Hard at work! -Jack

Yet again in another one of our glorious media lessons we are working on our blog and elements that are going to prepare us further for the big day of filming!. `Here is evidence of me working on the anomatic. The process was reasonably easy it just takes a lot of time and precision to get the images matching with the music and fitting them into where we want them and the order etc...

Our Meeting 'Sorry its Late'-Jack

I appologise for this being late my laptop has been in for repair as something went wrong........ and well you no what its like trying to upload from your iphone:/.

Here are a couple of pictures of us in Starbucks attempting to finish our storyboard. Like the girls say we did get it done after overcoming a few minor mishaps.  In the end I feel as though it actually came out quite well. We will have it set out and uploaded hopefully by the end of our double lesson tomorrow. We will also hope to have the animatic finished and uploaded.

Vic looking Studious.

 Myself just enjoying the Latte.

Maybe a couple of minor disagreements.











Emily hard at work.

Overall a pretty successful day :)

Finishing of the story board- Emily

I am happy to say that we have now completed our storyboard for our music video. As you know we met in Starbucks in Leicester to get our work complete; all talent starts in Starbucks. It took just over two and a half hours to get it complete and up to scratch. There was a few hic-ups in the way like Vic mentioned in an previous post, but all was completed, now we just need to upload the anomatic which is in the process of being made. As all groups do there was a slight clash of ideas but we worked around it to allow all of our ideas to be into the video. When we were there we also finalised the costume and make-up to allow us to collect all the props we need to do the video. most of the props are pretty easy to collect i.e Jack Daniels bottles and cigarette but the chaise longue and the instruments are not so easy so planning ahead was a good idea.

The day of filming -Emily.

The day: sunday 31st october

Location: Old barn

Start (time): Emily, Jack, Vic 7am Trinny, Hannah, Daisy 8am Other cast 12pm

Finish (time): Emily, Jack, Vic 3pm Trinny, Hannah, Daisy 2pm Other cast 2pm

Times for the day

7 till 8... E.J.V will sort out cameras, tripods, make up, costume, props, mise en scene and final check of story board.

8 till 10... Trinny Hannah and daisy's seperate shots to be done in this two hour slots. Hannah said that she wouldn't mind with helping us with the make up, as she is very good at achieving this look.

10 till 12... shots of the group together. Were taking a picture of the wanted look, so we can refer back to it each time before we film to avoid continuity errors. This will also save time so we don't have to re-do shots when there not shot right.

12 till 2... shots of the girls with the other cast members. we have a clear vision of what we want so we believe that this will be achieveable in 2 hours.

As a group we have said that filming the whole thing in 6 hours is a big ask but we believe if we work as a group and keep focused we will be able to do this and with time to spare to touch up bit which could be done better.

Were hoping that the weather is going to be like a sunny winters day, this way it will be bright but everything could have dew on it giving it a fresh look to it opposing the look of the actors who are looking not so fresh.

StoryBoard- Jack, Emily, Vic

Heres the girls trying to time the music with the shots we have set, we have made it so that the montage fits in perfect time with the music.
(fingers Crossed it pays of when it comes to editing).
This shows that Emily has is able to listen to the music and pick out the individual beats and make sure they are times perfectly with the shots. After watching many of failed attempts this actually does prove to be a skill.
It also has been very important in the story boarding process, we would not have been able to complete what we have done so far (what we have done so far will be uploaded soon). 

Website- Emily

Here are some shots from the pretty reckless's website, just to give us an idea on the product we have to create after the video making process. This is one idea we have, or there is also a album cover or poster. This is just and idea to show the group to highlight what were aiming for.

Whilst filming - Vic

Whilst filming we need to ensure that the light is correct - we need it to be bright outside, crisp and dry. The natural light from outside will light the barn however i believe we will need to bring in some artificial light i.e from car headlights. This could possibly prove difficult due to the width of the concrete in the barn may not be wide enough.

