Blog Posts - Freddie Carus

Final Products:
Music Video
Digipak
Magazine Advert

Evaluation - Evaluation Q 1, 2, 3 and 4.

Research:
Initial Ideas
Character Exploration Moodboard
Analysis of artists metanarrative
Digipak Production task
Rebranding Beiber
Concept development 1
Concept Development 2
Concept Development 3
Lyrics of song and ideas
Technical Analysis
Digipak Analysis
Audience Research
Further Research and Inspiration



Planning:
Brighton reccie feedback
Pitch Feedback
Casting ideas
Costume ideas
Bidborough Ridge practice shoot
Animatic
Powder Paint practice shoot
Print progression 1
Print progression 2
Print progression 3
Logistics:
Call sheet and risk assessment from shoot on 7/11/15
Shot list, risk assessment and call sheet 13/11/15



Production:
Brighton Recce video
Reflection on shoot 11/11/15
Reflection on shoot 2 - 17/11/15
Reflection on shoot 3
Reflection on shoot 4
After Effects editing process
Editing progression and rough cut

9095 - Oliver Hurditch

Blog Posts

Final Products:

• Music Video
• Digipak
• Magazine advert

Evaluation:

• Question 1, 2, 3 and 4

Research:

• Dyer and Goodwin comparison of two videos
• Initial ideas for music video
• Rebranding of Justin Bieber
• Digipak production task (using Photoshop for the first time)
• Mood board - Investigating Genre
• Analysis of Promo Package  
• Lyrics of song and ideas
• Technical Analysis, House Every Weekend
• Audience research questionnaire
• Further Research for inspiration
• Rough Cut Audience Feedback
• Theory Advancements
• Initial Track Ideas
• Concept Development 1
• Concept Development 2
• Concept Development 3
• Further ideas for the video 
• Analysis of Meta-Narrative, Rae Sremmurd

Planning:

• Practice shots at Bidborough Ridge
• Casting the video 
• Costume for the video
• Print Progression and ideas 1
• Print Progression and ideas 2
• Print Progression and ideas 3
• Pitch and feedback
• Animatic
• Paint Shoot (practice shots) 
• Editing Update (20/11/15)
• Editing Update and Rough-cut (1/12/2015)

Logistics:

• Call sheet, shot list, risk assessment for filming (Paint shoot)
• Call sheet, shot list, risk assessment for filming on (13/11/15) 
• Call sheet, shot list and risk assessment (17/11/2015)
• Call sheet, shot list, risk assessment for filming on (25/11/15)
• Call sheet, shot list, risk assessment for filming (Paint shoot re-done)

Production:

• Brighton Recce video
• Group Feedback on Brighton Recce
• Reflection on shoot (Paint shoot)
• Reflection on shoot (Paint shoot - redone)
• Reflection on shoot (London - 13/11/15)
• Reflection on shoot (Final Scene - 17/11/15)
• Reflection on shoot (Brighton - 25/11/15)

BWB - Evaluation Qestions 1,2,3,4.

Q4 – how did you use media technologies from bradwarwickbrowne

OH - Evaluation Questions 1,2, 3 and 4

 

Question 1

 

Question 2

 

Question 3

 

 

Question 4

Group - Final Magazine Ad

Group - Final Digipak

Group - Final Piece

FC: Evaluation Q1, Q2, Q3 and Q4.

Evaluation Question 2

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BWB - Reflection on paint shoot (Shoot 5)

When, Where and Who?

Last Thursday we all went to Oli's house to shoot the majority of our 15 second intro which involved the paint throwing. We decided to do it at Oli's house as he kindly offered to use his bedroom to complete the shots. The natural lighting beaming through the large windows was good and there was a white wall that was big enough to get the framing right. It took us about half an hour to prepare the shoot. This involved putting a lot of dust sheets down and moving large pieces of furniture such as the bed and the chest of drawers. Setting up, filming and cleaning up took about 2 hours in total.

My role in production

My role throughout production was relatively straight forward and simple. I basically had to keep a straight face showing no emotion as the paint was thrown over me.

How useful was the shot-list?

The shot list was only necessary for establishing the amount of shots we needed and how long each shot needed to be. The framing remained the same in each shot, therefore constant reference to a shot list was not required, much of it was improvised.

What were your best shots?

All of the shots we took were successfully filmed and looked good. However some of the paint throwing shots were better than others as the effect of the coming into contact with my face looked better than others creating almost a splash like effect. We had filmed all of the shots in 60 frames per second. Therefore when slowed down in editing the shots looked really effective.

Any problematic shots?

We had multiple problematic shots. The first 5 shots we had filmed managed to some how be deleted. Therefore I had to go into the shower and wash of all of the paint which was currently on me. This was a hassle and meant we had to re-shoot the opening 5 shots which took time. In addition to this Oli's and Freddie's paint throwing was very inaccurate at times. Resulting in causing a large mess on the white wall and carpet.

