Production progress - Final filming for music video

Taking into account the feedback our teacher gave us we decided to go ahead and spend one more afternoon re-filming shots that weren't very clear or that were unstable and also shoot two more new scenes, the scene by the river and the car crash scene.

This afternoon was very productive. We spent to Ashley's house, where the waking up scene was originally filmed, and re-shot the wake up scene as the scene we had was wobbly. This scene took a few attempts to do as it was in a bed and therefore very hard to get a steady shot, but we eventually achieved it. We then re-shot the scene with the paper, this time using black paper and a new angle so that the heart rate monitor added in post production would appear clearer. We then went to the nearby river and shot a few basic shots of Ashley looking out to the river. We chose to add this so that I could mess around with it's colours and perspective in post production to add another layer of surrealism. We did think about filming a scene where Ashley would walk through a graveyard and discover his own gravestone. However, we decided this would be making the fact that he was dead at the end of the music video far to obvious to the viewer and therefore the video would lose it's subtlety. Finally, we went and shot a new car crash scene. We chose a better location this time where we would be able to take our time shooting the scene. We chose a lane where that was surrounded by trees and where only a few people lived so it wasn't busy. The scene we shot was of James (the faceless man) reacting in the car as if he had hit something and then all in one shot him getting out and having a look at what he hit. The camera was then leaned over his shoulder to see Ashley laying on the floor. We shot this handheld to make the scene frantic and chaotic looking.

Below is an image of Ashley and I discussing how to shoot the scene of the car crash.