Thursday, 29 December 2011
AN - Filming difficulties :(
Despite having a plan as seen in my previous
blog post, we have encountered filming difficulties concerning the
actors. We were suppose to be filming on Friday 23rd December, but due
to the actors being busy doing Christmas related activities we couldn't
film. However, if we manage to get some of the actors this week we might
and try to film some footage before we go back. If this isn't the case,
we'll just have to film during January despite exams.
AN - Production schedual
During the Christmas holidays we will be doing
some filming for our Media coursework so that we can begin to edit and
start working on our digipaks and magazine adverts in January. As well
as dealing with exams of course!
Anyway, this Friday we'll be filming the boyfriend's aftermath of the breakup in Ilkley. We will only need James for this sequence, since Francesca (who plays the girlfriend) is away this week and Anna (the waitress) is busy on Friday we'll only be filming this part of the music video. We'll obtain the camera and tripod from Faye and Hattie (Haye Fattie) on the day, so that we have the equipment needed for filming and afterwards, we will pass the equipment onto George and Tom (2 Twigs) for them to use.
However, we will be doing some more filming next week in which hopefully all of our cast will return. With that said, we'll be filming most of the narrative sequence so that we don't have to do much filming during January because during that time we will primarily focus on filming the performance.
That's our schedule for the next two weeks, stay tuned for more updates and informative posts.
Merry Christmas!
Anyway, this Friday we'll be filming the boyfriend's aftermath of the breakup in Ilkley. We will only need James for this sequence, since Francesca (who plays the girlfriend) is away this week and Anna (the waitress) is busy on Friday we'll only be filming this part of the music video. We'll obtain the camera and tripod from Faye and Hattie (Haye Fattie) on the day, so that we have the equipment needed for filming and afterwards, we will pass the equipment onto George and Tom (2 Twigs) for them to use.
However, we will be doing some more filming next week in which hopefully all of our cast will return. With that said, we'll be filming most of the narrative sequence so that we don't have to do much filming during January because during that time we will primarily focus on filming the performance.
That's our schedule for the next two weeks, stay tuned for more updates and informative posts.
Merry Christmas!
Wednesday, 21 December 2011
AN - Digipak ideas
I have begun to come up with ideas of what
our group's digipak will look like. I have come up with the idea that
the digipak will have compartments for two discs rather than one and the
digipak will fold out into three panels with the track listing in
between the discs. The first disc will contain various songs by
Destiny's Child, while the second is a DVD which will contain all of the
vodcasts that we've done, behind the scenes footage, interviews with
the cast members and outtakes.
I
came up with the idea when looking around my DVD collection and found
the Team America/ Beavis & Butthead/Jackass the Movie collection and
noticed how it folded out and how three disc trays were used instead of
one. I then thought that if I used a similar design for the digipak,
then it would make it look more unique in comparison to other digipaks
of this day and age.
I
came up with the idea when looking around my DVD collection and found
the Team America/ Beavis & Butthead/Jackass the Movie collection and
noticed how it folded out and how three disc trays were used instead of
one. I then thought that if I used a similar design for the digipak,
then it would make it look more unique in comparison to other digipaks
of this day and age. |
| The cover of the product. |
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| This is what the product will look like when folded out. |
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| Here is how the set folds out. |
Thursday, 15 December 2011
Jonas Akerlund Case study.
was Akerlunds first work as a director back in 1988.
Videography
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Podcast 4
In this podcast, we
talk about the animatic that I (Asa) created and go through some of the
scenes. As well as talking about some of the influences of it.
Wednesday, 14 December 2011
AN - Our Animatic
Today, I finished working on the animated story board. I created it by drawing each sequence on twelve pieces of paper and added annotations. After that, I scanned the pictures onto a computer and put them into Windows Movie Maker along with the songs. Here is the animatic itself:
Monday, 12 December 2011
Change in Cast!
