Shooting-13/01/11

Today we went out and filmed the restaurant scene. All of us finished college early so we thought today would be best. The first restaurant we went to didn't allow us to film because they had too many customers, and some people might not feel comfortable with cameras on them while they eat, so we walked to another restaurant nearby where they happily allowed us. Nishad and Michael went into the male washroom to film one part and then we ordered two meals and filmed our actors. Watching it back straight after we were sure we filmed everything we needed to. We didnt have to worry about other customers becuase the owner of the restaurant allowed us to film on the 2nd floor of the place where there wasn't many people around.

Audience Feedback On Our Ideas

Our Idea

After getting some feedback from our peers we have come with a music video for the song. Our idea is that the video will start off with a group of boys sitting around like a gang doing different movements etc, and then the main guy will start singing but no one will realise him singing as if he’s not there almost. A girl will walk past him and he will get lost in her attractiveness and this is where the whole video will start off from. We will use voyeurism during this shot to emphasis her beauty and this will also be linking the lyrics with the music video, as it says “and this bad little mommaa walked by my way. I couldn't help but stare at ya. You could make a man wanna marry ya.” The rest of the song is basically about the boy trying to win the girl over, him taking her out to restaurant etc but then in the end of the music video you realise it was all in his head and he was just thinking about how his life would be if he had a relationship with the girl.

Another idea was that we could use the whiteboard to draw little cartoon animations as explained in the video. We would do this by first drawing one image and filming it then changing it a bit and filming it again and carrying on this process, later when we are editing it we will put it together so that it looks like a moving image.

The Feedback

Everyone like our main idea as the storyline of it meets a typical music video of that genre. They also complimented on our whiteboard idea as they said its very original but they did advice us to try out the idea before we actually put it in our video like give an example of what we intend on doing, because it can be that audience get confused as its so far from a RnB video they might reject it.