Friday, 28 November 2014
Filming Day 4 and 5
Tuesday 24th November and Friday 28th November 2014, with the help of my friend Scott I completed the narrative shots for my music video. We filmed all the shots that feature the male character who has woken up much like the female character to an apocalyptic Britain. We managed to get some really good shots by using the fig rig to get some really good angles. The last shot is especially good as it came out better than we was expecting
Monday, 17 November 2014
Props 2
I have added to my original props list now that my LED sunglasses have arrived and my Media teacher gave me some old broken mobile phones which the boy will use in the narrative to try and call the girl as he lost his mobile phone. These are the connecting factors to the narrative, the boy has lost his phone and the girl finds it in the woods.
LED Sunglasses:
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Old Mobile Phones:
LED Sunglasses:
The LED Sunglasses are better than I expected them to be they're very bright and have 3 settings 1 normal one, 1 slow flashing and 1 fast flashing. These Glasses will work very well when I re-shoot the band shots and get some additional artist shots in the dark where the LED Sunglasses are the main source of light.
Old Mobile Phones:
Filming Day 3 - Narrative
On Sunday 16th November 2014 me and my actress Phoebe filmed some scenes that go to the narrative of my music video. I filmed almost all of Phoebe's narrative shots which take place in a woods as part of the Apocalyptic setting. Phoebe plays the girl who in the Narrative is trying to find the boy who she has a romantic connection with but she is unsuccessful in finding him she does however find his mobile phone. I managed to capture some very nicely framed shots and the whole day went very well the woods setting looked great and we found a cool little shed thing with a danger warning sign on it which will work very nicely as a cutaway.
Friday, 14 November 2014
Music Video: Raw Footage
So like in my Filming reflection post there are some shots of my band that need to be re-shot as they do not look amazing because of some issues that I'm going to fix in the re-shoots. The biggest problems were lighting, framing and drumming, the lighting was not done very well in some of the band shots as it ended up with the drummer left in darkness and the light started glaring off of the Bass Guitar causing some major issues. Additionally the shot was not framed very well as there was a huge space on the right with nothing in it and the end result was Scott's guitar getting cut off on the left side.
Example:
The other issue we faced is because we was filming this during the school day Josh decided to not actually hit the drums but pretend to so that the drama teachers didn't get annoyed. However the miming was not done very accurately as it was fairly clear that he was actually hitting the drums.
Examples:
Apart from the obvious issue of it doesn't look like Josh is actually hitting the drums this shot isn't actually too bad I quite like the idea of having the guitar solo as shots cutting between Scott playing the solo and the drummer and bassist playing together as it's a big section in the song and it looks good rocking out in time with each other.
Example:
The other issue we faced is because we was filming this during the school day Josh decided to not actually hit the drums but pretend to so that the drama teachers didn't get annoyed. However the miming was not done very accurately as it was fairly clear that he was actually hitting the drums.
Examples:
Apart from the obvious issue of it doesn't look like Josh is actually hitting the drums this shot isn't actually too bad I quite like the idea of having the guitar solo as shots cutting between Scott playing the solo and the drummer and bassist playing together as it's a big section in the song and it looks good rocking out in time with each other.
Thursday, 13 November 2014
GoPro Test Footage
On Tuesday 11th November 2014, Me, Max and Lucy during a Media lesson learnt how to use the GoPro and then filmed some test footage. Here is our test footage:
Filming Day 1 and 2
So on Friday 7th November 2014 I started filming my Music Video. I filmed some performance shots of the main artist and the band. The end result of the day is that some of the shots look really nice and work really well where as other shots encountered some problems which need to be fixed with re-shooting. One problem I encountered was one of the shots was not properly lit therefore resulting in a drummer left in the dark and the bass catching the light causing a glare. Additionally there was a lot of space on the left that needs to be covered, the shot needs to be framed properly.
The second day of filming was on Saturday 8th November 2014. I began filming the narrative of my music video. However this is where I encountered the most problems we planned to film in a woods and due to the time of year it is it got dark very quickly and it poured down with rain. This meant that annoyingly all my shots were unusable and so this Sunday I am planning to re-shoot them as well as some additional footage for my narrative.
