Today's work!

Well today i got through the last of the planning for our first attempt of filming. Basically sound plan, lighhting plan and the shooting plan. However i was rushed into gathering performers due to extenuating circumstances. All of todays work was completed on schedule and im happy with it.

13/12/2012

Day one of filming

Day 1.

Performance shoot at Weston College.

Whole run through of song focused upon singer.

Whole run through of song focused upon drummer.

Whole run through of song focused upon Guitarist.

Whole run through of song with all performers in shot.

Prop list!

Prop list!

·     One bass guitar

·     One guitar

·     One drum set

·     One microphone

·     Backlights x4

·     Soft light x2

·     Dark shirt x3

·     Dark trousers x3

·     Dark shoes x3

·     One shaver

·     One mirror

·     One bottle of aftershave

·     Green screen

·     Bed

·     Cigarette

·     Lighter

 Location

   Sound studio at Weston College

  Weston-s-mare sea front near a yellow streetlamp

 Bedroom at 5 Weston ways Hutton

 Town centre Weston-s-mare

   Bathroom at 5 Weston Ways Hutton

Green screen room at Weston Colle

Sound plan!

Sound plan!

Performance scene-

In this scene we will just have the track playing with no additional sounds.

Narrative scene-

For these scenes we will have the track playing with underlining sounds from the environment to create realism.

Lighting Plan!

Lighting plan!

Performance scene-

Dark background

Dim backlighting

All the light’s are behind performers

Close up of performers will have soft lighting to bring out there features

Singer shall have majority of screen time so will have the soft light closest to him.

Narrative-

for the majority we will use natural light to create a effect of realism. However in the walking towards town shot we will use camera/phone light to aid the natural light. 

Just a thought.

For my music video it will be clear to see that it is of the indie genre however i think by having a naartaive this restricts that genre. So the performance aspect of my video needs to occur more than once. In my video i want a mix of performance and narrative so that i modernise the original indie genre and keep the basic foundations of it intact. Allthough in indie music videos there is either performance or narrative i feel mixing them will keep it at a suitable modern level.

These photos show how arctic monkeys have used both Performance and narrative in differnt music videos.

Animatics

First paragraph of my music video.

We start with 27 second introduction for this i thought we could have a performance. this fits in with indie genre which focuses alot on having performances in there videos. For this i will have a back light to make the performers  look like silhouette's. It will be constructed in a music studio so the acoustics within the room have an effect on the video.

Next we have the line 'Stop making the eyes at me, I'll stop making the eyes at you' for this line we will have 'alex turner' shaving/ getting ready for work and looking into the mirror when he glances up to the mirror again there will be a reflection of the girl he is thinking about.


Secondly we have the line 'And your shoulders are frozen (cold as the night)' for this we will have 'Alex Turner' dressing a shirt. he will have the shirt on by the line 'Oh but you're an explosion (your dynamite)' and at this point there will be a explosion created by green/blue screen.

My Song!

For the main coursework i have chosen to do 'I Bet you look good on the dance floor' By Arctic Monkeys. The song was released in their debut album ' Whatever People Say I Am, That's what I'm not' the music video is a live recording of the band playing the song in a studio. The video was shot using television cameras from the 1970s to give it a more aged effect.

 

I have chosen this song because I believe it can be completed at a high level and being an indie genre there is a low budget (student like).Also it has no video (apart from a performance) which means that we can do what we want with it and not be influenced by previous videos.