Bellow are the stills from our shoot day. I went around with a digital camera taking shots of the shoot. I wanted us to be able to use the photos for continuity and also so we were able to post them on our blogs. I tried to make sure I had pictures of the set, the camera, the lights, the actors and the monitor, so that we were able to show what kind of equipment we used.
Friday, November 27, 2009
Monday, November 23, 2009
First Draft of CD Cover
Bellow is our first draft of a CD cover. We got the image of the girl’s legs off of the internet. We wanted the front cover to be minimalist to attract a mature audience. This is only our first draft and for the real front cover we will be taking our own photos for it. We went through loads of different fonts before ending with this one, which I am still not a hundred percent happy with. I think for the final draft of the front cover we will end up with a different style of font.
Review of Shoot Day
My overall view on the shoot day was very positive all though we did have some difficulties. We had three locations to shoot at for our video. We did two of the three on the day and the third two weeks after. We did this as we did not have enough time for the third one and also because the third location was in a council estate and we did not want to be shooting at a time when it was busy.
The day before our shoot we went to the studio and set up our first location. This was the performance element. We had all of our materials needed including; wallpaper, floor boarding and paint. The remainder of the instruments and props were where to bring in the morning of the shoot. As a group we put up the wallpaper and had help from the design team to put down the floor boards. To create an authentic effect on the wallpaper we used dull paint to stop the shinny effect and ripped bits of the wall paper.
The day of the shoot around 9:50 we all met in the studio with all the props we were meant to bring and the costumes. Each of us in the group had a certain job to do. Finn brought in the shooting schedule, the snow machine, I brought in costumes, instruments, amps and cutlery, Seb brought in the CD and instruments. After gathering the actors and adding finishing touches to the set we began to choose final outfits. This was not a long process as we had also told them to come in wearing plain outfits. We then got the actors on set and into character. We played the song through twice to get in to role and get them feeling comfortable. We talked to each of them making sure they knew what they were doing and how much of them were in shot. This is where we encountered our first problem. Unfortunately the actor we had chosen to play the bass in the performance element did not actually play bass. However the actor we had chosen for the guitar did know how to play the guitar. The lighting we had chosen came mainly from the right side of the set so that it created a shadow effect on the actors and props. The guitarist was standing on the left of the set and the bassist on the right nest to the light. On the monitor you were able to see more of what the bassist was doing then the guitarist so we tried swapping tem over so you were able to see more of what the guitarist was playing however when putting the guitarist next to the light he was underexposed as he was wearing a dark outfit. We had to then swap them back to there original places but just turn them so that the bassist was more side on therefore not showing what he was playing so much.
After this incident it went very well. We could see all that was being recorded on a massive screen above and we were also able to turn it all into black and white so that we could see the overall effect. Because we had decided to have the video in black and white we had to start working with tone instead of colour. We all really liked the outcome and how it looked on the screen I felt it really had a professional touch to it. We tried to keep to the shooting schedule as much as we could. We knew that we would not be perfectly on time for every shot but we wanted structure to it so that we made sure everything got done. The shooting schedule did help us keep on time and I do not think without that organisation we would have been able to get everything we wanted. We thought that we would keep to the storyboard but on the day we wanted more of a variety in shots. We did do a lot of the shots in the storyboard but I believe the shots we came up with on the day were better then the ones in the storyboard. We ended up using a track which really added to the video. It gave the video more movement. The track went from left to right and back, with the band staying in position all on set. On the day I would say the storyboard was more of a guideline.
We made sure that we got shots of the whole band playing and then individual shots of each band member. We tried to get unique alternative shots such as looking down the neck of the guitar from a high angle. All of the performance element shots I felt went really well we only had one problem which was above other then that we were all overly satisfied with the outcome.
After shooting the performance elements we took down the set and tried to shoot the smoke from the smoke machine for after effects. We wanted the effect of icy breath so that we could paste it in post production as the bands breathe. We tried two different things to get this effect firstly the smoke machine. In my opinion I could not picture it looking very realistic in the end. We had a completely black background and only two lights at this point. After using the smoke machine we tried using an aerosol can. I hid behind the light in almost all black covering my hand, face and aerosol can. I felt that the aerosol can actually worked better then the smoke machine.
We then went two our second location (Leigh Hill Place). This was where we shot the lead singer and the snow machine. This was our first narrative bit of shooting and after the performance elements went so well we were apprehensive as to how this would go. To this set we brought the camera, tracks, the snow machine, our actor and a CD player for play back. The snow machine was so loud that you were unable to hear the play back so we ended up not having any play back. Leigh Hill Place was where we met our first real problem; the snow machine, not only was it loud it was extremely messy and the fumes made all that was there cough horrendously. All though the snow looked very good it was rather impractical. However we got a mop to clear it up with and we tried to waist no time and get it done as quickly as possible. We all the shots we needed and all though it did not look as good as the performance elements it looked good enough to go in the video.
Are third location was in a local town, Dorking. We decided to shoot in ‘Goodwyns Council Estate’. We only had two members out of three in our group on this day however we knew what we all wanted and were confident that the missing member would be satisfied with the shots. There were five of us in total including our lead female actor which we had not used in the other shoots. Are shooting schedule for this day was minimalist as we were not shooting a lot. We had done a recky and knew where and what we were shooting. On this shoot we probably stuck to the storyboard more then the other shoots. We made sure we had all the shots we needed and added a few extra ones such as; a reflection shot in a puddle of Tor (the female actor). We also did a tracking shot from the van, we had Tor walking along next to the van and we were shooting from in the van.
