Production - How it went.. first day filming

We got to Lukes house at around 13:30 and it went well. First of all I couldn't help but get distracted with Luke's cute dogs! After that we focused on Romy's make-up to achieve the 'natural look' we did takes so that Romy and Luke felt comfortable in front of the camera as well as improve acting (if there was something to improve). We all thought it was best for Romy to sing a long to the song because if she had mimicked it would be noticeable and that wouldn't be professional.
I was taking behind the scene photos and helping Khadeeja with the sound and a few times with the camera.  Khadeeja was directing (I would contribute as well) and filming Bad Idea.
Overall I think Romy and Lukes acting was great! They felt very comfortable acting in front of the camera, that is clearly shown.

Production- Get ready, set, ACTION! - At Lukes house

 

 

Photos taken and video edited by Andreia x

Planning - Pitch today

In my opinion I think that the pitch my group and I presented to the class was very good overall. My group and I worked very hard, we all contributed to the outcome and we were organised which is what is the key to its success. My group and I were confident, we spoke clearly and loudly. My group and I tried to present as professionally as possible and for me it worked.

At the start I felt quite nervous because I felt I kept on stuttering however I did get my point across and at the end I managed to overcome it.

Planning- Change of costume ideas for Romy, why?

At the beginning we decided to start off with colourless to pale to bright colours to see how her character evolves. Sort of going along with the lyrics. She becomes stronger and more confident in her herself and finally finds another boy. However Romy doesn't have much bright colourful clothes and neither does Khadeeja and when Romy tried on all my colourful clothes it somehow didn't look right, it also depends on the body type and how it fits her. Therefore we changed it up a bit to start off with colourless, to maturing in clothes for e.g. at the end she's wearing a crop top (showing a bit more flesh) so the audience follows her development as a character.

Pitch Tasks

The areas of the pitch that I am covering are the production schedule, other videos that inspired our final ideas and also the storyboard along with Khadeeja. 

For the production schedule, I basically had to discuss with my group what we were doing and when we were doing it. This is very important as it gives us guidance and makes our future work very organised so that we aren't panicking about when we should be doing a certain task. It also gives out teachers an idea of how we'll be approaching all the physical work leading up to the video. 

I also need to talk about what videos inspired ours. This was more of a task based on my opinion which I feel confident explaining to people as I know what videos clearly inspire ours and why. 

Last and not least the storyboard, which pretty much speaks for itself. This is just a still-imaged way of displaying our ideas through the use of drawing and little captions at the bottom in order to establish briefly what is going on and also the shot types used in each frame. This was put together by Khadeeja.

Planning - That Cold Hard Industry

Within the pitch tasks; I was put in charge of researching the industry and finding out about the kinds of tasks actual music video directors and artists would go through in order to make a music video successfully. Here are my findings as part of the pitch

Planning- Le Concept

I'm (Khadeeja) in charge of the overall depiction of the concept for the music video - and so I thought long and hard about the best way to develop a visual representation of the 'concept'. So doing what I do best, I headed to photoshop to create a graphical representation of the basic idea for the video as part of the pitch;

The Lift Pitch - Quite Literally!

So we had the awesome idea to actually film a proposed lift pitch as part of our music video pitch. I then developed a script for Luke and I to perform. So after shooting and editing the thing, here is the final - literal - lift pitch.

Planning- The Animatic

So we managed to get together the final look of the proposed video. It's a mixture of both still and moving images from different locations (including test shots) but we believe it really goes a long way as to painting an image of what the final thing will look like. So through blood sweat and tears - here is the animated storyboard!

Edited by Khadeeja

Planning- Practice, Practice Practice!

So we've been swamped with our soon approaching pitch - Here's the low down on what we've been doing.

Group Meeting - 9/10/13

Group Meeting - 11/10/13

(Edited by Khadeeja)