7th December: Bedroom scene
8th December: Cake scene
19th December: Bathroom scene
29th December: Performance scene
CHALLENGES & ADAPTATION:
1. Challenge:
Transporting all instruments (including full drum kit) into the graffiti location. We realised we would need a parent to drive us to the location with a trailer, the only one with a trailer was my family but the drum kit was at LK's. This meant a lot of planning and relying on others to manage with our schedule.
One of the options we came up with was to go to LK's house as she was the one with the drum kit and filming in the garage. However this created more issues as it's difficult to set dress this location, we would also lose the graffiti aspect that we wanted to keep. In addition getting artificial lighting in the garage would mean buying studio LEDs and waiting for them to arrive. This is why we dropped this idea.
Solution:
I own a guitar, a drum kit and a microphone from the Xbox 360's Guitar Hero games, these simulacrum of instruments are way smaller and easily fit in the trunk of my father's car. It also adds a playful deconstructionist element to the music video.
2. Challenge:
Come the week of the shoot we saw that heavy rain was predicted for the day of the shoot, not only this but the location was closed to the public on our alternate days. This caused us to need to think of alternatives ideas for the shoot.
We used a green screen to test if we could green screen ourselves into the location shots we had taken when location scouting. This sparked the idea to take inspiration from the Girls and Boys - Blur music video.
Solution:
In this case we got very lucky to find another day with minimal rain and open hours for the location. It was a shorter shoot than any of the other ones as it was scheduled very late and the group had personal plans that day.
3. Challenge:
The day of the Bathroom scene shoot, OP fell ill and was not present. We had no room to reschedule, especially because we needed permissions from a range of people to even use the school bathroom. Her absence also meant we did not have key props that we needed the day of the shoot.
Solution:
LK and I had to run to the grocery store and find the closest thing to a red liquid as possible. We used supplies from the school for the cup and cleanup. We used Raspberry Oasis soda which was a nightmare to clean up but necessary for our schedule to work.
To record in the school bathrooms we needed to film after school so no students come in, but we still needed supervision from someone capable of first aid as by being in the school we are their responsibility. It was very challenging to get permission from everyone who may be involved, to find a willing female supervisor and a date that would be convenient for all.
Solution:
After days of planning and asking we managed to get permission to record in the primary bathroom under the supervision of the nurse.
5. Challenge:
For the birthday scene, we needed a cake that would look identical in all shots no matter whats done to it, for continuity reasons. However, we also wanted some messy shots as well as OR stabbing the cake on beat with "I'm so sick of 17".
Solution:
We created the cake out of paste and spackle so it doesn't move, we let go of the idea of stabbing the cake and we baked cupcakes with the title "BRUTAL" written on top with icing.
CHALLENGES - SMALL:
- forgot to bring a stool for drummer, had to use a cement block we found at location
- did not know we needed a tool to open spray paint cans so had to struggle with keys (big loss of scheduled time)
- ran out of icing
- the mirror lip syncing
- walking in front of graffiti walls
- smushing cake on face
- matched cut from bedroom to kitchen
- TV lip sync and editing of the last lines (pace change)
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