The second day of filming was on Saturday 8th November 2014. I began filming the narrative of my music video. However this is where I encountered the most problems we planned to film in a woods and due to the time of year it is it got dark very quickly and it poured down with rain. This meant that annoyingly all my shots were unusable and so this Sunday I am planning to re-shoot them as well as some additional footage for my narrative.
Tuesday, 4 November 2014
Location Permissions Update 2
After hearing back from Mr Barnett who told me to email the head of Drama Mr Walsh, I emailed Mr Walsh
However it was also brought to my attention that DH2 could be in use due to Year 12 and 13 Drama performances so I also decided to email dance about potentially using D25 or SPD just in case.
Performance shots and Editing Ideas
My planned idea for editing was to have the typical on beat, fast paced, montage editing. However when watching some music videos I can up with the idea of starting the performance shots out as quite a calm and controlled performance and then like a lot of rock bands do when the music is big and loud over exaggerating the performance. Bands such as Muse and Foo Fighters do this all the time.
In Muse's Time is Running Out Video, when the music builds in the pre-chorus and becomes much bigger and louder in the chorus there performance is much more over exaggerated. Foo Fighters do something similar in there music video for Monkey Wrench, example below.
So when it comes to filming my performance shots I plan for me and my friends who are playing my other band members to give a much more over exaggerated, high energy performance so that it feels much more like a Rock music video rather than keeping a more controlled performance. This would allow me to work with some shots that keep to my genre and highlight the genre much more.
In Muse's Time is Running Out Video, when the music builds in the pre-chorus and becomes much bigger and louder in the chorus there performance is much more over exaggerated. Foo Fighters do something similar in there music video for Monkey Wrench, example below.
So when it comes to filming my performance shots I plan for me and my friends who are playing my other band members to give a much more over exaggerated, high energy performance so that it feels much more like a Rock music video rather than keeping a more controlled performance. This would allow me to work with some shots that keep to my genre and highlight the genre much more.
Narrative Change
My original idea for my narrative was to have a boy and girl who were separated from each other because society is corrupt and it doesn't allow them to be together kind of like Romeo and Juliet where they are divided because of a family feud. This idea came from after I chose my song The Groove by Muse I decided to watch some Muse music videos for inspiration as Muse usually have a wide variety of styles of videos that have messages and deeper meanings on topics such as corrupt government, love and the end of the world. My initial idea was inspired by the Music video for the song Madness
In the first 29 seconds of the music video it establishes the idea of a man and woman who are stuck in a world full of corruption and it has divided them because they can not be together whilst society is so corrupt.
This was how I came up with my initial idea but after much thought and consideration I decided to change my idea to something that might be a lot easier for the audience to understand and showing a corrupt society could prove to be a challenge.
I decided to have my narrative as a boy and girl who are still divided but rather than being divided by a corrupt society they are divided by the collapse of civilization/end of the world. My idea now is to highlight the idea that when civilization collapsed the boy and girl were the the only two that survived and are now currently the last two humans left however when the end of the world had occurred they were not together so now they are in a desperate struggle to find each other by continuously walking through woods and other derelict locations to find each other only to narrowly avoid each other. This idea came from listening to the song I chose again and being a muse fan I know that frontman Matt Bellamy has many theories about the end of the world and how it will end so it seemed like a good idea for my narrative. This will also allow me to do some very interesting shots like one of their phones running out of battery and becoming useless as well as one of them finding some older phones and tries to find one that has some battery and is able to contact the other. How I came about with the end of the world/collapse of civilization idea was from one of Muse's albums their 3rd studio album Absolution is an entire album which is telling the story of an apocalypse and how the world is ending or is going to end and it features songs such as Time is Running Out and Apocalypse please which helped give me end of the world ideas especially in the Time is Running Out music video which shows the band performing on a table where a group of world leaders have met to discuss their plans to resolve the end of the world. These songs can be seen below:
I'm hoping that changing my narrative to center around the end of the world idea will make my narrative much more clearer and will give a bigger emphasis on the boy and girl genuinely being separated with a very slim chance of being able to find each other again.
