Date: January 17th
Time: 10am
Location: Shrewsbury, Whitchurch and surrounding areas
Props: Band type t-shirt
Attendees: Dan Haycocks, Alex Pickering
Equipment: Sony HDV Camera, Tripod, Track, Dolly, Stills Camera
Plan: Our plan is to get the outdoor shots needed for our narrative based video, we were originally going to use the same actor as our studio scenes but the actor for some reason has not replied to any contact. If we left it any later we risk missing the deadline so we decided to use Dan for this part of the video. The storyline is about someone who hates there life and wishes there life away for tomorrow. To show this we are going to have alot of movement shots, we have decided to include a number of time lapses in our video these are of the sky and also of cars. This we liked as this shows time going past. We are also going to include some jump cuts in the video again this is to shot time going past, we think these would work best when the actor is going towards the camera from a far distance again showing him wasting his life away.
Along with this we have also brought the track and dolly with us to try and get some movement shots, we have experimented with this outside and while it was good found it took alot of time to setup but also was very hard to cary long distances. We will though were the ground is smooth try and use this.
Wednesday, 24 November 2010
Friday, 19 November 2010
Blog: Whats going on ?
With Christmas coming up and various other students having to get work completed for christmas the video has been delayed slightly. This is mainly as i say due to the equipment but also because our actor has exams, for the narrative scenes we will be videoing these after christmas on January the 12th.
To keep us busy while that takes place we have got some photos of our actor from the studio footage so we will not look at magazine adverts and the codes and conventions behind them and then start making our own.
Thursday, 18 November 2010
How we used Final Cut to Edit
This is a quick follow up blog to show how we edited the studio based footage on final cut pro.
You have properly seen the studio footage edit now. This video below will show you how we used MultiClip Editing in film cut pro to help us choose from the 5 camera shots we had available to choose from.
You have properly seen the studio footage edit now. This video below will show you how we used MultiClip Editing in film cut pro to help us choose from the 5 camera shots we had available to choose from.
Studio Music Video Edit
After shooting the studio footage of the track completely 5 times, we have a full version of the music video with just the studio footage. Cutting between the different 5 cameras.
We have a series of photos below that we took on my phone showing some of the set up in the studio. The first photo is of the professional studio lighting system we used. The including 5 lights in total around the performer. You can see two of the lights in the second photo. In this second photo you can see the microphone stand and XLR cable we used to add realism to the studio recording. As if you are recording in a studio you would not be able to record audio from the mic without a cable. This gives the impression that we are live recording the performer in this scene.
The third photo is showing my laptop setup on Spotify to allow us to play the Sterophonics track in the background while recording, which helped us and the performer lip sync up to the original track. We placed the laptop behind the curtain, connected up the audio speakers in the room.
The final two photos show the camera we used in shot. (A Sony HDV-Z5E) This was placed onto a tripod then on the track we had practiced with before. This allowed us to produce lovely sweeping side to side shots. Which gave interest into each shot. As you can see in the photo on the left, Dan is adjusting the light high to make sure there isnt too much lens flare on the camera, and giving the performer more light from behind. I am also in the shot adjusting another light further around the room to give the performer more light from the side (lighting up the side of his face). The photo on the right shows me recording one of the five takes that we did. I am adjusting the shutter speed on the camera, as because there were soo many lights, it was making the recorded image washed out, so using a high shutter speed frame rate it reduced the washed out effect in the video.
Below is the studio edit of our music video.
We have a series of photos below that we took on my phone showing some of the set up in the studio. The first photo is of the professional studio lighting system we used. The including 5 lights in total around the performer. You can see two of the lights in the second photo. In this second photo you can see the microphone stand and XLR cable we used to add realism to the studio recording. As if you are recording in a studio you would not be able to record audio from the mic without a cable. This gives the impression that we are live recording the performer in this scene.
The third photo is showing my laptop setup on Spotify to allow us to play the Sterophonics track in the background while recording, which helped us and the performer lip sync up to the original track. We placed the laptop behind the curtain, connected up the audio speakers in the room.
The final two photos show the camera we used in shot. (A Sony HDV-Z5E) This was placed onto a tripod then on the track we had practiced with before. This allowed us to produce lovely sweeping side to side shots. Which gave interest into each shot. As you can see in the photo on the left, Dan is adjusting the light high to make sure there isnt too much lens flare on the camera, and giving the performer more light from behind. I am also in the shot adjusting another light further around the room to give the performer more light from the side (lighting up the side of his face). The photo on the right shows me recording one of the five takes that we did. I am adjusting the shutter speed on the camera, as because there were soo many lights, it was making the recorded image washed out, so using a high shutter speed frame rate it reduced the washed out effect in the video.
Below is the studio edit of our music video.
Sunday, 7 November 2010
Risk Assessment
As usual before shooting any video for media, we completed a risk assessment based on the location we will be filming at. This outlined all the risks we might face when shooting the video, and any measures we can do to minimise the risk of it happening.
Below is a copy of the risk assessment for our music video.
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Monday, 1 November 2010
Costume/Prop Ideas
Before we started to plan our video we came up with some ideas on what we had for what the singer would be wearing in our video and also what props we may like to use.
This is the band that our track is done by (The Stereo phonics) as you can see they wear quite a casual dress with t-shirt and jeans. We have decided that for our video the singer would be best wearing casual cloths like this for the studio based footage defiantly. We would then review it for the location based footage when we made our prop list for the day.
The Singer will ideally for this be very similar dressed to the band as this is what many of our target audience wear. The type of cloths we plan for our singer to be wearing is T-shirt, Trainers, Jeans and maybe a hooded jumper. This will fit our genre well and replicate the style of our genre well.
For our studio footage we decided in the meeting that we would like to re create a live gig situation for the singer. This means that in the video we would like a mic and microphone stand to be present as well as being plugged in for realism sake.
This image to the right is of one of the member of the stereo phonics, this is the same type of image that we wish to create with the mic and mic stand. We are still debating weather to have a guitar in the video or not and if we do wether it should be acoustic or electric but we will decide on this at a later date.
For the video we have also decided that we would like the lights visible in the background. We feel this gives a nice effect on the black curtain especially on a highlight were the singer blocks the light giving a halo glow around the singer. A image below is the type of thing that we wish to have in our video.
This is the band that our track is done by (The Stereo phonics) as you can see they wear quite a casual dress with t-shirt and jeans. We have decided that for our video the singer would be best wearing casual cloths like this for the studio based footage defiantly. We would then review it for the location based footage when we made our prop list for the day.The Singer will ideally for this be very similar dressed to the band as this is what many of our target audience wear. The type of cloths we plan for our singer to be wearing is T-shirt, Trainers, Jeans and maybe a hooded jumper. This will fit our genre well and replicate the style of our genre well.
For our studio footage we decided in the meeting that we would like to re create a live gig situation for the singer. This means that in the video we would like a mic and microphone stand to be present as well as being plugged in for realism sake.
This image to the right is of one of the member of the stereo phonics, this is the same type of image that we wish to create with the mic and mic stand. We are still debating weather to have a guitar in the video or not and if we do wether it should be acoustic or electric but we will decide on this at a later date.For the video we have also decided that we would like the lights visible in the background. We feel this gives a nice effect on the black curtain especially on a highlight were the singer blocks the light giving a halo glow around the singer. A image below is the type of thing that we wish to have in our video.
Now that we have decided a few elements that we would like in the video for the studio footage we will go about storyboarding this part of the video ready for filming. This plans on this post may be subject to change but as it stands these are the plans that we have for the video. The final decision will be made in the Filming Brief and plan as well as the prop list for that day.
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