Filming Schedule/Production Log

Filming Dates:


For Our first set of filming for our music video production took place on the 18th January 2015. on this date we set out to complete our filming scenes for the performance side of our music video. we achieved what we wanted to do as we finished the performance filming with are 3 actors and using the appropriate equipment needed. we also used a variety of different camera shots which included:

• Close Up
• Medium Shot
• Point Of View
• Medium Long Shot
• Tracking Shot

Our Second day of filming took place on the 8th March 2015, We set out to film one of our chosen narrative scenes in stealing a car. we needed 2 actors for this scene and one of which had a car that can be legally driven by him to help with our film. we achived what we set out in finishing the filming needed and by using a range of shots as well:

• Close Up
• Long Shot
• Panning
• Medium Shot
• Medium Long Shot
• High Angle

Our Final day of filming took place on the 4th April 2015, On this day we wanted to finish our two final scenes of our music video in the theft/mugging scene and our photograph scene in which our main character uses photo's to trigger flashbacks on our narrative scenes. We filmed both scenes and used the 2 actors of which were needed for both scenes and used a range of shots

• Panning Shot
• High Angle Shot
• Low Angle Shot
• Point Of View
• Long Shot
• Close Up

During the dates of 6th April 2015 and to the 20th April myself and partner spent time editing our music video for our deadline on the 20th, during this time we used many different skills to use when editing our video these included:

• Match On Action
• Fade In & Out
• Dissolve Effects
• Jump Cuts

Props, Locations & Equipment List

Props
Car
Photographs
Weapon


LOCATIONS
Forest
Quiet Road
Alleyway/Footpath


Equipment List
Camera
Camera Tripod
Editing Software
Drums
Guitar x2
Microphone
Microphone stand
Phone/Tablet (To Play Music)

CD & ADVERT IDEAS

For our Ancillary product we wanted to construct a natural and nostalgic feel to our CD cover which represented what we did in our music video. Themes we wanted included forest, maybe including a band picture or including scenes what we portrayed in our music video.

Images we possibly we wanted to use for both CD cover and Advert can be seen below

Forest Images

Music Video Scenes

Band Images

Along With Background Images we also thought of other pieces that we could add into the CD cover and also the advert that make it look professional and appealing.

For looking at our CD cover we looked at other CD covers on what we could include on ours that were a constant throughout things that we may want to include are followed:

Logo Of Record Label // Label Address 

Name Of Band

Name Of Album

Track Listings

Barcode

And for our advert we thought of including along with a background:

Artist Name

Album Title

Promotional Offer

Release Date

Audience Research & Feedback

Synaesthesia 

During a synaesthesia task we played our chosen track to our media studies group and afterwards we gained some feedback which was given by others on what ideas came into there head while listening to our song. 

Some of the main ideas that we took from the feedback was things like the ideas of memories in the song, earthy colours, some inclusion of photographs, and a idea of then and now. these ideas were very interesting as they linked to what ideas we had come up with initially for instance the idea of memories and photographs, and with the idea of earthy colours linked to our forest setting. 

The full list of feedback can be seen on my: 
synaesthesia page as part of skill developments. 

Questionnaire

To Further gain more feedback from our audience we constructed a questionnaire based on the genre of music and ideas that we had thought of during the initial ideas stage.

In the end we collated the feedback and below are the results we found.

Question 1. Which music instrument would you associate most in the 'alternative rock' genre of music?

Question 2. How Old Are You?

Question 3. Do you listen to alternative rock music?

Question 4. In addition to a ‘love affair’ and ‘criminal activity’, what other ideas do you think we could use in order for the protagonist to be ‘hated’?

Question 5. What would be the best location for a 'theft' or‘ stealing' event to occur?

Question 6. In your opinion, what makes a good music video?

Initial Ideas

Song Choice:

At the start of the process of selecting a song myself and my work partner (Daniel Bunn) decided to list a selection of songs of which we think would be a good song choice for our music video. 

Overall we had a list of 6 songs between us to narrow down to one song. we decided to scrap songs based on things like what ideas we could think of with a certain song or lack of ideas, how many people we think we would need as we didn't want to rely on a bunch of people at once. 

In The End myself and Daniel Bunn narrowed the 6 song down to 2 songs. Firstly We had Nickelback's "Photograph" released in 2005, and Secondly You Me At Six and "Room To Breathe".


With "Room To Breathe" myself and Daniel really both enjoyed the song personally, and we had some ideas in what we may do if we chose to do this song and what concepts we would put into the video. 

Room To Breathe Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPtUV01R1RE

With "Photograph" We both (myself and Daniel) straight away were throwing out possible ideas to each other based on the song and certain lyrics and meanings in the song, mostly with lyrics such as "Criminal record" and the idea of a love type scene with the idea of love being mentioned in the song. We also thought that adding in a performance we wouldn't need to have to many people to rely on to help. In the end due to having more benefits to us in terms of ideas and the people needed we decided to choose this song.

Photograph Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0DU4DoPP4

Initial Ideas:

Below are some of the ideas that we came up with during the early stages:

For the performance we have had a few ideas on how to film and perform the song.

Firstly with the forest setting we took some ideas and inspiration from paramore’s decode video which has a performance taking place in a forest which we keen to do our own version similar to it for our video.

Another idea we had was to perform with different members of a band performing on their own in different areas similar to parts to paramore’s decode, and also with The Marmozets video for Born Young and Free. which takes on  this concept.

For the narrative of our video we discussed some different ideas that we can do within reason that is linked to the song, 

Firstly we had some general ideas for the narrative which included some kind of incorporation of memories or flashbacks of the protagonists past. And Also as the song title says some use of photographs in the song would be key.

We then tried to think of some more specific details that can be in our music video. Ideas that we had were some sought of forest setting, and our protagonist is found disillusioned not knowing what happened, then using the aspect of photographs he begins to find out what he has done and what may of happened. these photo's we have planned to be linked to lyrics in the song, for example some kind of theft/stealing scenario linked to the lyrics "Criminal Record says I broke it twice", and maybe also thinking of some kind of love affair linked to the lyrics "Kim's the first girl I kissed". The idea of these is that someone is angry at the protagonist and has attacked him and left him in the forest. at the end of the video we have come up with the idea of revealing who has done it linking it to one of our narrative scenes allowing the viewers to try and figure out "who dun-nit".