White Sheet Scene
Olly and Nathan had a vision of making a short filler shot of the band at a table and then using a white sheet to make change from a nice scene where the band are sitting together to a messed up scene where the band are dancing and singing. In the video i have embedded below, the end result of us filming this sequence is displayed. We do not think we are going to use this footage however for the following reasons...
1. The black wall ruins the effect of the walls.
2. The chairs look like school chairs.
3. There are school related posters on the wall.
1. The black wall ruins the effect of the walls.
2. The chairs look like school chairs.
3. There are school related posters on the wall.
Logo Research
Jess Glynnes logo is simple yet beautiful. It is bld and stands out, this is what we want.
1D is a boy band which we can compare to. Their logo is simple aswell yet instantly recognisable.
Tensnake is our original artist.
Blues brothers are a relatable band
Album Cover Ideas
Off the back of our Album Cover inspiration post we have developed a couple of test album covers. We have used the off white background colour with the image and text on top.
We also tried out a third idea with a pattern in the background which didn't work as well. The design didn't work because the pattern made it hard to read the text.
We also tried out a third idea with a pattern in the background which didn't work as well. The design didn't work because the pattern made it hard to read the text.
Smoke Scene Inspiration
The crowd and artist involvement in the nightclub parts of Tom Odell's Wrong Crowd video is what i aim to take inspiration from, obviously ours will be out on a field rather than in a nightclub and ours will be more of a low angle with the dancing crowd behind the artists.
Shot List
Close up over shoulder shot of JK writing out the band name and song, spin out transition.
Close up over shoulder shot of JK writing out the band name and song, spin out transition.
Spin up transition (Casey Neistat) to Long/Wide Shot of the desk and subject/artist (JK) in the middle of the street sat at desk, JK’s head comes up once shot is still and starts singing the song:
Sitting at work on a monday morning then stands up and steps over the desk (or flips it?) and starts walking towards camera.
Spreadsheet files and Coffee Pouring Harry walks into frame with spreadsheets and hands them to JK and starts walking with him, Oli walks in also and hands Joe a mug of coffee.
Office work can be so boring JK chucks the coffee and files behind him. Still walking with camera.
But then there's the pressure, I’m under pressure. The trio stop walking, should stop at a midshot of trio shoulders and heads. On the first pressure oli flicks his head to the right and sings that to a new camera shot of him and flicks back to the trio midshot and then on the second pressure Harry flicks his head to the left and sings in his own shot and flicks back.
Casey Flip up transition - now into the Performance part in the drama studio (or other location) with the trio having different coloured hand prints on their faces (colour selection of just those colours on their faces, rest Black and White),
Midshot of trio again of singing, Keyboard starts - Extreme Low angle tilted up to hands playing the chords on a keyboard. High angle of someone hitting a drum on the snare beat.
Deadlines come and deadlines go - girl runs through a wide shot of the group playing instruments, she has a t-shirt on or a sign around her neck that says deadlines on it, maybe dances with JK and leaves when he needs to sing - and there's the pressure.
Casey flip up to a low angle shot tilted hup, wide shot of the guys standing on the mini hills/mounds of dirt (that are hopefully still there, behind the graffiti wall at the Essex Records Office) sing the chorus or next verser - revolution in my head
Red smoke filling background?
Props in this would be a pallet of red paint and a big paint brush, the people on the side can hold one of these things. Close up shots of these things, matching visuals with lyrics. Stand my ground = shot of feet on the ground moving about on the spot or
moving rocks.
Need to fill the little instrumental with something - Close up of certain parts of all the characters, arranging cuff, coming hair, close up on eye, shuffling feet, doing tie up OR this could be like a slow mo dance sequence
New walking tracking shot? Singing the next verse
Hot as fire cold as snow - we should shoot a part all dressed as scientists - lab coats, rubber gloves, goggles, tongs - in the science department, bunson burners and mixing chemicals, something to overlfow would be cool - 3 different colours interchanging, using the clone tool or something
Revolution - Dancing in science room
Revolution two -Sitting at a table (location = Gym) for first round, all smart and nicely laid out, chucks table cloth at camera - editing reverse shot table cloth comes back from camera scene is now messed up, would have to cut away to close ups to then be able to cut back to a performance
MAYBE MAYBE - setting up narrative of going to the field, text message/call, could lower music during this, make a scene?
Spreading the word, whisper shots (Close up), passing word on.
I’m under pressure, pressure (slow bridge) - Big open field red smoke, group of people (maybe about 6), red flag of some kind, baseball bats, cricket bats, longshot walking towards camera - can do cuts to filler shots closer up to feet walking, flags unfurling, bashing bats etc.
There's a revolution in my head x2 --- Dancing and singing on the field with smoke
LAST Chorus - Cut together everything into a mash up chorus from all the locations
Close up over shoulder shot of JK writing out the band name and song, spin out transition.
Spin up transition (Casey Neistat) to Long/Wide Shot of the desk and subject/artist (JK) in the middle of the street sat at desk, JK’s head comes up once shot is still and starts singing the song:
Sitting at work on a monday morning then stands up and steps over the desk (or flips it?) and starts walking towards camera.
