Weather Issues

Majority of our music video was based outdoors and was initially going to be filmed in coporation park. The performance as well as narrative sections were based in our local park as the track we are using is ‘talking about the weather’. Therefore as you can see from our storyboard and synopsis our filming was going to be based in the park where we are using a lot of nature sites and a lot of outdoor scenes where we can show the weather. We were hoping to set a autumn type of scene where we are able to capture many shots of when the autumn red leaves are flying around etc.

However due to the severe weather and snow we have not been able to do this. The weather has significantly affected our project as we have no been able to film according to our schedules. The schedules and deadlines we had set for our group have had to be changed several times as we have no had the appropriate nor safe weather to film in. due to the snow blizzards over Christmas it prevented us from getting out of our homes and meeting up as a group to film at corporation park. We did at one point make our way to corporation park however after several minutes of filming the weather began to affect us. We felt that it was a great health hazard as our artists hands began to turn blue because of the cold. Therefore we decided it would be in our best interest to not continue filming and produce a new idea to overcome the issue of the weather

To overcome this we decided to try and come up with ideas of filming indoors. So we came up with the idea that we will film our artist performing in the music recording studio. We had access to this in our college and gained permission to film here. We filmed several shots from different angles and lengths of connor performing on his guitar. We felt that it was necessary to change our initial idea as it would not be possible to film outdoors and this may have an impact on our overall project. We were very lucky to have also had access to the recording studio as if we were not able to get permission it would minimise the chances of completing our music video. We also had the idea of trying to film the artist performing next to a window and looking outside at the weather. We have also filmed this as it will allow us to have more footage and be more creative with our final product.

We also yet still need to film the narrative part of the music video. Once again because of the weather we have not been able to do this. To overcome this we were hoping to film all of our narrative today but because of the heavy snow college has been closed and therefore cannot do this. However we do have parts of the narrative already film. We are hoping to film shots of the narrative outdoors however as it very cold we are going to try and spend as little time as possible outdoors. We are hoping to get a combination of outdoor and indoor shots so that the visuals still mirror the lyrics.