Loss of lights

We weren't able to get any lights off of the company from Dry Drayton because they didn't deliever them as they said they would. Nathaniel went to pick them up and they weren't in so he came back to College and they said they would deliver them, unfortunately they never did. We managed to get round the problem by using college lights and stands. For a mic stand we used a telescopic pole and we put a part of a drum kit on the to and taped the mic to it. This goes with the theme of Do It Yourself for Britpop.

11.03.11

I left a voicemail message to the company in Dry Drayton proving that it would be within college grounds that we'd be using there equipment. We have to wait for them to get back to me and they are hopefully dropping off the equipment to the college later today. This has put a spanner to our plan of filming today because we don't know if we our going to have all the equipment.

Light Testing 10.03.11

We have tested some lights on the College stage today. We learnt how to make the video in black and white by adjusting the contrast. We had a light at the side of the stage so that half of my face was lit up and the other half was dark. This is really effective in black and white. We recorded some footage on the HD Camera which we'll be using tomorrow when we start recording.


We also too some stills of the stage so we can show where we are recording.

Evaluation of Progress

Schedule - Taking photos of possible locations on Wednesday morning. On Wednesday afternoon we will be doing advanced research and sorting out the lighting for our video. On Thursday we will be filming the video and we will also be filming it on Friday morning. By Friday afternoon we should be able to start editing.

Problems - We were going to use a smoke machine that we could hire from Nathan's friend but we discovered that the smoke machine is out of order. We did some research on Safari to find out where we could hire a smoke machine from in Cambridge and conveniently on my village there is a company that can rent out smoke machines. Another problem we expect to encounter is the transportation of the drum kit. Hopefully if we get to record our video on the stage at the Junction then there will be a drum kit we can borrow from there. If we have to record our video on the College stage we are going to really struggle with getting a drum kit to use. The final problem we thought might be an issue is the lighting. We need to hire out some lights to use and sort out exactly how we need to have them and at what exact settings we need to have them on.

Location, Props and Performers - For the location we are hoping to use the junction but if that is not possible we will have to use the Community Centre in Over. If we can't use either of these we will use the College stage. For the performers we will have Alex playing drums, Myself singing and playing guitar and hopefully one of Nathan's friends from his band will be able to play bass for us while Nathan is on camera duty. For Props we need to use A Drum Kit, Electric Guitar, Bass Guitar and Microphones.

Filming - We are planning to film on Thursday (All Day) ad Friday (Morning).

Editing - We hope to be able to start Editing on Friday (Afternoon) and continue on Monday next week.

The main inspiration for our video is the video for "Sorry" by "Life in Film"

Music VIdeo Treatment

A music video treatment is when production companies or directors work with the artist to form ideas. It outlines the information needed for the vide and tells the reader what the main concept is about. It also helps production companies gage the budget of the video.

3 Main Concepts

1. Performing to a live audience wether it's solo or with a band. It is focussed on the talent.

2. A Storyline i.e certain events or situations that happen in the video

3. Experimental parts such as random images that compliment the music.

Essentials


1. Location

2. Situation

3. Stories/Narrative

4. Look and Feel

5. Tone

6. Pace

7. Colour

Our treatment is an idea of us performing on a stage with a few lights and it's going to be quite dark. Because this is quite a simple setup we can use the college's stage for our recording. It's quite a medium paced song so we can edit it not really quickly but not slowly either. The lighting will mainly focus on one thing at a time so it will start with the bass and  then when the vocals come in the light will go on to the singer.

Music Video Storyboard Timeline

We made a timeline of the song for our music video. This will help us because it shows where certain parts of the song are. We were introduced to this idea by music video producer Chris Cunningham. This will help us because it shows us where we can add cuts and edit it.

Chris Cunningham

In 1989 Chris Cunningham worked on "Spitting Image" with special effects. A year later in 1990 he went to work on "Alien 3" also doing effects. In 1994 he was working on "Judge Dredd" and contributed to the Judge Dredd magazine. Cunningham Produced 19 music videos between 1996 and 1999. In 2000 he went on to working with Commercials, Video Art and Short Films.

A technique that Chris Cunningham uses is called the graphing technique. What you have to do with the graphing technique is listen to a song and break down each individual part and picture where you can put edits. You draw a graph of what the song would look like on a timeline and write in where certain parts are that stand out.