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Thursday, 24 October 2013

Diary Of A Day Shooting

When: Wednesday 23th October
Where: Decendant Tunnel (under A12)

What: Firstly met at Lydia Mecklenburgh's house to prepare Nicole for the days shooting ahead. We then drove to Ingatestone where a tunnel under the main road is situated and this is one of our chosen locations for our music video. We set the camera up on the tripod and produced a number of different shots and angles. We also decided to take a few pictures which could be used for our album cover or even our advert to promote our music video.
We directed Nicole to do a number of moves and facial expressions to show to the audience that she is enthusiastic and looks like she could be in a real music video. We want our music video to look as professional as possible which we thought Nicole did really well to do this. We also included some lip syncing shots of Nicole so we can cut and change between different shots, to give variety and excitement for the audience who watch it.
We gained alot of footage to give us more of a choice when we edit, this would also make it easier for us and we can then make the music video how we actually imagined and planned it to be. This scene and location was influenced by Cheryl Cole's - Call My Name video.

This day was perfect to chose this location to film as it was raining outside, which would have ruined our footage if we were to go up to London and do it then. Being undercover gave us alot more time and allowed us to get more shots of Nicole to be able to make editing easier with more video. We spent most of the day in this location to gain as much footage as possible to give us better options when it came to editing. We all took part in different roles on the day to all give us experience of how to use the equipment and film shots which we thought would look effective


Wednesday, 23 October 2013

Problems on our first day of filming


Tuesday, 22 October 2013

Diary Of A Day Shooting

Location: Beth's House
When: 21st October 2013

What: We firstly started off creating a set in Beth's house which consisted of  a black back drop which Nicole would then stand in front of. We created this for a photoshoot and close ups of Nicole's face for some lip syncing scenes for our music video. This included an hour to start with to sort out Nicole's look, for example- doing her hair, make-up and costumes. We then wanted do a photoshoot which we could put on our social media sites to raise awareness and promote our work, these pictures would also get used for our blog to personalise and make more professional.
The close up filming shots of the lip syncing consisted of lip gems on Nicoles lips to give a pop feel to the shots and to fit in with the genre, she also has short shots of her with shisha smoke coming out her mouth and filtering up her face.

Some problems we encountered when filming and taking the pictures was the lighting of the room. This appeared on the camera as very bright and we needed to do something to adapt it to make it look more professional and have a better finish. We then set up the spot lights which are then connected to the camera and acts as a flash at a specific colour to make them clearer pictures. Once this had been set up we could take many more pictures and then start to film the lip syncing. This gave a good effect on the camera as Nicole's bright lip gems shon through more against a black background and the high quality of camera could make Nicole in focus completely.



Friday, 18 October 2013

Key words for the making of our music video


Wordle: Alevel media

Social Media- Twitter


Social Media- twitter

Wednesday, 16 October 2013

Shooting Schedule

Tuesday, 15 October 2013

Video Planning


Kesha – All that Matters

 

 

Shoot Date:  SATURDAY 19th OCTOBER 2013 (TBC)

Characters:

Nicole – Main Character

Locations:

Location 1: Decedent Tunnel

Evocative dancing scenes + lip sync scenes

Little Hyde Lane, Ingatestone (Subway, under A12)

Location 2: Studio Shoot

Close up lip sync scenes

Beth’s house, 4 Nine Ashes Farm Cottages, Rookery Road, Blackmore, Essex CM4 0LD

Location 3: Dad’s Office (Scene 1, PTO)

Brightly coloured Nicole dancing and going crazy against the grain of various mundane daily occurances. (see below)

Location 4: Aldgate Station/Brick Lane (Scene 2,3,4,5)

Brightly coloured Nicole dancing and going crazy against the grain of various mundane daily occurances. (see below)

 

Mundane Situations:

 

Scene 1 - Walking to work – (kamset?, Dad’s office) Nicole wearing work coat walks towards office door, smartly dressed woman beats her to door, turns her nose up at her.

Nicole gives her a look of disregard, throws coat off revealing brightly coloured casual clothes and walks off

Scene 2 - Aldgate East Station – suits walking down into tube (symbolic of darkness, depression, daily grind) Nicole in bright clothes bopping to iphone walking back up steps, big smile.

Scene 3 - Coffee scene – Nicole struts her stuff down the street walking towards camera. Steals coffee of passing suit, he looks disgusted, raises hands in disgust as if to say ‘what the hell is wrong with you?’

Scene 4 - 4th Scene TBC – TBC

Scene 5 - Club Poster – In brick lane, Nicole and some friends walk down the street (set against some cool graffiti or something) notice a flyer on the wall for a big club night.. look at each other in agreement and rip the flyer off the wall

Fade to black

 

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Video will follow a linear storyline of our five scenes cut between our two performance scenes in equal measure. Video editing will be creative and cut to the beat.

 

 

 

 

 

Monday, 14 October 2013

Costume and Prop Shopping

Vine Uploads


Our group have been using Vine to present our ideas towards our music video:

Vine is a mobile app owned by Twitter that enables its users to create and post short video clips. The service was introduced with a maximum clip length of six seconds and can be shared or embedded on social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook. Though Vine was initially available for iOS devices, Twitter had been working on bringing the app to other platforms. This shows that this app is fresh and new and already gaining popularity and getting bigger. Our group decided this was a good way to present our work and preparation for our music video that we are creating. We used the Vine app on my phone to record things such as our location ideas and costume ideas. We're using Vine to present our ideas to our target audience, and as a new and popular app, we believe this is the best way to get across to our audience. 

Wednesday, 9 October 2013

Photo Ideas of Hair, Make-up and Jewellery

Tuesday, 8 October 2013

Costume Ideas


As a group, we met up and discussed outfit ideas for our music video. We all individually provided clothes that we thought would suit our genre and song. These are the outfits we have established and decided we will 100% use at least 6 out of the 9 outfits shown in the Picstitch.
Below is evidence that we are publishing our ideas to the users of Instagram to advertise our work for our music video.

Monday, 7 October 2013

Preliminary Video


Friday, 4 October 2013

Storyboard


Thursday, 3 October 2013

Inspirations and Influences for Props and Makeup

Costume Influences

Wednesday, 2 October 2013

Questionaire Results & Analysis

Questionaire

Tuesday, 1 October 2013

Location Ideas