29th November

Third shoot

Today we filmed the bits we had left out with Peter on the 22nd.

We shot him falling over down the corridor with the bags and the ring. We also managed to film the shots of the phone ringing and emails on the computer.

We only had an hour today so it was a productive lesson.

22nd November

Second shoot

So, for the second shoot straight away we had a slight problem as Ellis forgot the storyboard, BUT nothing could stop us today! We watched the animatic and decided on what shots we wanted to film.

Then, Peter realised he forgot his red tie so we couldn't film anything with Peter in, so at this point we were stuck for what to film but didnt want to waste a day. We came to the decision to film single shots of the band for the parts we needed.

17th November

First shoot

This time we did finally get some shooting done.

We got in our outfits and dressed up ready for the shoot and then we used the green screen to take some photos as we couldnt use the designated room in the morning. This was quite productive as we got a few shots done that we could use. These pictures could be used on our digipacks and posters if desired.

When the afternoon finally came we managed to shoot the band singing the whole song all the way through so when came to putting the perfomance into the video it would be easy for us to cut.

We did have a bit of a problem as I really couldn't get into the mood of performing as I felt a bit embarrassed, however seeing as we will only be using quick clips in the video it won't be visable.

Some of the process...

   Here you can see the banners we have made for our video. We wanted these colours to be bright but edgy, however then realised the video will be black and white anyway. 
  We are going to use these props because a music video of our genre doesn't necessarily have a live performance in their video, however this is what happens in real life and we wanted to put real life scenarios into our video. 
  Consequently, our video will have conventions of a rock video seeing as it has live performance/fans.

  This is the process when doing our animatic. Firstly, we had a problem with making each shot longer for the beats on the song but then figured it out by copying and pasting the shot. 
  Along the way, we discovered that some of our shots were too long and added repeated shots so it cuts more, so therefore we now have more shots in our video. 
  Our next problem was the song we uploaded was a remix and we could not cut parts of the song out so we had to reinstall another version. 
  Once this was done, we finally finished the anamatic. 

10th November

First attempt of shooting

Today we was going to try and shoot, however we couldnt get into the rooms we wanted to, so we did some test shots instead.

We liked this shot as you could see the spotlight behind which broke up the light and had a nice effect.

 This shot we liked even better as it was darker and had a nicer effect than the first one. This is what we went with in the end and decided to use a completely black background instead of the white one.

Rich Mix notes

Part One

1930's experimentation:
A colour box by Len Lye- Putting film to music, was an advert for the post office.

Go team- Similar to Colour Box, made up of found images, scratched and played around
                  with.

1940's: Soundies
Nat King Cole- Concept of perfoming and watching himself on screen, and shot of going up 
                           up the girls legs.

France called a jukebox and Scopitone.

1960's:
Beatles- Characteristics of lads, helicopter shots, handheld shots and overhead shots.

1970's: Queen

1981:
MTV- launched by accident.
Big breakthrough was Maddona. It brought a rise in female artists.

Michael Jackson-
First black artist on MTV- Billie Jean
His breakthrough was thriller.

50 Cent- Candy shop-
Humorous element underlies the sexual element.
A display of wealth and sex.
Mainly womens bodies on show, however his shirt is ripped off shows his tattoos and muscles.
Typical of its genre and was expensive.

Jay Z-99 problems-
Over 300 cuts
Contraversial with its violence
Camera moves all the time

Part two

Method of analysis:

• Genre characteristics
• Visuals relationships
• Sell artist as a star
• Intertexuality
• Voyeuism/looking

User generated content:
Mash up of Jay Z and The Beatles called the Grey Album. Remix of the videos.

Lego re-makes- Prisoners doing 'Thriller'.

Machinima- Lady Gaga.

Tips:

• Excercises with 'found footage'
• Learn to lip sync
• Karaoke multi angle version of a track for film
• Re-make an existing video frame
• Alot of cuts
• Needs to be visually memorable and worth repeat viewing
• Pitch the material
• Clear concept
• Be realistic
• Stroyboard
• Plan locations, props etc
• Shoot early
• Know the lyrics
• Blog video influence
• Research
• Blog photos
• Blog location shots
• Animatic
• Shots not too long
• Make sure you have all the equipment
• 10-15 times shooting
• Extra angles
• Lots of close ups
• Shoot more than you think you need
• Label everything you capture
• Be organised
• Sync up first
• Cut and cut again
• Aim for dynamic piece of work
• Blog rough cuts
• Screen grabs as evidence
• Lots of feedback
• Maybe artist feedback
• Evaluate

3rd November

Today we finally finished our storyboard and our animatic.

Our animatic took a while to do as we couldn't edit how we thought we could as seeing as there were many cuts in ours, it took a while to get the hang of working iMovie. As we got towards the end of the animatic we realised we uploaded the remix version of the song so then had to change that.

Apart from these minor problems we managed to finish.