Possible Problems

After planning our music video, we have realised we may face a few problems along the way.

The first major problem we faced was finding a suitable drum kit we can use in the performance part of our video. We didn’t know anyone that had a drum kit that we could borrow, and it was difficult to find a store that would let us hire one. We contacted Dawsons to see if they would consider letting us borrow one for the day but this was unsuccessful.

We then found a drum kit in Argos for only £35 until we realised that it was a children’s kit, which would be far too small for a drummer and look silly. Eventually, after further research we found a store called STS touring productions who said they would let us hire a drum kit for £50! So there is our first problem solved.

Another problem we face is the weather. We are just over a week away from our desired filming date and by looking at the weather it seems that it is going to rain. This type of weather will look good for the actual video but it poses a problem in that we are hiring the drum kit and it will get ruined if it gets wet, and so will the other instruments.

We think our only option is to go ahead an film and take lots of umbrellas to cover the kit and instruments when they are not being used.

Also, we were going to use a smoke machine as we are entering the park because it would look very effective. However we also couldn’t find anywhere that we could hire one from at a reasonable price. We did find one place that could lend us one for a £100 deposit but it wasn’t suitable for outdoor use. We are still looking into finding a smoke machine.

We also have the problem in the number of volunteers we need to be zombies. To make our video look effective we need at least 30. However at the minute everybody who has said they are coming has dropped out. We are just going to keep asking everybody we know until the date that we are filming and hopefully we will have enough people.

The final problem we face is the public. We can’t have any members of the public in our video, however as we are filming in a park, this is going to be a problem. We have decided we are just going to politely ask them to leave or move out of the shots. But because it’s going to be a rainy day, this shouldn’t be too much of a big problem.