Our Pitch - Vic

During my free period, have completed editing (on the Mac)our pitch that we showed to the class last lesson. I plan to (when I have the opportunity) upload it onto the blog, hopefully tomorrow, during my next free period. I will also analysis our pitch and assess the feedback.

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.

Days of filming- Emily

Currently we are struggling to find a day which all three of the band members can do, due to other commitments. At the moment we are finding a way to get round this becuase we dont want to comprimise on the actors, because we belive that using these three girls with carful use of costume props and make-up will be very effective and portray the sexy/grime image which we wish to portray.

Drums... This peice of equiptment is causing me quite alot of stress, because its not somthing which every household has stashed in the back cupboard. I have been asking around a few people i know but its not somthing people are going to lend us without serious consideration; as some of the equiptment can cost thousands of pounds. I have also asked the school, but they can only let me borrow it if we are to use it in school, which we arnt, we need to use it in the location we have picked.
The Guitar isnt such a problem as we know lots of people that have a number of them and people are not so protective of them.
hopfully all issues will be sorted within the next few days.

Story-boarding process - Vic & Emily

During the story- boarding process we are finding it helpful to look back at previous posts, because we have highlighted the key ideas and camera shots what we liked and thought would look effective in our video. We also are looking back at the photos that were taken of the Location to ensure that we do not miss any cruicial shots or elements.

Background information on the Pretty Reckless - Vic

Taylor Momsen is aged 17, she fronts the band and also sings lead vocals. Momsen writes the songs along with Ben Phillips and their producer Kato Khandwala. Momsen has been in the spot light from a very small age beginning at just three years old where she signed onto a modelling company doing a variety of adverts. Taylor then went onto to be one of the key characters in the 2000 film 'The Grinch who stole Christmas' at the age of seven years old. From the large role in the Grinch at such a small age Taylor did a variety of other small jobs mainly in the film industry, until she landed the star role in the US Drama 'Gossip Girl'. However she always wanted to write songs and be in a band.


The Pretty Reckless signed a deal with Interscope in March 2009. She writes the her songs, sings and plays basic guitar on the album. Taylor and the band played their first tour by opening for 'The Veronicas' on their revenge is sweeter tour in spring 2009. The Pretty Reckless has just finished a tour in 2010 and have recently played at a British music festival (V festival): Summer 2010. The band's debut album is called 'light me up' which was released on August 30th in the UK. The singles 'Make me wanna die' and 'miss nothing' were released to promote the album.

Therefore Taylor went from this innocent 7 year old child (Above)

To this seemingly 'out of control' teenager (17 years old) (below)

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 Images-Jack

Here is an imovie i have made containing images and captions of the location of where were are going to film our music video. I have placed the Aged film effect onto the picture so that it looks a little more similar to what we image out video to look like. Hopefully this will give a better insight into the groups overall vision. I dont think i could be any happier with the location, I think its the right amount of grunge and dirtiness that we were looking.