Spreadsheet files and Coffee Pouring Harry walks into frame with spreadsheets and hands them to JK and starts walking with him, Oli walks in also and hands Joe a mug of coffee.
Office work can be so boring JK chucks the coffee and files behind him. Still walking with camera.
But then there's the pressure, I’m under pressure. The trio stop walking, should stop at a midshot of trio shoulders and heads. On the first pressure oli flicks his head to the right and sings that to a new camera shot of him and flicks back to the trio midshot and then on the second pressure Harry flicks his head to the left and sings in his own shot and flicks back.
Casey Flip up transition - now into the Performance part in the drama studio (or other location) with the trio having different coloured hand prints on their faces (colour selection of just those colours on their faces, rest Black and White),
Midshot of trio again of singing, Keyboard starts - Extreme Low angle tilted up to hands playing the chords on a keyboard. High angle of someone hitting a drum on the snare beat.
Deadlines come and deadlines go - girl runs through a wide shot of the group playing instruments, she has a t-shirt on or a sign around her neck that says deadlines on it, maybe dances with JK and leaves when he needs to sing - and there's the pressure.
Casey flip up to a low angle shot tilted hup, wide shot of the guys standing on the mini hills/mounds of dirt (that are hopefully still there, behind the graffiti wall at the Essex Records Office) sing the chorus or next verser - revolution in my head
Red smoke filling background?
Props in this would be a pallet of red paint and a big paint brush, the people on the side can hold one of these things. Close up shots of these things, matching visuals with lyrics. Stand my ground = shot of feet on the ground moving about on the spot or
moving rocks.
Need to fill the little instrumental with something - Close up of certain parts of all the characters, arranging cuff, coming hair, close up on eye, shuffling feet, doing tie up OR this could be like a slow mo dance sequence
New walking tracking shot? Singing the next verse
Hot as fire cold as snow - we should shoot a part all dressed as scientists - lab coats, rubber gloves, goggles, tongs - in the science department, bunson burners and mixing chemicals, something to overlfow would be cool - 3 different colours interchanging, using the clone tool or something
Revolution - Dancing in science room
Revolution two -Sitting at a table (location = Gym) for first round, all smart and nicely laid out, chucks table cloth at camera - editing reverse shot table cloth comes back from camera scene is now messed up, would have to cut away to close ups to then be able to cut back to a performance
MAYBE MAYBE - setting up narrative of going to the field, text message/call, could lower music during this, make a scene?
Spreading the word, whisper shots (Close up), passing word on.
I’m under pressure, pressure (slow bridge) - Big open field red smoke, group of people (maybe about 6), red flag of some kind, baseball bats, cricket bats, longshot walking towards camera - can do cuts to filler shots closer up to feet walking, flags unfurling, bashing bats etc.
There's a revolution in my head x2 --- Dancing and singing on the field with smoke
LAST Chorus - Cut together everything into a mash up chorus from all the locations
Album Art Inspiration
Below i have listed three album covers which we are using as inspiration for our own. An aspect of the covers which we like is the simplicity with a block colour theme. The first two covers are of a very similar style with an image on an off-white canvas so it shows up on websites such as iTunes. This is an aspect we are going to include. We also liked the colour scheme of Roy Woods album along with the simplicity. The colour scheme is slightly dark for our band however the theme is something we will consider.
Font Research
These are the options that we have to decide between. The fine but make it quick is going to be our album title. Also the word next to it is the type of font it is.
Shooting Plan
MTV Script
Presenter: " Today i am at the school where it all started for the band avenue. Lets go meet the band."
Presenter: "Who are you? Tell people who might not know?"
Presenter: "Avenue is an interesting name, where did it come from?"
Avenue: Anecdote about where they lived. Lead into fan base in Iceland.
Presenter: "How is the music video coming along for your single Pressure?"
Presenter: "What type of visuals are we expecting from the music video which is coming soon?"
Presenter: "Final question. What is with the hats?"
Presenter: "Who are you? Tell people who might not know?"
Presenter: "Avenue is an interesting name, where did it come from?"
Avenue: Anecdote about where they lived. Lead into fan base in Iceland.
Presenter: "How is the music video coming along for your single Pressure?"
Presenter: "What type of visuals are we expecting from the music video which is coming soon?"
Presenter: "Final question. What is with the hats?"
Band Dynamic Inspiration
This is madness - Our House. The persona and the way the band acts is how we want to be. Its a nice and relaxed feel to there work. Also its fun and it looks like they are having a good time. Which makes the audience feel like the whole band us a good group of mates together and it makes it work well in he video. The video isn't serious and it looks like they have just pout it together randomly but this is what makes the video good. This is he sort of feel we want to give across and the theme of our song gives across this feel. When you listen to our song it makes you happy and its far from serious.
