The Acting

As the protagonist of the disjunctive narrative, the role I had to play was surprisingly, physically demanding. I actually lost five kilograms of body weight after the production stage because there was so much running involved. Our directors (Adam, Ashriel and Reuben) made me do so many takes for each shot (especially Adam and Ashriel with their perfectionism), and it required a lot of effort on my part, seeing as though most of the video is of me running around.

Below is an image taken by Reuben of me running in town at around 1:00AM, with cameraman, Ashriel running after me to catch every movement.

CD Cover Research

The song of our video is called 'Omen' by 'The Prodigy'. The CD cover used for the original song is quite different to the one that we are using. However, we do draw inspirations from it such as the dark, creey look. Compare the two, ours to The Prodigy's. On our own CD cover, our co-producer, Reuben Gill drew the text of the cover instead of writing them so it can give a more creepy feel and more creative touch.

Post Production Stage - Editing (Part 2)

I have now finished editing our video and it looks fantastic, at least that's what we think (and a lot of other people do too). Below is a screen grab of our finished timeline.

This part (below) of the timeline took me around twenty minutes to complete. It's towards the end where everything plays in reverse extremely fast.









Seriously, there may be only around five seconds of video, but there were so many cuts, shots and transitions involved that it took me quite a while to piece it all together in order to get that sped up, going backwards effect. It wouldn't let me reverse all the little clips at once, so I had the tedious job of doing them individually.

The Darkness Shot

This shot is part of the fourth shoot. Honestly, the shot of Mohammed coming out of the darkness with a light emitting from his palms was thought of on the spot by us all. It was filmed in a graveyard, and we went to that grave yard that night beacuse we thought we could get some decent footage of Mohammed running through the cementary, scared as hell, but when we got there we found that it was too dark to film pretty much anything. The camera couldn't pick up enough light to see Mohammed sprint. So we filmed that shot with the protagonist coming forwards slowly deep from withing the darkness, towards the camera, on his own, surrounded by pitch blackness, holding one light in his hands (it was a mobile phone by the way) so he was visible to the camera. This added a great horror aspect to the video. This shot has nothing to do with the plot of the video, but is simply part of the disjuncture.

Props That We Used

Here is a list of props that we used and they were used by Ashriel for his character at the beginning and end of the video:

• A hammer

• A television

• A stool

• A pair of sunglasses

• A keffiyeh

• A pair of black cotton gloves

Almost all of these props were provided by Reuben Gill, which is why we call him our producer.

Production Stage (Fifth Shoot)

In this shoot we all went to my house with the intention of filming the destruction of a small 15” TV, caused by Ashriel's character, but because of certain circumstances the destruction was cancelled. In the TV’s place we destroyed two heavy Subwoofer speakers which should have made a big sound, big spark and loads of smoke. I had these speakers lying about in my cellar. We wanted to show things being destroyed and damaged in order to show elements of chaos and anarchy. Ironically we didn't even use the footage of the speakers blowing up in our actual video.
(picture of Reuben's cellar)

The opening and closing shots of our finished video was filmed in one long take (actually it took three takes but you know what I mean). Ashriel (dressed as the Grim Reaper) had to turn on the TV and then the screen would display static, then I zoomed in on the TV screen until it took up the whole of the camera's field of vision. Whilst the camera was zoomed in, Ashriel had get into position behind the TV and stand with his head bowed. Once I zoomed out, then panned upwards to view Ashriel and then his apperance is finally revealed to the audience. This scene was heavily inspired by the 'Come to Daddy' video by the Aphex Twin.

Production Stage (Fourth Shoot)

We filmed in the cementary in Chorlton and one of the subways in Mosside late at night as we didn't have enough good footage for our video timeline. We got some footage on Wilmslow Road as well.

Shooting on Wilmslow road took quite a while, as we filmed the shots with the intention of speeding them up on the Mac to create that sped up background effect. Poor Mohammed was stood stock still for about three-five minutes in during three different takes.

(picture of us filming at subway)