Friday, 9 December 2011
Our lesson for the class about Narrative.
Today, we did our presentation on Narrative and digipaks in music videos. During the presentation, we talked about the different narrative theories and how digipaks are presented.
Narrative in music videos asa sophie katie
Narrative in music videos asa sophie katie
View more presentations from Alabzam
Thursday, 8 December 2011
AN - Final actor named
Today I managed to get one more actor for our music video, Sammy Bullock (shown right). In the video, she will play the waitress (eg. left) in the restaurant who James (the boyfriend) will cheat on Francesca (the girlfriend) with. 
During the restaurant sequence, she will be wearing a waitress' uniform in order to portray the waitress stereotype. One part of the uniform will be a short shirt, this will obtain sex appeal attracting a male audience. However, it won't be over-the-top and feel more realistic to fit the tone of the video.Wednesday, 7 December 2011
Podcast 3
In today's podcast, me and Sophie (with the absence of Katie) talk about the second set of sample footage we filmed which involved the girlfriend's aftermath of the break up. As well as that, we also talk about how the sample footage will help us in the making with our final product, along with the symbolic meaning of some parts of the video.
Tuesday, 6 December 2011
Blazing Grace ident
For our company ident for Blazing Grace productions we've come up with the final idea. We're going to have a 'bad ass' barbie doll as Barbies are often a connotation of purity and the ideal stereotype of beauty for young girls we have decided to create a counter type of this, our barbie will have ripped clothing with a short leather skirt (quite gothic clothing) with a nose ring and messed up hair and smoking a cigarette, example shown left. This is a countertype of the usual Barbie as normally she is the perfect pristine woman that always looks glamourous. The ident will go with the name Blazing Grace productions because Barbie is usually a graceful sucessful woman but in this case she has turned into the opposite, un-glamourous and a mess and a not longer suitable role model for young girls aged 4-10. As you can see this is an old Barbie doll and the kind of image we hope to create although you cant actually see the clothing she's wearing in the image its just a sample of what we hope to achieve with are ident but better. The clothing we will dress her in will make her look essentially like a washed up stripper and just generally a mess, with all her clothing ripped up and maybe some pills lying around her when she's sat on the floor.This idea origionally came from the 'We Found Love' video by Rihanna when she is in the bath by herself we hope to use this as inspiration and put our barbie maybe in the bath with runned mascara this video is about drug use and relationships failing because of it to signify bad connotations of drug use to our audience of teens for our Destiny's Child video - Emotion.
Friday, 2 December 2011
More Footage 2
As we were unable to film some more sample footage on wednesday dude to bad weather conditions we delayed filming to today. We have no completed sample footage 2 and it should be edited and uploaded in the next few days. Franchesca, our female actor playing the girlfriend in out music video was unable to attend filming we decided to replace her with me for this one session.
As in our previous sample footage involving James, the boyfriend, we used a variety of shot types and took inspiration from the year aboves work last year when after a breakup the female character was spinning around in the street to signify disillusion. We also couldnt get the girl band members to attend as we shot the footage in lesson time so we had to make do with three boys (Jack Margerison as Michelle Williams, Harry Knight as Kelly Rowland and Ollie Moulton as Beyonce Knowles) wich was well interesting but we just shot it to see what they would look like against the white background we intend to use in our music video. Footage is currently being editing by us and will be uploaded shortly.
As in our previous sample footage involving James, the boyfriend, we used a variety of shot types and took inspiration from the year aboves work last year when after a breakup the female character was spinning around in the street to signify disillusion. We also couldnt get the girl band members to attend as we shot the footage in lesson time so we had to make do with three boys (Jack Margerison as Michelle Williams, Harry Knight as Kelly Rowland and Ollie Moulton as Beyonce Knowles) wich was well interesting but we just shot it to see what they would look like against the white background we intend to use in our music video. Footage is currently being editing by us and will be uploaded shortly.
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