This is another Madness video which looks fun and joking. The way someone is sitting in a lock down a river then gets up and walk away with flippers on makes it look funny and feel different. Also the person running away from a Hurst down the road. Which would never happen in real life and therefore gives an unrealistic feel which makes it show the bands persona. The different people in different costume makes the video look like they're actually going to be like that in real life which we want to put across. Also when the band is in all the same outfits and are singing and dancing to each other gives off a happy and fun vibe. This dynamic come across well. The outfits shows they are together as one and no on is above the other so they all dress similar. All the people are singing which doesn't make one person the star. All of them are equal together unlike some other bands
Drama Studio Plan
White t-shirts, jeans, hand prints (red, blue, green),
Casey Flip up transition - now into the Performance part in the drama studio (or other location) with the trio having different coloured hand prints on their faces (colour selection of just those colours on their faces, rest Black and White),
Midshot of trio again of singing, Keyboard starts - Extreme Low angle tilted up to hands playing the chords on a keyboard. High angle of someone hitting a drum on the snare beat.
Casey Flip up transition - now into the Performance part in the drama studio (or other location) with the trio having different coloured hand prints on their faces (colour selection of just those colours on their faces, rest Black and White),
Midshot of trio again of singing, Keyboard starts - Extreme Low angle tilted up to hands playing the chords on a keyboard. High angle of someone hitting a drum on the snare beat.
Deadlines come and deadlines go - girl runs through a wide shot of the group playing instruments, she has a t-shirt on or a sign around her neck that says deadlines on it, maybe dances with JK and leaves when he needs to sing - and there's the pressure.
Break free and lose control - Dance moves, long shot
Different fillers of shit in the scene
Break free and lose control - Dance moves, long shot
Different fillers of shit in the scene
Casey flip out for next scene
Science experiment test
This is our sceicne experiment for out sciene room scene. We used baking soda and baking powder. We did a test with both to see what one was more fizzy which would work better. In the actual scene we will use a test tube so the reaction shots upwards out the tube. We added in food colouring to make it a different colour so it was stand out in the shot.
Level 4 Criteria: 32-40 marks
Level 4
The candidate is expected to demonstrate excellence in the creative use of most of the following technical skills:
The candidate is expected to demonstrate excellence in the creative use of most of the following technical skills:
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shooting material appropriate to the task set;
including controlled use of the camera, attention to framing, variety of shot
sizes and close attention to mise en scene
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editing so that meaning is apparent to the
viewer and making selective and appropriate use of shot transitions, captions
and other effects
·
recording and editing sound with images
appropriately
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Where a candidate has worked in a group, an
excellent contribution to construction is evident.
Textual Analysis
Sound
The song is very up beat and positive like ours. This gets people singing along and dancing to the lyrics very similar to our songs effect. The genre of the song is Soundtracks. This is much like ours. The beat makes everyone happy and this is what we wanted to portray in the sound. This would of been the most fun to shot as well as you can be spontaneous while dancing to the tune.
Camera
There are many close ups and medium shots of the artist that is singing. The background is blurred and the artist is in main focus. There are many long shots of many different people dancing about in different areas that have colourful backgrounds. The camera stays stable. It may be on a tripod in one position the whole time. The framing and the distance from the dancers is the same each time. In some shots the dancers is more focused on but in other bigger shots with more background in the whole shot is focused. In some shots the camera gets closer just showing from the hips up. Also the camera is fixed to a trolly in one of the shots which gives it a POV feel. There are many different locations used to shot dancers.
Editing
The cuts in this video are very simple and are straight cuts. There are many involved due to the different locations and amount of dancers. The cuts are between mainly the artist and different dancers which are just showing a narrative of people being happy and smiling while dancing to the tune. This is the same foiujd is most music videos. The narractive is more extravagant in music videos rather than the cuts being different as well.
Mise en Scene
The costumes involved are very colourful and fit the feeling of the song. No one is in dull colours Also people are wearing accessories that stand out and make the people pop more. One of the dancers is wearing a old fashioned hat which we want to involve. For example the washing bucket is filled with bright colours of clothes which is not really what the modern day looks like. It mostly dull and dim colours. The locations involved such as a car wash or a beach hut or a little statue shop on the street. All have bright colours themed around such as yellow and red and baby blue. The store is lit well with the store lights and the packaging around the isle is bright and pops as the main artist is in white.
The cuts in this video are very simple and are straight cuts. There are many involved due to the different locations and amount of dancers. The cuts are between mainly the artist and different dancers which are just showing a narrative of people being happy and smiling while dancing to the tune. This is the same foiujd is most music videos. The narractive is more extravagant in music videos rather than the cuts being different as well.
Mise en Scene
The costumes involved are very colourful and fit the feeling of the song. No one is in dull colours Also people are wearing accessories that stand out and make the people pop more. One of the dancers is wearing a old fashioned hat which we want to involve. For example the washing bucket is filled with bright colours of clothes which is not really what the modern day looks like. It mostly dull and dim colours. The locations involved such as a car wash or a beach hut or a little statue shop on the street. All have bright colours themed around such as yellow and red and baby blue. The store is lit well with the store lights and the packaging around the isle is bright and pops as the main artist is in white.
30 Second Breakdown
0-4 Is Tinie Tempah walking through and door and opening it. It is in slow motion. The shot if very dark and you can just see an outline of the singer. There is light coming from the outside directly in front of him. Medium shot/Handheld
4-6 Is a long shot of a road. A car drives out from behind a row of buildings with people in. There are also people standing in the street. The camera then cuts closer to the car. Establishing shot/long shot
6-7 Is a close up slow motion shot of the car where you cam see the main artist. It continues driving round the corner. Medium shot/
7-9 It cuts to a man dancing in bright colours. This has stopped slow motion. Everything around him is also colourful. Long shot.
