Final Video

Here is a youtube link to our finished video.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Btq2pYzbxy8

Final CD

Final CD Cover

Final Inside Cover Slip and CD side strip.

Final Advert

Filming Day 4

Today's filming was based on some feedback we were given. After showing our video to a group of students and teachers, they told us that it was unclear in parts who the two actors were suppose to be playing the parents. With this in mind, we went back to day1's shooting location and created 3 scenes to make the characters roles more obvious. One was based around the dad holding a photoframe with a picture of his son in an army uniform. We used a low angle shot and a close-up of the dad's face whilst he was holding the frame, to show his emotion of loosing his boy, whilst panning round slowly to reveal he photograph.

 

The second scene was to make it even more obvious that this actor was the father, by following him into the kitchen and watching him go to the cupboard to pick up a mug with "dad" written across it. We asked our actor to pause before reaching out for the mug, so the audience can be aware that it wasn't just an everyday action and that there was a message behind it.

 

The third scene we created was a short meaningful shot of the dad going to get a drink and glazing over to his son's school uniform, left hanging on the radiator. 

After adding this three scenes into our video we then went back to the students and teachers who gave us the original feedback to see if it had made the story and characters any more clearer to which they felt it did.

Filming Day 3

Today was another filming session of the soldiers. Although our video and ancillary texts are very war and politics based, we didn't want to lose sight of the fact that it suppose to be promoting music not controversial messages. With this in mind, we wanted the soldiers to be our band, almost like the help the hero's band (pictured)

We filmed at a local sports field, as it had big mounds across it that looked like trenches. We waited until around 4 o'clock as we wanted the sun to begin to set and we positioned the actors with their backs against the sun, hence the song title "don't look back into the sun". As it was quite a cold afternoon, the actors breathing was exaggerated as their breath was creating a cold,smokey mise en scene against the sunset.

We also wanted to portray the fact that the actors were young boys (exaggerating the message that they shouldn't be soldiers)so we wanted some to film them "being boys". We asked them to run around and mess about like they would normally and this added and extra element to our video.

Our final part of our filming was to get the boys to act out some military training procedures. We wanted them marching, jumping, crawling etc so we could show that the boys were doing these adult diciplined exercises when they should be playing football etc.