1) Some of our shots were still quite dull and it was evident Luke was unsure of what to be doing. We hoped that the use of fairy lights in the second verse onwards would give him more guidance and be a tool to use as opposed to having nothing to focus on.
2) Following on from our test footage being too dull, we decided that we would try out different angles and framing.
3) Our lighting varied slightly from shot to shot and although this would be changeable in post-production we also wanted to get our real footage as close to looking like infinite white as possible.
We decided to update the shootboard which Alistair and I worked on in order to include time for all the bokeh and shots with fairy lights, as well as taking into consideration the need to experiment with different angles.
Once I realised that Luke did not have enough direction I made sure that after every take I would feedback to him on his performance and tell him what was good and what he could improve on.
I was not content with our test footage - freeze-frame shown below on the left - for many reasons, including;
- Luke's t-shirt changed, so this week we made sure that he was always wearing a black t-shirt and black jeans.
- The lights had broken during shooting so we replaced them, as seen in the image on the right.
- The framing was off focus and the camera was slightly slanted so we tried to make sure that we kept the camera level at all times as we did not particularly want any canted shots. Something I particularly focused on when filming was moving in time with the music as Vernallis said this was a common convention of music videos.
- The lighting was also much too dark so we worked on that and used floor lights to get rid of any shadows and dark patches.
We also practised kicking the piles of paper down using a close up shot to see how much impact it would have on camera but realised it looked slightly flimsy.
However, I got a behind the scenes video whilst Alistair was recording Luke and I found that the kick was great as it really connoted Luke's anger and frustration.
In our real shoot we focused a lot more on the bokeh and initially had some difficulties cutting out the stencils so that the words were readable. However once we had I got audience feedback on how it looked and we recieved some very positive feedback. We decided to create four different stencils for three words and one of a question mark as we thought this would be a lot more universal and we could use it in a variety of places. 
We wanted Luke to have as much passion as real artists do for their music, such as the gif of Pierce the Veil, showing Vic Fuentes singing into the mic. Dyer's star identity allowed us to explore and experiment with Luke's character and how we wanted to portray him. 
Luke was already very passionate for music which made this a lot easier for us as he was able to demonstrate this passion and give it his all, for example when he ended up lying in the fallen stacks of paper from defeat. We were all very focused on this idea of progression throughout the week, particularly because one of our teachers was slightly worried that without the face painting shots we would not have enough footage to capture our audience's attention.
This therefore meant that we encouraged Luke to go crazy, especially in the final chorus.This also meant that a lot of our time was spent restacking piles of paper and untangling fairy lights, as shown to the left!
Below is a video Alistair shot after our very last take in the studio.
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