Planning: Self Assessing Shots and Camera Movement

Today we looked over the first rough cut of our music video, we compared all the shots that we had to the list of conventional music video shots. We found that we had four of Goodwin's conventional singing into camera shots and they are spread out through different points in our video, however on our re shoot we are going to shoot some more singing into camera shots in case we want to add in some more to adhere to convention. We have quite a few shots that cut on the beat of the song, but we are working on editing so as many shots as possible cut on the beat. The shots that we have that are included on the conventional shot list are

• Close ups, 
• extreme close ups, 
• natural framing, 
• continuity editing, 
• panning, 
• left of frame shot,
•  right of frame shot. 

We need to add a tracking shot, a match cut and maybe even another extreme close up.

Group post planning - Story boards

Rough cut 1

Today we finished the first rough cut of our video, We are still missing some shot's and have used a shot of them walking as filler. This will be replaced with a better shot!

Research album cover 1: Fleetwood Mac "Rumours" & Panic at the disco "Pretty odd"

The pose in the album cover is very artistic and nostalgic. The song we are doing for our music video "Dreams" is originally off this album so if we recreated this pose it would create a nice bit of intertextuality and pay homage to the original artists Fleet Wood mac as well as creating nostalgia for our older TA. We could also recreate this sense of nostalgia by using fonts that look more vintage and picking colours that suit the idea of vintage.

How this influenced my creativity and planning 

• It made me aware how subtle things are often the most hard hitting with this album cover being a practical example.
• It has given me examples of posing I could try and how we can construct certain representations.

How this has influenced my creativity and planning
This has influenced my creativity and planning as it has shown me a practical example of how effective colour can be on an album cover and all the different use's for it such as using colour to attract someones attention to a certain part of an album cover.

Research: TA Age

The music video, me and Caity are producing for our coursework is a song called "Dreams" which was originally written and performed by fleet wood mac. But to reach a larger TA me and Caity have chosen the Bastille and Gabrielle Aplin cover and re release so we can also appeal to the younger TA and the older TA at both times, to ensure this we will have to appeal to both in our digipack and ancillaries.

Final cut pro

Recently we started on editing our music video, this process is entirely new to me and does pose a technical challenge but I feel I can grow to deal with it and use this software well.

We use final cut pro x to edit our video into a finished product, we can use it to help sync up our performers , add effects to our clips and organise it into a recognisable story.

Selection of images

When we were filming we decided to use to take some photo's for ancillary products, here are the ones we want to use and why:

 This photo is good as the trees make for a natural frame making it seem more visually appealing, this photo also makes use of the rule of thirds which helps make it seem more balanced to the human eye. It breaks some convention by not having them in a close up but our genre is indie which is famed for challenging and pushing conventions. This photo would make a good photo for our advert for the digipack or be good on the back pane.

 This right of frame shot is appealing to the eye as it creates an active audience and makes you think " What are they walking away from?" " What are they thinking?'. It is visually appealing due to the trees in the back ground that creates a frame and used in conjunction with the first photo makes it seem like they have walked through the camera and are just walking down a path. This would be a good photo for one of the panes on the digipack.

 This low angled shot creates the representation of the artists being powerful and important a good image to launch a new artist from as it draw's the audiences eye and captures their attention. The sun flare also makes the photo stand out from other shots and look interesting. This would make a great front cover.

Rejection of images

While we were shooting our music video, we decided that we would use our time to not only film our music video but to also take the images needed for our ancillary products e.g. digipack. Here are the photo's that didn't make it and why.

When we took the photo, we made the mistake of using the zoom on our camera which dosen't do the environment we took our photo's in justice as well as making the photo seem more tighter and cropped something that is not that visually appealing. We had planned on using a shot like this for our back pane.







When we took this photo it seemed like a good idea but on reflection it really is not as it does not have any impact, the weather also makes the photo unusable as the weather was blowing hair everywhere which makes the artist look bad something we don't want to do. We took this and tired to figure out a spot we could use later but had no success figuring where this would work.

Set design issue

In the bedroom scene of our music video we had planned to put pink bin bag's on the window to try and manipulate the light into being a diffrent colour, in theroy this would work and did! but only to the human eye on film it just made everything darker

Adding in an extra shot

We decided that in the heat of a moment we needed to film an additional shot we had not planned, this shot was a clip of katie smashing a mug this was a good shot because it showed how katie felt which was mad and when you watch the clip it comunicates it well.

Planning: Photo montage

Me and Caity decided that we want to make use of a photo montage in our music video for "Dreams". This would be used to show how the relationship was before it wet bad, we are going to try and take these photos in our photo shoot

Shooting

We planned to do our initial shooting on the 26th and the 27th, It went well as we got all the shot's we needed but we found and worked around certain issues that came up:

• One issue we had was Luke's foot we could only travel so far without having to break for a little bit, so we waited and got lifts around to make sure he wasn't pain
• One issue we had was the weather as it wasn't as nice as we wanted to, so we made sure to work around it and made sure our shot's looked similar.
• The last issue we had was with our planning as we found that one or two shots we couldn't do

Planning: Timing

Me and Caity are calling our actors to show up to shoot at 9 am so we can get an early start and make use of the light, so we agreed that Caity should come at 8 am so we can set up and decide on what we want to do for that day of shooting.

Planning: Something to try

Recently Miss King said something about using black bin bag's to get a night shot in the day time by taping them to the window. At home we have these pink bin bag's and it might be nice to try them taped the window and see what effect it has on the light.

Planning: Weather on our shooting days

When planning the days we wanted to film, we needed to research what the long term weather forecast was for each day, Wednesday is the colder of the two days with some rain and this is the day we were going to shoot internal shots. Thursday is going to rain also but later on and we will hopefully have finished all of our external shots by this time.

Group Post: Script Breakdown

Planning Group Post: Call Sheet

Planning Group Post: Risk Assessment

After completing this risk assessment we printed two copies and each signed and dated both copies.

Research Music Video 10: Adele "Hello" close ups

Planning: Organisation

Date's we are shooting

• Wednesday the 26th of October
• Thursday the 27th of October 

Call Time & Wrap Time 

On Wednesday the 26th the call time is 9 AM to make the best use of day light with a lunch break and the estimated wrap time for the day will be around 5 to 6 pm depending on the shot's we get and light level's.

On Thursday the 27th the call time will be 9 AM with a mid-day lunch break with the aim to finish around half 5 or 6 PM  with the goal of being finished shooting footage. 

Wednesday the 26th

 On wednesday we plan to  meet at my house and get all the interior shot's possible such as the bedroom scene for example, and then with the remaining time try and get as many other shot's as possible e.g. the phone text's and shots for the montage.

Thursday the 27th 

On thursday we plan to meet at my house and then move down to the park and get all the outside shots we need to complete the video.

ON BOTH DAY'S WE WILL BE USING MY OWN CAMERA TO TAKE PRINCIPLE PHOTOGRAPHY.