screen shots

we emailed the band so that they can see our video.



here are some shots of us editing.

final video

This is our final video

hello

we've finally finished filming everything.

:)


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finally got our footage

We just filmed the final footage that we needed for our video.

This was the footage of the people running to get to the gig.

We had had a lot of trouble finding people that would run for us so it has taken a lot longer to film than we expected.

Now we have this footage we are uploading it and going to intertwine this into the rest of our footage.

We had previously left a few gaps in our video for the runners to go so we are going to see what footage fits best with the rest of our video.

Now we have all of our footage we are going to focus on editing all of the time and getting it all together.


We may need to film another shot of Steve but we think we can get around this.

editing

We replaced the piece of lipsyncing that was out of time with a panning shot from the back of the drum kit to behind the band; then we had a short shot of Steve lipsyncing that we could use.

Lipsyncing is turning out to be a bit of a problem in this. Our singer, did not sing perfectly in time throughout the recording so we are going to have to be selective with what shots of Steve, the vocalist we used.

We feel we have enough footage to use and will not need to reshoot any of the performance.

This is limiting us in the editing as it is hard to find good vocal clips.

Luckily, due to the variety of angles, shots and our narrative this should not be too much of a problem and we will be able to overcome this.

ROUGH CUTTTTTTTT.....sort of !

and we're off!

Today is the day of filming!

We have a guitar and a bass guitar and we're all set

We will be setting up the drum kit in about half an hour and Emily is going to pick up a microphone from the music department.

We will also be filming the shots of Emily in her room.

We did plan to film the runners today as well but we're not sure the weather will hold out for us to do that...

WHAT WE NEED ON TUESDAY!

INSTRUMENTS
guitar - vicki or becky.
bass - vicki
drum kit - college
microphone - vicki [maybe] if not borrow one from college

CAMERA AND TRIPOD - college is providing

Test Footage!

Call Sheet

PRODUCTION: CAGE THE ELEPHANT,
TINY LITTLE ROBOTS


Call Sheet No. 1- 25/09/08
Director/Producer: Emily Chillingworth

Call Times:
Camera/ Production Crew: Loc 1@ 12:20

Locations:
1/ College Hall
2/ Cambridge Backs
3/ Kelvin Close[front bedroom]

Location Contacts
1/Long Road Sixth Form College Telephone: 01223 507400
Fax: 01223 507444
2/ N/A
3/ Emily Mobile: 07463856193


PRODUCTION CONTACTS
Producer/Director: Emily Chillingworth
Editor: Rebecca Sharon
Casting Director/Props: Victoria Roach
Camerawork: William Harris



SHOOTING SCHEDULE

{EDIT: Date has been changed from Friday 3rd}
Tuesday 7th October
TIME LOCATION SKETCH/SCENE CAST
10:50 LOC. 1 Performance scene. Band performing to track. Steve Patient/Adrian Pevley/Lloyd Smith/Vicki Roach.

12:20-13:00 Lunch

13:05 LOC. 1 People running. Up the stairs into the hall for performance. Cast TBC

Saturday 4th October
TIME LOCATION SKETCH/SCENE CAST
10:00 LOC. 2 People running through Cambridge Backs. Cast TBC

12:00-13:00 Lunch

13:30 LOC. 3 Girl in room in the music scene. Playing instruments and listening to music. Emily Chillingworth




REQUIREMENTS

Kit: Camera, tripod

Props: Guitars x2, Bass, Drum kit, Microphone, Posters, CDs, Paper, Pen,

Costume: Band t. shirts, skinny jeans, colourful t. shirts, bland clothes for runners [black or grey]

EMERGENCIES

Nearest A & E: Addenbrookes Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ

USEFUL INFO

Public Transport:
Bus stations to get off at for each location:
Loc. 1: Addenbrookes bus station [citi 1 or 7]
Loc. 2: Drummer street bus station [any citi bus]
Loc. 3: Cherry Hinton Road [citi 1 or 3]


Location 2

Prop list

Props

guitar
bass guitar
microphone
microphone stand
drum kits
records
cds
amps
posters
cage the elephant stickers / leaflets


People
guitarist x2
bassist
drummer
singer
girl in room
people running x LOTS

Todays lesson.......

Today we showed the class our animatic to get feedback.

All of the feedback that we got was positive.

Some of the things that they liked
+ drawing - good quality, they showed exactly what we wanted
+ drawing - the angles were good
+ the shots were all in time with the beat
+ the shot of singer - close up to extreme close up exaggerated the music nicely
+ narrative easy to follow

Finally Some Things Come Together !

In todays lesson we took some test footage around college to help us make final decisions for our music video.
We first filmed in the area behind the stage in the hall, possible shot ideas for when the girl is alone in her room and i think that we have finally concluded that we will be filming emily in her own bedroom.

We also took some footage on the stage in the hall of what it might be like when the band is performing and we think that if we closed the curtains around the side and possibly (we arent completely sure yet) had something on the projector screen then it would look quite effective.
As well as this, we think that if we used some clever filming, we could make the hall appear to be a lot smaller than it actually is and still wouldnt have to use too many people to make it appear to be crowded.

