Digipak!

Digipak

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Research - The Music Biz

Institutional research

For this research we mainly focused on the record labels for the original artists of the song; Audio Bullys.

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Radio

The techno/electronic genre of ‘I’m In Love’ means that the song could be played on a vast range of radio stations in 'The Charts'. Due to its none-mainstream status, other than Radio 6, the song is best played on stations such as Capital FM and Kiss100. This is because the have a range of shows played on the stations with the different presenters, who specialise in different types of music that is based on the genre that the station itself plays.

Getting Started

We started to brainstorm out ideas, and discuss the types of shots and camera techniques we would like to use. We have made a lot of progress in coming up with the narrative for our video in particular, we just need to get it down onto a storyboard.

Also, we practised some stop motion camera work, and also some other shots, this was quite successful as it will save us time when we are actually filming on location! We just need to edit this footage to see if it gives us the end result that we want!

Mind Maps and Mood Boards!

Here are some of the brainstorms we have made to collect our ideas of genre, location, camera shots and castings:

This is a mood board for our project:

This is a brainstorm about Music Genre:

This is a brainstorm on general ideas for our project:

Animatics :D

Storyboards + Synopsis

Our music video will take form as a journey of a male's standard day as he goes out, excited to go home again to see his girlfriend. However, we decided against an average love story as we wanted to make our plot more exciting. We did this by twisting the ending to include the other protagonist: the Rapper, and how he is potentially the girls other lover, and the audience is left with a cliff-hanger. Here is our synopsis in brief:

-Guy wakes up in bed with his girlfriend

-He gets up and starts getting ready to go out

-Kisses girlfriend goodbye and leaves home

-Walks down a long road oblivious to other girls looking at him

-Walks to a station and gets on a train

-Comes off train and picks up newspaper

-Walks down long road towards a park

-Finds bench and sits, whilst the so far anonymous rapper leaves

-Guy opens newspaper [transition to rapper]

-Rapper walking down a road and past coffee shop

-Guy sitting in coffee shop [match on action transition on heart shapes]

-Guy comes out jewellery shop with a ring, outs in pocket and walks

-Split screen between guy and rapper both walking simultaneously down a road home

-Time lapse: rapper in house with girl but not yet known to audience

-Guy comes home and see's them

-Rapper turns to wink and ending is left hanging
Storyboards

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Stop Motion Practise

We have been practising possible effects that we would like to include in our video. The video above is of a stop motion practise that we carried out. We really like this effect and will fit this in to our project.

Location Research - London

London

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Alex and Juanita spent a Sunday up in London taking pictures of our ideal locations for the upcoming music video.

Locations included:

• Southbank
• Millenium Bridge
• Camden Market
• Millenium Eye - Bridge

At each of these locations both Alex and Juantia tried to invisualise the aspects of the shots we would be taking there to see whether they were possible and how it would work. They worked out possible routes we could take during our filming process and what kind of shots and angles would be available to us in these locations. We will then use this information for when we plan our story boards.

Video Effect Practise :D

Alex and Juanita also made a clip in london. It was suppose to be a shot of the artist standing still with a crowd whizzing past him in ultra speed. It didnt quite work to plan.

More Video Practise

The group has recently been practising effects that we may use in the final video to prepare ourselves for the filming.

We have created a shot where we zoom into a newpaper with the front page picture being of our artist and it closes up to the shot and we go into the picture where the clip begins to play of the artist singing. We have found it a little hard to make it perfect but we still gave it a try. We may use this idea in our video but ulter it slightly.
There has been problems uploading this clip but should be here soon.

Planning!!

Today, we finally managed to select filming dates for our project.
As Amy and Emily work either Saturday or Sunday, and then everyone has a different Sixth Form timetable, we have found it tricky to find free available dates.
However, as we have halfterm coming up we felt this would be a good time to film our video and that our cast members will most likely find it easier to make free time during this week.

We got together and worked out which days we would have free and came up with Thursday 28th and Friday 29th of October.

Juanita booked out two HD Sony cameras, tripods and one monopod for the whole of half term.
Below is some photo evidence of her hard work!!

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HOWEVER, we are still yet to finish story boarding and finalising locations as well as completing our cast crew.
We have managed to get one member so far:
Pete Blyth = 'Main Man'.
But we still need to cast the 'main lady' and 'rapper' characters for our video

Just Don't Do It

DON'T LEAVE WITHOUT THE CAMERA CHARGER

We had so many issues with regards to booking and actually taking out the cameras that when we had to negotiate with other groups who didn't have cameras we became very reliable on them to give us the equipment we initially needed. The negotiation meant that we only got to pick up one camera and one tripod instead of both sets, and another group would get the other and bring it to us on the decided day... They never checked for a camera charger. Instead of picking up the other Sony camera, the other group got a Cannon one that didn't have a charger; which meant it couldn't be charged.

RULE ONE!

Filming Days in Motion

Emily has been trying to plan out a schedule for our filming days.
We hope to film all of the shots in and around London on the 28th of October and then to do shots in Amys house and takes from the station to amys ect on the 29th and any others that we may need.
We (Emily, Amy, Alex, Juanita, Vikki, Pete, Rapper - Yet to be named) shall all meet at Amys on 38th at 9.30 - ready with cameras, props, tapes and lightening if need (fingers crossed this will all go according to plan :D)
We have now casted Vikki Bradely as our leading lady. Lets hope she will be 100% commited!!
Still, we are looking for a rapper but struggling, with little time left to cast.

Filming Day 1: London babyyyyy :)

Here are a few pictures from our first day of filming.

Filming Day 1: London

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We spent about 6 hours, from 9.30 - 4.30, carrying out 1/3 of our music video filming. We got about 20 mins worth of footage for all the shots in London that we will hopefully need.
We still have the rest of our video to shot which will take place Wednesday, unless we need any re shoots.

The day was very successful and well planned, we used our storyboards and what we had learnt from our trip to London researching locations to be as efficient as possible. We took turns when filming so the work was very evenly distributed. Peter, our actor was very enthusiastic and played his role very well. We want to carry on this level of teamwork and enthusiasm for our next day of filming.

Filming

We were filming the opening of our video, we had to film after school at around 4pm; this meant that we had to film before it was dark. This proved to be very difficult, and we didn't manage to film everything that we had originally intended. We were happy with the footage we managed to get though, and it was our first sessions filming with Peter and Vikki, as always however, we were very pleased with the effort that they put into their acting.

One shot in particular that we tried was a birds eye view of Peter's face lying in bad looking directly up at the camera. This proved to be quite challenging as Alex's shadow of her filming was in the shot. Therefore we moved Peter so that he was sitting up against a wall and then we put a pillow behind his head to give the illusion that he was lying down.

Overall this was successful, and we managed to secure footage which we are very happy with. We also arranged our next dates for filming.

Media

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Snow Days = Extensionssssss

Due to the never ending snow from Tuesday 2nd, school ended half an hour earlier on the Wednesday and then was closed due to sever weather and icey roads. This meant that we lost VALUABLE lesson time as well as in school. These circumstances we're beyond our control. We have had lots of prbolems surrounding our music video but they could all be resolved... this time there was nothing that could be done to alter nature.

We have come back to school, and have been told that we have a new deadline for our practical: Friday 10th

With the deadline for our blogs and evaluations being:

Friday 17th.

Two extremely crucial dates for the diary.

STESSEDDDD!!!

Well to our surprise, we had lots and lots of snowww :D

This meant no editing for us :(

So now that the snow has gone, Emily has gone into Coombe to edit some more.

We're hoping we can get it finished by Wednesday even though we had a few days off school :D