10-11 Is a low angle shot of peoples dancing in the from then it zooms through to Tinie Tempah where you can now only see peoples legs. Long shot to medium shot/zoom/handheld steady shot
11-13 Is two people dancing go together doing the same dance moves in sync. Medium shot/stable.
13-15 Is a lot of little cuts to different people dancing in the same area the man was. There was people in the background dancing to the tune. Some close ups and medium shots.
15-17 is a medium shot of Tinie tempah singing along sitting on some crates in glasses and bright clothing.
17-18 Is a little cut to a different position of Tinie Tempah singing in the same position.
19-20 Is another straight cut to a person dancing in bright clothes in the same area as before.
20-24 Is a cut to Tinie Tempah sing again and it keeps doing little cuts of people dancing in the same area. Bright clothes and in time with the beat.
24-25 The filming changes place with a women dancing in the main of the shot and a person standing to the side. Everyone is happy and dancing as it fits with the tune.
26-27 Is Tinie Tempah lip syncing again with the lyrics and he is dancing discreetly. He is now standing up in different clothes which are still bright. All the shots of Tinie are mainly on his own creating a star images. In the background it looks like its not very developed area.
27-29 Is a cut of two girls facing the camera dancing in syncs and within this there is a cut to a closer shot of the two at a slightly lower angle.
29-30 It cuts to Tinie singing on his own doing a usain bolt sign as it fits to the lyrics. Also with this it cuts to Tinie standing in front of the girls and people on the side dancing singing along with the lyric. Everyone is in bright clothes and look quite old fashioned.
Group Timtables
Olly Loom
Harry Hazell
Nathan Henton
We are all free period 1 on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. On a Wednesday we are free for 2 lessons at the start then finish at half 1. On a Thursday week A we are all free after first lesson also we have media last so therefore we have 4 lesson together were we are free. On Friday week a we all finish early. We are all not free on weekends due to other commitments therefore most of our filming will be done during frees and media lessons. On Thursday period 3 we are all free together. On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday we have media so we can go out and film During lunch and then stay out as long as we need.
Props & Location List
Suits
Hats- old fashioned
Desk
Chair
Desk items such as pens/paper
Folder
Kettle
Mug
Speaker
Sunglasses
Ties
White t-shirts
Jeans
Face paint- Red/Green/Blue
Keyboard
Guitar
Microphone
Song Pitch Feedback
Pressure
This first song is by Tensnake. Its duration is 2 minutes 54 seconds. The feedback we got from this song was very positive. Everyone enjoyed listening to the song when we played it. Everyone started to dance and move with the beat. We were singing alone as we knew the words. The class said the song was different to any other groups choice. Also it as different compared to other music videos we had already seen. The group said it should be colourful and happy. A lot of dancing about. Our teacher said we should look at 70s videos and maybe base our idea around this. Maybe involve us in suits and older style clothing and props. Not edgy though.
Limits Lie
This song is by Jamie T. It duration is 4 minutes and 11 seconds. Everyone again liked this song choice and thought we could make a good video out of it. The song is a lot slower and less happy than pressure. Secondly people said it would of got boring later on in the video as the tempo stays the same throughout the video. People still said the song would of matched our actor by doing many close ups of lip syncing. This would of looked good. However everyone still had the first song in mind while listening to this one as it is catchy and happy an they enjoyed it more. This song would of been a bit more edgy. More ideas where darker shots with close ups. Also a story being told and cut to in-between the shots of the artist lip syncing. At this stage people where certain we was going to do pressure as the majority preferred that
He is the same
This song is by John Bellion. The duration of the song is 4 minutes and 1 second. The artist is America therefore you can tell this in the lip syncing and the locations we would shoot wouldn't look like was in America and would look very English. Also the lip syncing may of not matched. This song is up beat again and the feedback we got was positive again. Everyone liked each of our choices. This was different again to the other two we had decided. The ideas put forward was a sound board being played with in time with the beats a the start having a dark room with the sound board lighting up and then a silhouette of a hand moving about the board. Also it sounded quite futuristic. Also a split screen when the artists voice is being used for more than one of the sounds. Finally it has swearing involved which the teacher didn't agree with. However we had to decide in the end and everyone was still telling us to do pressure.
This first song is by Tensnake. Its duration is 2 minutes 54 seconds. The feedback we got from this song was very positive. Everyone enjoyed listening to the song when we played it. Everyone started to dance and move with the beat. We were singing alone as we knew the words. The class said the song was different to any other groups choice. Also it as different compared to other music videos we had already seen. The group said it should be colourful and happy. A lot of dancing about. Our teacher said we should look at 70s videos and maybe base our idea around this. Maybe involve us in suits and older style clothing and props. Not edgy though.
