Friday's shoot

On Friday we shot the performance bit of our music video. Elliott brought Glen with him and we also asked Liam and Angelica if they could also take part in it and they said yes.
So we now had only one person missing for the electric bass part so I suggested that I could do that.

It was as following:
Angelica - lead vocalist
Liam - Lead guitarist
Glen - Drums
Me - Bass and with Elliott directing.
Camera - Elliott.

And though we only had a limited time for borrowing the instruments, I think we did a great job.

While Elliott and Angelica did some stage shots later that day and they did not really need me for this part I thought I could help Tom B. and Max out with their music video, and helped them filming it.

Todays Plan

Elliott has bought some red paint and big sheets which we need for the saturdays shoot. He has also managed to get a few people who can play in the performance bit, which is very good. The last thing that is missing from letting us shoot today is that we need the main vocalist, a girl/women who knows the lyrics of the song and who is up for letting us film her.
We wanted to shoot the performance bit today and the story on Saturday.

Plan for tomorrow and Saturday

We will be filming tomorrow and on sunday. We decided to change the beginning of our video and have more band performance in it because that is what makes a music video more exiting.

We won't be having a bedroom anymore and will concentrate on the park. We also will be filming the canvas outside somewhere at a wall.

Here's the edited first bit of the new treatment:

The video begins with the singer sitting down in an empty location, playing an acoustic guitar, singing to the beginning of the song. Camera shots mostly on her face and guitar, and a wide of the whole body. Intercut with the park location. falling asleep next to a tree. When the singers eye is closed, begin a filter that makes the situation seem more dream like, she is waking up and he is next to her but she cant see him, when she turns over to look at him he disappears.

she begins to get up and walk around the park. lots of close ups of her waking up and walking around.

'cause every time i look you're never there - is sung at the park. CU of face

And every time i sleep you're always there - pull to her face and out again change in location (Park to stage)

'cause you're everywhere to me and when i close my eyes its you i see... - band is playing with her on the stage.

All we need to do now is to buy an alternative canvas (because a real canvas would be to expensive) some thing like a bed sheet, and red paint. We also need to find someone else who could act instead of chloe because she can't anymore because of her media coursework, we also need to ask Rob, Max and Liam to play in the Band.

Request for this weekend

We would like to have a camera, a tripod, a wide lens, for the weekend. That is because we will film a bit of the music video (performance) on friday and the story bit of the video on Saturday/Sunday because the performance bit is inside and the story is mostly outside and on friday the forecast tells us that it will be raining which means that we only can film on the saturday when the weather is better.

Lyrics

"Everywhere"

Turn it inside out so I can see

The part of you that's drifting over me

And when I wake you're, you're never there

But when I sleep you're, you're everywhere

You're everywhere

Just tell me how I got this far

Just tell me why you're here and who you are

'Cause every time I look

You're never there

And every time I sleep

You're always there

'Cause you're everywhere to me

And when I close my eyes it's you I see

You're everything I know

That makes me believe

I'm not alone

I'm not alone

I recognize the way you make me feel

It's hard to think that

You might not be real

I sense it now, the water's getting deep

I try to wash the pain away from me

Away from me

'Cause you're everywhere to me

And when I close my eyes it's you I see

You're everything I know

That makes me believe

I'm not alone

I'm not alone

I am not alone

Whoa, oh, oooh, oh

And when I touch your hand

It's then I understand

The beauty that's within

It's now that we begin

You always light my way

I hope there never comes a day

No matter where I go

I always feel you so

'Cause you're everywhere to me

And when I close my eyes it's you I see

You're everything I know

That makes me believe

I'm not alone

'Cause you're everywhere to me

And when I catch my breath

It's you I breathe

You're everything I know

That makes me believe

I'm not alone

You're in everyone I see

So tell me

Do you see me?

Test footage 2 - different lens types

In this test footage we tried out different lens types.

The one we were using when we were filming me was a wide angle lens and the one we used while filming Elliott was the standard lens that came with the camera.

We really had to move back when filming Elliott to have the same picture as with the wide angle lens. It made a big difference to use the wide angle lens and I think that we will be using it alot in our music video.

Digipak mockup

This is the half-term catch up I did on tuesday.

We had to create a mock up of our digipak consisting from our test footage.

I used a filter on the pictures to make it more interesting.

Half-term drafts

I did these sketches over half-term for the preperation for the poster and digipak.

Poster:

Digipak inside:

Digipak front:

Digipak back:

Half term homework preperation

Today I am going to prepare my half term homework.

I am recreating the record label for the Digipak.

Here is the original Michelle Branch record label:

And this is what I created in Photoshop:

I chose to have a bull in the record label because maverick is also an open range animal.

I also created a poster that I would like to recreate over the half term with my own picture.

8-10 feb.

I wasn't in the first two days of this week because I was ill. Unfortunately I missed the test shooting Elliott did on his own.

He found someone who I think fits to the music video very well. I think we are going to have Chloe for the lead vocalist in the music video.

Here is the test footage they have done:

I really like the location where the graffiti is the hand held camera style also fits this location very well.

I think that they have a brilliant job, acting and shooting like.

1-5 Feburary

This week was the pre-visualisation week for our music video. We had a look at different music videos and how many set-ups there were used apart from the performance set-up. We also looked at how the music correlates to the video and made our own storyboards and animatics.

We watched a music video by Caro Emerald:


and we were given set-up sheets to list our own set-ups and cutaways.
Elliott and I thought of different ideas for the cutaways and set-ups here are some pictures of the set-ups we came up with:

(sorry the pictures don't work at the moment I will try to upload them later.)

We also looked at how the music waves can correlate (but not have to) to the music video. Sometimes music video directors cut their videos to the beat on purpose to create a special effect to the video. But often music video directors do not cut to the beat so that the video is not so predictable.



This is Elliott and me working out the timeline.

Towards the end of this week I drew a part of the music video as part of the storyboard.
But before we made the storyboards properly we had to work out shot we want in our video to occur. So we made a post-it storyboard/shotlist:



The post-it storyboard.

After we done the post-it storyboard I drew the proper storyboard.
Here are the pictures of approximately 40s worth of music video as storyboard.



(Sorry you have to click onto the pictures to see them completely)

As you can see the storyboard contains colour as well as some camera directions to set the scenes and make it more enjoyable to look at.


On Friday we created the animatic out of the storyboard. First thing I did was to take pictures of every single frame I drew and upload them into final cut.
We then put them onto the timeline and set markers where we want to have the set-up changed. We then arranged a few pictures we thought would be better at this certain point and cut them to the length we wanted them to be.

Here is the finished animatic:

I think that I did really well this week because I have done so much stuff and helped to get this music video to a better standard. I can clearly see now where this project is going because of the pre-visualisation week.