EXPECTATION
My first individual thoughts:
After being put into my group and deciding on the song 'bae'. I already had a vision on what I wanted the video to look like. In the original video Tion Wayne (main artist) and Afro b (featured artist) had their separate girls, I wanted to keep to this idea. I basically wanted to keep it similar to the original video but have different locations. I mainly had the different shot types and camera angels/movement planned in my head i'll illustrate this on our storyboard at what I specially had in mind. At one point I even wanted to somehow use a drone to get birds eye establishing shots!. I feel my individual idea wasn't over the top apart from the fact I wanted to use a drone baring in mind i don't own one!
Original plan:
The original group plan was yet again similar to the original video. We also planned on filming in Leicester square, the London eye area, Westfield or Oxford Street and Tottenham Hale Village local area, also Manor House local area. We also decided we would have two separate date scenes, one in Creams Cafe(Featured artist with his girl) and Frankies and Bennies restaurant (main artists with his girl). We never really considered seeking permission to film because we figured people film with cameras in these public areas all the time for example tourists, not knowing in this case it's different. We also (mainly me) had quite crazy ideas for example getting our artists to perform in fancy cars like Mercedes Benz rather than your common Vauxhall Astra. The drone idea was also still considered but we figured that we wouldn't be able to use one and so thought about ways we could still get birds eyes establishing shots without a drone.
Second plan:
Our locations we kept the same, but the main change was we came up with a plot twist. Instead of the artists having two different girls, we decided why don't they have the same girl and not know they're seeing the same girl and then at the end of the song reveal this. We were really excited about doing this idea but also worried about if it didn't work. By this stage we've changed who were going to use in our video bare in mind they were from outside the college.
After the Pitch:
After the pitch we learned that we needed to get permission to film in our location and we needed to ask well in advance, we still intended to use our planned locations but just ask for permission. we figured we'll just get establishing shots of London. We didn't have intentions of using expensive cars since none of us own any!. By this point we deiced that we were going to make sure they were dating the same girl and include three main base tracks. We also had a clear idea of the outfits we would use.
REALITY
Final product:
Looking back to my first thought, a lot had changed. In the end getting permission for our locations was quite difficult and because our artists were from outside of college, arranging sessions started to become difficult so we ended making our sessions more local. Our locations in the end were Stratford Westfield (TGI Fridays restaurant) ,Olympic stadium Stratford, Manor House residential area and Tottenham residential area. We ended up having more footage of one of our artists with the bae than the other artist and so we had to try harder to ,make it clear they were seeing the same girl. In the end we didn't use restaurant scenes. I also noticed all our shots ended up being night shots.
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