JACK,NIALL: October 2009

Monday, 26 October 2009

Filming feedback

We got all our filming done over the half term and are really happy with the way it turned out, we even managed to do almost all of our editing. We still need to some more work to the video and make some improvements. The lighting we used really helped our filming look more proffesional and gave us consistant lighting throughout the day. All in all it was a good day and we're happy with the way the majority of the shots came out.

Monday, 19 October 2009

Slow-Mo ball throw

Song change boyo

After doing our story board and going to the location we've decided to now us the song 'Battleships' for our video and not 'Secret water fountain'. This will benefit us in that we can now match the faster paced tempo to a more random montage style video, however this may making the editing a bit trickier.

Monday 19th October- Dabblin' with the set

We went to our filming location today and set up the props etc. ready for filming on wednesday. As you can see from our planning posts we've put together a picture story board showing the shots and sequences we want to use in the video and the way we'll shoot it. We've also set up all props and settings for the shots and have now got a definate idea of how we want the video to look.

We've also arranged lighting for the video that we are borrowing from a friend.

Planning the shoot. 'creating the artt'

We enjoy our work, editing on the mac.

This is the wall we are using for several shots, mainly the opening scene. The bare brick fits with our vintage/antique theme and adds to our mise en scene.

Main setup

We are using this vintage red leather sofa in the majority of our shots as almost a focal point to the video. We will feature a number of shots on this sofa as we think it looks cool and adds to the representation we are putting forward of old and vintage.

We've recnsidered the aspect of the cupboards in the corner of the wall as we think they look a bit to modern for the 1950's theme we are going for, for this reason we are moving the sofa and lamp to the other wall.

These are just a few of the angles we intend to use in the video.

High angle- risking life and limb from a beam

Storyboard beginning sequence:

This is the initial shot of the video, immediatley illustrating our theme of vintage with this antique portrait. The brick also adds to the representation.

Zoom in of the portrait.

Transition to a mid/high angle shot of lead singer sitting next to old stereo and tapes etc.

Puts tape in, the tape being the song that we are actually using. Once tapes in the song starts with no bass and low volume to make it feel as if the music is coming through the headphones on the stereo. We are aiming to create this effect on the macs.

Full volume and bass then comes in once the head phones are put on and the proper song begins.

Straight shot of lead singer, he starts to smile and nodd.

His head goes out of shot, and then comes back up with the horseman mask on (not shown in the picture). This introduces the audience to horseman as a vital part to the video.

Med/long

There is then a long drumming and guitar sequence in the song where we will feature close ups of both the drums and the guitarist (shown below). These will be face paced shots, making the transitions no longer than 2 seconds apart.
Floor tom closeup

Snare closeup

Bass closeup

High hat closeup

Tom closeup

Med drumkit shot

80's :)

We will show closeup shots and med's of the guitarist depending on the part of the song.

The cut shot figure movement will match the pace of the music and create a quirky rough image.

These three pictures on the sofa show an effect we intend to use, with the lead singer looking as if hes moving along the sofa, this will be done by pausing the camera. This will again be done in the pace of the song.