group discussions/arguments

During the planning stages of our video, we all thought of some creative and inspirational ideas. However, within the group we had a number of debates/arguments about the direction of some parts of our video over past few weeks.our first major debate was the actual narrative of the video.

We came up with many ideas such as the main character walking past lots of small roads with different events such as black gangs beating up an individual, and band performance shots as the main character walks past them. although to me these ideas sounded very dull and unimaginative, not only that but there was no clear narrative which would keep the audience interested and send the message to them of where exactly is the love in the world so therefore we had to fix that.

We knew that the narrative of the video had to be good, and had to fit the theme of the song so we thought of many ideas but we all agreed on the narrative that the main character walked in to the garage about to buy a newspaper however has no money, so in a attempt of desperation,he steals the newspaper and runs away. Soon after he regrets doing it however another situation occurs when a man walking towards the train station drops his ticket.our main character instead of handing it back to him,decides to keep it and get on the train himself.

I had many debates about the next part of the narrative with tom, becuase in my opinion the scenes and shot we had deicded were on the whole, again, dull and lacked imagination and creativity, so i wanted the verse to be shot in London where he gets off and is immediately thrown into a chaotic place with alot of quick paced situations occurring all around which to me would of created more excitement towards the video. However tom had his doubts about getting the actors and crew to London and would find it difficult to film there. This argument got a bit out of hand and we both lost concentration towards creating more ideas which ended up last a week.

In the end i agreed with tom so all three of us could continue developing more ideas.Although as I progressed into this idea, I soon started to realise that we weren't clearly sending the message through to the audience because at the time we were trying to convince the audience to feel sorry for the main character despite him doing a bad thing,but some or most of the audience be unconvinced of this and ignore the message we were trying to put through. once again this lead to mainly me and tom arguing about what to do and ended up wasting even more time. After the tension eased, tom created a new and preferably finalised narrative of that:

1. the new shoplifter was to be a new different character and the main character was to chase after him after the till lady urgently wanted someone to stop him
2. after chasing the thief he soon gets away by jumping over a large building
3. the main character tries not on stop however on his way down an alleyway he runs into two policemen
4. he tries to tell them that he is getting away but they don't listen therefore he pushes them to the floor and carries on chasing the thief
5. he see the thief but soon again looses him on the way to a train station,but the police are now chasing the main character in which he quickly gets on a train.
6. after he gets off the train then events start to happen all around him e.g ( people dealing drug,violence)
7. he accidentally walks into a riot and is quickly arrested as a mistaken rioter
8. final few scenes are one of the band performers (George) come to get him out of jail and get him to join the band
9. we then see him singing the last verse with the band.

Our final problem we encountered was how do we involve the police. we decided that it would be worth a try to go to the local police station and ask them to spare five minutes of there time to do some filming. However if they decline then we would have to create our own clearly recognisable police outfits and get two actors to play them.