Ricky Shots

We had been discussing the idea for doing a shoot where Ricky steals something from the beginning. We thought this would be a good way to denote that he is an outlaw and doesn't care about society. We went into Costcutter having previously arranged to film the shoplifting scene there, however, we were told we had to come back several hours later to do it. As we had all of the equiment and the actor we decided to film a scene where Ricky was drinkign vodka as the very end scene of our video is where Ricky throws a bottle of vodka on the floor so it would make sense to see him drinking it in an earlier scene. It was dark when we were filming so some of the shots were a bit grainy but still were good. We were filming next to a church and saw a poster saying 'What has God ever done for me?'. We filmed this as many bands associated with the genre of alternative/punk reference religeon in their lyrics and videos such as Green Day and Good Charlotte so we filmed this. We thought this would also show the audience that Ricky doesn't care about society or values so the question on the poster could be represented as Rickys thoughts. We showed this by panning to Ricky after filming the poster.