Monday, 7 May 2012
Facebook Page
Today we created a Facebook page for our record company, Pilgrim Records where we will post updates and links about our band and communicate with fans and members of the page.
Editing!
Now we have finished our filming, we shall begin the editing process. We will be using Adobe Premiere Pro software as it provides a more advanced form of software compared to IMovie which we used in AS.
Over the next few lessons and any available time after school we will edit and cut the narrative and performance together to create a complete music video.
Over the next few lessons and any available time after school we will edit and cut the narrative and performance together to create a complete music video.
Filming Plan
We were becoming short on time to start filming because of our change in song during the process, because of this we decided to sit down and organise a plan of each day of filming.
Day 1 - Performance shots.
On this day we will start to shoot the core of the performance shots on the staircase of the Cabot Eye fitting in most of the angles we will be shooting for the entire video. (Mid shots and close ups from various angles)
Day 2 - Performance shots.
On this day we will move into the media room where we will film 2 versions of the performance (close up and mid shot) against the white wall.
Day 3 - Uploading performance shots.
On this day we will upload our footage and review how it looks, we shall edit some of it and see how it looks. If there is something we are not happy with we will have the necessary time to re-shoot the footage we need to.
Day 4 - Narrative shots.
On this day we will begin the narrative filming process. We will film all the scenes that take place in the media room and the Cabot eye area - such as the interview, waiting for the interview outside and the final scene that takes place in the main school building by reception.
Day 5 - Final Narrative shots.
On this day we will film the remainder of the narrative. We will go to Sam's house and film the scenes in his bedroom and his bathroom that features the main protagonist.
Day 1 - Performance shots.
On this day we will start to shoot the core of the performance shots on the staircase of the Cabot Eye fitting in most of the angles we will be shooting for the entire video. (Mid shots and close ups from various angles)
Day 2 - Performance shots.
On this day we will move into the media room where we will film 2 versions of the performance (close up and mid shot) against the white wall.
Day 3 - Uploading performance shots.
On this day we will upload our footage and review how it looks, we shall edit some of it and see how it looks. If there is something we are not happy with we will have the necessary time to re-shoot the footage we need to.
Day 4 - Narrative shots.
On this day we will begin the narrative filming process. We will film all the scenes that take place in the media room and the Cabot eye area - such as the interview, waiting for the interview outside and the final scene that takes place in the main school building by reception.
Day 5 - Final Narrative shots.
On this day we will film the remainder of the narrative. We will go to Sam's house and film the scenes in his bedroom and his bathroom that features the main protagonist.
Costume Ideas
For the costume we wanted to follow the typical genre conventions as well as the clothes often associated with the band themselves, for this we looked at the some of the clothes worn by Panic! in their music videos..
This is the costume worn in the music video for 'New Perspective' here as they often do they are wearing suits with skinny black ties and Ray Bans sunglasses.
In Our video we will be doing something similar for the performer.
Our Performer will also wear Ray Bans Sunglasses, with a shirt - but will instead wear a bow tie and braces something that Panic! wear on their tours or live appearances on TV.
For Our protagonist in the narrative segment the character will wear a simpler version of this outfit - just a tie and shirt, no sunglasses bow tie or braces. this is to show that he is going to a job interview but also that he is a less exciting character than the performer.
For the puppet character we knew that we had an Alice in Wonderland costume available to us and that we were going to use this to our advantage, as well as this we will use typical horror puppet makeup.
This is the costume worn in the music video for 'New Perspective' here as they often do they are wearing suits with skinny black ties and Ray Bans sunglasses.
In Our video we will be doing something similar for the performer.
Our Performer will also wear Ray Bans Sunglasses, with a shirt - but will instead wear a bow tie and braces something that Panic! wear on their tours or live appearances on TV.
For Our protagonist in the narrative segment the character will wear a simpler version of this outfit - just a tie and shirt, no sunglasses bow tie or braces. this is to show that he is going to a job interview but also that he is a less exciting character than the performer.
For the puppet character we knew that we had an Alice in Wonderland costume available to us and that we were going to use this to our advantage, as well as this we will use typical horror puppet makeup.
Sunday, 6 May 2012
Location Location Location...
For our performance shots we wanted to use two separate locations that were non specific and weren't obvious as to where they were - we wanted it to look simplistic but interesting. Because of time constraints and restrictions as to where and when we could film this probably effected our decision slightly but it actually fitted with our overall idea of the mundaneness of day to day life and how everything looks and feels the same and repetitive. For the performance we decided to use our media classroom with the camera facing the white wall like a blank canvas which made the location unspecified, the other location we used was in the Cabot Eye. We used the staircase leading down to the bottom floor as this resembled highly one of the performance shots in the official music video, it was also non specific and followed the neutral colour scheme of the media room - all whites and greys.
For our narrative shots, we needed to have a bedroom and a bathroom to show the protagonist waking up and getting ready for a job interview that day. For this we decided to use my partner Sam's house as his bedroom was much more spacious than mine, provided better light and was generally easier to film in. We also again used the media room but this time to look more like a classroom or office as it was to be used as setting for a job interview that would take place in the narrative. Finally we decided to use the main reception area of the school for the climax of the narrative, we did this purposely as it provided much more colour and life than the Cabot Eye and the climax represents a change in the character symbolised through the change in setting.
For our narrative shots, we needed to have a bedroom and a bathroom to show the protagonist waking up and getting ready for a job interview that day. For this we decided to use my partner Sam's house as his bedroom was much more spacious than mine, provided better light and was generally easier to film in. We also again used the media room but this time to look more like a classroom or office as it was to be used as setting for a job interview that would take place in the narrative. Finally we decided to use the main reception area of the school for the climax of the narrative, we did this purposely as it provided much more colour and life than the Cabot Eye and the climax represents a change in the character symbolised through the change in setting.
Storyboarding some ideas!
Today we started to generate some ideas for our new music video for 'The Ballad Of Mona Lisa' this is what we came up with...
Here we were just brainstorming some ideas about the band and the type of costume they often perform in, we also reviewed some of the lyrics and discussed some ideas about the sort of things we could see in a music video for this song, the idea of Puppets and a Puppet Master were the first ideas we came up and we both agreed that the burlesque antique style of puppetry fitted well with the piano laden music of Panic!
We then took this idea of Puppetry and thought about how we could relate this idea to a narrative, having watched the original video where the Singer performs as himself as well as the main character in the narrative we started to generate the idea that the singer in our music video would be the puppet master and for the narrative the story would focus on a regular persons life being controlled by this puppeteer until he eventually consumes him and becomes him. We started to storyboard the narrative sequence during the lesson deciding that we would sort out the narrative first before adding the performance shots (which were relatively simple) later on in the process.
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