Limits Lie
This song is by Jamie T. It duration is 4 minutes and 11 seconds. Everyone again liked this song choice and thought we could make a good video out of it. The song is a lot slower and less happy than pressure. Secondly people said it would of got boring later on in the video as the tempo stays the same throughout the video. People still said the song would of matched our actor by doing many close ups of lip syncing. This would of looked good. However everyone still had the first song in mind while listening to this one as it is catchy and happy an they enjoyed it more. This song would of been a bit more edgy. More ideas where darker shots with close ups. Also a story being told and cut to in-between the shots of the artist lip syncing. At this stage people where certain we was going to do pressure as the majority preferred that
This song is by John Bellion. The duration of the song is 4 minutes and 1 second. The artist is America therefore you can tell this in the lip syncing and the locations we would shoot wouldn't look like was in America and would look very English. Also the lip syncing may of not matched. This song is up beat again and the feedback we got was positive again. Everyone liked each of our choices. This was different again to the other two we had decided. The ideas put forward was a sound board being played with in time with the beats a the start having a dark room with the sound board lighting up and then a silhouette of a hand moving about the board. Also it sounded quite futuristic. Also a split screen when the artists voice is being used for more than one of the sounds. Finally it has swearing involved which the teacher didn't agree with. However we had to decide in the end and everyone was still telling us to do pressure.
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Production Diary
20/09/2016 - First meeting of the group after being told we were together.
We sat down and wrote out all our decisions for our songs.
We each put down our ideas onto a sheet and narrowed it down to a selection of songs.
we then noted down some shots and ideas that we definitely want to be shown in the video.
22/09/2016 - We did our presentation in class of our final three contenders of music video songs. The final contenders were Limits Lie by Jamie T, Pressure by Tensnake and He is the same by Jon Bellion. We did our presentation and the class decided that Pressure and He is the same are the best ones to do the music video to and right now our group have decided to run with pressure and are going to continue planning for that video and decide then if we can pull it off.
26/09/2016 - Today we are looking at the lyrics to the video and deciding what kind of shots we can get to go with those verses, we also we're planning out times that none of us were free so we can work with those days and finally i am creating a Steel-O-Matic video. We have decided that we want to have all the planning done by the end of this week so we are ready to shoot.
27/09/2016 - Today we discussed an idea about what our video should include, basic shots and costumes. As we now know the locations Joe has started to write out a risk assessment for each location. Harry has done research on the website and what we should include. Taking screenshots of similar website that he liked and showing what part we would try and include. Also we created and character profile of what each person should be wearing and props need through each shot.
29/09/2016 - In todays lesson we firstly decided on when we would start filming the music video which is Wednesday 5th October. We decided that in this session we would film the opening of the music video as this is our longest shot which includes the most detail. We plan to have our main character walking down a road for a 30 second period singing and dancing to the first verse of the song. We also completed our locations list for when we go on our location recce on Monday 3rd October. We also started to consider band names in this lesson.
30/09/2016 - In todays lesson, we had thoughts on what our band name would be, this is an important part of the process and took quite some time. We didn't decide fully on what the name would be but we had some idea's such as "L9" and "T.C.F.S." but we didn't decide in the lesson. In this lesson Harry continued with the website research whilst Olly and Joe completed a props list.
03/10/2016 - Today at 5 Olly and Nathan went on a Location Recce to find some places to shoot our music video. We found some great locations such as First avenue in Chelmsford which is a nice long road which the band could walk down. We also went and looked at locations which we decided wouldn't be so great such as the Graffiti Wall in Chelmsford town centre. Overall, we were pleased with the outcome of our Location Scout. We also came up with some idea's which are going to alter the narrative involved in the video. One of these ideas was that we could make the video based around time of day starting in the morning when someone wakes up and going through to the night time.
05/10/2016 - Today was our first day of filming. We took a trip into Chelmsford to our first location fifth avenue and filmed our opening sequence. We had the first scene planned out in our heads. We gathered all the equipment needed and got into ollies car and set off. We did go to first avenue first but the road was too busy therefore we had to pack back up and go to fifth. This was a much better location as it was less busy. We could set up in the road and have a couple of tries. We has to wait for the clouds to move a few times. Afterwards we went to the bridge over the river that was near fifth avenue. We has some random ideas to shot as filler shots. On the walk back to the car we found a playground and decided to shot a couple of scenes in here.
We sat down and wrote out all our decisions for our songs.
We each put down our ideas onto a sheet and narrowed it down to a selection of songs.
we then noted down some shots and ideas that we definitely want to be shown in the video.
22/09/2016 - We did our presentation in class of our final three contenders of music video songs. The final contenders were Limits Lie by Jamie T, Pressure by Tensnake and He is the same by Jon Bellion. We did our presentation and the class decided that Pressure and He is the same are the best ones to do the music video to and right now our group have decided to run with pressure and are going to continue planning for that video and decide then if we can pull it off.
26/09/2016 - Today we are looking at the lyrics to the video and deciding what kind of shots we can get to go with those verses, we also we're planning out times that none of us were free so we can work with those days and finally i am creating a Steel-O-Matic video. We have decided that we want to have all the planning done by the end of this week so we are ready to shoot.
27/09/2016 - Today we discussed an idea about what our video should include, basic shots and costumes. As we now know the locations Joe has started to write out a risk assessment for each location. Harry has done research on the website and what we should include. Taking screenshots of similar website that he liked and showing what part we would try and include. Also we created and character profile of what each person should be wearing and props need through each shot.
