Lights, Camera, Action!

In todays lesson we filmed a bit of footage of our band. The members are lewis, Connor and Grant. The performed some of the song where we need the lead singer miming the lyrics. The also did a photo shoot for Charlottes digi pack.

In todays lesson the band that we were supposed to be filming had important work to be getting on with in their friday lesson so we were unable to perform for us but we arranged to film on monday in a single lesson where they wont be as busy. So I got on with my poster for Crimson. I wanted my poster to be plain and simple. The reason why I chose the background to be black is to make the colours stand out, if the background was white it wouldn't work as well as the black. The word 'CRIMSON' is red and in capitals to show the importance of the band. The album name is multi coloured, i was just being playful with the name and text, i thought it would work well as the album is called 'Explosion of colour'.

PLAN

My plan for the next five hours is to....

25th November lesson 1 and 2: Filming our band in the music department it should take 2 hours to get the shots and angles right. We have already arranged this with the music department and the people we will be filming.

28th November lesson 5: Finnish my poster for Crimson and pick my final design and upload to blog. Also add proof of arranging the day for the powder fight (on Facebook)

2nd December lesson 1 and 2: Possibly filming in Morrisons to do the trolly scene. Someone will sit in a trolly while being pushed down an isle.

Lights, Camera, Action!

Last Friday we filmed another part of the music video, we filmed three differnt people singing lyrics. We wanted the footage to flow and not have any cuts. I put the camera on a dolly so the footage will be smooth, it was better than moving the actural camera where it could be shakey. It took about 5 takes to get it done. In the end the footage looked good. Here are some shots of the footage.

I have taken another photo to go on the back of the album with the names of the songs. I used a DSLR camera so it has a better quality. It is half of my face, my eye and hand. I had to flip the picture over so the dark side would be on the left where the song would be. The text is going to be red and thin.

This image will be the other way around when the digi pack is complete





These are only four of the six panels that i have done so far. The process that i went through to get these images was by painting my face white and then i flicked paint at my face to get the splat effect which connects with the music video. I need one more picture to go on one more flap so i will have to take more photos. The reason why the font is black is because the red on the face and the red in the text clashed with each other and wouldn't show up clearly so I changed it to black. But as you can see the word 'Crimson' on the CD is still red. Explosion of colour is the album name.

Lights, Camera, Action!

Me and Charlotte went to our friend Amy's house to film a scene for our music video. We filmed us playing a game of pool. I thought our footage was successful as we filmed from lots of different angles and choose our best one to go in the video.

Today I had to do a pitch to the class with my group member Charlotte. We just talked about any changes to our idea, the locations, the cost, the props we need, the concept of our idea and showed our animatic. I think that our pitch was successful and we got some useful feed back. We now know that we want the two gangs (common people, Non common people) to be in it more to build up the tension at the end.

This is feedback from our pitch:

2x "Well on the way to Box Office success"

2x "It definitely has potential"

These are the comments from 'the elements that work are':
Concept
Visuals
Ideology + all fitting together
The powder fight (make sure you get lots of footage of it)
The powder fight sounds amazing will be tough to pull it off
Lots of visuals and lyric relationships
Different idea
Good paint/colour fight at the end
Clear & good intertextual references
Works well

These are the comments from 'things that need developing are':
Get permission from ASDA for trolley sequence
Health & safety check (paint in eye etc.)
Perhaps have 2 'gangs' moving together earlier in video
The trolley part is in the original video , try to put a spin on it?
Trolley idea
Just make sure the powder scene works

These are the comments from 'things that don't work are':
A little too much of the visual relationships with the lyrics

In todays lesson I have been working on our pitch for fridays lesson where we have to present our music video ideas to the class.

Animatics of our Storyboard

I have started to make my 6 panel digi pack. I have made some changes on the font. The reason for doing this is because the background and the font clash with each other because they are very colourful. The red in the font couldn't be seen against some of the red in the background. The background image is of half of my face with paint splattered all over it. This idea was to keep it with the theme of the powder fight in the video and also the album name is Explosion of colour.

This is now the font. On the front cover of the didgi pack the font will be black and on the CD the band name 'Crimson' will be red but the album name 'Explosion of colour' will be black.

Crimson will be in capitals to show that the name of the band is important.