Footage Problems

Sam and myself decided to bring our video cameras with us so we could shoot multiple angles. This worked very well at the time and we had lots of excellent footage. The footage from the school and sam's camera's uploaded fine, however the footage from my camera did not upload as the file format was not supported by final cut. A media technician said he should be able to sort it but he hasn't been here for the past two days so we aren't sure whether or not he has done it and if he has there is no way for us to get the footage at the moment. This is a problem as we had lots of footage that we wanted to use and at the moment we have lots of footage but from about 3 different angles with no close-ups. Ryan has some converting software at home so he is going to see if he can convert it tonight. Hopefully we will have all the footage tomorrow.

Digipack Info

Artist
Song title

Including;
Commentary
New single
On set diary
How we managed it all in just 4 hours
Out takes / deleted scenes
Interviews
Remix
Edit it yourself feature

digipack idea

not sure about this yet, just an initial idea

Upload

So today we are uploading our footage and are going to be looking through it all to see what is good and what we can get rid of. We had three cameras at the shoot, sometimes all filming at the same time. This means that we have lots of footage, I think at least an hour, which will mean it will take a long time to go through.

Ryan has just finished the animatic which he will be uploading soon.

Idea for DVD cover

This is a photo i took whilst shooting the footage and i have edited it a little in photo shop to enhance the contrast a bit more. --->

Shooting

On Sunday, we filmed our music video.

Sam managed to book the junction, so we could shoot there.

The filming went very well, and we got plenty of footage. We were slightly un-organised to begin with, but once we had everything, and we'd set everything up, we were ok. We filmed from 11-3:30.

Our final idea, was to have an audition process, where one of the "auditionees" stands infront of a blank white sheet, and sings the song; but whilst this's happening, they'd be pelted with random things, like shredded paper, confetti, icing sugar, glitter, balloons, sellotape, and paint. We also ran objects through the shots, like a trolley or a rubber tyre. We went for a very simplistic look, and purposely left the props like fans and chairs in the shots. We wanted it to look like an actual audition. We also used 3 camera's in total, to get a wide range of angles, of the same thing.

Whilst we were there, we thought it an opportune time to take photographs for our digipack. Whilst doing our storyboard we wanted to fill up small balloons with glitter, or shaving cream, and for them to be on the sheet behind the auditionee and to be popped at the beat. This didnt work very well, as the balloons were small, they werent easy to tie. (Below, trying to fill the balloons, which was unsuccessfull)

Overall, the whole shoot went very well, and once we look at the footage we got, we can decide if we'll need to film again. :)

Feedback

It seems as if you're all working individually, against one another, not so much as a team and posting random posts to make up numbers. On the other hand you've done a lot of research to influence your ideas which has worked well.

Feedback

Loads of content on your blog which is really good. You have a lot of other music video examples to show and give more explanation of what you mean, which is good as its visual and not boring.

Inspiration

Eagle Vs. Shark, is a very mellow, love story. The characters are unconventional and awkward, i really like the look to this film (images taken from the trailer at youtube.com, and google images)
It's very low budget, and simple.

Inspiration

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIDeUssDFE0

The above link is for the Cure- Close to me.

I really like this video, as its very close up, and is in one area the whole time. I think if we did our video in one confined space, it'll make it look more effective, and mean we could shoot at any time, and in one location, so we could film for as long as we wanted.
We could also improve it a lot in editing, and still add animation.



This is the video for Paramore- ignorance. This video is also very confined, and dark, i like how there's a single spotlight, which is cleverly used to highlight each band member.
i like the closeness of this video too, and the use of light, we could do a video like this, and use large lamps, to brighten the area, without making it look grungy or dark, because our artist is more indie/folk.

Conflict

It seems there is a bit of conflict in the group towards the final idea. I am a bit unsure as to what is going on as I missed the pitch and when I came back the idea had changed.

This is something we will definitely need to sort out before we continue.

We will need to look at all of the different ideas and decide which one would be best for us to do. I think at the moment our idea is a bit too conventional and there won't really be anything special about it. I think we need to come up with an idea that will stand out and make our video different from anything anyone has seen before and I don't feel that will be accomplished with the current idea.

We'll let you know once we've come up with a definite idea and we will work hard to get that storyboarded. Ultimately we need to make sure we have something everyone is happy with otherwise there won't be 100% effort put in and we won't be performing to our full potential.

Animatic

This is our Animatic for our music video i have only managed to do half of it as the song is quite long and it became too time consuming. However from the Animatic you can get an idea of what we are trying to achieve.

Video Analysis

This is Night by Benga & Coki Coki

I really like this video, as the music and visuals works really well. It has a very heay bassline, which is amplified with the octopus's movements, and lights. The flow of the song, is quite slow, which is again presented through the octopus.

Auteur research

P1 - Auteur Presentation - Anton Corbijn

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Ideas Ideas Ideas Ideas Ideas

Another idea:
To have that game young children play, when you lift a huge sheet into the air, and someone has to run to the other side before it falls down.

But, it'd be slightly different. The sheet wouldn't fall down; and the whole video would be a huge tracking shot to the right, following our lead singer. The sheet would be white, or any bright colour, and it'd keep changing throughout the whole thing. Along the way she'd do or see things relating to the lyrics. We wouldn't see anything from the outside, just her, and whatever she comes across, as if she's in her own world.

Things she'd come across:

• When the lyrics say "the wings are wide, the wings are wide," wings could sprout from behind her.
• When the lyrics say "wild card inside, wild card inside" we could do a close up of her spreading a pack of cards (as if to do a magic trick) and then throw them up in the air above her
• When the lyrics say "I'll be the one who'll break my heart," we could have an animated heart on her, then break it in half.
• When the lyrics say "I love you more, i love you more" she could be holding a flower, and picking the petals off, (like when young children go: "he loves me, he loves me not")
• When the lyrics say "But now i know i wanna win the war" we could animate small explosions around her
• When the lyrics say "No one likes to take a test" we could animate numbers, and equations around her head, and she bats them away, and they turn to smoke
• When the lyrics say "put your weight against the door" she could open an animated door, and walk through it.
• When the lyrics say "kick drum on the basement floor" she could kick a drum across the floor.
• When the lyrics say "stranded in a fog of words" she could have a cloud around and above her head, with words coming out of them, then she could bat them away, clearing the air.
• When the lyrics say "loved him like a winter bird" we could animate birds above her head, and one of them to rest on her finger
• When the lyrics say "on my head the water pours" we could animate a bucket of water falling on her. Or pour a real bucket of water over her head.
• When the lyrics say "fly away, fly away to what you want to make" we could have an animated hot air balloon in the semi-distance with someone waving out of it.
• Then, the same thing when the lyrics say "the wings are wide the wings are wide" and "wild card inside, wild card inside" and "I'll be the one to break my heart"
• When the lyrics say " the truth lied, and lies divide" we could animate, the whole shot being torn in half. Then to two pieces of "paper" would get blown away in the wind.

I think this idea would maybe be a lot easier to execute, as we could do it anywhere, and wouldn't need many people. We would also need a lot of small props, which would relate to the lyrics. But we'd have to film soon, as a lot of it would has animation in it. This would mean there'd be a lot of class, and outside work, rather than more filming. The video would have a very clean, almost sterile look to it, which i think would work well with the artist, as she's quite feminine.