Costume, props and casting

PROPS
We used a car as the main prop in our text, the way we used this prop was Max, who played the protagonist, sat on top of the vehicle while playing the guitar and lip syncing to the real product. The reason for doing this was because we felt it was an unusual technique, also Ed Sheeran in some of his unofficial acoustic music videos, he plays the guitar on a canal boat as it goes down the canal. As you can see in the photo, Lorcan was controlling the vehicle as it was moving, to prevent a crash or any potential threat to max or any surrounding people.
A second prop we used was a guitar, the reason for this is simply because the song we chose for our media product, 'U.N.I' required us to use a guitar to make our product seem more professional and realistic. The problem we found with this though was none of us could play the guitar so we had to play it randomly and hope for the best when we came to editing.

PROPS/LOCATION
nathan was the camera man he had a difficult task filming this scene because he had to keep up with the car but at the same time keeping the camera steady so we gave nathan this duty as he had the most experience with filming. Our Location as you can see from the picture is on a private road, and because we filmed during the week and during the day, this meant that the majority of the people who live on the road were at work, there were virtually no cars driving on this road, which made this the perfect time for us to film.





CASTING/COSTUME
Max plays as the main character as well as the artist/performer. Max had a difficult task as he had to perform whilst sitting on top of the guitar singing and playing the guitar whilst the car was moving. Although this task was difficult, max pulled it off well.
From our research of Ed Sheeran, his clothing is not anything in particular except it being casual wear. such as jeans, t-shirt, trainers and a hoody of some sort aswell as a few accessories around the wrists. So we dressed max up in his casual clothing to match Ed Sheeran, as you can see from the picture we have Max in his casual clothing which is similar to what Ed Sheeran himself would wear. Also Ed Sheeran is known to have a bit of facial hair, luckily for us, Max is able to grow facial hair as well, you can see this in the picture.



When we first started the filming, the idea was for Lorcan to drive the car whilst Max was performing, but unfortunately Lorcan was not able to drive the car as it was proving difficult at the time. We then decided for Lorcan to tie the cable to the front of the car and pull the car for it to move, which did have some ups and downs, for starters no one was steering so it would keep hitting the curb. We then decided for Lorcan to sit in the car and for Nathan to push the car down the hill to get the car to roll and for Lorcan then be able to steer the car as well as being able to brake when needing to stop the car.