Filming challenges and triumps.

Whilst filming the music video, we came across many challenges, for the first challenge, it was, "were do we actually start filming", we had a million and one ideas in our head and it was just where to start it which was the problem. We decided that maybe we should shoot the video in a chronological order of how it will look like at its finished state, so we decided to start filming in castlefield, that was a great start to our project, we got a lot of the opening to the video recorded and even some of the paraelle editing of when Michael (me) was happy with his partner.



We then faced another challenege when we filmed in the local shopping centre in Manchester, we did not have the permission to film there so we got asked to move one, the problem faced with this was we didnt get everything we wanted in the centre to use for the film, so we decided that we would only use small clippings from the centre and insert them around the film itself.












Then on the friday after we filmed in the Arndale, disaster struck again !, we spent hours on end filming in the local met stopy, filming the most important part of the vilm, the ending and as we had one more clip to film, the met police came and moved us on, we were distrought as we did not know what to do, so we phoned up the metrolink media gorup to ask for permission, the reason to get filming permission on the platform on the wednesday, yet wednesday came and no phone call came, so we took a risk, we got to the platform shortly after lunch and filmed as many clips as fast as we possibly could, and finally we had every platform clip we needed. It became clear that if we taken the risk in our film, we were only going to get the best results.

Yet on the positive side of the coin, we filmed a considerable amount of footage so it was easily acceptable to cut and paste certain areas together, keeping good continuity. In towards the end of the filming aspect of the course, we realised that we did not have an adiquette amount of perfomormance in our video, to resolve this we decided to have two master performances of me in the studio lip syncing the video, this proved to be highly sucessful as it given us the opotunity to base a narrative around a performance instead of a performance arount a narrative, which would of been much more challeging due to the timing of lip syncing and placing the performance in correct times.