We have finished our first two batches of filming and have finished what we call 'the anger sequence' and the introduction. This is the bulk of our shooting and we are extremely happy to have been able to capture all of this in just two batches. There may still be shots we need to get once we have edited everything, however we cannot know now. All we need to concentrate on now is splicing the shots together and seeing what is missing.
I'm really happy with the footage so far, it looks really good and matches the storyboard really well. We have an abundance of shots as well, which is always useful with music videos as there always tends to be gaps. We were surprised by the raw emotion of our actor, something which we did not anticipate, yet can only be a good thing.
I'm looking forward to seeing what comes from these batches. Here are some images of what we were doing and where:
I recently saw a short film on film four, titled 'Six Shooter', directed by Martin McDonagh, the director of the film four hit 'In Bruges' and it stars the same actor as this film, Brendan Gleeson. I thought it was relevant due to the themes it incorporated, these being, how people cope with loss and the psychological differences between people and there strength to deal with depression.
This is what we intend to explore with our music video, as this is what the song is based around.
All main characters in the short film have recently experienced death of a close partner or family member and the contrast of how they deal with this struggle through each character is what is most interesting about this text. Although it is a short film, I still feel it is relevant simply through the themes, even though the means that it is represented will be extremely different.
This is the first part of the short film, with part 2 and 3 available as links to the left, it's about 30 minutes long.
This is the song Comfortably Numb, by Pink Floyd, from the album The Wall. The video which accompanies it is from the extended music video, of the same name. The scene at the start of the second solo where he destroys the apartment (4:30) is extremely influential toward what our music is trying to do, however, ours has different narrative depths and motivations. This video is a compilation from the video, not actually what accompanies it in the film.
We've been looking for an actor for a while, luckily we've thought of using our friend called Charlie Collet. He is a good actor and he's involved in a lot of drama orientated projects in school. He's agreed to act for us, which is really good. He also looks the part, being able to pull off scruffy looks with ease, in order to look appropriately suicidal at the times we need him to.
