The Recording Studio.

Although we had not yet completed all of our filming, we had deadlines approaching fast, therefore decided to be proactive until the time we were all available to film the next scene (The opening scene with the first stanza at Taslima's house). Although the brief stated to use an original track for our video, my teacher Tim told me and Taslima that we would get more marks if I actually sang and recorded the song myself, as outside of college I do singing as a hobby. This meant that we would have an original track of our own, but also meant we would have a lot more work to do in little time, and would have to try to get into a recording studio in order to get a professional sound. I emailed the music teacher at our college, as I knew there was a studio at Wyke, and we arranged for me and Taslima to have an hourly session a week in the studio during our media lessons. (We ensured consent was given from our teachers beforehand). Whilst talking to our teacher John about our ideas and the recording, he suggested we also film in the studio for promotion to the artist. We decided this was a good idea, and decided that our new idea would be to cut between scenes in the studio and the acted narrative within our video. Although this would be challenging with approaching deadlines, and mean we would have to rearrange some of our video, it worked to our advantage. The reason for this, was that we realised that we had a long instrumental in the video that we did not have enough footage or ideas to shoot for. Therefore, we changed our plans for the instrumental, and decided to show the narrative with the female walking without singing as part of the journey to meet the male, whilst also cutting back to me singing in the studio, showing different shots of the musical equippment and the band playing for more promotion. This filled the filming gap, making it easier for us. We also decided that we would insert parts of this into the first action clips as the video opens, and that we would shorten the action, showing only the texting before the female starts to put away the trousers and tissues in the bin. We had this idea, as it would establish the 'other world' inside the studio from the start, as there were now two completely different things happening within the video.