In the first 29 seconds of the music video it establishes the idea of a man and woman who are stuck in a world full of corruption and it has divided them because they can not be together whilst society is so corrupt.
This was how I came up with my initial idea but after much thought and consideration I decided to change my idea to something that might be a lot easier for the audience to understand and showing a corrupt society could prove to be a challenge.
I decided to have my narrative as a boy and girl who are still divided but rather than being divided by a corrupt society they are divided by the collapse of civilization/end of the world. My idea now is to highlight the idea that when civilization collapsed the boy and girl were the the only two that survived and are now currently the last two humans left however when the end of the world had occurred they were not together so now they are in a desperate struggle to find each other by continuously walking through woods and other derelict locations to find each other only to narrowly avoid each other. This idea came from listening to the song I chose again and being a muse fan I know that frontman Matt Bellamy has many theories about the end of the world and how it will end so it seemed like a good idea for my narrative. This will also allow me to do some very interesting shots like one of their phones running out of battery and becoming useless as well as one of them finding some older phones and tries to find one that has some battery and is able to contact the other. How I came about with the end of the world/collapse of civilization idea was from one of Muse's albums their 3rd studio album Absolution is an entire album which is telling the story of an apocalypse and how the world is ending or is going to end and it features songs such as Time is Running Out and Apocalypse please which helped give me end of the world ideas especially in the Time is Running Out music video which shows the band performing on a table where a group of world leaders have met to discuss their plans to resolve the end of the world. These songs can be seen below:
I'm hoping that changing my narrative to center around the end of the world idea will make my narrative much more clearer and will give a bigger emphasis on the boy and girl genuinely being separated with a very slim chance of being able to find each other again.
Location Permissions Update
Due to the scheduling of PDH I am unable to film there when I want to so I have emailed the drama technician to see if I can film in DH2 Period 3 and 4 on Friday 7th November 2014.
So hopefully with a little over 2 hours to film I should be able to film a large chunk of my performance shots with the whole band. After sending the email to Mr Barnett I received this email back
Shooting Schedule
These are my completed and finalized shooting schedules for Friday 7th November, Saturday 8th November, Sunday 9th November and Monday 10th November. These cover all my shots including my performance shots both band and just frontman as well as my narrative shots and if I am able to shoot everything over these four days then it gives me some extra time in case I need to plan any re-shoots. On Friday I plan to film a large chunk of the band performance shots and some of the frontman shots as well as filming the intro where the band sets up their instruments i.e. plugging in jack leads, sitting down on the drum stall etc.
Monday, 3 November 2014
Animatic Feedback
In class we were asked to watch each groups storyboard animatic's and give video feedback for each one.
After watching the feedback and listening to what my class mates had to say about my animatic and the improvements that I could make. On the whole everybody did grasp that my genre was Rock and that there was a story of a boy and girl trying to find there way back to each other. The biggest issue that was raised was that some of my shots needed to be varied more and made a bit clearer, as most of my shots seem to go from Long shot, to Mid-Shot to Close up. I have planned to make sure that my shots are very varied and work together by using some establishing shots and some low angle and high angle shots and just try to get some more interesting shots.
Muse - The Groove Animatic A2 Media by jonesc462
After watching the feedback and listening to what my class mates had to say about my animatic and the improvements that I could make. On the whole everybody did grasp that my genre was Rock and that there was a story of a boy and girl trying to find there way back to each other. The biggest issue that was raised was that some of my shots needed to be varied more and made a bit clearer, as most of my shots seem to go from Long shot, to Mid-Shot to Close up. I have planned to make sure that my shots are very varied and work together by using some establishing shots and some low angle and high angle shots and just try to get some more interesting shots.
Muse - The Groove Animatic A2 Media by jonesc462
Inspiration
There are quite a few videos that inspired me when I came up with the idea of my video especially the narrative. I picked a Muse song which is a B-side on The Time is Running Out single and being a big Muse fan I have always liked the strong views they take on many different issues whether they are political or moral. In addition to this as well Frontman Matt Bellamy has a strong belief in the end of the world happening.This is shown in many of their videos which gave me idea of having two people separated by the collapse of civilization.
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