Sleep on the Floor by The Lumineers

I saw this video on Youtube a few days ago and I found some elements of our video in this.

This narrative music video silences the conversations playing the music over the script and allows us to symbolise the lyrics to their story; running away. 

Again, like our video it has the element of running but theres is more of a love story and how they are running away from their individual problems to be together and get married.

even though ours isn't like that the actual simplicity of the video is just allowing us as an audience to go through their journey together and hopefully we can do that with ours and show the two different satires just come together and forget about their problems (Use of Gratification Theory) 

Vlog - BFI Trip

Oh what a fun trip I had, talking to a drunk American in Starbucks to sining Queen and Adele at the top of my voice. All in all a good old trip learning about performance videos!! 

Even though that wasn't benefical to us as we are doing a narrative music video and have actually already started filming it was a good time to just sing some of the greatest songs and see other Media Studies music videos that got 100% (one was rubbish). 

Editing Everything

Vlog - Day 2 Filiming

Unfortunately we had a few problems on this day as all trains were delayed and then our battery just died on us when we was actually at the station.

Vlog - Day 1 Filming

On Thursday, 1/2 of us went to Forty Hall to start shooting the rural / family breakdown narrative.
After having difficulties before with the DSLR camera and no SD card, my IPhone was the next resort and even though it wouldn't be HD quality. it creates a sense of realism and rural affect because my character is broken and that teenagers (and children) are going through this.
However, besides all of this, the shots came out pretty good and even though it was freezing and I didn't get out of breath as much as I thought I would, it was a successful first day and had a good laugh when JB fell (the commitment from her filming was great)

Shooting - Day 1: Rural - Forty Hall

Finally, we have started filming!!
JB and I set off bright and early to Forty Hall to film my running away rural shots.
We decided to choose Forty Hall because much of the vegetation and landmarks were picturesque and made JB's decision easier on where to position herself as a director, capturing not only myself but the sense of nature while portraying a character with real difficulties.
With that, we decided to take primary shots of each of the places we went and there after start to shoot!

Shooting Schedule

Finally we have decided to sit down and just decide when either my story or Ruby's can be filmed.

Thursday 17th November - Megan Running (Rural) - Forty Hall

Monday 21st November - Both Meeting Each Other - Alexandra Palace

Thursday 24th November - Megan House Argument - House

Friday 25th November - Ruby Escape (Urban) - Southbank 

Story Board: Video

Improving from our first draft of storyboard, our next task was to create a "shot for shot" story board with the music playing over the pictures.
Drawing people was very difficult but nevertheless, creating this allowed me to see how long each story can fold and develop over the music video and how we will show both narratives.