Group : Call sheet and risk assessments (10th November and 3rd November)

Date: 03/11           Location: Tonbridge park

Meeting Time: 12pm    Group: 3         

 

Crew & Cast Contact details:

John Jones

_____________________        

Adam Howland

_____________________        

Sam Hawkins

_____________________        

Alex Wallace

_____________________        

    

Props & Equipment                               crew responsible

 

Video camera x2                                 Adam Howland           

Tripod                                          Sam Hawkins

Fish eye lense                                  Alex Wallace      

Photo camera

Photo

 

Location	Cast	Technical notes
Tonbridge park	John Jones- Martha Mckerlie	Long shot of them both sitting on a bench talking
Tonbridge Park	John Jones- Martha Mckerlie	Long shot of artist pushing girl on a swing
Tonbridge Park	John Jones- Martha Mckerlie	Long shot of them holding hands walking towards the camera
Tonbridge Park	John Jones- Martha Mckerlie	Extreme longshot at a low angle showing them walking along beside the river holding hands

Risk Assessment

 

Location	What is the hazard?	Who/what might be harmed and why?	How will you reduce the risk?
Tonbridge Park	If the weathers we we need to ensure the cameras don’t get damaged	Group need to be aware of the risk, to avoid damage to equipment	Ensure that cameras are covered if it rains to make sure they don’t get wet

 

Date: 10/11           Location: Southborough +                                       + Leigh

Meeting Time: 12pm    Group: 3         

 

Crew & Cast Contact details:

John Jones

_____________________                      

Sam Hawkins

_____________________          

Alex Wallace

_____________________          

 

Props & Equipment                               crew responsible

 

Video camera x2                                

Tripod                                          Sam Hawkins

Fish eye lense                                  Alex Wallace      

Photo camera

Photo

Location	Cast	Technical notes
Leigh- bedroom	John Jones	Mid shot of artist sitting on bed rapping
Leigh- bedroom	John Jones	Still shots of artist laying on bed with items appearing round him. Framed in mid shot using a still camera.

Risk Assessment

 

Location	What is the hazard?	Who/what might be harmed and why?	How will you reduce the risk?
Southborough	Possible cars in the location	Our group and actor need to be aware of cars	Try not to film in the road if so be aware

Group : Progress update

During todays lesson we spent time looking through the footage we have shot for our production. We have been watching each piece of footage in order to assess whether they're good enough to use within our production, as well as deleting footage where any errors took place.
For example within some of the footage we found that there was people in the background of the shot. Also we have noticed that for some of the stop motion pictures the lighting varies in some of them, getting lighter or darker so when it comes to editing them within premier elements, we will need to ensure that we adjust the lighting in order to make it continuous throughout the music video, or if we need to then we will have to take the photos again.

SH: Print work overview

As a group, we have decided that it is most appropriate to use an image of the artist staring into the camera and also that we want the background of the digipak to be fairly minimalistic in order for us to put the focus on the artist in the fore ground and also the titles. What we have not yet decided however is how to frame the picture and where exactly to shoot it. In my opinion a good location to take this picture would be in the council estate location that we filmed at, there is a brick wall there with some graffiti but not very much and I think we should shoot the main digipak picture there, possibly from a low angle at a mid shot or maybe MLS.

in much of the other print work of Mikill Pane we see him with a similar idea for the shots, although sometimes the angles and framing can vary slightly from image to image so we should consider what framing would best suit are themes. In some ways a high angle may look better for this image as the portrayal of this would be that the audience is looking down with sympathy on the artist. This is shown in the album cover for Mikill Panes recent album 'Blame Miss Barclay' shown below.

However, as I said, angles and framing would be used differently depending on what connotations we want for the over all digipak and album cover image. the example picture below which was not used in an album cover but an EP artwork uses an eye line shot and if framed much closer than the one above, this gives the audience a more intimate feel with the artist and according to Dyers two paradoxes portrays the artist in a present way.

This image was not shot in full colour, the one above seems to have the greens and yellows being more prominent and the image to the left has a more vintage brown/ black and white was to it. In my opinion I think we should consider having our image in black and white as it would link to connotations of the song in its heart break and break up theme.

AH : Print work ideas

After reviewing the album cover for Mikill pane I believe that our print work should incorporate a similar format, using a minimalist style of print work. Mikill pane uses a single image in this case which is an idea we hope to emulate in our print work. The use of extra dietetic gaze is apparent through the artist looking directly at the camera which is also something we will consider when producing our print work.












