Thursday, 2 December 2010
Filming - Disaster
After extensive planning to film today after school, we were let down by one of the actors at the last minute which meant we needed to re-schedule the filming for another day. Also someone in the group couldn't make some of the filming days which also meant we needed to re-arrange particular things, therefore we were unable to complete the filming we decided to do today which resulted in us being behind schedule.
Wednesday, 1 December 2010
Auxillary Tasks
For our A2 production work we have been given three auxillary tasks:
1. A website homepage for the band.
2. A cover for its release as part of a digipak.
3. A magazine advertisement for the digipak.
As we have been given the choice of picking two out of the three tasks to complete individually, I've decided to complete tasks 2 & 3. The reason why I have chosen to do these tasks is because due to the previous experience I've gained, I feel I'd be able to complete them to the best of my ability using mainly Photoshop. I would find the construction in completing both a magazine advertisement as well as a cover for the digipak easier as opposed to creating a webpage for the band.
1. A website homepage for the band.
2. A cover for its release as part of a digipak.
3. A magazine advertisement for the digipak.
As we have been given the choice of picking two out of the three tasks to complete individually, I've decided to complete tasks 2 & 3. The reason why I have chosen to do these tasks is because due to the previous experience I've gained, I feel I'd be able to complete them to the best of my ability using mainly Photoshop. I would find the construction in completing both a magazine advertisement as well as a cover for the digipak easier as opposed to creating a webpage for the band.
Filming - Day One
After extensive planning we managed to start filming today, due to the fact that a majority of our actors were in lessons whilst we were filming we used Zak as the main person in the video and began to film his individual shots. Overall, I feel that today's filming was successful as we completed the filming we intended to get done today and began to upload our footage ready to edit.
Wednesday, 17 November 2010
Music Video: Storyboarding & Planning Our Shots
In today's lesson we printed off the lyrics to our chosen song and brought all the ideas we thought about together to link with each line within the song itself. We decided on the different locations we wanted to use and where they'd be appropriate in the particular parts of the song, as not all the actors will appear in all the shots we've highlighted elements of the lyrics where the people will be in certain parts of the video. Below is a scan of our plan and what will be in the video itself.
We also managed to get our storyboards done so we know exactly what shots needed to be filmed, we arranged some of the duration of the shots but the others we didn't plan were the ones we wanted to sort out when it came to editing our video depending on how much footage we would get.
LYRICS PLAN
STORYBOARDS
We also managed to get our storyboards done so we know exactly what shots needed to be filmed, we arranged some of the duration of the shots but the others we didn't plan were the ones we wanted to sort out when it came to editing our video depending on how much footage we would get.
LYRICS PLAN
STORYBOARDS
Tuesday, 16 November 2010
Permission From Artist
We've tried contacting The Maccabees on numerous occasions in order to gain permission to use their song as we needed to make sure we weren't breaching any copyright legislation when creating our own music video. We felt that it was essential to contact the band via a popular social networking site but the most efficient way of contact was Twitter and Jessica created an account in order for us to get in touch with them. Unfortunately, they haven't replied back to us yet but you can view what we messaged them in the images above.
Saturday, 13 November 2010
Music Video: Actors, Costumes & Location Choices
ACTORS
We started looking at the possibilities of many people who could be in our music video, although our sixth form is full of people we felt we needed people we could rely on turning up to every filming session. We took into account the actors we'd need to match the indie genre of our video and decided we wanted 5 boys to be the band alongside a girl who would be apart of the story within the song. Two of the people we've decided on is Zak and myself as we didn't want to rely on too many people out of the group to co-operate and we felt that it would be easier to organise the meeting of four people as opposed to organising times that would be good for six different people.
The other actors we have chosen are:
- Louie Austen
- Jake Robinson
- Joe Mortimer
- Ryan Wilson
Although Zak and I appear in the video there will be opportunity for us to film as I'm not constantly appearing in the video and Zak is in a majority of the video but will help plan shots as well as helping edit on imovieHD as that is essentially his strongest asset.
COSTUMES
Whilst researching our chosen band, The Maccabees, we found that most of their videos incorporate bright colour and it gave us the idea of having the actors wear bright colours within the video itself. As we wanted our video to seem more interesting we've decided on a set of three outfits for our actors.
