Filming Structure

Filming Structure

This is my music video structure which outlines what is going on during each shot with some notes of what I am trying to represent. This is helpful as I could show it to an audience to help them understand the narrative and to make any editing or shots easy to find and change if need be.

Audience Feedback from first draft

Production Log 16

I have now completed my first draft of the video.After looking at my first draft through again, I feel that it appears to be more like a short film than a music video, and that it is missing diversity, even though it is narrative based. To make it better, I think that it might be worth involving a small performance based part to the music video. I think I will get the main actress to mime some of the lyrics to the song and put them into parts of the video inbetween certain scenes. To do this I will use the drama studio as it is dark and use lots of lighting to create an effective look. I will also have these shots in black and white to add to the sorrow of the video and detail. To make sure that my video really attracts the right target audience, I have created a sruvey which I will publish to find out what other people think of my first draft. i will then look at this information and see what I can do to improve my music video.

Medicine First Draft

Production Log 15

I have now filmed in both locations for my music video. Filming went well and I have maintained all of the footage that I need. I have now put together a rough cut of some of the footage I got. This is where I have not used any editing and have simply placed the raw footage onto a time line and incorportated the soundtrack into it.  This is to give me a rough idea of the timing of the scenes and the general feel of the idea. My next task is to create a first draft using the basis of the rough cut and then see if there is anything I can alter to the first draft to create a final video. I will asses the first draft once it has been completed. This is what I am currently working on and wish to have completed fairly soon.

After looking at the rough cut, I think I will need to alter a lot of the colours of the footage. I want to make it look darker so that it has a more sad feel rather than bright and in your face which would resemble being quite happy. This would emphasise the song and create a better atmosphere suited to it.

During editing the video, I will also be trying to complete my digipak and magazine advert.

Rough Cut: Medicine

Raw Footage: Behind the scenes planning

This is the behind the scenes footage of the middle of the video. This is preparing for the scene where my actress goes to meet her boyfriend and he begins to worry about her with the amount of alchol she drinks and her secretive ways. To make sure that the actors knew what to do, I gave them a run through of the sort of shot I wanted to achieve.

Raw footage of location:Behind the scenes

This is just a quick behind the scenes video of the room I used to shoot the first and final scenes of the video. I just wanted to show how I prepared a little for the video before filming by placing the props in a certain position and way, and that I had to prepare my equipment before filming. I tested the two different lenses I planned to use and did this to make sure that they were at the right settings for the light of the room.  To prep the room, I didn't really have to do much too it as I chose sarah's (the actress') room for the purpose of that it already looked like a stereotypical teenagers bedroom. I wanted her to leave it quite messy in some areas to give it an aesthetic feel of a typical teenagers bedroom, and I plcaed the items of clothing around the room to make it look like she had been to a party the night before. As you can see, Sarah cleaned to mirrors of her wardrobe a bit in case we needed them in one of the shots so that the audience would be able to see anything in the mirror clearly.

Timelapse

Filming/Editing Schedule

Filming Schedule

This is a brief filming and editing schedule. I wanted to get any idea of how much time I should use for filming and editing. Due to possible complications, I may not stick to this schedule exactly. However to try and manage my time I feel that creating a schedule would allow me to try and stick to a decent working time.

Production Log 14

I have now completed my actor release forms. This has enabled me to get permission to use them when filming so I can now start to film when I am ready to do so. I have also researched equipment that I may consider using for my music video, so this has also helped me plan ahead to think about what I am going to need to record my music video.

My next step is to start filming, I also want to get my digipak and magazine advert sorted relatively soon. I feel my time management it picking up a little better now as I was quite slow to begin with as I wanted to perfect my music video idea.

Equipment List

 

This is my equipment list. It tells me exactly what equipment I need so that I can use it as a check list to make sure I have everything I need before filming. This can also be given to the school so that they can prepare the equipment for me as they are going to provide me with the equipment I need for filming. 

Equipment Research

This is my research into what kind of equipment I plan to use during my coursework. By doing this I get a clear idea of what I am going to require in order to film and edit my music video and why each part of equipment is needed.

Call Sheet

 

 

This is my call sheetto make sure that all of the people in my production know where they need to be. It also provides me with the main information I need to know about filming such as what equipment I am going to need and where my shoots will be taking place. It also tells me things such as what props are going to be needed and what time filming is going to begin. 

Actor Release Forms

 

 

These are my actor release forms. This is so that my actors give me permission to use them within my footage and that they meet some guidelines in terms of turning up to shootings and allowing me to share my footage of them with others and publically. 

 

 

 

Indie Rock Genre Research

This is my research for the indie rock genre. This has helped me understand the genre better and has helped melearn more about the history of the genre and where it originated from.

Production Log 13

I have now done a second draft of my digipak and magazine advert. This has allowed me to experiement more with my own photographs that I took during a photoshoot. I created a contact sheet of all the images I took and edited so that it would enable me to see what images I took more clearly and to compare images better. There are a few that I liked in particular and thought they would be good to use for my advert and digipak so I edited them and did a another draft using these images. This was a good test because I got to see what the images would look like. It was benefical because I actually decided that I wasn't too keen with the images being completely black and white and that adding some colour would enhance the advert and digipak to capture the audiences attention.

My next step is to fully finalise the advert and the digipak.

Digipak Second Draft

 

This is the second draft of my digipak, like my magazine advert I have used my own images, however I still feel that the arrangement of some of the pictures could be better and that the design lacks something such as colour. I also think I want to change the layout of the back cover in terms of moving the song list to the bottom of the page to make it look more realistic compared to current digipaks. 

Magazine Adverts Second Draft

These are the secon drafts of my music album magazine adverts. I have not classed them as my final as I am not overally pleased with them. I have started to use my own images within my drafts that I took during a photoshoot, however I feel that the adverts lack something. I also think I need to play around with the fonts of the quotes that are used as they do not suit the advert. Looking at other magazine designs, they use around three colours where mine are only in black and white. So I think I should try and incorporate some colour into the design to capture the eye of the audience more, whilst still trying to keep the same message that the advert portrays in black and white.

Props and Costume Planning

Photoshoot for digipak and magazine advert coversheet

Production Log 12

I have now completed my photoshoot for my digipak and magazine advert. I based my photos around the images I used in the draft of my ad and digipak as I liked the idea of resembling what my music video was about. Seeing as the video has the narrative of someone who someone sees alchol as a form of medicine, I used a lot of bottles in my images. I have only edited a small number of photographs so far, but will edit a few that will be used for my ad and digipak. I am continuing to develop this further and hopefully have both fully completed soon.

I have also chosen my locations for filming and have finalized an idea. I have also gotten permission from my two actors that I am going to be using which I did using a contact sheet. I will upload this shortly.  I completed the health and risk assessment based on the locations that I chose to use and in terms of equipment and actors health and safety as well as my own. This has helped me to think about how I can prevent an incident from occuring. The next thing I plan to do is to get an equipment list of everything I am going to use on the day and also which programs I am planning to use for editing and piecing the video together. I will also plan what costume and makeup my actors will wear on the day of filming. I plan to film within the next week so hopefully I will have the majority of my planning done by this time.