Changes to the video

During our filming we have used our storyboard as a guideline although through some reconsideration, we discovered more professional ideas for some of the scenes. This occurred when editing as we found that the footage we filmed was not enough, therefore we had to rearrange scenes in order to fit the music successfully and follow a realistic story-line.

 - We have not included the scenes at the train station, instead we have added in some POV shots and more scenes of the singer (me) singing with the guitar. I believe by doing this it will introduce the female to the audience well, and early enough in time for the chorus, and to understand the music video.
- The photo of the couple is also included in the video, although we have used a print out in which we can show it burning later on in the video, which is different to our first idea of it in a photo in the frame. I took the print out from the bin instead from under the bed where the audience will see that the photo has been scrunched up out of anger and sorrow.
- Although we filmed me putting his coat on and tying his shoes up, we decided to not include these scenes as they took too long, wasted time and we didn't think they were necessarily needed.
- We were thinking of ending the video with me burning the photo of him and the girl, but we put this clip further back as we thought ending with sun shining through would be more appropriate.
-Another change that we made was the actress playing the girl. As we were running out of time and it was hard to get hold of our original actress, we all decided that it would be more ideal to use a member of the group.
- We also decided not to do the compilation of images at the end as we felt there was enough of the couple happy in the music video so give the audience the impression that their relationship was loving and strong

Magazine advert

This is the photo we started with but then with adding the filters we wanted as well as all the things a magazine advert needs that i listed in the previous post this is how it is finished.

magazine advert

For our magazine advert we wanted to stay as professional as possible whilst sticking to the genre for our artist.
So we thought things we needed to include where:
The title of the album
A picture of the album
The name of the artist
Ratings from indie magazines
location shots
cross media platforms

The common conventions of Indie Adverts are normally that they have the appearance of being designed with a vintage feel and artistically which overall tends to be quite simple but creative. I believe that an image such as a photo of the artist with a vintage tint would really show that it is from this genre, which is used mostly in Indie. There is often a link to the Artists website or their twitter accounts so they can be easily connected with the artist.

Digi-pack Prezi

Digi-pack-similar artists

Location research

One location that we have considered is on a field or common (natural location). We can easily travel to these locations from school locations we are considering are The Common in Saffron Walden, Parkers Piece in Cambridge. We think these locations give the natural feel very well which will fit well with our natural acoustic feel of our genre.

Another location that we have been thinking about doing is that of an urban setting. We aim to do shots of our couple walking down the street and have shots at a train station which will most likely be our master shot of the artist sitting on the bench singing the chorus and other parts of the song playing his guitar

And the final location that we are considering is to film in a stereotypical boys bedroom. The only difference to the boys bedroom is that there will be a musical interest to the room with guitars on the walls and amplifiers and speakers around the room which will show the artists love for music which is part of our genre. The lyrics will also be quite good for the lyrics with talking about "i'll lie here" and "you can rest your head" which all relate to either sleeping or lying which relates to the bedroom or bed.

Filming progress

We are done !!!

Possible digi pack fonts

These are possible fonts that we are considering for our digi-pack.
Through looking at other indie album covers we have seen that many have capital letters in the wording and some are also possibly hand written. Before choosing a font we will have to
look at the photograph and see if it suits one of our fonts.

Shot list part 1

Heres our draft shot list for our production:

Shot 1- Close up on hand placing Cd in the disk tray of a music player.

Shot 2- Close up on a hand turning up the volume.

Shot 3- Mid sht of artist sitting on his bed, looking sad.

Shot 4- High angle, medium shot on artist retrieving a box.

Shot 5- Aerial shot of him searching the box for a photo.

Shot 6- Mid shot, of him lying on the bed looking at the photo.

Shot 7- Close up, Zoom in on the photo.

Shot 8- Cut to tracking of the couple walking down the street.

Shot 9- (master-shot) artist playing guitar.

Shot 10- Tracking of couple walking through a walk way to a bench.

Shot 11- Mid-shot of artist sitting on bench.

Shot 12- Mid-shot of couple sitting on bench. (potential for overlay).

Shot 13- Over the shoulder shot of artist looking at couple.