1. Coloured hoodies, white t-shirts, blue or black skinny jeans and black converse/trainers.
2. Black shirts with coloured ties, blue or black skinny jeans and black converse/trainers.
3. Coloured checked shirts, polo's or t-shirts, blue or black skinny jeans and black converse/trainers.
As a group we chose a set of primary colours for each actor to allocate themselves to having the choice of Red, Blue, Purple, Green, Orange and Yellow.
The colours each of them chose were:
Louie - Purple
Zak - Blue
Joe - Red
Ryan - Green
Jake - Yellow/Orange
LOCATIONS
To make it easier for our actors we decided to make our locations local due to transport and lack of time for not only our actors but also us as a group.
The choices of locations included:
-Church Langley area in Harlow as we'd be using the big hill situated in a field, the woods, a bridge and other streets within the area.
- Louie's studio for the use of instruments within the video.
- The drama studio for shots of the main singer.
- Jess' house for the final shots for the last verse.
We started looking at the possibilities of many people who could be in our music video, although our sixth form is full of people we felt we needed people we could rely on turning up to every filming session. We took into account the actors we'd need to match the indie genre of our video and decided we wanted 5 boys to be the band alongside a girl who would be apart of the story within the song. Two of the people we've decided on is Zak and myself as we didn't want to rely on too many people out of the group to co-operate and we felt that it would be easier to organise the meeting of four people as opposed to organising times that would be good for six different people.
The other actors we have chosen are:
- Louie Austen
- Jake Robinson
- Joe Mortimer
- Ryan Wilson
Although Zak and I appear in the video there will be opportunity for us to film as I'm not constantly appearing in the video and Zak is in a majority of the video but will help plan shots as well as helping edit on imovieHD as that is essentially his strongest asset.
COSTUMES
Whilst researching our chosen band, The Maccabees, we found that most of their videos incorporate bright colour and it gave us the idea of having the actors wear bright colours within the video itself. As we wanted our video to seem more interesting we've decided on a set of three outfits for our actors.
1. Coloured hoodies, white t-shirts, blue or black skinny jeans and black converse/trainers.
2. Black shirts with coloured ties, blue or black skinny jeans and black converse/trainers.
3. Coloured checked shirts, polo's or t-shirts, blue or black skinny jeans and black converse/trainers.
As a group we chose a set of primary colours for each actor to allocate themselves to having the choice of Red, Blue, Purple, Green, Orange and Yellow.
The colours each of them chose were:
Louie - Purple
Zak - Blue
Joe - Red
Ryan - Green
Jake - Yellow/Orange
LOCATIONS
To make it easier for our actors we decided to make our locations local due to transport and lack of time for not only our actors but also us as a group.
The choices of locations included:
-Church Langley area in Harlow as we'd be using the big hill situated in a field, the woods, a bridge and other streets within the area.
- Louie's studio for the use of instruments within the video.
- The drama studio for shots of the main singer.
- Jess' house for the final shots for the last verse.
Wednesday, 10 November 2010
Music Video: Creative Research
As we have finally decided on our song for our music video we began to research videos by the same artist being The Maccabees to decide on what the content of our video will be like. Also to gain knowledge into the style of this particular group and seeing if we were able to conform to their particular style.
