So far, we are in the process of making our music video as we have discussed as a group, the right song to produce-Calvin Harris "I am not Alone".

This song stood out to us as we knew we could make a very different video to the original one. Personally, we thought that the original music video was quite random and didn't correspond to the lyrics.

Our essential theme of the footage we want to produce is being alone. Therefore, we will need emotive and powerful scenes to create the illusion of being alone. We have agreed that Osman will be essential actor throughout the filming process and he is going to portray a lonely, confused character. Hence, myself and Ahmed handling the the camera.

Today, we began filming as we had already chosen the fundamental location that we were going to film in. Firstly, we went to the the theatre and we filmed Osman sitting on different seats by himself looking tired, worn out and lonely. We did this,as we want to speed up the pace in the editing process and make it look like he has no-one to talk to and he spends his time by himself. The shot we used for this was a long shot, however we also took the same shots using a high angle. We did this show a variety of shots and to also make Osman feel inferior and vulnerable.

We then went outside and took footage of a bird by itself, we thought that we show that it is alone, however coincidentally when filming another bird wandered into the shot. We thought this would ruin the whole shot. Although looking back at the footage, it worked pretty well as at the beginning we could show the bird by itself and then at the end of the song, we could film the two birds together showing that the bird is not alone.

At the end of the lesson, we thought it went quite successful and were pleased at the footage.
Before next lesson we are hoping to have more footage as we are taking the camera with us.

Kuval Kaur