29/09/2016 - In todays lesson we firstly decided on when we would start filming the music video which is Wednesday 5th October. We decided that in this session we would film the opening of the music video as this is our longest shot which includes the most detail. We plan to have our main character walking down a road for a 30 second period singing and dancing to the first verse of the song. We also completed our locations list for when we go on our location recce on Monday 3rd October. We also started to consider band names in this lesson.
30/09/2016 - In todays lesson, we had thoughts on what our band name would be, this is an important part of the process and took quite some time. We didn't decide fully on what the name would be but we had some idea's such as "L9" and "T.C.F.S." but we didn't decide in the lesson. In this lesson Harry continued with the website research whilst Olly and Joe completed a props list.
03/10/2016 - Today at 5 Olly and Nathan went on a Location Recce to find some places to shoot our music video. We found some great locations such as First avenue in Chelmsford which is a nice long road which the band could walk down. We also went and looked at locations which we decided wouldn't be so great such as the Graffiti Wall in Chelmsford town centre. Overall, we were pleased with the outcome of our Location Scout. We also came up with some idea's which are going to alter the narrative involved in the video. One of these ideas was that we could make the video based around time of day starting in the morning when someone wakes up and going through to the night time.
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| First Avenue |
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| Graffiti Wall |
04/10/2016 - Today we did a practice take for our opening sequence. We ran through the dance moves, the camera angles and movement and also the editing process. By doing this practice we assessed the technicalities of the sequence. For example, the opening shot of the zoom might be avoided as it looked to unstable and we thought cutaways might look more professional.
05/10/2016 - Today was our first day of filming. We took a trip into Chelmsford to our first location fifth avenue and filmed our opening sequence. We had the first scene planned out in our heads. We gathered all the equipment needed and got into ollies car and set off. We did go to first avenue first but the road was too busy therefore we had to pack back up and go to fifth. This was a much better location as it was less busy. We could set up in the road and have a couple of tries. We has to wait for the clouds to move a few times. Afterwards we went to the bridge over the river that was near fifth avenue. We has some random ideas to shot as filler shots. On the walk back to the car we found a playground and decided to shot a couple of scenes in here.
06/10/2016 -Today we shot our interview for MTV. This consisted of Nathan being the presenter and then Jk, Harry and Olly being interviewed. We got across the same idea our song we have chosen to do. This was no too serious and fun. Olly started editing this as we filmed a full 11 minutes of interview which had to be cut down and put together as some parts was general discussion. This was great fun to shot. Harry has also completed the Digi pack research of similar artist to us and different ideas we want to include. Jk has made all of our social media accounts today.
07/10/2016 - Today the MTV video was finished, this took time as there was 10 minutes worth of footage which had to be cut down the three minutes, Olly also filtered out the swearing and added backing music. Joe continued working on the Website which is coming along nicely, he also continued to post on the social media to help create a realistic platform for our band. Harry worked on the blog, posting location and prop lists.
10/10/2016 - Today was the first day after the weekend break. Harry started and finished the textual of a similar music video. Talking about camera, mise en scene, editing and sound. This gave us more inspiration form our own video. Jk is working on our Avenue website which is looking great. He has involved many different aspects to the website. Also Jk is making an avenue t-shirt. Olly has produced a neater MTV script which we used in the interview. Nathan has planned out our shooting schedule and started our story board for our music video. Drawing each shot and how long each part will be.
11/10/2016 - Today we got in early and started filming in the drama studio. We had to bring in paint and all wear blue jeans and a white t-shirt. We had a black background and then used the lights in the drama studio and it looked like we were performing as a band. Harry had a key board, Jk had a microphone and ollie had a bass guitar. We sung along to the parts we haven't got footage for so we can put in little sections that cuts to use performing. Nathan was filming use performing. Olly and Nathan then uploaded all the footage we had and started editing. Jk is working on our logo.
12/10/2016 - Today we filmed in the science room. We played close attention to mise en scene and made sure the colours were all perfect. For example we placed three test tubes next to each other and put food colouring in each of them for each band members colour and even put them in the same order we were standing in on the video.
18/10/2016 - Today we went to shot in the dance studio. This was a full suit shoot again and in glasses and hats. We had us sitting down and then we did a load of random dancing. Then Nathan uploaded the footage and started editing. Olly did a few blog post and so did Jk.
20/10/2016 - Today Harry added photos to our group photo album. Jk researched other artists logos so we could get inspiration from This to try and think of our own logo for Avenue. Olly and Nathan did a talking walk through of our story board and then uploaded this to edit it and piece it together. Also in the green room Olly and Nathan produced some foley for the writing on paper right at the start of the our music video.
06/12/2016 - On this day we did feedback for the first draft of other people music videos. All the feedback was uploaded to our blogs.
08/12/2016 - Today we started to assess our feedback and look for things we could improve. We decided we were going to film an extra section in the gym and decided we were going to get headbands and wristbands for the Mise En Scene.
09/12/2106 - Today we planned the shots we were going to get in the gym scene. We thought about the ropes and the matts and where we could film to be creative and fun. We also set up the risk assessment for this shoot.
