Shooting Schedule

Shooting Schedule

This is our shooting schedule for the next couple of week, however there will more shooting schedules to come, but we are not sure when we will be doing it or which shots we will do.

Test Shots: Slow Mo with the Go Pro

After completing some test shots with the attachable camera and tint screens, we realized that we wanted to explore more advanced techniques and effects in preparation for our music video as we didn't initially think of them, and we want to improve the standard of our final project. 

 Here, we have experimented with the Go Pro camera by creating slow motion shots, we have done this by setting the Go Pro to 100 frames per second and 720p. After shooting, we went onto Adobe Premiere Pro to slow down the shots. 

We feel that this experimentation went well as we were able to achieve some really interesting effects by mixing the slow motion with the normal footage. Although we haven't originally planned to incorporate this into our music video, we feel that the slow motion technique could help to add effect and emphasis as less typical shots and effects are conventional for the indie genre. Also, as we feature a lot of tracking shots of the artist walking, sometimes focusing on the feet, and the slow motion effect could help to add effect and match the tone/pace of the music. Additionally, this effect could add atmosphere for the video which will show the audience that the artist is exploring the different settings, and emphasis the background/costume/etc.

Test shots: Light and Tints

 For some of the performance shots in our video, we were thinking about using tints with a light that attaches to the top of the camera. To test this, we used blue, orange and red tints;

 

We feel this went well as each tint adds a new emotion and atmosphere within the shot. For the blue, this creates quite a cold, rebellious atmosphere which fits in with our graffiti shots, it also relates to our genre well as it diffuses some of the background colour. For the orange and red, this relates well to both characters as they are both warm shades that create converse effects from the blue - we could use this tint in the shots within the church as it creates a warm and comfortable atmosphere, which will contrast from the blue.  It also creates warm colours in relation to the stain glass windows, as these are featured in many of our shots.

Learning how to use the GoPro & Development of test shots

As one of our feature shots in the video, we are planning to do a tracking shot off the artists feet walking through the church. We really like this idea as it is quite a different shot, and will add atmosphere as the framing is quite unconventional. 
We have tested this shot before, however we weren't able to access the Go Pro, so the shot looked messy and the movement was jagged.
To test this again, we have used the Go Pro camera on a dolly and pushed it across the floor.

This was our first attempt of creating the tracking shot with the Go Pro, we are quite happy with how it turned out as the speed is relative to the walking, and the movement is much smoother than our first attempt. However, towards the end of the clip the movement becomes much more jagged as we struggled to keep the speed steady.

To try and make the movement smoother, we tried to push the dolly down a slope as this meant we didnt have to push it. Although this worked well as we didn't need to touch it: the movement did become too fast and we lost the atmosphere that we want to create.

This was our final attempt at a smaller slope, however we did have to push it and battle with stronger winds. This made the movement a bit more jagged and uncontrolled. 

To improve, we will will attach a string to the dolly as this means that we can pull it across the floor without having to physically push it which will create smooth movements.

Our groups feedback

In order to get feedback on our animatic, we asked our class to answer some questions on what they thought of our animatic/video.

In this edit, we have shown the classes response to the animatic, as well as our own response and interpretation to what they have said.




When watching back the feedback from the classes response, there are a few things that we need to ensure that we work upon, in order to make our music video to the highest standard. To do this we have to make sure that we do not make the shots too long, if this is done it will then take away the narrative as there will be pauses when there should be continuous flow within the music video and can also make the video a bit boring.
We then have to make sure that we do not repeat the same shots too many times, as this will make the  music video  a bit too samey and therefore could lead to the audience to be disinterested .
 Lastly we have to make sure that the editing is on the beat, this key for any music video as its the conventional way to edit. Further more making sure the editing is on the right beat will mean it will not disorientate the audience as it will not distract them from the narrative and/or the song.