Furthermore the use of the logo, in which this case is chalked into the floor is a feature which is going to be evident within ours, as it helps to distinguish the artist from others through his own unique logo.

In this case Mikill pane uses aspects such as mise en scene in terms of the location and props in order to reflect the notion of him being a 'school boy' through the use of his costume (uniform) as well as the location which appears to be a play ground. This helps to show the characteristics of Mikill Pane, due to the fact that he would consider himself to appeal to a younger generation, and he is a fairly comical character in terms of the content he uses within music videos, however, within music videos he presents himself using serious facial expressions. Therefore we are given two sides to the artist which we can connote through his costume in this case, where he is wearing a formal school uniform with his tie and top button done up, however his lower half of his body, he is wearing trainers and socks to help to juxtapose this formal and informal fashion.

We are possibly considering the idea of taking a shot from within our music video to use for our album cover. This is evident in many similar artworks of this genre of music, or possibly using images that relate to the song. Due to the fact that ours is about a relationship I am possibly considering using an image to relate to this, as it helps to represent the dominant ideologies of the music video, as well as the key theme of relationships.

Group: Progress Update

We have now filmed the majority of our footage, which leaves us with still quite a few tasks to do. we need to edit and collate all the footage we have and choose which specific shots we are going to use, as the footage we have shot mostly we shot a lot more than we actually need in case something does not look right or something else looks better. As well as this we need to arrange our final two shoots, one taking place at Sam's house in a bedroom - for this we also need to consider lighting before we shoot. The other location we need to shoot is against the blue screen at school, so logistically this will be very easy to arrange equipment and cast and crew for these shoots as we will most likely film when we have free periods or during one or two lunchtimes as we do not anticipate it will take any longer than an hour and a half with the footage we have left to shoot.

We also need to take and print out a couple of still images to use as props and also for our print work, one of the artist standing looking into the camera with a fairly plain background, we already have this picture that we may use but we need to analyse it. Another picture we need to take is one of the artist and his 'girlfriend' standing together which we can use in our film as a prop. When we take these pictures we will probably do a similar thing to what we did when filming which was to take more shots than we actually need and when we upload them to the computer we can decide what we think looks the best.

This week we need to put some more consideration and maybe draft up some of the print work we wish to create, however we can not do this until we have taken the still images. We already know roughly what we all want to see in our digipak, a plain background with the artist as the main image, but we have not yet put in a lot of consideration into our second piece of print work and we should consider this whilst we our editing as it should leave two free members of the group.

When planning our next two shoots we also need to make a list of all the shots that are needed for each location and what each shot is likely to involve, similar to our storyboard and a shot list that Sam created but in much more specific detail for each shoot.

We need to finish off the call sheet and risk assessment which Adam has started and the editing is an ongoing process with Alex currently doing the initial part of it.

Below is the shot list that has been prepared for our shoots to help us organise what is needed and where instead of using a storyboard which we thought could be a little bit untidy and also confusing if there is too much to consider.

location	part of song	prop/ action	shot no.
Alex's	intro	record player	1
school studio/blue screen	rap verse		2,3
tesco	rap verse		4
bedroom - sams	rap verse	boddingtons, bin bag of stuff, phone	5,9, 10
council estate bit	rap verse		6
school stairs bit	rap verse	exit sign?	7,8
front of council estate	start of chorus	phone, to start off first stop motion	11
front of council estate	start of chorus	phone, to start off first stop motion	12
grove?	chorus stop motion 1	phone to take stop motion	/
bus stop?	chorus stop motion 1	phone to take stop motion	/
getting off a bus/train?	chorus stop motion 1	phone to take stop motion	/
high street, entrance to grove?	chorus stop motion 1	phone to take stop motion	/
whiteboard, pin up board	chorus	pictures                                                       time lapse of pictures/images appearing	/
a bedroom	chorus at some point	screw up paper, also cans of beer, and items that can appear on floor around him?	/
bedroom - sams	second verse	touches heart	18
bedroom - sams	second verse	laid on bed	19
bedroom - sams	second verse	sit up on bed, hold up radio	20
cd shop	second verse	flicks through cd albums, or at home looking through albums                   swish pan out	21
plain white background, blue screen? Or bedroom	second verse	holds up bottle of vanish                                                                                                     swish pan in	22
back to studio	end of second verse	him alone in studio	23

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

_____________________        

Adam Howland

_____________________        

Sam Hawkins

_____________________        

Alex Wallace

_____________________        

  

 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