Shot 14- ' ' , train begins to drive by.

Shot 15- Cut to mid shot of artist sitting on the bench.

Shot 16- Over the shoulder shot, Cut to train station, couple have disappeared.

Shot 17- Master shot

Shot 18- Pan, of artist getting up and leaving location.

Shot 19- Close-up, on artist playing guitar.

Shot 20- Mid-shot of artist walking away.

Shot 21- Cuts back to shot 6.

Shot 22- Gets up and leaves bedroom.

The equipment

To film the music video at the best quality and standard and as professionally as we could, we used the best equipment available to us.

This camera shown is the one we used to film, as the footage it films is of a HD quality, which we allow us to capture close ups and the scenery we wanted to include in the scene. The camera we used was provided by the media department at school and was a handheld canon camera. It was extremely useful to us as we had decided to create some POV shots, which due to the handheld would make is much easier to complete. This camera can be easily attached to the tripod to make sure it captures a steady shot and it will film the necessary shots needed for our music video with ease.

The tripod we used was useful as it allowed us to film a steady and unshaken shot. We could additionally be able to film at different heights, as the legs can be adjusted.

Also to do our editing we needed to use the apple mac. this is because it had all the editing software we needed to make our video.

Inlay booklet

When making our inlay booklet we wanted to make our pictures fit our genres so we tried filters and different techniques to make them suit the indie genre like overlay for example.

This is the original

 Then with the overlay technique used

 then with an added filter And then a final softer filter

Filming Dates

For our music video we intend to do some filming on the 18th and 19th of November as this gives us a group to film in our free periods which are after 11:00 on monday and on tuesday from 9:00-12:00

Story Board part 1

This is our story board up to 1:34

Shot 1: 0-3 seconds
Shot 2: 3-5 seconds
Shot 3: 5-7 seconds
Shot 4: 7-9 seconds
Shot 5: 9-11 seconds
Shot 6: 11-13 seconds
Shot 7: 13-15 seconds
Shot 8: 15-18 seconds
Shot 9: 18-26 seconds
Shot 10: 26-30 seconds
Shot 11: 30-36 seconds
Shot 12: 36-42 seconds
Shot 13: 42-48 seconds
Shot 14: 48-54 seconds
Shot 15: 54-60 seconds
Shot 16: 60-1:02
Shot 17: 1:02-1:15
Shot 18: 1:15-1:18
Shot 19: 1:18-1:20
Shot 20: 1:20-1:25
Shot 21: 1:25-1:30
Shot 22: 1:30-1:34

Filming Weather

Weather

the locations that we are doing are Saffron Walden, Newport and possibly Cambridge. We were hoping to be able to have the past flashbacks in our setting and we think this will look better in sunny weather. On the present scenes luckily we do not need to have bright, warm weather; as it is late Autumn in England we are expecting, grey, foggy and rainy weather, which would be ideal for the overall feel of these scenes. So far I can only see Monday's weather report, but both days look rainy, so I feel we should film the more present scenes then because that weather would be perfect for this, hopefully Tuesday will be sunny so we can film the contrasting scenes, if not we will probably film indoors, and have to go out for one more sunny day for filming. Although this, you will never know how right the weather report is until the day.

POV-filming technique

During filming we discovered that we were lacking in shots of the couple together. Therefore in order to build the narrative of the song, this was vital, as it would give a personal feel to the video. Our inspiration came from Calvin Harris' music video for 'I Need Your Love'. In that video , the point of view camera technique is used which we felt would be suitable for our video.

Whilst filming, we experimented with this technique in everyday situation with the love interest included. For example, the male (me) filmed the two of them sipping coffee at a cafe which looks as though they are having a laugh and so brightens up the video. We then uploaded the POV clip to the Mac and inserted it into our video which we thought looked really good. Therefore we have decided that we should film some more similar clips for the narrative to run more smoothly. Locations could include, in bed, walking in the outdoors, a park. The POV shot is a brilliant way for us to bring the video to life as it really builds up the characters in the video. Developing the characters also allows us to enhance the narrative and so we end up making a video that can relate to our audience.