Problems and Changes

Our original plan was to film the performance with our band and narrative in school. We also had four ideas of filming the band performance:
* In a class room
* The drama room.
* The main school Hall
* London (Trafalgar square and Piccadilly Circus)
* Kingston (Bandstand, Telephone Boxes, Graffiti Wall and Park)
The main school Hall idea was dropped after realising we didn't particular like the layout of the Hall. We also thought of having school children in the crowd, like a typical band concert. This particular idea didn't work either due to lack of time and we had the issue of getting permission from teachers at a short notice as it was couple of days before half-term. We also thought about, if we were also going to get school children in our performance and filming was at the end of school, we would have to get parents permission as well. So due to the short notice and many other problems we had with the idea, we decided to drop it. We also decided to change our performance base. Sung-Min felt we needed to experiment a bit more in location by going into a town rather than just a simple location in school because she thought this would be more exciting and interesting for the audience. We then started exploring places to film in London. The choices was Trafalgar square and Piccadilly Circus. However, As we further investigated Louise told us the problem with Trafalgar Square was that we may have restrictions  filming there. So with risk of that we dropped it. We then initially decided on filming in Piccadilly Circus and a Gothic Shop basement in Piccadilly Circus which Louise suggested which also on doubt because of filming restriction. We then had problems with taking equipment all the way to London and the bad weather which followed. So we dropped the whole idea of filming in London was dropped and we went for something local to us and we thought about filming in Kingston, as we had a much more variety of things to do as we knew the area well, it worked really well for all of us it gaves us so many ideas of locations to film. We also filmed at Sung-Min's house and used her dad's car to film some of the performance. We thought it was a good idea to explore a bit more as we thought about this close space environement to film.So the narrative for our music video was in school and the performance was done in Kingston.   




By Narmadha Kothandapani