Group - Animatic

 

1.What was your individual contribution to the storyboarding and animatic task?

Ollie and Brad created the images and sorted out the timings effectively, I filmed and edited it, the filming could of been done more effectively as it was hurried so some shots are shaky. furthermore because the shots were taken over two separate days the lighting is not consistent.



2.What have you learned from completing this process in terms of, camera - distance, movement and angle; editing - duration and transitions; sound - relationship between lyrics/sound and visuals, emotional colouring; Mise en scene - locations, character blocking?
creating the animatic has made it very clear that we have to produce a large volume of high quality footage and edit it effectively to achieve top band marks. Moreover it has reinforced how the small factors of mise-en-scene are very important to the general feel of the music video. making the animatic also reinforced how organized we must be in terms of collecting props and choosing days to shoot which are suitable for the actors. The process of editing also reminded me of how to edit which was good because I was quite rusty having not edited anything since last year. As a group we decided that the main thing the animatic made us think about was the relationship between the lyrics and the visuals. Before making the animatic we hadn't thought about this thoroughly enough.

3.How else has this process helped the development of your concept?
During the process of making the animatic we developed are concept by bringing in the idea of masks as our main prop. We want many of the minor characters in our video to be wearing plain masks to demonstrate how they are yet to be given life, as the title suggests. This element of our video is very illustrative because it links directly to the title.

4.How was this task more complex/different from the same task at AS?
 Its longer and requires more shots which makes the whole process more pedantic. Furthermore the shot length at AS was much slower because a horror films cutting rate tends to be quite slow in comparison to a dance music video.








Group - Call sheet, Risk assessment and shot list, 07/11/2015

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

TWGSB Media Studies Film Production

Call Sheet & Shot list

Date: 10/10/2015  Location: School car park

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 the car park	1	Bradley	Paint thrown from both angle at Brad
In the car park	2	Bradley	Paint thrown from the left
In the car park	3	Bradley	Paint thrown from the right side
In the car park	4	Bradley	Paint thrown from the top
In the car park	5	Bradley	Paint mixed together from all the different colours and thrown as a huge mass at the same time
In the car park	6	Bradley
In the car park	7	Bradley

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?
On the roads	Getting hit by a car if we are negligent when crossing the road	One of the team could be harmed and even the equipment could be damaged in the process.	Look both ways when crossing the road and make sure that all the team stay together
In the car park	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 car park	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 - Practice Shots at Bidborough Ridge

On 4th November we went to Bidborough Ridge to film some selected shots from  the opening of the piece just to get some practice before we are to go up to London to film. It has given us a lot of feedback on what we need to do for this part of the opening in regards to how much movement is needed from both the camera and the actor.
The overall feedback when showing people is that we need to include quicker movement of the camera up and down from each shot as well as the sky having to be the same on each of the shots to create some continuity between the two shots. This could be most easily achieved if the sky is clear on both shots as it will be hard to match cloud patterns. Also we were advised that the jib would be good to use to create this shot.

Group - Costume post

Costume will be one of the most important factors aesthetically in our video. The main characters in our video will all be wearing bright colours which fits with our theme of bright contrasting colours.  In terms of mise-en-scene our main costume feature will be the masks we are using, the masks are also a prop because through interacting with them the narrative of our video develops.



These masks are similar to the ones we are using in our video. we have deliberately made them plain so that they contrast heavily with the the people who are not wearing masks. Furthermore for our final scene we are having a large group of people wear the masks, these masks are a practical choice because they are not very expensive yet they are still affective.

Another point about costume in our video is that we want the clothes of the characters to reflect their mood. For example all of our main characters will be wearing bright colours during the scenes where they are interacting socially. This reinforces that they are enjoying themselves and reflects the positive overall message of our video.

For our opening shot featuring the powder paint Brad will be wearing black and white clothing, this is practical and effective because the fluorescent paint will stand out more on a black or white background.

Group - Casting

This is the cast we have decided to use. We have remained with the ideas from our pitch as it had a positive response from the class. Although all will be in the video at the final shot, we have decided to prioritise 3 main characters being Brad, Jess and Tom as it fixes into our slightly adjusted narrative throughout the video.

Group - Further Research For Inspiration

JAKE GARRATT - 'WEATHERED'

The music video for 'weathered' by Jack Garratt is relevant to our video idea as it uses an editing technique similar to what we are aiming to produce in our video. After 30 seconds the shot changes and transitions into what is meant to be footage from a camera one of the characters is holding. We want to use similar editing techniques to produce a similar effect, except instead of a video recorder the footage will be from a phone.

 

THE OH HELLOS - 'LIKE THE DAWN'

 

 

The Oh Hellos "Like The Dawn" has been a big part for the inspiration of the filler shots of walking around the city with the friends. The way that the video uses the light through all of the shots creates a good feeling throughout the video. Also like many of the other videos that we've seen they also slow their shots down through the video, which we would like to use in our piece.

 

 GROUP 1 A2 - THESE STREETS, BASTILLE.



 

 

 

 

We have taken a lot of inspiration from this video in terms of our colour schemes and opening to our video. We have decided to open our video with visual effects to make Brad in black and white whilst throwing the brightly coloured powder paint over him to enhance the idea of colour. We will go on to use the colour grading effects throughout the video regularly changing characters into black and white. An example of the effect we are looking to create is on the 43rd second of the video.