The finished music video - MAIN GIRL - Amarachi

weekly blog post - WEEK SIX and SEVEN

These two weeks have been the same. During week six, we uploaded work from Morgans camera and continued to edit what we had on iMovie.

During week seven, we changed a scene in our video. We thought we would add in split scene and for the 3rd n 4th lessons of this week, we larnt how to do that and started doing so.

We had planned to film on the Saturday of week seven but this plan cancelled and we are going to film on Tuesday of week eight.

However as you can see from the image above, the different camera that we used had black lines on the screen, so we will need to film these as well.

weekly production log - WEEK FIVE

For week 5 it was half term, so me and morgan met up and sorted out all o the filming scenes I would be doing alone. This included photoshopping an image of me and the boy be doing scenes ith, and burning it, throwing chocolates on the floor and busying someones phonne call. We had told everyone where to meet and what time, but the main boy we were going t use kept canceling on us, so at the last mte we hd o change the boy.
However this worked out well and we were able to film all of out other shots. We had another problem, our tpe ran out so Morgan used hers as a back up.

this was the boy that was able to come in and help us film so we  got all of our narrative shots filmed over the holidays.

weekly production log - WEEK FOUR

During week for, we had four lessons. The first lesson we uploaded our clips onto iMovie and cut them down to erase any extra bits. For the second lesson, Morgan bought in the edited version of the song and we uploaded that to iMovie too and looked at how we would order what we filmed to the song. For the third lesson, we had a change of idea, we would put the argument scene, in the middle of the song near the end, and have the flash backs fading out with the fade out of the song. During the fourth lesson, we also added a heartbeat motion with the fade out to go with the beat of the song. This was pretty much all we could do as we hadn't filmed a lot.

On Saturday and Sunday we filmed more important bits, like me being upset in my room, the actual argument scene in the park, and where i see Marco cheating with India. The weather didn't much get in the way as most of the snow had melted but we worked our way around what we had.

Before hand, Morgan and I had sat down and thought about the costumes I would need for each of the scenes, and how it would match up to the days and what other people were going to wear. We didn't need props so that wasn't an issue.

Wavier for cast

   

These are the signed waviers for the cast that will be in our video.

Filming Permission

This is the form we had to get each owner of the location to sign
this is it signed..

Risk assesment form

Shooting script

This is the final shooting script after we got the feedback from Mr Phillipson about adding more movement. We have colour coded each location so it would be easier to understand.

Call sheets

Production schedule

weekly blog post - WEEK THREE

During this week, we updated elements on out blog such as the location reccies and the job roles me and Morgan would have to do, we also handed in our draft shooting script. Our teacher told us there was not enough movement in our script so during the res of the lesson and some time after school, we completed it and added in alot more movement.

Not only did we finally finish out script, but we got all of the days sorted for when we would film, who would be there, where and all the shots we would film. We made sure that all of  our work was on the blog in time as we would be filming on Tuesday 31st January 2012, so we made sure everything was up to date. 

We also got the cast members to sign a wavier, like a contract to prove we have their permission to be in our video, they know that they would not have any rights when we edit or what they would be doing as we have the scripts.

There were not many problems this week, juast making sure that everything was uploaded. The only hurdle we had to jump was to redo the shooting script which at first we didnt quite understand, but once we sat down and thought about it, we understood what the teacher had said, and now realise it would work much better than before.

Next week we plan to get the main parts of our video filmed, starting on Tuesday.

Location Reccies

     Morgan went out over the weekend and took some 'practise' shots of some of the locations we will be working with in our video. We thought these locations would be good for lighting as you can see clearly in some of the shots how the suns shines through which would be good for shots in the morning or at sunset.

      We thought the sets like the one to the right would be a good shot which we would possible pan from the right to the left 
revealing the girlfriend upset as she just saw her boyfriend cheating. The lighting is good and we feel this would be good o show the mood of how she would be feeling.

    There were alot of scenes we thought would look good, especially over the bridge looking out to the water as it is a romantic spot, good to show the boyfriend and girlfriend after the rewind, showing them happy and in love.

      We thought about putting paths in the video as paths are a good way to show moods and feeling of the people walking down them, byt the way they walk, body language, facial expressions, and a good way to stop and show the argument.
 
 
 

 
 

Job Roles and responsibilities

     For the making of the this music video, Morgan and I have allocated ourselves into two main job roles. These are;
          > Camera Operator and Editor
          > Director and Production Manager
     I will be the Camera Operator and Editor, and Morgan will be the Director and Production Manager.

     We have chosen me to be the Editor mainly because I am used to the software, and as I have done media before, I know what to do and I know I will stick to the plan. I am reliable and I will make the music video flow and make sure its all cut to the beat. I was also chosen as Camera Operator as I have also worked with the cameras we will be using, so I have the technical knowledge of how they work and I am experienced with knowing the camera language and what will look good. I will also be cast in the video, allowing Morgan to take over filming when I am in the shots.

     We have chosen Morgan to be the Director as the main idea was hers to begin with, so she knows how she wants it to look, what goes where, who is in which part and what they are doing. Morgan is very commited to her work so she will always turn up on time with all the equipment and knowledge of shots with her. Morgan will also be the Production Manager, meaning that she will be in charge of the budget and the production scheduling, making sure everyone we need for the shots we film on wach day are there, with the correct costumes and make up. We feel this was a good decision to make as Morgan once again knows how she wants the actors in her work to look and dress, as well as knowing what is in the budget aand what we are going to need to spend on what during the production.

