PREP FOR 24/11/12

Below is a structured interview sheet for tomorrows soiree event.

The sheet consists of 5 questions that are linked specifically at the chosen undeground artists that we are going to interview.

THE PLAN

Today Georgia and I went  back to Jubilee park after school to re-shoot the beginning of scene 1, looking back at the footage it seemed a bit shaky so we came to mutual decision to re-shoot.

We had also planned to edit bits of our music video that needed to be turned into a cartoon ..

                                                              

UNFORTUNATELY

Georgia's brother Theo, who was going to lend us his equipment to do so, told Georgia this morning that his mac has crashed and we wont be able to use it for the moment.

We are stuck at the moment on what to do next but will be blogging as soon as we know our next step.

WHAT NEXT ?

LEARNING FROM OUR MISTAKES 

We have decided to plan what we want in terms of editing our music video, after producing our 

AS media text we did some reflecting and realized that lack of planning for editing was the 

downfall of our thriller opening. 

SOOOOOO .....

Plans so far for editing ...

ANIMATIONS

 We have selected 3 shots of our story board to be turned into animated cartoons.

We have chosen to do this because it connotes innocence and adolescence behind the whole subject matter.

We have also decided to add in a few animations because of 'A-ha - Take on me' and the way this music video changed the way videos were made in the 80s. (Could be classed as a piece of intertextuality)

(A-ha - Take on me) 

Above are the cropped shots from the storyboards that will be turned into animations. 

- This is as far as we have gotten so far in terms

of planning our editing.  We plan finalize by next week what software we plan to use to edit  our music video.

DAY 2 OF FILMING

LOCATION:

JUBILEE PARK 

FILMING TIME:

16:00 - 16:30

DATE: THURSDAY 15th NOVEMBER 2012

DAY 2 OF FILMING

Last time I blogged, I said that I would be filming the other half on Wednesday 14th November however Georgia and I negotiated the date with some of the cast members who had to get some work done before a deadline.

On Thursday after school we set off to the park and met the male protagonist there. Finding the spot that we needed wasn't an issue however due to the season we realized that it would get dark really quickly making us slightly rush things.

Arriving at the park and setting up the tripod and the camera Georgia and I realized something ...

WHOOOPSY !!

I FORGOT TO CHARGE THE CAMERA !!

Luckily we had 7 minutes remaining on the camera which was long enough as long as we switched the camera off after each shot, this wasn't to much of a problem as most of the shots we were doing were still shots.

However looking back at some of the footage Georgia realized that one shot was a bit shaky so we are planning to re-shoot that little bit on Monday during one of our free periods.

WWW (WHAT WENT WELL) 

- We got the shots that we needed done quite quickly.

- We weren't a particular public disturbance and the public were not a disturbance to us.

EBI (EVEN BETTER IF)

- Prepared equipment more in advance (Charging the camera) 

- Thought about the season and scheduled shooting time so that we wouldn't have to rush before it got dark.

CHANGES THAT WERE MADE - 

We had an addition in the ensemble cast to give it a fuller atmosphere our addition was ..

DEREECE GREEN

Costume :- My costume was not the same as what I posted on previous posts because of the recent whether however the clothing is similar and carry the same connotations. (Same change in DAY 1 of filming)

Above are photos of the cast and director (on the right)

(Directors commentary)

DAY 1 OF FILMING

LOCATION:

GEORGIA'S HOUSE

FILMING TIME: 

16:00 - 19:00

DATE: WEDNESDAY 7th NOVEMBER 2012

WE WERE IN A VERY SERIOUS MOOD ON THAT DAY ..

DAY 1 OF FILMING 

Although out of the shooting time table that I had prepared we have finally started to film our music video, not only 

have we started but we have nearly finished filming !

We did the filming after school which we had learnt previously was the best time to film to keep a hold of all of the cast members. 

We began filming around 16:00 with a few delays and mind wandering which was to be expected.

We decided to film the second and third scene before the first scene at Georgia's house because the second and third scene are the most time consuming and we thought that it would be a good idea to get it out of the way. 

