Completed Storyboardy

 My group and I all evenly contributed to create this storyboard which outlines the three basic shots - Wide, mid and close - and gives an idea of how our music video will look including the set and band positioning. We did this to give us guidnece to the cast when we are filming the music video, as well as also serving a plan as to how we will capture the whole music video. 

I took the role with Tegan to write the description of each shot, this includes the action, time, location, shot number, transition and sound. I also helped Adrianna and Bashy to draw the sketches which followed the description. 

Here is our completed story board. 

Shooting schedule

 Here is our schedule that we have created to help organise what we are doing on our day of filming in order to keep organised and to ensure we stay on track throughout the day. We have incorporated arrival times, costume changes, set changes, performance shots, and break timings. 

Advanced Editing Workshop 1

 In this advanced editing workshop, we were shown how to edit band music videos using a specifi editing process, techniques for syncing sound and video, and also the three rules for editing. This was demonstrated to us up in the editing suit. 

The process is the order in which we edit specifically the band music videos, first the performance cut, then we drop in the narrative shots, effects and finally colour correcting tools. This order prevents mistakes happening when we are editing on Adobe Premiere Pro. 

In order to understand the quality of footage, as well as to keep all the shots organised we use rushes bins. Inside rushes bins are many other bins which are labelled by the camera shot, and in order. This makes it easier to see the footage before dropping into the timeline.

Next we were shown techniques for picture sync and sound syncing. This is to ensure that the footage is in time with the lip syncing and the music being played to make it look as realistic as possible. First press 'I' on the keyboard and find the number on the timeline which matches the time of the shot, drag the video from the bin onto the timeline and pull the clip out before renaming the shot eg. 'wide shot'. To sound sync, first find the start of the noise and dragit to that point in the footage. Stack up all of the performance footage on the timeline to make sure its all synced. 

The rules for editing: 

1. Listen to music to help illustrate what you hear. eg. The singers face must be a close up for the first shot if the song, then a wide shot of the band to give the audience an understanding of the band members positioning.

2. Group your shots together. This stops things looking random and also avoids confusion and disorganisation. Shots can help us tell what should be seen next, for example, a close up of a bassists face as we see him look down at his hand, next shot cuts to a extreme close up of his hand playing the guitar. By cutting to the music, it helps illustrate what we are hearing and what we would expect to see to make sure the shots all flow together.

3. Follow the movement. Music helps the music video flow and adds movement through the shots. for example, we see in the extreme close up of the bassists hand moving up the neck, the next shot could be of something moving the same direction or way of movement. This is efficient for filming dancers and hand motions. 

From this advanced editing workshop, it has taught me helpful tips to ensure my band music video flows together and looks professional in order for the music video to carry a narrative to it. 

Call Sheet

 

Finalisted costume

 Here is the costume I have ordered from Amazon. I ordered two quantities of this particular colour, one for the first scene in the dollhouse, and one when destroying the set and discovering their own style and identiy which subverts to the girly stereotypes. 

Development

 We developed our campaign idea as a group to create this pop rock music video, we have created a stable plan by making storyboards, costume ideas, props list, set designs and casting videos in order to create a more in depth idea as to what the band will be doing in our music video. We had two specific targets to work on and develop. 

Targets: 

- Be sure to create and pay attention  to the destruction, avoid smashing things 

- Make sure you have enough set ups and shot configuration in both performance elements. 