     As we will need make up and costume put on the cast, we have allocated this job role to Morgan as she knows what will go with what when she made the plan for this video

weekly blog post - WEEK TWO

This week we simply finished off all of the work we had to do. This included getting everything signed in order for us to film in the locations we planned onm filming in, Taking location pics to test how they would look when we actually film > as you can see in the picture to the right of the page. We also planned, worte up and finished our shooting script for the music video. This shooting script involves the shot number, the location the shot would be in, the shot type we wopuld be using, the shot angle, and the movement of the camera also. We also had to right down what lyrics of the song the shot would go to, a breif description of what would be involved in the shot, the people in the shot and what props we would use. 

To the left opf the screen is only a small piece of mine and Morgans shooting script. There was a minimum number of shots we has to have, 100.. all of our shots together made 115 so were safe.

This week we also carried out a risk assesment, making sure that we knew the risks and how to overcome them in each location we would be filming in.

Mine and Morgans Rationale

Production Log - WEEK ONE

We had to choose who we were going to work with, I chose to work with Morgan Bolton. 

We decided what song we would use and we chose Morgan's song, mainly because she has had permission to use it. We both decided to use a mixture of both ideas in the video, but with most of Morgans as it fits with the song. We had thought over the ideas, swapped numbers and made a video post of what we were going to do, the problems we would face and why, and how we would plan out or filming times. 

We created a video rationale for our final idea,with just me and Morgan in the shot. In this video we explained what song were using, what ideas would be put up into the video and why we chose this idea. We also spoke about what strengths and weaknesses we would encounter during the production of our video.

We didn't do much this week as we had just finished watching the pitches. 

Pitch Reflection

Are there any areas of the presentation you would like to give any more detail on?

     

There is not much more information that I would add, I feel I gave all the information about my idea that I could give and that my idea wasn't much more creative than most of them, so it would be easily understood.  I feel that my idea was quite simple in terms of narrative and performance so the audience could relate to it well and I feel that all my ideas were very clear and I explained them well. I wasn't nervous during the presentation and I feel I tried as hard as I could to give the ideas I had about my video to the audience. All of my ideas were said aswell as some given by some of the class.

What did your audience identify as the strengths of your music video idea?

The audience mentioned the strengths of my video idea as how I planned it all out, what parts of the song would have which part of the video idea according to the lyrics. I feel that I made it clear to the audience all of my main ideas about the performance and the narrative and the audience has worked well with it and thought that the idea of the video, the mood of the song and the narrative work well with the lyrics and the song. Also the audience gave feedback of the idea of interpretative ideas was good and would work well. 

What did your audience identify as areas for improvement?

My audience said that the area for improvements would be to aim my ideas at specific moments in the song and to make sure i new what would fill the gaps between the narrative an performance parts of the video. Also hinting to make sure that the colours of costume and the mood of the song link. I feel that I could of made most of my ideas stronger as some people didn't quite understand.

What changes would you make to your music video concept based on the feedback you received?

I don't feel that I'd make a lot of changes to my idea as most of the feedback was positive, but I would change, however, the cast and some of the costumes to make it look more soul and motown like. I think I would take in the idea of making parts of the video look more Amy Winehouse like, having black and white moments, like an old movie video effect, I liked this idea as it suits the song and the mood of it and I feel that it would work well with the narrative sides, almost as if the artost is having a flashback.

Pitch Feedback

This is the feedback I got for my ideas. Overall I feel I got good feedback. Presenting the pitch wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, and I feel I presented it well so people could understand what my idea was, and understand more about the artist. I feel that my choice of song was good as most people liked it and thought it would be easy to add ideas to. The constructive critisism I got was to nail down where I would put each part of the story and how I would put them into order. I feel that I gave the best I could put into it and from the feedback, the video that comes out of it would be easily understandable and be a good outcome to the song.

This is my pitch.

My Artist

                            1 Frances Lobo

                                                           From Leamington, United Kingdom

                                      She is about 19

                                                     She is an unsigned artist 

She has her own look.. as she says.
         "" My styles are hard to pin down,  as i love all sorts of music, my voice draws resonance to many different styles. I love blues, soul and motown music, but I also love pop and rock. The ultimate influences that make my style are, Amy Winehouse, Freddy Mercury, Janis Joplin, and Joss Stone. ""

On the unsigned page, she explains how she has been singing from a very young age and how she plays the drums and keyboards. She goes on to explain how she has been studying Theatre and Performance and the University of Warwick. She travels up and down to her hometown, London, to record music with a pair of excellent producers Hank and Jim. She wants to pursue he dream of becoming a successful pop artist.


From my point of view, i see a 1 Frances Lobo music video to involve these;

- Colours - 

REDS      BLACKS         WHITES         PURPLES         BROWNS          TEALS

- Clothing - 

- Imagery - 

- Typography - 

- Mise-en-scene - 

For the person playing my artist is Sarah Smith.

I have chosen to use Sarah as the idea of 1FrancesLobo, was due to the fact that she suits the voice and from his photo, looks like she has that soul, motown thing.












""I have been so very lucky and fortunate to have been put into the wonderful hands of Hank Hughes from Townhouse Studios, home to Robbie Williams, Pharell Williams, Beyonce and Coldplay to name but a few It is here that I have just finished  recording my demo CD, and begun my career fulfilling my dream."" - 1FrancesLobo