Continued Revisions To Story Boarding

Due to the scale and shere popularity of Battersea Powerstation, alot of trouble cropped up. For example; there was a lot of work involved with the health and safety aspect of the preparation.



Due to the restriction on times etc. we had another location on stand by just in case we needed more shots. This location being one of our casts house.



Many problems occured with the story and casting of our music video. Due to the uncertainty of whom our main actor would me, our star image kept changin due to the image of each actor varying. Options included Simon Wood- a rugged looking, mid 40's man with past experience of the music industry, Hamish, a mid 20's student with a slightly rugged look with more sex appeal and Sam Hoare, A man in late 20's with sex appeal and with the complete package. Due to many complications with the casting. We decided to use Sam Hoare as our main man.



However, this caused us to change our story idea. Due to the star image of our artist changing to a younger man, we thought it would be better if the story involved around a relationship. Our original idea was to have Sam walking through battersea (the location where people were kept in the past in captivity) and having shots of the 'gools' as Sam searched for his girl friend (Paula). This then slightly changed as we wanted to keep the stereotypical inspiration of a country song- about relationships and heartbreak. So we then decided to have sam walking through Battersea Powerstation, at the end was Paulas grave. As he walked through, we would then cut to flash back of the violent relationship. Ending in a scene with lots of people round her grave. However, after decision, we decided it was best if we just had Paula and Sam in the story. It would still revolve around a relationship, but would be much more affective with less people. We also took inspiration of this idea from a Kylie Minogue video.



After many weeks of looking at pictures of the location, we finally did a reccy of the location. This enabled me to visualise where we wanted each shot to take place, as well as looking at the location in order to get some shots of this iconic building.



However, due to a sudden amount of snowfall on our shoot day. Our shoot had to be postponed to another day. Because of this, we know have to recast our main man. But this is also a postive note as it allows us to have more time to fully develop our plot.