Time lapse

Megan took Harry into Dartford Town centre in order to film the time lapse on Sunday however the town was far too dead and so the footage wouldn't have looked very effective! so she returned the next day after school as Harry stood still, in the middle of town for 15 minuets. As it is winter and the days are short it began to get dark however this actually looked quite effective and fitted into our over all mise en scene and style for our video.

we centered Harry in the middle of the frame to give him dominance over the busy movements around him and used this technique through out most of our filming. we also made sure he was at the forefront of the frame despite it being a long shot.

Cast

Here are the characters in our music video; Harry will be playing the young teenager tormented by his inner battle with puppet.

Name: Harry Painter
Gender: Male
Age: 16
Role: Skitsophrenic teenagers battling his inner "demons" which takes form through the puppet. He is not in control of his own life and the line between reality and nightmare begins to overlap.

Costume: Indie style, hoody needed

Name: Charlie the puppet (skilfully won off ebay!)

Role: the puppet must torment Harry our main character. His presence in subtle and ominous as he represents a tormented state of mind.

Problems...

This process was never going to be perfectly smooth and ours has been far from! Due to "adverse weather conditions" our timetable was impossible to stick too as we could not get to our locations. However we still had deadlines to meet so we compromised: we extended our filming schedule into the Christmas holidays, and changed our location from Bromley to Dartford which made it much more accessible for us and actually worked our looking much better on film. We also had to change our original actor as he was unavailable and as a group we decided to use Megan's brother Harry as he was more reliable, had the right look and it also meant Megan could film extra parts at home if necessary. So despite all of this we have managed to work around our problems and will hopefully make our deadlines!

Filming

We have now begun our filming. This is our rough timetable of where and when we plan to film;

Locations

Once we had finished our storyboard we started thinking about the best locations to film in order to achieve the look we had imagined. We needed a white room to portray his nightmare/torment and the feeling of being trapped indside his own head. We chose to film in my garage as it was white and had the rough, rustic look we wanted:

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We also needed an alleyway and streets to show his life outside the nightmare but how he never really escapes the torment of the puppet. We chose an alleyway next to my house as it had the right look and was local so it could easily fit into our timetable and make it accessible.

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