12/12/2016 - Today we tidied up our blogs working on unfinished blog posts or improving the blogposts as we waited for the headbands to arrive for our final shoot.
14/12/2016 - We had planned to film today however the headbands still hadn't arrived so we had to postpone the shoot.
15/12/2016 - Today we went and filmed in the gym. We was in full gym wear and headbands and wrist bands to match the colours. This was our last filming day.
16/12/2016 - Olly edited the gym scene with Nathan helping while Joe and Harry continued with blogwork.
20/12/2016 - Last day before Christmas was less productive, we watched other peoples music videos to see the improvements they had made. We had all finished and our group to say the least was thrilled with our end product.
06/01/2017 - Evaluations
07/10/2016 - Today the MTV video was finished, this took time as there was 10 minutes worth of footage which had to be cut down the three minutes, Olly also filtered out the swearing and added backing music. Joe continued working on the Website which is coming along nicely, he also continued to post on the social media to help create a realistic platform for our band. Harry worked on the blog, posting location and prop lists.
10/10/2016 - Today was the first day after the weekend break. Harry started and finished the textual of a similar music video. Talking about camera, mise en scene, editing and sound. This gave us more inspiration form our own video. Jk is working on our Avenue website which is looking great. He has involved many different aspects to the website. Also Jk is making an avenue t-shirt. Olly has produced a neater MTV script which we used in the interview. Nathan has planned out our shooting schedule and started our story board for our music video. Drawing each shot and how long each part will be.
11/10/2016 - Today we got in early and started filming in the drama studio. We had to bring in paint and all wear blue jeans and a white t-shirt. We had a black background and then used the lights in the drama studio and it looked like we were performing as a band. Harry had a key board, Jk had a microphone and ollie had a bass guitar. We sung along to the parts we haven't got footage for so we can put in little sections that cuts to use performing. Nathan was filming use performing. Olly and Nathan then uploaded all the footage we had and started editing. Jk is working on our logo.
13/10/2016 - Today Olly did a lot of the editing for the video trying to use the footage from the science room and incorporate it into the timeline. JK worked on the Logo whilst Harry and Nathan got up to date on blog work.
14/10/2016 - Today the focus was getting all of the blog work up to date and planning the filming for next week. Olly sent out an email to the sports department to ask when the gym was free for one of our shots.
14/10/2016 - Today the focus was getting all of the blog work up to date and planning the filming for next week. Olly sent out an email to the sports department to ask when the gym was free for one of our shots.
18/10/2016 - Today we went to shot in the dance studio. This was a full suit shoot again and in glasses and hats. We had us sitting down and then we did a load of random dancing. Then Nathan uploaded the footage and started editing. Olly did a few blog post and so did Jk.
20/10/2016 - Today Harry added photos to our group photo album. Jk researched other artists logos so we could get inspiration from This to try and think of our own logo for Avenue. Olly and Nathan did a talking walk through of our story board and then uploaded this to edit it and piece it together. Also in the green room Olly and Nathan produced some foley for the writing on paper right at the start of the our music video.
31/10/2016 - This was the first day back after half term. We all looked at the video to refresh our memories about what we had done and what needed doing. Jk got on with the half way evaluation after this which was more of a presentation with a voice over. Olly got on with editing. Nathan got on with the story board and narration over this. Harry did a risk assessment for the science room and finalised some blog work.
01/11/2016 - Today the group worked on basic blog posts to get up to date with what needed doing. Olly also looked at more editing he could do and the footage we had recently shot to see if any good parts were missed.
02/11/2016 - Today we went back to the avenue to film. Harry, Olly and Jk where back in suits. We also did a photo album for our digi pack and got a few photos we could use. When we got back Nathan and Olly uploaded the footage to the computer and we all watch through it. Then we all got on with blog post and kept up to date with what needed doing. We also went to locations around the avenue and got a bit more footage that could be used.
03/11/206 - Today Olly got on with editing the footage from yesterday and put this all together. Harry got photos from each filming day and put together a photo album for all our photos of filming and us working away. Also did a few separate ones foe evidence of filming. Jk produced and continued a prezi for our half way evaluation. Nathan was producing an idea for our video. Also discussed with Olly the plans for our video.
4/11/2016 - Today we had to present our halfway evaluation to the class. We showed what we had for our video and all the other aspects such as website, digi pack, brand image and general information about our band. The class then filled out and sheet to give us feedback on what we could improve on, broken up into each section and how that could be improved. We also watched other groups presentation and gave them feedback.
8/11/2016 - Today we had to look at other classes presentation as they wanted more feedback. We had a good discussion about these and the pother groups benefited from this. At the end we had 15 minutes to finish off blog posts.
10/11/2016 - Today we got in together and had nice sit down. We discussed our group directions and what needed doing again so we could get back on track. Olly mapped put a rough draft on a bit of paper. It gave us all jobs to complete and what we needed to do. We all got back together and were one, once again. After this meeting we all went to our stations and got on with what we needed to do. Jk looked through photos and added to the website. Olly went to complete and finalise the magazine Avenue featured on. Nathan got ideas and started producing our digi pack. Harry got on with blog posts such as feedback.
