Weather

Catherine Kirk was supposed to be shooting some pictures for our second location during the end of last week. Unfortunatley we have had some weather problems, we have recieved some snow and rain which would not show the loaction to it's full potential. It would be far to dangerous to send Catherine down to the woods in these conditions, as it would be slipperly and dismal. The photos would have came out melancholy and would have not shown the real fun, happy feel we wish to have when using this location.

We have used the location before for our short music video we created at the start of the school year, I have previously blogged about the video which can be seen in the link below if you wish to see the second location we will be using for a few shots of footage in the music video.

http://ellielouisea2.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/short-music-video.html

Obviously if the weather conditions keep up this way it may cause some problems when we film on Wednesday 3rd of November at the beach. We are however going to have to keep checking the weather forecast and hope that there will be a sudden change so we can safely film our footage. As we are shooting the footage at the beach in black and white it won't really effect the quality of the music video if it isn't a bright day. However if there is some rain on the day, we may have to reschedule our filming day so we can produce a realistic muisc video.

Call Sheet X2

Time to Meet	After Sixth Form 3:20 on Thursday 8th November.
Location to meet	At Framwellgate School Durham, we will be walking to the location together.
Location	Newton Hall fields and woods.
Description of Location	The location is round Newton Hall by the bridge with the railway tracks. It is an isolated area, and surrounded by trees bushes and greenery.
Group	Ellie Snowdon, Kelly Senior, Sarah Hewitt and Catherine Kirk.
Characters	Catherine Kirk acting the part of the female character and Ryan Hawkins acting the male part.
Props	No props are needed for this section of filming.
Special Instruction	No special instructions.

Storyboard

 

This is the storyboard we created for our Indie Pop music video.

Location

We are using two different types of loaction in our Indie Pop music video. I have previously blogged about our first location (the beach). Our second location is closer to where we all live so it is easily accessable. This location is Newton Hall fields and woods, we will be filming the parts where the male and female character are shown to be in a relationship at this location, they will be in more casual clothes compared to the female clothing in the first location. They two people acting will be seen to be very playful and having a lovely time together. Even though we aren't showing the full faces of the two characters in these clips, the location will still play a big part as it links into the theme of nature. When we use such shots as extreme close ups, we will still be able to have some scenery of the location. We are hoping to have a shot of the two lying down together with flowers and plants surrounding them which we add extra emphasis on how the idea couple would be with one another, and also highlighting the theme of nature running throughout our music video. We have already used this location once before when we conducted our preliminary task, which can be seen in my previous blog posts. As a group we know what to expect from the location and the best places we should use to catch great shots for our music video. Catherine Kirk will later this week go to the location and take some pictures.  

Location

On Monday evening I went to South Sheilds to do a location scout of the area. I have found many picturesque places on the beach that links in with the ideas we came up with whilst planning. The only problem we face is that there is not a bench near the beach, so we won't be able to get the scenery in if we found a beach near by. The scenery plays a big part in the music video, so wanting to create the iconic bench shot without the scenery would be pointless, it would not be authentic or realistic. So I decided to look for something along the lines of the bench shot, and would report back my idea to the rest of the group. I found a sand dune right on the beach which is perfect, the dune is not very high so can be reached within safety, we can use the sand dune to replace the idea of the bench, but still have the female in the video sitting on the sand dune dangling her legs. Due to the sand dune being up a little height we will be able to get some great shots looking up at her sitting on the dune, but also right next to her.

The pictures below are some of the images I thought would be fantastic to use when shooting our music video. There are shots of the beach, sea, and near by scenery. Some of the pictures are places I found around the location of the beach, which will help us create  unique and peaceful shots of the female character. The beach has some amazing features that will feature in our scenery shots and pans.

 

 

 

 

 

Rough Idea

 

 

This short video is our very rough idea on things we wish to include in our own music video. We put this video together by using the clips we used for our practice shots, and put the song (not our actual cover) over the top. We have used black and white to create a strong contrast against the colour clips, it blatently shows the difference in the two different situations we are trying to show in the video. When the colour changes, the atmosphere and the mood also does as well, which helps us highlight to the audience the reflection of the past. The shots used are very basic but we just wanted to portray a few of our first ideas, the close ups on the females face lets the audince focus on the feelings of the character, she is shown to be unhappy but looks as though she is also concentrating and pondering on thoughts. The mixture of angles we have used helps us convey the clear effect we want to come across to the audience, it fixates on her expressions and emotions, the females face is dark, dismal and seems stern. 

 

 Everything that is shown in this short video will be taken into our real production of our Indie Pop music video. We will adapt and expand these ideas, to make them more complex and adventerous. The different transitions between the black and white then colour shots are really eye catching, each shot stands out as it is never a contionous shot they are always switching keeping the audience intrigued and on their toes with the story the video is telling. The different coloured shots are really interesting as they are shot with the same female character but she is shown to look, and feel completey different. In  the black and white ones, the female looks melancholy and typically 'down in the dumps'. Whislt when in the colour shots she is shown to be energeticm, and full of energy, connoting the power that 'young love' has over you, which some of the audience may be able to relate with. Whilst in the black and white images do seem sinister, we don't actually always want to show her in this way throughout the whole black and white shots even though she is unhappy with the way her relationship has turned out she is trying to think positvely and thinking ahead, which signifys the balloon when we shot the footage for the real production. We really have to empahsis this, as if not the whole music video will just seem as if we are focusing on the down fall of love.

 

In the rough idea we decided to use jump cuts to hightlight the difference in the shots, representing the change in the setting and story, we wont use jump cuts for evry transistion as I don't seem to think they are really nessessary it takes away the realistic feel away from the music video. When we come to the real editing process I think we should prehaps use a jump cut for a certain change we want to add extra emphasis too, but not soley rely on them each time the shots change. A cross desolve was used when we added the couples smiles, the overlapping of the male and females smile represents the connection they couple once had and how close they were, the fading of the smiles would go on to portray the distance between the pair and how their love has faded.

 

Additionally I think that creating a rough idea this early on in the planning process was an brilliant idea to do. We have been able to discuss what in the group what each of us think works and looks good or shots and angles that don't seem to be as effective. In completing this task we now have an insight to what our music video will look like and how we will cope with the task and also how to make the most of our abilities and facilities.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Call Sheet

Time to Meet	10am Saturday 3rd November
Location to meet	Durham Train Station
Location	South Sheilds
Description of Location	The location we are using in South Shields is the beach near the ammusements. It's is very near a lighthouse, pier and an old ruin of a castle which will all be used in our scenery shots. The beach is very clean, and there are plenty of sand dunes and dainty places looking onto the beach that we will be able to catch some fantastic shots in. Be prepeared as it will be cold.
Group	Ellie Snowdon, Sarah Hewitt, Kelly Senior and Catherine Kirk.
Characters	Catherine Kirk, playing the female in the music video.
Props	A bag of red balloons, a few will be filled with helium before the day of shooting the footage. String will be needed, to tie the balloon. The balloons without helium in them will be used as a back up plan.
Special Instruction	Bring warm clothing jackets, hats, gloves and scarfs. It will be very cold, so wrap up warm. We will provide a towel for Catherine Kirk during shooting. Also please bring some money if you wish to buy food and drink whilst we are filming, there are many facilitys near by.