Filming Update 19th December 2014

Yesterday I was able to film the final clips I needed for my music video, which involved the green screen. Today I have completed the first draft of my music video and in the new year I intend to show it to my focus group and have them fill out a questionnaire about how I could improve on it. I will also try to find out a general response of if they like it or not and whether the story between the real world and the dream world is understandable.

Changes to locations 
I was unable to get to the beach to film for the end scenes of my film due to many factors. The first being by the time I would get there after college, it would be dark. I personally didn't have the money to put enough petrol in my car to get there. Furthermore, my actress has been ill for a long period of time and coordinating a time to go to the beach when she was feeling better was virtually impossible as she, her self had so much work of her own to do.

Instead, I changed the location of the scene to a near by lake which I thought would also be suitable for the video.

Quadrophenia and moral panic

Quadrophenia follows the story of Jimmy Cooper who works as a post room boy for an advertising company. He argues a lot with his parents and spends a lot of time with his mod friends. The mods and rockers do not like each other which eventually leads to a riot between the two groups when in Brighton.

Jimmy is in love with his friend Steph and just before he is arrested in Brighton for rioting, he has sex with Steph. Jimmy is having what he believes, is the time of his life in Brighton and everything seems to be on the up.

But when he returns home Steph is no longer interested in him, he gets kicked out by his parents and quits his job. He is at an all time low. He then returns to Brighton and finds that his idol isn't all that he was known to have been. So jimmy steals his scooter and crashes it over a cliff. 

A moral panic is an exaggerated over reaction by society to a perceived problem which is usually driven or inspired by the media. 

This theory could be linked to Quadrophenia because of deviancy amplification through the riot scenes between the mods and rockers. The public are more likely to remember these scenes and associate it with real life nods and rockers. This is especially likely to happen if there is a small altercation between a mod and rocker that the media then amplifies and creates a moral panic over it

Filming update

About 3/4 of my video has been filmed, however there have been a few difficulties in how to film certain scenes where I need a black background/night sky. I have researched various ways to go about filming these scenes and I have decided that the best way would be to us a green screen.

I spent time researching where I could get one or how to make one. I also researched what to do once I have filmed the footage.

Fortunately for me, it turns out that my colleges ICT department has a green screen that I could use to film my scenes. The next step will be coordinating my actors so that I can get everyone together at the same time when the green screen is available.