 

OH - Reflection on shoot (Paint Shoot Re-Done)

When, Where and Who?

Last Thursday we all headed to my house to shoot half of the intro which included the paint throwing. We had to do this at my house as I was the only one who offered up a location so we did it in my room as the lighting was good and there was a wall that was big enough to get the framing right. Myself, Brad and Freddie all went to my house to sort out the set and film the scene.

My role in production

As it was shot at my house i organised the set before they both arrived, and when they did i made sure the framing was right for the shots and made sure that Brad was in the same framing size for all of the shots. Also as it was in my house i had to clean up the set afterwards, unfortunately as we were in a rush to return to school in time it meant that i couldn't truly clean it up in time, which resulted in the powder paint staining the carpet which will have to be industrially cleaned as a result.

How useful was the shot-list?

As there was only one type of framing needed for the scene there wasn't much need for a shortlist as we just recorded every time that the paint got thrown onto Brad. However it did mean that we made sure we got the pictures for the print campaign done, which was handy.

What were your best shots?

All of the shots we took were decent. However some of the paint throwing shots were better than others as the paint would explode on the face better in some shots than others. However as they were all shot at 60fps, when slowed down all of them will look very good. 

Any problematic shots?

Well as a result of the mess with the powder paint you could say that they were all relatively problematic due to the fact that we tried to limit the amount of mess that was made by not throwing it a hard at Brad, however they still made lots of mess which was a shame for myself.

OH - Print Progression

The latest developments of the group is that we have completed the front cover of the digipak and it has set the tone of design for the rest of the design of the digipak so it will be easy to complete the rest in a similar design. Using Adobe Photoshop CS3 I merged the two images together and changed the picture of Brad using the cut out filter effect and played around with the saturation until it was right. After this I edited some of the image to make it look more realistic and ended up with the image. Then finished by adding the MK logo to the top corner which is a similar style to the rest of his print production.

This was the pattern I made in paint which matches a lot of his original albums

Here is the original image of Brad taken on the shoot



This is the logo used in all his media

The evidence of the production of the image

Group - Call sheet, shot list, risk assessment (Paint shoot Re-done)

TWGSB Media Studies Film Production

Call Sheet & Shot list

Date: 3/12/2015    Location: Ollie’s Room

Meeting Time: 1:30    Group: 6     

Crew & Cast Contact details:

Brad Warwick-Browne           Phone: 07864738564

Ollie Hurditch               Phone: 07837285644

Freddie Carus                 Phone: 07145266676

Props & Equipment                               crew responsible

Camera (cannon 50d)                             Ollie

Tripod                                          Freddie

Location	Shot number (on storyboard)	Cast	Technical notes
In Ollie’s bedroom	1	Bradley	Paint thrown from both angle at Brad
In Ollie’s bedroom	2	Bradley	Paint thrown from the left
In Ollie’s bedroom	3	Bradley	Paint thrown from the right side
In Ollie’s bedroom	4	Bradley	Paint thrown from the top
In Ollie’s bedroom	5	Bradley	Paint mixed together from all the different colours and thrown as a huge mass at the same time

TWGSB Media Studies Film Production

Risk Assessment

You need to consider all the potential risks at each location shoot and outline how you will work to prevent any accident or injury to you, your cast or the equipment.

Location	What is the hazard? Think about road safety, filming at night, potential damage to equipment	Who/what might be harmed and why? Think about who needs to be aware of the risk	How will you reduce the risk? What steps will you take to ensure that the risk is lowered?
In the bedroom	Brad getting paint in his eye	Bradley is the paint is thrown directly at his eyes	Don’t throw the paint straight at his eyes and try to aim for his cheeks
In the bedroom	Getting powder paint on uniform or possessions	Our possessions	By not throwing the paint at each other and aim purely for brads face to avoid collateral damage

Group - Editing Progression and Rough Cut



Here is the latest rough cut for the group, with the deadline arriving Brad and I have stepped up the amount of editing and Freddie has been doing as much after effects as possible. To date he has completed both of the hand swiping across scenes as well as the colour effect on the "disappears" lyric. However we still need to go on another shoot, which has been scheduled for tomorrow which we will complete the second paint shoot as well as the filler shots required for the Brad and Luca scene as well as the shots needed for the walk to location which is at the end of the video. All of which will be filmed in Tunbridge Wells and will only need to fill up around 15 seconds of the timeline in total, as well as having to film Brads arm going across a wall so that we can overlay this on the clip of the people in the drama studio as the original clip is too dark, this will need to be done on a blue wall so its easy to edit and lay on top of the other clip. After this is done we can get it all onto the timeline ready to play around with the visual presentation of the clips. Also whilst we have the costumes on tomorrow we will take pictures of all 3 of us as well as individual ones of Brad in order to finish our print.

As seen is the evidence of editing with the colour filter added
over the top to make a strobe affect over the top of the dance

scene.

FC: Reflection on Brighton shoot.