The Maccabees - First Love
This song consists of both slow and fast paced music throughout, both the music and visuals have no connections apart from parts where the members of the band sing some of the words. As the actors within this video appear to be older it may not attract the particular audience we want to attract. Therefore we are going to use people from our sixth form as the audience can relate to them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A1xu0BSs2s
The Maccabees - Young Lions (Down The Front Session)
This video is based from the band's acoustic sessuib and we felt it was an interesting video as it has close ups of the band members as well as seeing them create the music themselves. It shows them playing the instruments and lots of cuts have been added which is typical of an indie genre and this is something we'd like to incorporate into our own video. We liked the effects used in the video and would take the style of the video into consideration when creating our own but we're thinking of pushing boundaries a little by adding our own elements within the product.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8w15RJ87UE
The Maccabees - Toothpaste Kisses
As opposed to the other songs the pacing of this particular song is quite slow and mellow, but didn't seem to have much of a purpose to it which is the same with a majority of the other videos we've analysed. The video itself doesn't seem to have many cuts and the location is kept constant throughout which is a pub full of people and the only thing that really links to the lyrics is the fact that everyone in the pub is filmed kissing one another. I felt the types of shots used in this video were very basic and the story to it seemed very tedious as it was based on two characters taking it in turns to kiss other people. When watching this video it made me began to think of using different locations as opposed to one and a variety of shots and camera angles to entice my audience.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SJmWSWQgdM
The Maccabees - Latchmere
When analysing this song we found that it had quite a fast pace and the visuals were mainly random objects with a series of frozen shots giving a broken effect to the video itself. We found that the words were very repetitive but both the lyrics and visuals have no relationship what so ever, this is something we'd like to apply to our video but we also want to add a slight story which isn't seen in the Latchmere video. Although we want to use a range of frozen shots in our video we wouldn't want to apply it to the whole product as it will be extremely time consuming and as our production time is limited it will be very difficult for us. Also in the video we found that there was a great deal of bright colours used, this is something we're interested in doing to our video by making our actors wear bright coloured clothing and with the song we're focusing on being very lively we feel that the use of colours will accentuate this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faMEnZQT2f8
CONCLUSION
- We don't really want to conform to typical indie style video's so we're going to try and keep to the original style The Maccabees use.
- The people in our video will be of the same age range as the target audience.
- Overall, their videos consist of random effects and shots which will be considered for our video.
-The primary style of The Maccabees is to use one element from the lyrics and emphasise it in our music video.
The Maccabees - First Love
This song consists of both slow and fast paced music throughout, both the music and visuals have no connections apart from parts where the members of the band sing some of the words. As the actors within this video appear to be older it may not attract the particular audience we want to attract. Therefore we are going to use people from our sixth form as the audience can relate to them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A1xu0BSs2s
The Maccabees - Young Lions (Down The Front Session)
This video is based from the band's acoustic sessuib and we felt it was an interesting video as it has close ups of the band members as well as seeing them create the music themselves. It shows them playing the instruments and lots of cuts have been added which is typical of an indie genre and this is something we'd like to incorporate into our own video. We liked the effects used in the video and would take the style of the video into consideration when creating our own but we're thinking of pushing boundaries a little by adding our own elements within the product.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8w15RJ87UE
The Maccabees - Toothpaste Kisses
As opposed to the other songs the pacing of this particular song is quite slow and mellow, but didn't seem to have much of a purpose to it which is the same with a majority of the other videos we've analysed. The video itself doesn't seem to have many cuts and the location is kept constant throughout which is a pub full of people and the only thing that really links to the lyrics is the fact that everyone in the pub is filmed kissing one another. I felt the types of shots used in this video were very basic and the story to it seemed very tedious as it was based on two characters taking it in turns to kiss other people. When watching this video it made me began to think of using different locations as opposed to one and a variety of shots and camera angles to entice my audience.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SJmWSWQgdM
The Maccabees - Latchmere
When analysing this song we found that it had quite a fast pace and the visuals were mainly random objects with a series of frozen shots giving a broken effect to the video itself. We found that the words were very repetitive but both the lyrics and visuals have no relationship what so ever, this is something we'd like to apply to our video but we also want to add a slight story which isn't seen in the Latchmere video. Although we want to use a range of frozen shots in our video we wouldn't want to apply it to the whole product as it will be extremely time consuming and as our production time is limited it will be very difficult for us. Also in the video we found that there was a great deal of bright colours used, this is something we're interested in doing to our video by making our actors wear bright coloured clothing and with the song we're focusing on being very lively we feel that the use of colours will accentuate this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faMEnZQT2f8
CONCLUSION
- We don't really want to conform to typical indie style video's so we're going to try and keep to the original style The Maccabees use.
- The people in our video will be of the same age range as the target audience.
- Overall, their videos consist of random effects and shots which will be considered for our video.
-The primary style of The Maccabees is to use one element from the lyrics and emphasise it in our music video.
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