Actors

The deadline for all of our filming to be done for the video was approaching me and the group very quickly, we had a short-list of actors we wanted to be in the video, but it was hard fitting there timetable around ours and also fitting their work hours for when we were free to shoot the video.

So myself and the group decided it was best if we were to do the acting in the video, we only really needed two people, and four or five extras to be in the background and at the funeral scene. So me and Claire decided to be in the video, her as the depressed and suicidal ex - girlfriend and me as the unpleasant and cunning boyfriend. I think at the time we didn't really know if it would work or not, but it turned out to be better for us, we didn't have to rely on other people, when we knew we had media or just when we arranged to meet, we knew everyone could make it, and we could all get to places in the car or walking to where ever we had to get to! I think me and Claire being in the video actually had brought a long a lot of positives to the final result, if we had used friends we would tell them how to react, where to sit and what to do next, using group members we knew what we wanted to achieve, we all knew how we wanted it to look like, and if me and Claire had an idea whilst being filmed we could let the guys filming know and they could incorporate into the shot.

We tried to match Claire's feelings and personality with her make up, clothes and props. So when she was with me she had bright make up on and bright coloured clothes just to reflect her feelings at that point in the video. But then when we split up and I start to torment her, we told her to wear black, have no make up, take of your jewellery etc. We wanted the scene to be really dark and dull, however we left the bright red rose just to contrast the colours and also for the memories she had with me in the video. The clothes she wore while filming were fine, we didn't have any complaints, they fitted into the genre and the feel of our video perfectly.

In terms of make up, the girls applied her make up and made sure her was correct for the type of scene it was, so for the happy scenes it was bright red lipstick and foundation applied. However when we filmed her on her own very distressed and lonely, we didn't apply any make up at all, Charlotte had the idea of using talcum powder to give a really pale and quite shocking effect to her face, we used the talcum powder a lot when we filmed her dead for example.

Below are pictures of me and Claire filming the video.