On Wednesday the 25th of November me, Ollie, Brad and Luca travelled to Brighton in Brads car. I got up at 6am because I'm committed and had to get a train to High brooms to get picked up. We were prepared in that we knew what shots we needed, we were fairly short for time so we were working very quickly, this meant organisation was key. Furthermore we made use of the different locations available around Brighton, for example we got shots in the car park we parked in because the lighting was ideal. The first thing we shot was the dancing scenes in front of the graffiti walls. this could of taken a very long time but the dancing was actually decent and not to many errors were made so this process was very easy.

My role was to film, I enjoyed this because it meant I didn't have to dance. most of the shots we collected on Wednesday were filmed by myself because the other 3 were all acting. I also had to wear 3 coats around for like an hour to ensure continuity was preserved.

The shot list was very useful because it meant we didn't have to waste time debating over what shot we would get next. The fact that we were pushed for time meant that the shot list was crucial, overall I would say the shot list was well useful.

Our best shots were easily the ones which featured Brad, Ollie and Luca dancing. These could of potentially looked really bad but the dancing was at a high level of synchronisation so the shots came out looking wavey.

We didn't really encounter any problems, one might argue that the members of the public being in shot was problematic however there wasn't really any thing that went wrong so filming went quite smoothly.  

Group - Print Progression (Further look into Print Production)

OH - Reflection on shoot 4 (Brighton)

When, Where and Who?

On the 25th of November Brad, Luca, Freddie and I all travelled down to Brighton to do what we hope is the last piece of filming for our music video. We left bright and early at 7 and aimed to be in Brighton by 8:30, depending on traffic, we had a firm idea on what we wanted to shoot and on the way in we spotted some graffiti walls and decided that would be a good area to shoot our dance sequence as it was going to take up a large proportion of the filming time. We parked up and headed over, on arrival it was clear that this would be a good area to shoot in, so we got down to perfecting our moves so they were not only in match with each other but also the beat. After this was all filmed we headed into the centre of Brighton to film the bulk of the footage and filler shots. This was all done well with Freddie filming most of the footage.

My role in production

Most of the day was down to Brad, Luca and I to get involved with the acting so that Freddie could film. However I also took a leading role in the directing of the piece which included getting the framing right for all of the shots and making sure that we were keeping on time and sticking to the shot list, in order to get back to school in time for the lessons that we had.

How useful was the shot list?

We were put under an immense time limit to do the filming so the shot list really kept us fixed on what was needed to be done and allowed us to tick off shots as we filmed them, overall acting as a checklist throughout the day. The shots on the list were thoroughly thought out and it meant that not too much thinking was required in order to shoot them, which meant that we were able to get the shoot done quicker.

What were your best shots?

Overall I'd say that the dancing shots were probably the most effective now looking back on them on the timeline. Not only this but we were very efficient when filming them and made sure that the framing was very similar for each so that when we were to edit them in Adobe Premier Elements they could be cut together and the actors wouldn't move around too much in the frame.

Any problematic shots?

Overall it was a good day filming the only thing I would say is that because we were filming in a public place it meant that a lot of people were turning round and looking at the camera as it was clearly out of the norm for that area, which effected the authenticity of the piece. Also unfortunately whilst on the shoot, during one of the shots Luca's watch fell off and smashed on the ground at the start of the shoot, but like the trooper he is, he soldiered on and kept acting for the group.

BWB - Reflection on brighton shoot 4

When where and who?
Me, Oli, Luca and Freddie drove up to Brighton on the morning of 25th of November. Our intentions were devote 40 minutes to completing the dancing shots, firstly of just Me and Luca, then many more involving Ollie as well. We did this all in a skate park which we spotted on approach to the City centre. After successfully completing these shots we went into the city centre and parked up. We completed the rest of our footage here, away from the beach as we wanted to create the effect that we were still in London to create continuity from our last shoot, therefore deliberately avoiding the beach.

My role in Production
My role throughout production was to drive the crew to and from Brighton. When we arrived my role was to successfully play the protagonist throughout filming and playing the role of director in some circumstances. Additionally I choreographed a successful dance routine which both Luca and Oli could effectively execute.

How useful was the shot list?
The shot was very useful in helping us achieve the broad range of footage we filmed. We arrived in Brighton with a clear understanding of what we needed to film and could frequently refer back to the shot list if we had forgotten what to shoot next. The shot list meant we were confident that we completed all the shots before we left to go home.

What where your best shots?

Our best shots where definitely at the start of the day throughout the dancing sequence. This was due to the excellent quality of the graffiti and the sheer quantity of it which we could use. This enabled us to get a lot of dancing footage in front of different walls which can be used to create a faster intense cutting rate when edited, enhancing the audiences interest.

Any problematic shots?
We had issues when filming in the City centre. When filming many members of the public would be either looking or pointing at us whilst we were filming, therefore making some scenes look unnatural. In addition to this some of the framing of the shots was incorrect and we didn't manage to shoot enough close ups like we intended to.