14/11/2016 - Today was first day back after the weekend and we had plans. Jk updated our website adding photos and making it look better from the feedback we got. Harry got on with feedback from halfway evaluation. Also added photos to the photo album. Nathan added photos to our digi pack to make it more completed and added details. Olly did some touches to our music video and made the magazine cover for Avenue.
15/11/2016 - Today we planned out the filing for tomorrow. We did practise shots of jumping off the chair and shots of the smoke scene. We needed to plan out what we was doing exactly as we only had 2 of each colour smoke bomb and they only last about 30 seconds therefore everything had to be perfect in 2 stakes. We put together a YouTube video of our practise. we also had an idea of doing the Oliver twist side jump where you tap your feet together. Also sliding off a chair which look very good.
16/11/2016 - Today was the big scene we had been planning and had thought of for ages. The sky was blue the sun was out and the grass was green. It was a perfect day to shot. We got suited and booted up then strolled over the back field. We had a few practises with the smoke bombs in hand but not lighting them. Then we filmed through running and what lyrics we needed to sing. The first take we had was through the smokes bombs and planned on jumping through but the wind was high and they didn't reach the height we was thinking. After this we regrouped and then planned to hold them and dance about which looked very good as well. the smoke was no reaching the height and we could see there clear colours.
17/11/2016 - Today Nathan was away on a uni interview so Harry, Olly and Jk got down to work with a few posts. Jk also created the website biography of the group and added the improvements that we got from the feedback. Olly also looked through the footage again to see if he could edit more and finalise the recent editing. Harry also added to the photo album from the footage yesterday and behind the scenes.
18/11/2016 - Nathan was at another uni again today so me Olly and Jk got on with basic blog posts and Olly did some more editing and reviewed what we had.
22/11/2016 - Today Olly did a bit of editing as he lost some of his previous attempts. This was not planned as he thought he saved the work but this was not the case Nathan had to edit the smoke onto our digi pack which takes a lot of time. Harry updated the filming feedback and got that uploaded. Jk updated the website further from the feedback.
24/11/2016 - Today we all sat at our computers and got on with work. Nathan carried on with the digi pack and finished off the smoke cloning. Olly got on with editing of our last scenes and got it how he wanted. Jk did the website and the research for the website as he needed new ideas. Harry got on with tour poster research.
25/11/2016 - Olly sat down with our teacher and looked through the footage. They state meed what needed to be improved and changed. Each member of the group also went over and said what they felt about the music video so far. Nathan edited the digi pack and updated some of the parts which could have been better. Harry finished off a few blog posts and then started on the avenue tour poster. Jk added to the website and then tweaked the website research.
28/11/2016 - Today we got in and Olly had to add back in the footage that he had moved and then replace it back in the right position. Jk added to the website after i passed him over the photo album. This added in the gap he was worried about. Nathan had mores ideas for the digi pack and updated this. Harry did updated research on the tour poster as he needed more ideas to include.
29/11/2016 - Today Nathan finalised the digi pack as he will not be in tomorrow and that is the deadline. He stayed after school getting it up to standard. Olly was editing our video adding a few extra parts that could look better. Jk did some website research and added what he had learnt to the website. Harry made 4 drafts of a poster. Each could be used but it was jus creating the correct synergy with the digi pack, brand image and music video.
30/11/2016 - Today all our 1st draft for website, digi pack and video. Nathan wasn't in today so he finished it off yesterday and sent it to miss. Olly was in control of getting the video sorted so he added in fillers that would make up the reminder we hadn't completed yet. Therefore we are not fully happy with the ending. Jk gave the website link to miss as it was all completed. Harry edited some images to pitch to the group for a poster.
01/12/2016 - Today we all had to look at each others websites and give feedback based on the mark scheme. The whole of the group had to do this foe everyone else's. We typed the feedback on word then pasted in the feedback to survey money.
02/12/2016 - Today we had to feedback on the digipacks each group made. We had to emailed this to our teacher then miss would sort out each individual one and give them to each group. After we received this feedback we would make the improvements suggested. On the feedback we had to make this a blog post to reflect and show we was doing peer marking. also we could grab ideas from each other.
08/12/2016 - Today we started to assess our feedback and look for things we could improve. We decided we were going to film an extra section in the gym and decided we were going to get headbands and wristbands for the Mise En Scene.
09/12/2106 - Today we planned the shots we were going to get in the gym scene. We thought about the ropes and the matts and where we could film to be creative and fun. We also set up the risk assessment for this shoot.
12/12/2016 - Today we tidied up our blogs working on unfinished blog posts or improving the blogposts as we waited for the headbands to arrive for our final shoot.
14/12/2016 - We had planned to film today however the headbands still hadn't arrived so we had to postpone the shoot.
15/12/2016 - Today we went and filmed in the gym. We was in full gym wear and headbands and wrist bands to match the colours. This was our last filming day.
16/12/2016 - Olly edited the gym scene with Nathan helping while Joe and Harry continued with blogwork.
20/12/2016 - Last day before Christmas was less productive, we watched other peoples music videos to see the improvements they had made. We had all finished and our group to say the least was thrilled with our end product.
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