Shoot on Saturday 17th November

On Saturday 17th November we filmed our narrative shots of our music video. We all met on time and got to London early in the morning so that we had plenty of time to film. We found a few different locations in which we thought were suitable for our narrative. The whole shoot went really well and we got some excellent footage for our music video.

Photoshoot - Wednesday 14th November

We originally decided to do our band's photoshoot on Monday before we went to the warehouse to film the performance shots. However, do to lighting and technical difficulties we ran out of time and had to be at the warehouse at 5 o'clock, so we thought it would be best to carry it on another day.

So, on Wednesday myself, Scott, Josh and Liam met up in the photography studio to continue with photos. Unfortunately Beckie was unable to attend. We used many different types of lighting and I asked the boys to try different poses to see which ones looked the best.

Overall I got a variety of images which I can choose from when it comes to creating our website and digipak.

This is a collage of some of the photos I took:

Weather Check

We didn't need to do a weather check for Monday when we were filming in the warehouse as we would be inside filming the whole time. 
Below is a weather check for London for Saturday 17th.

Although it will be raining, we think that this is fine as we will use the raincoat for the camera and we will make sure that we wear coats and bring umbrellas for ourselves and the actors!

This is the weather for each hour throughout the day of filming:

Rehearsals

We did a rehearsal the day before our shoot in the warehouse.

To make sure that Scott got every single lyric correct, even though he knew them we decided to ask the company director if he would print them off large enough so that Scott could see them from a far distance, for example when they performed up high on the balcony.

Here are some pictures that we took throughout the rehearsal.

Shoot on Monday 12th November

On Monday 12th November we filmed our performance shots of our music video. It went extremely well and we got all the footage that we needed. We also took some photos to show evidence of the things that we did throughout the evening.

Storyboard Animatic

This is our animatic for our storyboard. This shows in still shots which shot will go with what part of the music at which time giving us a small insight into how our final video will look.

Test Shots

These are our test shots of our actors, which also explains why we chose for them to be in our music video.

Overall, all of our actors are organised and reliable people meaning we can guarantee they will turn up to our shoot.

Location Recces

This is a prezi which I created to show some photos of the locations we will be filming in.

Assets List

This is a short video which shows all of the things we need to use on our shoots. Including equipment, props and costumes.

Permissions To Use Location

This is the message I sent to the company director of Darenth Print asking if we could use their warehouse to film our performance shots in. It was important to do this so that we know it is definitely fine for us to shoot here and we know that we are welcome on the location.

We then received a message back granting us the permission to shoot in this location.

Shot List

This is our shot list. It consists of 106 shots. This is because we have a strong narrative over performance and therefore want to most definitely portray this in our final music video. If we didn't have a variety of shots we wouldn't have enough narrative footage. This is why we have quite a lot of shots in our list.

Production Schedule

This is our production schedule for Monday 12th November 2012 when we are filming in Darenth Print Warehouse:

This is our production schedule for Saturday 17th November 2012 when we are filming in London:

By creating these schedules it means that when filming we will know exactly what to shoot at what time and we can get it done without any delays. If we get at all stuck we can refer to this throughout our shoot.

Visual Style and Digipak Ideas Moodboard

The visual style for our music video will not be too colourful, it will be fairly stark with beiges and browns, also some grey at night time, The lighting will be very bright and pictoral and will be out of focus so it looks smudged; with whites, yellows and oranges. There will not be many overlays as the shots will be quite fast paced so they won't be as smooth. There will be blurs especially in the darker night scenes. Close ups will show the background out of focus. The theme shows open empty spaces, so the shots will very spaced out.

This style will stretch across all 3 media platforms - music video, website, digipak.

This moodboard shows our influences of how our digipak will look, including the poses in which they are standing in and how they are positioned on the front. It also shows the costumes which our actors will wearing. Plus, it shows what type of make up our actors will have on such as eye liner and smooth foundation or powder to make them seem and look hyper real.