Weather Forecast

Our outdoor locations are Cambridge and the Saffron Walden/Newport area. We were hoping to be able to have the past flashbacks in a more sunny setting as we tend to give them a happy and positive vibe, that the Artist wants back. On the present scenes luckily we do not need to have bright, warm weather; as it is late Autumn in England we are expecting, grey, foggy and rainy weather, which would be ideal for the overall feel of these scenes. So far I can only see Monday's weather report, but both days look rainy, so I feel we should film the more present scenes then because that weather would be perfect for this, hopefully Tuesday will be sunny so we can film the contrasting scenes, if not we will probably film indoors, and have to go out for one more sunny day for filming. Although this, you will never know how right the weather report is until the day. Below are screen shots of the Weather Reports from BBC Weather for our two locations.

Digi Pack Photo Edits

Camera Techniques- POV

During filming we discovered that we were lacking in shots of the couple together. Therefore in order to build the narrative of the song, this was vital, as it would give a personal feel to the video. Our inspiration came from Calvin Harris' music video for 'I Need Your Love'. In that video , the point of view camera technique is used which we felt would be suitable for our video.

Whilst filming, we experimented with this technique in everyday situation with the love interest included. For example, the male (Danny) filmed the two of them sipping coffee at a cafe which looks as though they are having a laugh and so brightens up the video. We then uploaded the POV clip to the Mac and inserted it into our video which we thought looked really good. Therefore we have decided that we should film some more similar clips for the narrative to run more smoothly. Locations could include, in bed, walking in the outdoors, a park. The POV shot is a brilliant way for us to bring the video to life as it really builds up the characters in the video. Developing the characters also allows us to enhance the narrative and so we end up making a video that can relate to our audience.

Meeting 5/11/2013

Today we discussed the location, evaluation of our practice filming and updating our blogs with more gadgets/widgets to provide viewers with more satisfaction of our blogs.

Having already created a Twitter account for the media group, we were able to provide our blogs with a Twitter widget which updates and presents any tweets that have been made such as, about the progress of our music videos, and any inspirational tweets that we may re tweet or comments we have made. On Twitter we have followed some artists that we think can relate to our chosen singer/songwriter, various artists include; Jason Mraz, Ben Howard, Ed Sheeran, John Mayer. Another few accounts that we think were worth following were Radio 1's Twitter profile and various DJs that are involved in that area. This gives us updates on our Twitter Feed of any new and upcoming music that we may be interested in and relate to Mike Dignam. In relation to Mike, we have followed him on Twitter which allows us to become updated on tour dates and any comments, personal updates from him that could link to our music video narrative.

In the lesson today, we also talked about the final location dates as all members of the media group were in the lesson. Locations finalised included, a Train Station (perhaps situated in Newport, Essex), a photo booth (although this could be known as a prop), a calm and collected forest type scene (perhaps a Bluebell woods or something similar). I think all these locations would be great when filming as they will give us some fantastic shots, also filming in Cambridge would be a good idea as it will give some great shots of the Urban environment in comparison to the natural/rural scenes of a forest.

Filming Dates

As a group we have decided that our two filming days will be, Monday 18th November, and Tuesday 19th November. Through looking at each others timetables we have found that all our group have free periods from 11:00am on Monday and 9:00am-12:00 on Tuesday. We will drive to our locations to complete our filming.

Possible Filming Locations... Indoor

Typical Male Bedroom

Due to the majority of our scenes being shot outside we wanted to take the opportunity to use the lyrics "I'll lie here" to shoot inside. The Narrator and Artist is male so we feel like a typical male mature bedroom would be a suitable setting, through this is also shows the music elements and organic sound of the song, such as the guitar in the room.

Photo Booth

We wanted to create a memory for the couple, so we decided to try and film in a photo booth to incorporate a happy scene for the when the couple were together; possibly taking silly photo's.

Possible Filming Locations... Outdoor

From our research we have decided that a successful and common convention of an Indie Music Video and Digi Pack, that the location incorporates a natural and vintage feel. We have decided to use this and film a lot of our scenes outside, we also wanted to use a slightly urban setting, which we are still using, but have toned it down slightly as the 'urban' settings we are using are not modern in anyway. The locations below are all easily accessible to us for filming; they are also close to our meeting place; which is helpful.

Newport Train Station 

Parker's Piece- Cambridge

Saffron Walden Common
















Cambridge City

Lastly for the Outdoor locations we wanted to use the more urban setting for some scenes in contrast to the rural areas when the couple were together, the busy scene portrays to the audience that a lot is happening and nothing is settled.