We took footage of us running and our legs as we were running and we think that we could get some very effective shots for people getting to the hall
and we have some people that are willing to run in front of the camera for us.

We also think that it would be fine to film running shots in the center of cambridge and we could use different groups of people because then it will be like lots of different people trying to get the gig.

Location location location

Problems!!!
-we have no available locations-

1) Willingham parish council will not answer their phone regarding booking the public hall

2) Burgess Hall in St Ives looks far too expensive for us to even consider

3) Vicki's house is 'too cluttered'

4) Emily emailed the Salvation Army about using their hall but they have not replied

5) Hall at college. Too big, but will be used if no other options, because clever camera work would make it look smaller.

We now need to decide where we are going to film our ideas.



options! make it simpleeeeee
HALL or HOUSE?
HOW MUCH CAN WE REALISTICALLY AFFORD?
INSIDE OR OUTSIDE? - will it be possible to film outside??? Or will the wonderful British weather defeat us???



We are going to try to film on friday 3rd of October, because Emily and Beccy have a free from lunch onwards, and can set up the hall, and film the runners during their lunch[runners will be As students] and then we have media last and so all of us can film them and our band members are all free at this time.

today's meeting

Today I think that we need to come to a conclusion on where we are going to film our video. This is because then we will be able to organise what band we are using [as we have 2 possibilities] and we will also be able to organise what days are possible for filming

We need to sort this out ASAP because we need to be organised with getting the band lifts and moving equipment. We also need to find a time when all of our group members are able to film.

Also, we need to start to think about shooting the people running to the gig. This is because we need to make sure we have enough people running and different locations.

This also ties into the idea of the fans getting to the gig because we cant get people to run through the door to the gig if they can't get to the location.

animatic

Production Meeting Notes

Aim for today's meeting.

- discuss storyboard - story board is drawn up we need to decide shot duration for each shot.
- choose locations - we have a few locations in mind but need to decide where we are filming each shot.

More Ideas

Since we are doing the side narrative of our video being the story of a girl I found this video online and found it seemed to fit.

Although there is less of a narrative in this video is still involves mainly performance and the small narrative in the story is about a girl on her own.

Band: The Blackout
Song: It's High Tide Baby
Album: We Are The Dynamite
Year: 2007



The video contains a variety of shots right from the beginning. It changes from a low angle shot to close ups on the instruments and then to mid-shots of the band within the first 5 seconds. This variety of shots makes the video look interesting.This is followed by a long shot including all of the band, which is almost a panoramic shot. The camerawork tends to move in time with the music. Especially at 14-19 seconds when the lead singer is jumping in time to the beat and when he flicks his hair it moves in time to the music. The shots also show each band member individually in close ups of themselves and in close ups on the instruments; it also shows each band member in their most prominent parts in the video. For example, close up on the guitarists when the guitars do a riff or solo and close ups on the singers when they are singing their lines. This video also uses a technique which shows each singer singing the same line as they do on the track but cuts quickly between the 2 of them showing each singer singing 'woah'. Straight after this however; it does not show the lyrics for the next line as it is introducing us to the female character by using a transistion by fading in to her. After showing us the female character the shot changes to a midshot of the singer with a bright bluish / white light behind contrasting to the shot of the girl who has a black background.

The lighting becomes a key feature as the band tend to have a bright, light background behind them and th girl has a dark background with no light at all. This is then emphasised from about 1.30 seconds in when the girl is walking with the camera behind her doing a low angled shot. This shows a contrast as the singer and the girl walk towards each other that are now silhouetted whereas before we could see the characters clearly. The camera seems to have more of a handheld feel when it is behind the girl and looks as if someone is following her. It could symbolise that we are in the sasme position as the girl and we are her shadow, following behind her.

The lyrics also match in with the narrative as when it's the line 'you're beautiful' it show the singer from the band run his fingers through her hair and go to kiss her. Then on the line 'are you worth fighting for' it shows the girl pulling away. On the next lyric 'say goodbye' it shows the singer walking back with his eyes fixed on the girl and then he goes out of focus. This emphasises the fact that she is gone and he'll have to say goodbye even though he doesn't want to.

When the singer and the girl finally meet each

Storyboarding

We are now drawing up our storyboard and will be making an animatic from this to outline our video. We think that an animatic will help bring our video to life from the storyboard so that it's not just a few drawings but is animated. This also means we can try different transitions before we film and experiment with ideas. It also means that if something does not look as we hoped on the animatic then we still have time to change our ideas. To make our animatic, Will is going to draw up our storyboard ideas then we are going to scan these pictures in and animate the shots on Final Cut Pro.

Pitch review

We stood up in front of the class and delivered our pitch. We talked through all of our ideas and we showed the lostprophets video from last train home which influenced our ideas.

teacher feedback - A strong pitch with use of ICT to demonstrate your influences (lostprophets). Strong ideas about connecting narratives, editing, genre. The 'enigma' element could be a very strong aspect of your video. It is clear that you have also put a lot of thought into your mise-en-scene such as the positioning of posters in the running scenes. Well done.