Test Footage Day

Today we have had our first opportunities to put our creative ideas into filming. Our first time to take our project into camera work.

We have also decided to add a few changes to our storyboard due to our previous storyboard's complexity and severe demand of certain environments. We realized these factors are too time consuming and unrealistic to achieve. Simple changes were to change the concept of waking in a bedroom, instead of relying on someone's home, we can now do some filming in College grounds. We also decided to add a few different elements and experiment on how to film our first few seconds of our project. For example our first scene is the main character waking and about to observe himself in the mirror so his morning routine will be shot as if the camera was the mirror.
To add to our effect of the main character seeing his reflection we are going to try to add a blur to the camera before the character splashes his face.This idea is not only functional but also practical because of the camera's position which will be next to a tap we do not want the equipment to get wet so we are going to cover the camera in a clear plastic bag. This will not only give the protection the equipment needs but could also give the blurred effect we are hoping to achieve.

Our new shot lists is:

- 1st shot : Medium close up staring into mirror getting ready
-2nd shot: medium close up. this is the shot of his reflection in the mirror
-3rd shot :Close up turning the door handle
-4th shot : low angle shot of character walking down the stairs
-5th shot : Point of view of character walking down the stairs
-6th shot: Medium shot character leaving building( block of flats)
-7th shot :Medium close up of girl whispering into characters ears when ''secrets that will held.....straight (lyrics).
-8th shot : long shot of character outside club ''all your friend shave gone away...... celebrate(Lyrics)
-9th shot : close up of phone with text on it when ..''holding hope for the one making you wait'' (lyrics).
-10th shot: medium close up. when ''holding hope for the one making you wait'' (Lyrics)
-11th shot: Long shot (from behind) when ''secrets that we held that day..straight(lyrics)
-12th shot : Medium shot (from front) : when ''everyone will be dismayed...who you want next'' (lyrics)
-13th shot: Close up: of face when ''fading with color you see my face'' (lyrics)
-14th shot: Medium long shot from behind character puts hood up
-15th shot : over shoulder : character looking at his watch
-16th shot: medium shot: character putting hands in pocket.
-17th shot: Over shoulder shot: character looking through phone with no new messages.

This is the shot list for the parts of the song that have lyrics in them. Therefore other shots will be added in between them.

Pitch Package: Music Video

After a lot of contemplating the group has come to the drastic decision of pickign a complete different trakc, as we decided that a more upbeat song would offer more creative flow. The posibilities for our new chosen song are of a wide varitety, the song can be represented in a day to day life of a main character in his/her's average routine life, ie: walking through a park or walking down the street, just using simplicity at it's best avoiding to drift the attention away from the song.
Or we could drift to the "night life" vibe video, using the song as a party anthem, involving older teens experiencing different situations involving drugs/alcohol/sex and certain legal problems. The music video should include both male and females in these situations. A most ideal environement for this type of video is a club or house party,props such as neon lights,drinks and narcotics. However because of the "happy feeling" genre of the song we also wanna represent people having a good time no matter what the situation. A slight add of comedy to the video can make the audience relate to certain situations,ie: someone vomating or someone falling over because of their drunken state.

Welcome!

This is group Q2 37 and we would like to welcome you to our music video blog where there will be regular posts and footage of our work for this year. Our group consists of Chisanga, Charlotte and Ben.