A further thing we need to keep in mind is health and saftey. There is many possible dangers at the location which could cause either our actors or ourselves to trip and fall. The hazards are:

- The moss on the ground, which could be slippy.
- The broken glass on the floor.
- The metal wires on the floor, from burnt tires.
- The litter on the floor.
- The un-level ground.

 

Therefore whilst filming we need to watch our step to ensure that we have no injuries. This will allows us to film efficiently and to the time limit we will set ourselves.

Location Shots - Vic

Over the weekend I went to the chosen location and took a variety of shots to show the rest of the group the location in detail. The shots of the location look really effective and I believe we can achieve our vision by using this location i.e. grundy and deserted. Here are several of the photos which I took, I sent Jack all of the photos and we created a slideshow on his 'Macbook'.

I believe that this location will look effective for our own music video because it looks deserted and grungy. The positives to filming at this location is that we will not be interupted by individuals as it is 'off the beaten track' so therefore it will be less likely for individuals to get in the way of filming.  

The large open space can work both positivly and negitivly. Positivly in the sense we have a large areas to film, the set will not look cluttered and squashed however the negative side to the location is that we will need vast amounts of people to create a 'party scene' or it will look empty. A further negative to the location is that we will struggle to get an light inside the barn so therefore the video may end up looking too dark. However to overcome the darkness issue,                                    we can use one of the other barns

 which is more open so therefor allows more light to enter the barns, for example the barn to the right allows alot more light than the other barn (Images at the top of post).

We need to film on a bright crip day to ensure we have enough light for the shot to look clear and effective, this is a crucial element to creating any type of video.

Hopes For The Day Of Filming. -Jack

As we all no the deadline is creeping up on us, so as a group we could really do with sitting down and setting a date, so we can therefore ask and organise for our actors and actresses to turn up, to gather all of the props together and to dress the location. There have been minor complications so far, for instance one of the girls (daisy) is in the latest stage of recovery from an operation, she has re-assured us she is going to be fine, but as a close friend I cant lie that i'm slightly worried about her. But we have to continue planning as though she is going to be there and then if she isn't have to find a somebody else. I have had words with a few other friends and Alex Lovatt has agreed to help us and stand in last minute if needs be which is a massive re-assurance to the group. 


Also the weather. Ideal weather for the shoot would be a cold but bright day, preferably no rain, but of course we can not control the great British weather. I like the idea of the girls maybe being in big coats, maybe fur or thick leather biker jackets with studs which probably would look right if the weather was hot (fat chance of it ever being hot). 
As myself and Emily have yet to go to see the location (we have seen pictures and video's so don't worry too much) we would be interested to see if a car could fit on the inside enabling us to light the room, so that it stays consistent for filming. We are all planning a few meetings before the actual shoot so the girls can see wardrobe looks I have pulled and to collectively look at what we have all done to hopefully decide on an amazing plan. We are still unsure wether we will be filming for more than one day so we are hoping if that happens that the weather stays as consistent as possible. We also think that making Trinny come before the other girls is essential as she will be in the majority of the shots and we dont want the other girls to have waisted their time. Even though on saying this i would like Hannah their to asist her wardrobe and makeup this presuming that myself Vic and Emily will be too busy sorting out the location. 
After talking to the teacher ablout weather apps and sun up and down times and how to add them onto the blog may seem helpful to indicate the weather times and how long we have to film in the day.

Costumes, hair and make up - Vic

Our costume ideas that we plan to use in our video are fairly 'provocative', as we aim to use stockings and suspenders, a veriety of tight, short, dresses. We also need to ensure that the video doesnt come off looking too 'sexual' as it will make it look cheap and tacky and as a result we will fail to achieve our target audience (ages 15 - 25), and will most likly have an older male audience.  

Our ideas for costumes could be fairly costly however our friends have got outfits which fit our genre, therefore this will save us as a group money. The outfits have either come from highstreet shops, old dancing costumes or fancy fress costumes. If we need any extra clothing I plan on searching charity shops and various vintage shops in the town centre.

We plan on using several items of fake fur. Non of the fur used in our video will be real. We are well aware that using real fur could raise some ethical issues.

