Changes we have made to the video and themes

As we progressed creating our music video, we came across numerous issues and potential problems. In order to avoid these problems we had to make some relevant changes. As you would be able to see throughout the start of our blog, we were intending on using a girl named Laura as our main protagonist. There were many reasons for changing the main character but in the end we decided to chose a member from our group ( Nia) in order to ensure the time was well spent whilst filming. Our beginning concept did involve Laura as a child, explaining her development through childhood. However, we discovered it would become difficult to portray Laura's childhood with an absence of baby photos and footage. Furthemore, we began to rely on when Laura was available and this became difficult as we struggled to fit Laura's schedule in with our own. As a result, we decided promptly that it would be realistic if 1. We used myself as the main character - this would make it easier for filming and 2. We would adapt the concept that originally involved Laura's childhood as this was far from our reach. So in the end we ended up using Nia as a main character and still using Laura for extra scenes. We decided to move on from the childhood concept as it would be very confusing to portray and we wanted our music video to come across as realistic. This is when we decided to use the image of religion as our stronger image as it fits in with the hip-hop conventions more comfortably also. This way we could keep a constant concept throughout that would stick to the conventions and be more easy to film.
As we weren't going to use baby photos for the opening scene, we decided to replace it with an image of Nia in a cross shape, representing religion. Furthemore, we were able to bring in the image of 'Sunshine' into this scene simultaneously which worked well. This way the audience could interpret the religious aspect of the opening scene and learn that it would potentially be a huge aspect throughout the entire sequence.

Where changes of location were concerned, we decided to film the 'Fight' scenes outside the Windsor Leisure Centre. This way the scene appeared realistic and threating for the scene and we could avoid putting ourselves in a dangerous environment at the same time. Our battery on the camera ran out in the middle of filming, however as we were so close in proximity to the Leisure Centre, we were able to charge up the camera inside the building, again keeping safe. If we weren't close to any major buildings, then filming would of commenced there and then and we would not have had the footage that we needed. Therefore, this was a positive for us that we had chosen this location.