Reflecting on 2013 year 13 adivce

This post is purely based on the advice that that the year 13 from last year gave us in response to our music video and the way we undertake this project.

From this we have learnt:

• Not to waste any of our class time and own time. To make sure that we are constantly focused and working on relevant tasks appropriate to our project.
• To make sure that everyone in our group has an even role within our project and to have a balanced work load.
• Also we have taken into consideration that we should film nearer to us to make re shoots easier, however we are shooting some of our shots further away to go above and beyond. We also like the places better and feel it is more suitable for our music video in these places we have chosen.
• We have already finalized our costumes, so this advice just justifies our thoughts on our project and will make the costume much more professional. This will also look much better in the setting we are shooting in.

Record label permission

This is the emails that were sent to the managers of Meg Mac. This was just asking permission to use her song: Grandmas Hands for our media course.

 

Props

For our music video, we do not feature many props as we want to keep the main focus on the artist and the setting, as this will help to show the narrative. The only prop that we mainly use is the candle within the church, as this helps to push the narrative with the artist lighting the candle at the beginning, it burning in the middle of the video and then the artist blowing it out at the end. 

Costume

We have composed a short video to show our main costume ideas for the main two strands of our music video; Church Girl and Urban Girl. Some of the costumes may not be featured in the final music video, however having this video and testing the costume, and general look, for the artist has allowed us to analyze which outfits we prefer and will suit the genre/song. 

 





 

Hope you enjoyed :)

Record labels

This is a presentation as part of our groups planning. This shows my research to different record labels I've looked into. I have done so because Adriana, our artist will need to be part of a record label so researching different artists that are signed to different record labels are useful.

Record Labels

Record Labels

Here is my research into 2 UK record companies and 1 from the US. I focused on the more independent companies as this is what my music video is more likely to follow into. As, for the indie genre, having a more independent record company is quite conventional and will help to emphasise the image of the band/artist and appeal to/attract fans. I focused on one from the US as this is where many record companies start, mainly the more mainstream companies.

Age Restrictions

This is my PowerPoint on age restrictions, I have explored the new introduction of age restriction laws that may come around on Youtube and other programmes in the next couple of years. This will reduce how exposed younger generations are to explicit content.

Talent release form

 This is our groups talent release form. I am part of the group however, feature in our music video as the artist. I had to fill this out and sign it to agree to be in our music video. Because i will be in every lesson i am already committing as much as the rest of our group... so i only rounded off roughly between when we are filming and the locations just vary.

Location Permission

Below are the emails that we have sent to a variety of churches to get permission to film in their churches, we have also put the responses from our emails. 

Trinity Church Sutton:

All Saints Carshalton: 

Reply:

St Mary's Merton: 

St Mary's Beddington: 

Replies:

  St Patrick's Church, Wallington:

Their response:

Christ Church, Sutton:

   

 

Reply:

 

In addition to the churches, we are planning to film in more urban settings within London. After some research, we chose; Southbank, Brick Lane and Leake Street Tunnel as these all have a unique and urban setting. We have also chosen area's with 'legal graffiti' which we will use in our shots to match the urban setting and feel;

Brick Lane:

Southbank;

Leake Street Tunnel:

Age restrictions

 


                
                   

Animatic

 Our Animatic:

After creating our storyboard, we have put all the shots into an animatic with our chosen song in the background in order to see if our shots work with the music and to test the timing of shots. This was helpful as we were able to discover that we had too many shots to fit into the timing of the music which meant that we were able to cut out unnecessary shots and ensure that we were only included well planned and needed shots. It has also allowed us test the shots and change the orders that they were initially placed in for our storyboard as we were able to evaluate how smoothly the shots flowed into another, and whether they were relevant with where they were placed.

This will show an initial idea to our concept, however we still expect to develop on this as we move into the physical creation and editing of the music video.

       

  

2nd draft

To improve, we cropped out the table in the background as this keeps the focus on the animatic shots;

Age restriction for music videos