All in all I was extremely satisfied with both shoot days and all the locations, all though it is hard to not think ‘we could have done this and we could have done that’ but now that we have digitised the footage and started editing it has all come together very well. If I had to do it again I would not change a thing other then; when we did shots of the different band members we should have played the whole song for each shot so that in post production we could have a little bit more choice.
The day before our shoot we went to the studio and set up our first location. This was the performance element. We had all of our materials needed including; wallpaper, floor boarding and paint. The remainder of the instruments and props were where to bring in the morning of the shoot. As a group we put up the wallpaper and had help from the design team to put down the floor boards. To create an authentic effect on the wallpaper we used dull paint to stop the shinny effect and ripped bits of the wall paper.
The day of the shoot around 9:50 we all met in the studio with all the props we were meant to bring and the costumes. Each of us in the group had a certain job to do. Finn brought in the shooting schedule, the snow machine, I brought in costumes, instruments, amps and cutlery, Seb brought in the CD and instruments. After gathering the actors and adding finishing touches to the set we began to choose final outfits. This was not a long process as we had also told them to come in wearing plain outfits. We then got the actors on set and into character. We played the song through twice to get in to role and get them feeling comfortable. We talked to each of them making sure they knew what they were doing and how much of them were in shot. This is where we encountered our first problem. Unfortunately the actor we had chosen to play the bass in the performance element did not actually play bass. However the actor we had chosen for the guitar did know how to play the guitar. The lighting we had chosen came mainly from the right side of the set so that it created a shadow effect on the actors and props. The guitarist was standing on the left of the set and the bassist on the right nest to the light. On the monitor you were able to see more of what the bassist was doing then the guitarist so we tried swapping tem over so you were able to see more of what the guitarist was playing however when putting the guitarist next to the light he was underexposed as he was wearing a dark outfit. We had to then swap them back to there original places but just turn them so that the bassist was more side on therefore not showing what he was playing so much.
After this incident it went very well. We could see all that was being recorded on a massive screen above and we were also able to turn it all into black and white so that we could see the overall effect. Because we had decided to have the video in black and white we had to start working with tone instead of colour. We all really liked the outcome and how it looked on the screen I felt it really had a professional touch to it. We tried to keep to the shooting schedule as much as we could. We knew that we would not be perfectly on time for every shot but we wanted structure to it so that we made sure everything got done. The shooting schedule did help us keep on time and I do not think without that organisation we would have been able to get everything we wanted. We thought that we would keep to the storyboard but on the day we wanted more of a variety in shots. We did do a lot of the shots in the storyboard but I believe the shots we came up with on the day were better then the ones in the storyboard. We ended up using a track which really added to the video. It gave the video more movement. The track went from left to right and back, with the band staying in position all on set. On the day I would say the storyboard was more of a guideline.
We made sure that we got shots of the whole band playing and then individual shots of each band member. We tried to get unique alternative shots such as looking down the neck of the guitar from a high angle. All of the performance element shots I felt went really well we only had one problem which was above other then that we were all overly satisfied with the outcome.
After shooting the performance elements we took down the set and tried to shoot the smoke from the smoke machine for after effects. We wanted the effect of icy breath so that we could paste it in post production as the bands breathe. We tried two different things to get this effect firstly the smoke machine. In my opinion I could not picture it looking very realistic in the end. We had a completely black background and only two lights at this point. After using the smoke machine we tried using an aerosol can. I hid behind the light in almost all black covering my hand, face and aerosol can. I felt that the aerosol can actually worked better then the smoke machine.
We then went two our second location (Leigh Hill Place). This was where we shot the lead singer and the snow machine. This was our first narrative bit of shooting and after the performance elements went so well we were apprehensive as to how this would go. To this set we brought the camera, tracks, the snow machine, our actor and a CD player for play back. The snow machine was so loud that you were unable to hear the play back so we ended up not having any play back. Leigh Hill Place was where we met our first real problem; the snow machine, not only was it loud it was extremely messy and the fumes made all that was there cough horrendously. All though the snow looked very good it was rather impractical. However we got a mop to clear it up with and we tried to waist no time and get it done as quickly as possible. We all the shots we needed and all though it did not look as good as the performance elements it looked good enough to go in the video.
Are third location was in a local town, Dorking. We decided to shoot in ‘Goodwyns Council Estate’. We only had two members out of three in our group on this day however we knew what we all wanted and were confident that the missing member would be satisfied with the shots. There were five of us in total including our lead female actor which we had not used in the other shoots. Are shooting schedule for this day was minimalist as we were not shooting a lot. We had done a recky and knew where and what we were shooting. On this shoot we probably stuck to the storyboard more then the other shoots. We made sure we had all the shots we needed and added a few extra ones such as; a reflection shot in a puddle of Tor (the female actor). We also did a tracking shot from the van, we had Tor walking along next to the van and we were shooting from in the van.
All in all I was extremely satisfied with both shoot days and all the locations, all though it is hard to not think ‘we could have done this and we could have done that’ but now that we have digitised the footage and started editing it has all come together very well. If I had to do it again I would not change a thing other then; when we did shots of the different band members we should have played the whole song for each shot so that in post production we could have a little bit more choice.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Digitised Storyboard
This is the digitised storyboard for our music video. We did this by drawing the storyboard then videoing each individual shot for ten seconds. We then uploaded the pictures to Final Cut Pro creating an almost flick book storyboard to the music. Finally we uploaded the video to Youtube.
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