster since the song and music video are very narrative based, so it made sense to have the protagonist in the poster.

By Sam Austin

7th October filming

For this shoot, we went to Barrow Down beach, which was a fair drive away since most of the beaches in the area are stone beaches that cannot be driven on. We chose this beach because you can drive on it and it has a good mixture of rocks going into the sea, sandy beaches and old staircases to use that are needed for various shots. The reason we wanted a beach we could drive on is that we needed to use tracking shots using the car and having jack sitting in the open boot with a camera while I drive slowly.
We needed Emma again for this one and we asked her to dress in the same casual and carefree manner, but she would need clothes and shoes she would be comfortable running with.
A few problems we were faced with is the fact that there were a few clouds and we needed sunshine for many of our shots, so we had to wait for a few minutes between shots to get the sunshine. Furthermore we got the glare from the sun in the camera so we had to angle our shots so we didn't get any lines down our shots or effect we didn't want. During the tracking shot of Emma running it was also quite difficult to keep the camera steady with all of the bump in the beach, so we took the shot multiple times and chose the steadiest.
By Sam Austin

29th and 30th September filming

For this shoot, we did our filming in certain locations in Bristol for the 'town settings' needed. We filmed specifically on a road just off Victoria Street and on the Downs. We needed Emma Smith to attend and had to get her to wear clothes with a similar 'indie' or carefree theme which we planned would fit the persona of the character. We decided to multiple shots of the same few second to make sure that we got plenty of different angles on the action and keep to at least the one shot per three seconds.

The props that we needed were the cut-out paper hearts which we used both in the cutting out shots and in the industrial shot of them falling from Emma. The other props we needed were the cut out photos of Emma during he scene where the camera pans through the photos of her to her sitting on an outcropping of rocks.
One of the problems we faced is we again faced the fast fading daylight, so had to rush with our filming. Furthermore we had a problem with finding an industrial looking location that didn't have too many people walking back and forth so we could get a shot with only Emma in it. We faced the same problem in the shots at the downs since it is frequented by dog walkers and joggers so we had to time our shoots well.
Another problem we faced is placing the pieces of paper on the ground and making them stay there since it was a windy day. We solved this by putting small rocks on the pieces of paper so they were barely visible from the camera unless you looked for them.
A final problem we had is the fact that many of our shots were very static, so we used the Ken Burn tool in the editing stage to make the shots more dynamic and interesting for the audience.
By Samuel Austin

Consent

By Sam Austin & Jack Pollock

Story board

By Sam Austin and Jack Pollock

17th September filming

For this shoot, we placed the filming in an abandoned house, for which we got permission from the owner to do so. We needed to organise band members who could play their instruments and learn the song in a small amount of time. For this we got Matt Green to play drums, Richie Screen to play bass, Liam Chadwick to play guitar, and myself Sam Austin on guitar and singing. We decided to get 3 shots of each person and 3 shots of the whole band playing the whole chorus and break so we could pick and choose which shots we want for each art of the song. We filmed each individual band member in different rooms to give them each their own personas and to make sure the audience concentrates on their passion and skill.

One of the problems we faced is the fact that it got dark fairly quickly but we managed to make all the shots look the same by editing, changing the contrast, brightness, levels and saturation to different amounts according to the brightness.

Another problem we faced is we got some equipment in a few of our shots, such as electricity wires or the speakers that we used, so those shots we had to reshoot, otherwise it wouldn't look professional.

A final problem we faced is the fact the person we were going to have singing for us bailed out on the group, so myself (Sam) had to quickly assume the role of the singer which gave me less directorial privileges, so Jack had to make manyof the decisions during shooting.
By Sam Austin and Jack Pollock

Shooting Timetable

17th September= band shot in abandoned house. Need Matt, Richie, Liam for band. 3:30pm - 6pm.

29th and 30th September= Bristol and other 'town' settings. Need Emma. 3:45pm - 5:30pm (inc travelling)

7th October= beach shots in Barrow Down. Need Emma. 3:00pm - 4:45pm

14th October= shots on woodlands road. Need Emma. 3:30pm - 4:15pm

By Sam Austin