AH : production update- stop motion

• In terms of our stop motion we have begun to practise using a technique in order to see how effective it will be within our music video.
• We have filmed a practise shot of someone walking holding a clip board which we are using a tracking motion technique within premier elements in order to incorporate an animated image onto the clip board, which is effective as we can have our artist walking holding a piece of paper or clipboard with another line of action going on within the clip board such as a segment of narrative fuzz. 
• After trying to edit it on premier elements today however we have had problems as the software is hard to use a tracking motion effectively, so therefore tomorrow we are going to try using after effects software in order to edit it to a good standard.

This is the type of idea we are trying to adapt to our production:

 

AW : Print Work Progress

Because of the song being a cover and the title being 'Mikill Pane vs. Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know', we have come up with the idea of making the theme for our digipack as a video game design.

I have started a photoshop document as you can see here with a brief mock up of our idea for the front pane and back pane, which I created in the last lesson.

I have attempted to create a pastiche Playstation 1 cover under the title PaneStation as our artist is Mikill Pane.

Group : Concept Development

In terms of our stop motion, after watching this music video by One Republic- Good life we are considering using aspects of their production to apply within ours. We like the stop motion ideas, of which they use by a person holding up a picture which contains an animated image. We therefore want to try and adopt this approach within our production.  Currently we are considering using this type of effect by having the girl from our production holding up a animated picture of our artist singing.
Furthermore, we also like the idea of holding several animated pictures together in order to form a single image as seen in the picture below.

We have found out how to apply this effect to our production, which you do by drawing four dots in each corner of a piece of paper. Therefore you can then insert an image on after effects to fill the gap. Also a good thing using this idea, is that if you tilt the image sideways you can also adjust the colour to show a shadow effect when it turns away from the camera, so therefore it is an idea we could apply fairly easily to our production. Next lesson we are going to practise using this technique in order to test it and see whether it would work well within our production.

                              






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

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Sam Hawkins

_____________________        

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
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.