Location and filming ideas

After getting about halfway through the editing of our video, we came to the conclusion that the locations and the general mise en scene that we had used did not do a good job of representing SBTRKT. With some help and discussion we decided that we needed to change our locations first and foremost.
This was because we didn't have much in the way of costume in our video as the main character is just a hand, we decided however to use a hand that had no rings or bracelets, keeping it simple and making the viewer focus more on what the hand was doing and where it was doing these actions, rather than become distracted by rings and bracelets.

The locations are a huge part of the video idea, as the hand only takes up the foreground of each frame we had a lot of space to consider when choosing the new locations. We wanted to choose locations that were more in keeping with the genre of music we had chosen but still making each individual backgrounds different and weird. We decided to film the whole video in Simon's house, where we can control the lighting and change/move from each background easily and quickly, also we discovered that some of the lyrics in particular "rushing in the night like a shark babe" match some of the backdrops we initially had in mind to use such as the finger character walking past a fish tank.

We chose to re-shoot the video taking more care over what we showed in the background. We undertook a few changes in the way we filmed also.

We changed;

• the camera we filmed with - we changed camera to one with a higher resolution so that our video was filmed in higher quality and look much more professional. 
• we changed the location of filming - we chose to film purely in Simon's house taking great care of what was shown in the background of the shots. This would add consistency to our video and make it seem less random. 
• the way the fingers moved through the shot - we chose to keep the movement of the subject consistent throughout, having the fingers walking from left to right through the frame. 
• The backgrounds of the shots are generally chosen to match the lyrics, but during our first edit we came to the conclusion that if we took more time over each clip it would make more sense to the viewer. This left us with some space in between clips that needed to be filled. So we decided to show the fingers walking past some random backgrounds that you would expect to find in the home, some quite quirky but we think that it really gives the video a down-to-earth feel and would help the audience to identify with the music.