Wednesday, 7 December 2011

07/12/11- Journal

Today's Journal


Today was our first day of filming in our gallery and school based locations, we searched the school for certain locations as the gallery was busy due to the schools annual "Alternative Prize" evening. So we chose a tone shade of blue glass brick wall, which was upstairs next to our schools sixth form centre. The light that was pouring this wall made it rather effective. We also found this massive painted heart on the wall in science which we thought would work perfectly with our music video, due to it all being about love and relationships. Our last location of the day was another picture this time of multiple drawn hearts, artwork by some students. The locations we chose I feel are the most effective, they were not what we intentionally had in store for our music video, but it anything i like all of our shots from today. I think it is far better for us to a wide variety of shots when it comes to us filming. As the last thing we want is for our audiences to get bored, as we want our video to be fast paced and very interesting and intriguing. We still have a lot more filming to do, but i shall try and upload a few un-edited clips of our rough footage, for examples of what our music video might look like in the end. 

Digipak Edited Photos


These two photos are just two of the many photos that I have already taken for my digipak. I am thinking of taking even more photos, to give myself more of a varied selection, but these two photos are definitely appearing on my digipak. So i have edited them on photoshop to make sure they look of the highest quality. I like the theatrical idea of masks, it sticks to the bands fun and quirky ethos. I know these photos do not look like my original ideas for my digipak but if anything i like these photos more. I definitely want to expand upon this theatrical idea, yet i will still be using ideas from my drawn digipak such as the photo of Molly with her microphone. I may take more photos in the next week or so, I shall also update my blog with a lot of the pictures i have taken for my digipak to show the variation in my ideas.

Location Shots and Behind the Scenes

This first shot, is our first location for our singer Molly. As the gallery is still in use at the moment we are scouting for locations around school that look interesting. This is just one of them, it is in the upstairs corridor next to the sixth form common room. The glass wall and it's cooling colours and texture add a nice contrast to Molly's crazy dance scene.

This is just a photo of Molly beside our first location of the day, we took a few tester shots on a still camera to see just how she would appear in front of the wall and if it looked good. We decided that this worked well but that the sunlight was too strong behind her so we had to move along to a similar wall but just further down the corridor.


This is just a behind the scenes shot of Libby setting up the camera and tripod and framing the scene for Me to then start filming Molly's scene. Libby was also playing our song off of her Ipod so that it would be easier for Molly to do her lip syncing.

This is just another behind the scene shot of me and Si Hin in between filming, we were conferring with Libby of what we should film for today referring back to the storyboards constantly.


This is our next location for the day, we found this artwork in the science corridor in school a little while ago. We thought it would fit the sadistic and crazy stance our lead singer has to love and the heart. We may use this location again to film in front of as it is a great backdrop. Molly was simply dancing crazily in front of it and acting as if she was stalking her prey.


This is a shot that we use in our music video to establish the emotions she has link back to her heart and are to do with love. The heart is a symbolism we want to appear throughout of music video through various different allegories such as this and the heart shaped pinata we are going to make.


This is another shot of our location but again with Molly standing in front of it so we can see how it will work with all of the other micro-features. Such as the mise-en-scene Molly's costume and her make-up and particular cinematography, as we realised this background looks far better in a wide shot.


This is a still of Molly's dance scene taken from behind the scenes, by Libby. Just giving a taster of the sort of acting that shall appear in our music video. Just how flamboyant and eccentric it is.
This is another still taken from behind the scenes of Molly's dancing, these stills do act as evidence for us but also are a good way for use to make sure it all looks exactly as we want it. Just in case we decide to film there again we can know what we want.


Again this is another still of Molly dancing, from behind the scenes.

This is just another behind the scene shot of Molly's dancing, but cropped so we can see what the shot would look like if it were not a wide shot anymore.
This is the final still of Molly dancing from behind the scenes, again it is cropped so we can see how it works and if the allegory of the heart is still prominent.
This is a behind the scenes shot of me filming Molly's dancing scene from another angle. We chose to film her from the front and to either side of her.
This is another behind the scenes shot of me filming Molly, but from my perspective how it looks on the HD Flip camera.
This is our final location of the day, it is another piece of artwork we liked and found in science. It is again another allegory for the heart in relation to literal love and "heart ache".
                 