For the make up aspect of things most of the make up we will need Emily or myself own it. However for the slightly more 'outrageous' make up e.g. 'crimson lipstick' and 'large fake eye lashes', I plan on buying it from the Market in the town centre. This will be a cheap way of buying the make up.

We have planned for the girls in our music video to have long hair in a 'messed up' style. We have gained inspiration from other female rock artists for his look. We will need hair spray which I own and this 'hair cream' to give the hair a messy, wavey look which I also own. The hair will also require back combing.

The only issue that may occur is the shoes, they need to be a certain grungy look and possibly one of our friends may own some large, black, grungy heels, and she has different sized feet to the other actors in our music video. However I am confident that we will overcome this possible issue.

Shot ideas -Vic

Our idea for the beggining of the music video, is before the music begins we will film a close up of a 'Jack Daniels' bottle scraping along a wall (Including the sound) with the sound of the girls heels in the background. This will give the viewers an idea of the style of music and the genre which we are portraying in our music video. 

A further idea is a close up shot of one of the females blowing smoke into the camera lense and when the lense clears its a close up of the lead singer. We hope to achieve this by either zooming into the shot or using as blured shot. I will test which shot  looks most effective.

Camera footage ideas - Vic

Our idea for the footage of our video is to use a mixture of 'normal' shot, a colour wash shot and Black and white shots. I believe that a black and white element in our video will look effective and will flow with our genre. Black and white will make our video look chic. It will make our video look edgey which is our main focus. The colour wash will give the video a grungy look without looking dirty or too outrageous. Both these ideas will give our video and rocky edge.

I also believe that using a mixure of tripod 'Non shakey' shot and hand held 'shakey shot'. This will also give our video and rocky 'unstructured' edge.

Props. Emily

In our video we are planning on the characters actually playing the instruments. The shots wont be for long as the people we have choose carnt actually play the instuments we have choosen to put in our video, but as a group we thaught it was essential that they did as to show they were a band!
Trinny will be main vocals.
Hannah on the drums.
Daisy on guitar.

In one of their previous videos you see a chaise longue, we have acsess to one of these so we think it will be effective to see it in our video. On this we thaught it would be a nice idea to see them with lots of pearls to show the girly side to the band. On the side of that shot some dead red roses, to again tie in the red and the dirty/romantic look that we are going for.

The jack daniels bottle will add the efffect of the rock and roll elemt of our video. As a group we thaught that a vodka bottle wasn't dirty enough and isn't sen as a very grimey drink as wisky or JD.

Location - Vic

I have gained inspiration for our LOcation for our music video from my friends music video. I believe that the type of shots that they have used are ideal for the many ideas that we have got for our music video.

I thought of a location for our music video. The location is an abandoned farm. The farm has a barn with an old barn, and there is random brick layed around the location and broken, splintered peices of wood.

The Location is close to my house (The next village). I gained inspiration for this location after viewing my friends bands music video which was located there.

The location is ideal for our genre and idea because it is dark and grundy looking which will portray our 'rock party' idea. The video also has a mysterious, scary edge which we hope to represent in our music video.




It is very apprant that they have gained inspiration for their music video from the well known band Kasabian's music video to thier song 'Vlad the impaler'.




The two videos are very similar. Here is several shots that are almost the same.







The character is very similar and almost the entire body language and the way that the characters both hold themselves.





The way that the murder is shot is the same and the way that the victims respond to the knife. Also the same use of weapon.

Our 25 word pitch. Emily and Jack

Ideas for shots- emily

As a group we have dicided that we like the shot that is in this clip. its timimg is from 1.14 to 1.16. The two shots are one of taylor on her own and then aging in the same place but with the band behind her. We think this is a very clever shot and intend on using in in our muisc video when we come to make it. We like this shot because it shows the lead singer first showing that she is the important one then again with the rest of the band showing that it is a band and not a singer with a band, thins links back to my earlier posts where i was discussing how she is the focus for the band/ the icon for their audience.