SCENE 2

There was a little change in cast in scene 2 'Marios Diamantides' could not make it as ensemble because he is also a media student and unfortunately we had a clash in filming days. However this didn't affect our filming which went pretty much to plan. 

For this scene in total we took about 4 takes which is an improvement from AS where we did 9 takes 

in total !

This scene was where part 2 of the peer pressure began for the male protagonist.

WWW (WHAT WENT WELL) 

- We achieved what we wanted to at the end of that scene 

- Props that we had (Alcohol) complimented the atmosphere that we were trying to create.

EBI (EVEN BETTER IF)

- We could have briefed the ensemble on more about the subject matter (real life examples)

- We could have checked the lighting before hand to speed up the process.

SCENE 3

The rest of the cast went home except for the male protagonist (Praise Ntiamoah) and female protagonist (me) for this scene. Again a few changes were made to this scene such as positioning of the cast and angles at which the music video were filmed from. 

In all honesty we did drift away from the storyboard quite a bit, out of both the scenes that were shot on that 

day I think that this scene did cause the most distress and frustration, reason being because that scene 

is the foundation of our music video subject matter.

In total we did 9 takes for this scene.

WWW (WHAT WENT WELL)

- The male protagonist responded in the way we had planned for this particular scene.

- The changes that were made in positioning could potentionally make the media product seem more realistic.

EBI (EVEN BETTER IF) 

- We checked lighting in Georgia's room beforehand.

- We practiced the space invading scenes between the male and female protagonist before hand 

this could have prevented awkwardness.

FINISHED STORYBOARDS

We have finally scanned on the drawn up storyboards ...

What a relief ...

The little box in the corner of the first story board is a piece of intertextuality taken from Beyonce's music video 'Diva' where she defines the key word to the narrative of the music video, we have taken this idea and made it more relevant to our music video so instead of defining the word 'Diva' we are going to define the word 'Virgin.

Below is a cropped print screen of where we have taken this idea from her music video.

 In the second box is another piece of intertextuality that we have taken from another music video.

'Our house- Kid British' where the original 'Our house ' is played out of a jukebox before the music video starts. For our music video we are going to play the original 'Like A Virgin' by Madonna out of an iphone before our music video begins ('Like A Virgin' - Vince Kidd)

Below is the music video of 'Our House - Kid British'

 The second and third box on the story board is another piece of intertexuality taken from Kanye West's music video 'All of the lights'. Towards the end of the video there are the lyrics that the artist are rapping/singing appear on the screen at the same time and this is what we will be doing at the end of our music video.
Below is the music video of Kanye West 'All of the lights' 
(3 minutes and 35 seconds is where the text appears)

UPCOMING EVENTS!!!!

Bishop Stopford's School presents ...

 2012's 

Music Soiree...

on the 24 th  November 2012

We have decided to use our underground artist connections as efficiently as we can to gather more information about music videos as we can...

This event will be the icing on the cake in terms of additional information into our research! We plan to film one of the school bands that was earlier mentioned on my blog 'E-whizz Airbourne'  at the soiree where they perform every year, as well as recording their performance we will prepare some structured questions about music videos for an interview and also ask them what they think about our own ideas for our music video.

E-Whizz Airbourne 

PREPPED AND POLISHED STORY BOARDS

We have evidently had some issues with the Story boarding..
I own up to most of the delay as I was in charge of the story boarding  HOWEVER ...
There is an issue of not having a scanner to scan on the drawn up story boards at the moment so as an alternative I have taken the liberty of drawing up the story boards on 'Paint' ...

They aren't as detailed as the hand drawn ones but they will do until I get the resources to upload the others.

DECONSTRUCTION OF 2 MUSIC VIDEOS

In the deconstruction of these 2 music video's I have got back into my AS habits ... 
Using the same structure I used to deconstruct TV dramas and applying it to the deconstruction of the 2 music videos...

The first video that I have deconstructed is another done by the artist we are using 'Vince Kidd' called 'Sick Love' ...

The second video I have deconstructed is the original version of the song we are using for our music video Madonna's 'Like A Virgin' ...