This is our last behind the scenes shot for the day of Libby filming Molly in our final location. Molly was lip syncing again in this scene the lyrics "Zing Boom" we will probably film again here.

Friday, 25 November 2011

Production plan for the next three weeks

Three Week Plan

 Friday 25th November 2011 - Updating Blogs and finishing off Digi packs.

26th - 27th November (Weekend) - Over the weekend we will be editing our digi packs. and making sure that we are on schedule with our production plans and our Blogs.

Monday 28th November 2011 - Tester shots of the things we want to film such as the parachute men. 
Consultation with Molly about the things that we want her to do 
Summery: Planning of props and costumes.
Wednesday 30th November - Filming the close up shots of Molly. We will be using my house to do this as we are unable to use the Gallery at this time, we are doing the close up shots as this will not give away the fact that we are not in the Gallery and means that we have at least filmed a good part of the video.
 -I will be personally taking pictures of Molly for my own digipak.  
 
Friday 2nd December 2011 - Edit everything that we have filmed, Plan our next step for filming, booking the Gallery for after the Alternative Prize has been taken down.

3rd-4th December (Weekend) - We will once again be filming some more, possibly the milk bottle scene as this can be done outside school with a plain background, maybe even the bouncy ball scene when they are coming down the stairs.

Monday 5th December 2011 - Going to the Gallery and asking Cassie if we are able to use the Gallery for filming as the Alternative prize should be taken down soon
Also planning for costumes and props to bring in on the day of filming. Consulting Molly again on what she needs to do for the day of filming.

Wednesday 7th December 2011 - Looking over all the footage that we have filmed so far and editing it all so that we know what we have left to film and what is a priority on our to do list.

Stills from firework footage

Stills from footage

These screen shots are both from footage we filmed of our artist dancing and singing at Danson firework display. We are currently editing through this footage, these are just two shots used as evidence and to give a taster of what our music video shall look like.

Wednesday, 23 November 2011

Feedback

Feedback From Anima's Pitch
Their Feedback:   The elements that work are:
Parachuting men go with the lyrics "it's oh so quiet" as it is calm and peaceful. I love the fact of the pinata being used and things flowing in the air from the pinata. Love the fact that the visuals go with the music.




Things that need developing are:
Nothing I can think of at the moment.




Things that don't work are: (remember to include reasons)
The milk bottles, I don't really understand what the reason for using them is and how they relate with everything else.



They gave us three stars- "Well on the way to Box Office success".





Their Feedback:   The elements that work are:
The fireworks.
The heart full of confetti.


Things that need developing are:
Intertextual references? - Does it really fit with genre of song?





Things that don't work are: (remember to include reasons) 

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They gave us two stars: "It definitely had potential".

Their Feedback:   The elements that work are:
-Well structured animatic showing detailed plan of music video.
-Intertextual referencing.




Things that need developing are:
-Target audience.





Things that don't work are: (remember to include reasons) 


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They gave us two stars: "It definitely had potential".


Their Feedback:   The elements that work are:
-The idea of the music video concept- very unique and targets a wider audience then 18-35, younger people too. 
 
 


Things that need developing are:
-Target audience, make the age lower.




Things that don't work are: (remember to include reasons) 


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They gave us three stars- "Well on the way to Box Office success".



Their Feedback:   The elements that work are:
-Ideology of the group + tying this to their image.
-Intertextual reference.
-Application of Goodwin.
-Logo.
-Concept.


Things that need developing are:
-Target audience demographic- should be B-D/C






Things that don't work are: (remember to include reasons) 


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They gave us three stars- "Well on the way to Box Office success".

Sunday, 20 November 2011

20/11/11- Journal

Today's Journal

Since looking at all of our feedback from our pitch, we have been told by Miss. Whittaker and the rest of the class that we should change our target audience. We should apparently change our target audience, to category B-D or B-C because students cannot afford a lot of things. Now our audience are still students but they have money, although their ethos has not changed they are still not avid consumers, but they do occasionally splurge on music.