NEW Animatic (Jodie & Ciara)

NEW Storyboard (Jodie & Ciara)

Research & Planning: New Idea (Group)

Research and Planning - Shot List

Panning Shot

Panning shot

Fish-eye lense

Close-up (instrument)

Mid-shot

Extreme close-up

Point of View shot

Low-Angle

High Angle

Close-up

Research & Planning: New Idea (David)

After receiving audience feedback on the rough copy of our music promo for 'Dry'. We found that the idea that we had planned and story-boarded wasn't going to work, and that we had to change our idea.This lead us to use another song by the same artists; 'Late' due to its faster beat and tempo. This meant that we had to restart from the beginning.

After doing the lyric analysis for the song we understood it to be talking about being childish and the transition from adolescences to adulthood. This led us to develop on this idea and we wanted to create a video that looked authentic to the indie genre as well as real for the ages we were portraying. This then led to the idea of having a "self filmed" indie video where the camera would be held by the band and would follow the band on there day out.

The idea was to follow the band around London as they go about messing around and acting childish. We also wanted to add in some lip syncing of the band on this day out but wanted to keep it informal to keep with the connections of an informal self film indie video. We also added another member to the band we were using from the first try, this is because when watching the band shots back we recognized that the lead singer was too busy trying to play bass instead of moving around and being the over the top singer which is the convention of most lead singers in indie bands.

Our real inspirations for the idea of the group messing around on a day out comes from a mixture of indie rock group Blink182's video for 'All the small things'. This childish like behavior is what we tried to capture in our footage.

For the band shots we wanted to make it look authentic to an unsigned band, meaning we used a small recording studio that would be available to such groups, the main inspiration for this type of shots is Artic Monkeys' 'Snap Out Of It' video

Technical: Green Screen

Technical - Green Screen

We decided to learn how to use the green screen in order to expand our knowledge on different editing types and effects, incase we wanted to use a green screen in our thriller opening.            

HOW ITS DONE

We first filmed me in front of the green screen with a DSLR camera, then uploaded that footage to the iMac and imported it into Final Cut Pro. We found an image on google images that could serve as the background image, save it, and imported it into final cut pro. We placed the video into the timeline, and placed the image underneath the video layer, then used the keyer tool to remove the green background of the video. There was still small amounts of the background left, so we used the Sample Colour tool to remove the rest of the colour, by selecting a region that had the remaining colour in it.

Screen grab of the green-screen image in effect.

Keyer tool in video effects

Sample colour tool

The green screen video layer above the image we want in the
background

EVALUATION

Learning how to use the green-screen further developed our skills as media producers, although it wasn't used during our final music video the technical skills that we acquired by learning how to use the green-screen were useful as it gave us the opportunity that we could use the green-screen if we wanted it or needed it. Also learning about how to edit the green screen recording on final cut pro improved our editing skills as it taught us new skills and introduced the different effects that we could use, that we didn't know how to use before. 

Technical lighting- Three point lighting

We studied 3 point lighting in order to gain a better understanding of how we could implement lighting to manipulate the room where we're planning to film the band scenes in our music video: to enhance the image, create realism, and create an atmosphere. We most likely use artificial lighting if we are filming in areas that lack natural light so that characters can be visible and often focus the orange filter on certain areas such as the drum stick hitting the drums or perhaps the hand strumming the guitar so the lighting can be used to direct a point of interest. However, we do not feel that this lighting looks very natural, and may deduct the element of realism in certain shots.

We decided to use a filter to experiment with different lighting possibilities. We feel that this creates a more natural look to shots, and this could be be used in interior shots in our music video.

Example of 3 point lighting set up

Lighting proved to be of significance when filming the band elements because it created a natural vibe to our video rather than a stage, conforming to the indie-rock genre's authenticity. Lighting helped up better display our band performances when it came to filming as we ended up shooting in a dark room with a black background, therefore the 3 DLSR cameras which we used to film in a variety of angles could not have easily picked up on our points of interest without the three-point lighting.