Initial ideas that were not included.

For our music video, to make it look more professional, we wanted to film the transport scenes in Victoria Train Station, Manchester. However, due to not having permission to film on private property we had to adapt our idea. Hence, we decided to film on a nearby metro-link station, so that the theme of 'trains' was still involved.

The music choice for our video was the decision that we kept changing the most. We all agreed with the concept, but couldn't find a song that we could adapt it to. As a group, we all generally like different genres of music, so what one person liked, another person hated the song choice. As a group we compromised, and listened to songs off other people's ipods and put forward the songs which we felt matched the concept, putting aside our musical differences.

Another idea, which we decided not to use was the performance shots of the performer playing the acoustic guitar whilst lip syncing in town. The quality of the camera affected the visibility of the lip syncing which didn't make it clear that he was in time with the music. Also, the acoustic guitar didn't suit the music as it wasn't the main instrument that could be heard in the song. It worked out in the end though, because we replaced these original shots with shots from the studio which looked a lot more professional making it look like a typical music video.

When discussing ideas for the CD covers, initially the ideas that we talked about were over-complicated. After researching other covers from our favourite artists, we were inspired to keep it simple, as it would be a lot easier to edit and it would look just a professional as a modern typical CD cover. We stayed with the main idea of having the performer as the primary focus of the CD cover.