Techniques of Note

Cool things we did that should be pointed out:

Colour filter dissolves out.

Interesting events in background.

Double-team achieved with a mixture of layer masks, cross-dissolves and colour-correction.

Slow-motion zombie voyeurism.

Stock explosion layer from Detonation Films.

The Plans Have Changed

It was a strange realisation when we neared our final cut and saw that what we had made was so very different from what we had planned. We did end up 'conforming to (some) rap video conventions', we did 'create visual puns' but not enough, and we did include the narrative we had planned from the start. What we did not do was keep the focus on our literal lyric jokes, instead shifting very much towards the narrative and zombie shots (which became so much more than the 4 seconds they were going to be. You know what else we didn't do? The ducks.
No ducks at all in our video, although we know what sound we'll use if we need to censor the swear words...

In the end we had three performance settings, a narrative and other small cutaways. A strength of our video, we feel, was the sheer amount of footage we had that made it very easy not to repeat ourselves. Things we made sure to do were make the performance sequences tie in to the others. For example, the zombies clash with the shiny box, and the nerd in the narrative runs through both other performance settings. In a way it's interesting to see how the video has progressed, and what things worked and didn't under the limitations we were given.

We managed to use conventions better that we had thought at first, fitting in slow motion, split-screen, focus on performer, voyeuristic representation of the female body (zombies), but still no cars. Our final video is a product of taking some of our good ideas and letting them evolve over days and weeks of filming with intelligent, like-minded people.

Lyrical representation we did achieve:

• as live as it gets / dead wrong
• dogs
• these bitches...
• quit talking
• listen to my shit
• you don't chew...
• blow up your box

First Day of Filming

12:10
This is Bing, blogging from the first day of major filming. Today we're hoping to get most of the Outdoor/Zombie shots done today. As we speak, our make-up expert is finishing a gash above and below Tomska's eye.

12:43
Abi's now moved onto herself, leaving Tom and Rosie fully zombified. We're about to go and film, using this laptop as our portable CD player. Tom looks like this:
End of the Day:
We've completed filming on the outdoor performance. Our location ended up being a farm lane near Bing's house, which we will also use in the narrative.