AH : Shoot Feedback

Our first shoot for our music video took place on 28th of October, in several locations: Southborough council estate, Tesco and Royal Victoria place. The filming consisted only of our artist (John Jones) within the filming, as well as Adam Howland, Alex Wallace and Sam Hawkins, for a duration of roughly 3 hours.

Overall, we feel our first shoot went significantly well, due to the fact that we had a good day in terms of the weather for filming so the shots came out very clearly, as well as the pictures for our stop motion. We believe the shots we took were fairly successful on the whole and for some shots we took several retakes in order to ensure that we wont have to film it again.

We used our story board effectively as well as taking into consideration some of the earlier practise shots we filmed within our pitch, which we believe were also effective. As well as following aspects on the storyboard, we also come up with some new ideas over our own, such as the use of a tracking shot out a car window.

 

When shooting next time however, we do need to ensure that lighting is of a similar level, as for some of the still shots we took it varies to it could pose a problem when it comes to editing in order to adjust them to a similar image. For example this is evident in some of still images here of our artist where the contrast of the image alters between several of them.



Group : Call sheet and risk assessment

Date: 28/10           Location: Southborough

Meeting Time: 12pm    Group: 3         

 

Crew & Cast Contact details:

John Jones

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Adam Howland

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Sam Hawkins

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Alex Wallace

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 Props & Equipment                               crew responsible

 

Video camera x2                                 Adam Howland           

Tripod                                          Sam Hawkins

Fish eye lense                                  Alex Wallace      

Photo camera

Photo

Location	Cast	Technical notes
Southborough Council estate	John Jones	Mid and long shot of the artist against a wall with graffiti in the background rapping. This will use the fish eye lens.
Southborough Council estate	John Jones	Tracking mid shot of artist rapping into the camera using fish eye lens.
Southborough Council estate	John Jones	360 tracking shot around the artist singing with use of fish eye lens.
Southborough Council estate	John Jones	Long shot of artist jumping of wall and rapping
Southborough Council estate	John Jones	Close ups of the artist singing into the camera
Tunbridge wells- Royal Victoria Place	John Jones	Mid Shots of artist picking up a record and looking through clothes. This will be framed in HMV and top man, with the use of fish eye lens.
Tesco	John Jones	Shot of artist outside Tesco framed in mid shot. This shot will not feature the fish eye lens.

Risk Assessment

Location	What is the hazard?	Who/what might be harmed and why?	How will you reduce the risk?
Southborough council estate	Possible cars within the location	People within cars may not be aware if we stand in the road	Try not to film any in the road, if so be aware of any cars that are coming
Royal Victoria Place	May need permission to film within the shopping centre	Can get it trouble and therefore may not be allowed to film within this location	Ask the people within shops if we are able to film in this location

 

 

 

 

Group : Concept development

This is a lift of the props we are going to include within our production in relation to the lyrics. Also the location each of these are going to be shot in is listed as well.

Lyric	Prop	location
Intro	record	Alex’s house
I’m as bitter as the boddingtons I drown my sorrows in	Can of boddingtons	Bedroom location
You’re the exit sign I hunt for above the front door	Exit sign	School
You grabbed all of your stuff	bag	Bedroom
Calling your bluff	Mobile phone
But you didn’t have to cut me off	photograph	Council estate
I may as well go to sleep in the sky because I see too much space in the bed	Bed or pillow	Bedroom location
Because every song on the radio reminds me of you	radio	Bedroom location
What hurts most is that you vanished by choice	Vanish oxi action	Bedroom location

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Group : Progress update

During todays lesson we have began to give some more ideas in terms of the stop motion techniques we are going to use for our production. We have decided that instead of doing just one part for stop motion we are going to do multiple. The first consists of an over the shoulder shot of someone holding a photo which will show several different photos, the second will use a phone with someone flicking through different photos and the third we are either going to have a board which shows different photos pinned to it or either an art piece using a scrapbook which varies pictures.

We have booked out the equipment that we need for filming over the half term period, which we will pick up on Friday 25th October (2 days time). The equipment we have booked consist of: tripod, 50 frame camera, standard camera, fish eye lens as well as a photo camera to take pictures of the different shot techniques and ideas we have when filming our music video footage.

We have also started to complete the call and risk assessment for our first shoot which will take place in the council estate location on Monday 28th October. This helps to show we have considered the risks which are involved with filming in the location, as well as the aspects we need to film.

Group: Test shots of our performer

We went into the drama studio with our performer to see how well he performed with the camera.

We told him he wasn't looking at the camera enough and after that he improved quite a bit, we also showed him some of Mikill Panes other videos so he can get an idea of the artists image and charisma.

We also have a video of him performing 3 short bits from the song

 

 

 

 

Group : Progress update

During todays lesson we began editing some footage we filmed of our artist for our production. These were some practise shots to test out some angles and framing techniques we are going to use for our production, in order to ensure that they work effectively. After filming these we noticed the fact that John wasn't looking directly at the camera for the majority of the time, but he looked at the floor, so we will take that into consideration when we film for our actual music video. The shots were taken against a green screen, and after testing this we believe it looks very effective altering the colour of the background for our production. Overall, it has helped us in terms of our preparation for filming the actual music video and gave us some good ideas, as well as some problems we can address next time we film.
Furthermore, we have also began to work on our final storyboard which we will use when filming our music production.
Lastly, we have almost finished the animatic for our production, there are just a few more frames which we need to incorporate into our production, as well as uploading the complete animatic onto YouTube before posting it onto our blog.

We have thought of a good idea for our music video in terms of the ending. As the music video finishes with the artist in the studio, we are going to finish it by using an over the shoulder shot of someone holding a piece of green coloured paper, which is going to act as a green screen, and then we are going to set it alight, however incorporating in the picture of the artist in the studio.

Group: Concept Development update

After todays lesson we realised that we did not really have enough footage to fill the whole chorus section of the song. We thought that this actually wasn't such a bad thing because after our pitch the general view was that we needed to use some more visually interesting techniques and we will now be able to fill these gaps with our most recent ideas.

We have come to the conclusion after viewing various videos that we want to include at least some stop motion in our video. We have also come up with what we think is a solid idea to incorporate it effectively and smoothly into the video. Our idea is that we are going to have the performer pull out a photograph during the video and when the camera focusses in on this photograph this is when the stop motion starts. The photograph changes to other photographs to tell a story while still in the performers hand as he is looking at the series of stop motion photographs one after the other as if telling the story.

The idea for the actual story being told in the stop motion photographs is that the story is showing images of the couple walking together, happy and spending time together, however at the end of the chorus the photo is ripped in half by the performer to bring the romance to an end which is a portrayal of the lyrics of the song.

This video is one of the stop motion ideas we looked at and we liked the idea of the story of a couple being told through just a series of still images, we also liked the idea of the bed acting as a blank canvas to almost tell the story on.

This video also helped to inform our decision about the stop motion and the idea of this is that the story is told through a different means other than physically having the acting the story out, the idea is that it is almost like a story within a story or a screen within a screen.