Pressure

Today we filmed more footage for our music video. Having the song at a cut off point of two minutes and 46 seconds, the final verse builds up more than the other two and so I wanted something in the song that would make a connection to the audience. Throughout the song there are shots of Syed lip-synching and shots of him remembering his girlfriend and so I pictured something that would give the song a good ending in the last verse and would conclude in being a illustrative music video.

I listened to the lyrics carefully and thought the last verse could have the 'girlfriend' Chelsea walking past Syed with another guy and the only time we would show the other guy is in the final verse as the rest of the song is based on telling Syed and Chelsea's story. When we captured the footage we then began editing immediately and Chelsea thought it would be a good idea if we had the shot slow down when Syed passes Chelsea and her new 'boyfriend'. The outcome looked really good and we all thought it was a great idea and have decided to keep it. There is also a point of view shot of when Chelsea walks past Syed and this shot too is slowed down and in my opinion would probably make most sense to have it at the end of the song as that's when the song fades out.

Even though we worked really well today as a group there is still more to be edited as we all are trying to complete this by the deadline. Having the possibility of Eid being on Friday 27th November also the day of the deadline, means we miss another lesson and day at college that could spent editing so need to do the rest of the work in our own time and hopefully by the deadline as we are all extremely pleased with the way the music video is coming along and would be disappointed if it wasn't complete by the deadline.