Change of protagonist.

After two let downs from Elliot, we decided to change the person who would be playing our lead protagonist. We'll now be using Sam. Which i think over all is probable a better idea anyway. As he is a good friend, and we know that he is also reliable. He's also part of a band himself, and can actually sing. Hopefully this will help as he can sing along to the track, and help to make the timings of matching video and audio together without it looking fake.

We quickly organised filming with Sam in order to fill the gaps that we had missing and make it able for us to be able to start editing. Hopefully this will also help us with getting the continuity correct.

Here are some photo's of our first session filming with Sam.

 

  

Filming 2. Sunday 25th November.

After last weeks failure to film, We have decided to crack on with the parts of the video that do not require Elliots precence untill we can decide how to continue.

Using the studio type set up in my room we filmed with Sami and Fran the other charecters invloved in the love triangle within our video.
Hopefully we will come to a decision soon and be able to quickly prgroess with filming, and start the editing of our video.

This largely rellies on Elliot's injury and availabilty to shoot for the video. The concern of continuity still bothers me, so Me and Connor are deciding whether the simply try and replace him, and use a different person to play the protagonist.

Filming will go ahead will only Sami and Fran for now however!
Below are some of out shots of filming.

Film Day One-Problems.

Sunday 18th November. 

This was supposed to be our first day of filming, however waking up excited I was greeted by a message telling me that the main protagonist in our video had an accident on Saturday night and had broken his wrist. Therefore, filming to not possible on Sunday as he was at the hospital.
We've also had to fully re-evaluate whether we can even use Elliot in the video any longer, as the plaster may create errors in the continuity of the film, if shots have to be re-done or changed. We also have to possibly consider the limitations that a plaster might bring along with it. Such as a scene in the video which involves Elliot throwing/smashing a bottle with high amounts of force! The fact he has a broken wrist, could make this not possible, or at-least to the standard we want it to be.

In the end we have decided to still use Elliot in the video, as lots of the shots we have do not include the use of his broken wrist, and it is something that can easily be over looked/hidden in editing.

Details of Production.

Locations.

In our music video we plan to use several different locations. Some easier to get to then others.

Location one - in a studio type setting.
Because the main protagonist in our music video does not attend the same college as us, it isn't possible to use the studio space at college to film him. So improvising we will use the large blank wall in my bedroom, and several spot lights to make sure the lighting is just as good, and the same effect is created as if we had used the studio.

Location two, Beverley Westwood-
We have decided to shoot some of our scenes here because it is easily accesible, and offers the the open spaces we need to film our outdoor scenes.

Location three, Derelict building on Grovehill road Beverley-
This space offered the effect we wanted, whilst still been a safe place the film. The stucture of the building in not dengerous, but it still has the appeal of an abandonned building which we we're looking for.

Location four, Swinemoor feild-
This is a location that we won't be using for much of our video, maybe only a few shots. However it is somewere close buy that we can easily get to when Carrying lots of equipment.

Preperation for filming- Checklist.

Camera + Tripod.
Strobe light
Flowers (bunch) + Petals.
Stones
Kalaidoscope
Fake Blood (or substitute)
Glass Bottle
Bottle of paint
THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY dvd
Costume- when considering costume, we have thought carefully about the colours along with style. As colour is invloved as part of our narrative.

Elliot- The colour blue will be involved in his outfit, as this is a colour that represents he sadness, and melencholy attitude. Which relates to our narrative and a line of lyrics in the song.

Fran- Fran is required to wear red, this is because the colour represents passion and desire, again relative to the narrative; the protagonists feeling towords her. These feeling are conveyed throughout the music video.

Sami- Sami will be wearing green, this colour represents envy of the protagonist and his past love with Fran. However green can also represent newness, in terms of the romance between Fran and Sami, which is new and just beggining.

Animatic

Story Boards.

Lyrical Analysis.

'Tessellate'

"Tessellation is the process of creating a two-dimensional plane using the repetition of a geometric shape with no overlaps and no gaps."

All of the above are examples of tessellation. 

Final Track Choice.

This is the final track we have chosen, that is a briefly extended from the version that the band uses in there own video. We decided to use this version, because it gives opportunity for use to introduce the narrative of our video before the lyrics started.

Partnership.

I have recently decided to work in a partnership. I took this decision because I have been close friends with Connor for a long time, and I think we will be able to make a superb job of the music video! We share all the same interests, and often take influence from each other in the music we listen to. This means that we will be able to develop something that is a lot more creative, and by discussing and debating shots it has resulted in something with more diversity than either of us would have created alone.

We have decided to stick with my choice of track, as its a song we both enjoy listening to, and feel we can really do justice to. During story boarding we have listened to the track lots and still haven't become bored of it. Also the fact that we both loved the band previous to our decision to use it, means that we have already invested in listening and thought about the lyrics in depth. This will help in transferring them into the video.

I am looking forward to getting on with the video.

Evaluation

finish

Video comparisons.

Second/Final Edit

First Video Edit.

Location Listing.

Pond - Wyke College - Wilson
Car Park - Wyke College - In front of Oak
Window - Wyke College - Ash
Fence&Bush - Wyke College - Ash exit
Tims room - Wyke College - Window
Bike - Wyke College - Ash exit/GSR
Car - Bricknell Area

Story Boarding.

Lucy Rose- Middle of the bed. 

Deconstruction+Reconstruction of a media text.

For an introductory task into music video editing, We were given the project of joining together in groups and replicating 30 seconds of an already made music video of our own choice.

Song Choice- Lucy Rose; Middle of the Bed.
We chose this song because we thought the video would be interesting to replicate, and something that would be challenging.

Group -
Charlotte, Mark, Dave and me Kate.

Cast; Charlotte.
Editing; Mark, Dave, Me, Charlotte.

Producer; Harriet.
Director; Dave.
Camera Operator; Mark, Harriet, Me.

We decided to try and divide all of the roles up as fairly as possible, so that we all had the chance to experience the broadest amount of roles. Hoping this would help when making our own music video.

Our Song Choice.

We decided not to start replicating the video from the beginning  but from the second second mark. Because this was when the video becomes the most interesting, and the montage editing begins.