Shooting Schedule

This is our shooting schedule, the table shows what days each of us can film. Seb and I can film any day but we have decided that saturday's are the best days to film as the actors are also available to film on saturdays as well which is why we have decided to film most of our storyboard and ideas this saturday as Seb and I are both free and so is our two actors Megan and Liam. The other actor Jack is not free this saturday as he has to work but he is normally free on saturdays as he doesn't work every saturday so we will arrange a date in the half term to film the shots that Jack is in with Megan. 

Filming

Seb and I were meant to film on saturday (20th) but due to actor's commitments we could not film on this saturday. So we are now filming on this saturday (27th) and hopefully achieve a lot of our storyboard in this time. We will be filming the majority of our shots on saturday apart from the shots thats use one of our actors which cannot make this saturday to film due to work. After we have filmed on saturday we will then be filming on a day in the half term which will be with the actor that cannot make this saturday and also the girlfriend that cheated on her boyfriend. After half term we will then upload and start cutting/editing our footage in the first lesson back. 


For this saturday we will need a reflector which will be book nearer the time. We will also need a tripod and a camera which Seb has so we won't need to book them. We will also need a necklace or something significant to the main character that was his girlfriends, will we also need some beer cans or bottles which we can use for a couple of scenes that the main character will use. Another prop we will need is a candle for when we film a shot of the main character and his girlfriend having dinner together from when they were together which will be filmed at my house using my dining table. 

Filming plan

My group (me and Sebastian) are hopefully going to film on saturday. We hope to get most of the filming done on that day depending on the actors and the weather. If not we will film another day to make up for it. We have already got cameras and tripods for saturday and we will be booking some lights and reflectors as well. 

Storyboard

This is the storyboard for our music video. The storyboard shows a range of shots and ideas for our music video. We are using close ups to show the emotion of the characters to the viewers. The arrows on the shots of the character lip syncing show the direction in which the camera will be moving. The small black arrows show the direction in which way the character will be moving. 

Storyboarding and actors!

Yesterday in the lesson me and Seb continued to storyboard our music video, I think we are almost finished now and hopefully will be able to start filming soon. Me and Seb also decided on our actors for our music video, we need to two boys and a girl for the music video, we already have one actor that can be in our music video and now we just have to ask the other two. 

One of the boys will be the main character who will have to act quite angry and emotional at the beginning of the video and then will change to happy towards the end of the video, the actor will also have to lip sync so we took this into consideration when choosing the actor, the actor we chose for this role is in a band so hopefully he should be able to lip sync realistically. 

the video is centred around a couple that had been together, we needed a girl to be the ex girlfriend of the main character, as our actor has a girlfriend we decided to use her because it would be more likely to able to use them and they wouldn't be afraid to act around each other as they know each other very well. The other boy we have decided to use is not going to be in the music video apart from two scenes which are only going to amount to a tiny portion to the music video. 

Once we have asked and got permission to use the other actors in our music video we hopefully make a schedule that will show when me and Seb plus our actors are free to film our music video.  

Pitch and questionnaire.

To present our ideas to the class and get feedback we had to create a pitch that will tell the class our ideas for the music video, information about the song, any editing that we might do and also our locations/props. 

This is our pitch: 

The pitch explains briefly our ideas for the music video, the editing/effects that we are hoping to use, storyline, lighting and location/props. 

To get audience feedback we created a questionnaire to see what people think of our ideas for the music video and just the music video overall. 

Questionnaire: 

The feedback from the class was mostly good's and okay's for the song overall and the ideas/storyline for the music video. This could be an area to improve a little bit to make a better music video. However we did get a few excellent's for the editing/video effects which clearly shows the ideas we have had for our editing/video effects prove to be the strongest of our ideas and that if we achieve what if we have planned in terms of the editing and the video effects they should look really good and effective.  

Centrefold- Better Off Alone

The song we have chosen for our music video is Better Off Alone by Centrefold. We took quite a while picking our song and originally planned on using a song by a band called Hinder. However the only problem with that was they are a copyrighted band and we thought we could get permission to use their song but even though we tried to make contact with them they unfortunately didn't reply so we decided to search for artists which aren't copyrighted which then led us to Centrefold. 

Centrefold

Click here to listen to the song!

The genre of the song is rock/alternative and the music video is going to be a narrative structured video which amplifies the lyrics and the genre of the song. The storyline of the video is quite simple, the main character has been cheated on by his girlfriend and in the video the character is shown to be very angry about this while his girlfriend is clearly trying to make him jealous and making it harder for him to move on from her.