Tegan and Adrianna worked on coming up with a list of 20 non sync shot ideas for the band to do: 

20 things they’re doing non-sync

1. Cutting up pillows and throwing the feathers

2. Spilling/Pouring/Breaking make-up on vanity

3. Jumping on the bed- (with feathers from pillows?)

4. Ripping up teddy-bears

5. Opening up and tossing the clothes in the wardrobe 

6. Standing on bed, graffiti band logo into the wall above, (over framed posters)

7. Vandalizing sidewalls

8. Drawing over reflection in the vanity mirror

9. The drummer could be “playing” on inanimate objects, (ottoman, bedside table, etc)

10. pouring /scattering/picking petals off the plastic flowers in the vase

11. Ripping pillows apart 

12. Cutting teddy bear head off

13. Pulling chandelier from ceiling

14. Spray painting wall

15. Red lipstick on the vanity

16. Throwing makeup on the floor

17. Pulling clothes out of the wardrobe

18. Taking frames off of the wall and throwing them

19. Over turning ottoman

20. Throwing duvet and broken pillows on the floor.

21. ripping them/ spray painting them

Bashy looked at configurations regarding the bands performance after the set was destroyed:

10 band configurations (Performance) after destruction/ during the bridge

1. All band members with instruments. Drummer on bed, guitarists either side of the bed, and the singer moving about in front of the camera, possibly kneeling. 

2. Just the bassist and guitarist jumping on the bed with and without instruments

3. Singer jumping on bed

4. Full band jumping on the bed with instruments and without instruments

5. Singer sitting on the upturned ottoman singing into the camera seriously, with the rest of the band jumping around on the bed behind them

6. Singer throwing clothes out of the wardrobe from the perspective of the wardrobe with band mates messing around in the background. 

7. Drummer being filmed from the front or from behind (depending on whether they are in the room (front or back)), and the other band members messing around and destroying parts of the room whilst the drummer watches - could do the same with any other band member

8. All 4 band members sitting on the ottoman

9. Singer to the very right of the frame, still closest to the camera, bassist to her left but behind her, drummer to her left but in front of her, guitarist in front of drummer and to the right of the drummer, but not blocking the bassist. All playing instruments, and then could all change positions. 

10. Singer lying on the floor, lip syncing, and all other band members in a triangular position around her playing their instruments. 

Finally I looked into configurations for the band to perform before the destruction of the set, this I found difficult to come up with as I struggled avoiding the ideas from being repetitive or edging onto being destructive in anyway. However I think the list of band configurations I came up with are easy to follow and will help us on set if we run out of any other positioning and ideas, here is the list I came up with.

10 band configurations before destruction

1. Lead singer lying on bed, guitar, and bass either side of the bed facing camera

2. Jumping on the bed, and band spaced around the room 

3. Band members dancing in the room altogether 

4. All jumping on the bed

5. Triangle formation of the band members 

6. One standing on the bed, one on a chair, one on a table, and drummer in the back

7. Singer and guitarist together while other members are in the background

8. All sitting/lying on the bed with the prop teddy bears

9. One member looking in the mirror and starts to ruin her makeup 

10. Another member looking through the wardrobe and starts to pull out clothes and throw them on the floor

Costumes

 For our music video, we include two costume chnages within the three sets. The first setting is a pink, barbie esk room to enhance a girly stereotypical bedroom, we will see the band in this opening scene in this room wearing long, prom like dresses to exagerate the girly look. My group and I are responsible to purchase these dresses from online webites and amazon, we will order two of the final selected dresses as we cut, rip and ruin the prom dresses in one of the scenes. Here is a selection of dresses I found which are suitable for the sterotypical girly girl image. 

In the second/third set, the prom dresses get destroyed and the costumes change into this rebellious, girl power esk outfits as they reveal their true identity and subvert to the girl band stereotype. We are going to ask our cast to wear their own clothes which still match our ideal image.

Here is our idea of how the cast will be dressed in the two costumes. This helps us to picture how the band should look in each set and to help us realise if it fits into our genre style and image. Our cast can look at this sketch of costume change 2 to help grasp an idea of what clothing style they should bring of their own. 

Here is three outfit sketches of our two costumes. The prom dresses exaggerate the girly stereotype style which we will rip, tear and paint onto before the filming begins in order to save time on set as the cast can quickly which into the same dress, but with a rebellious twist as the band start to re invent themselves as their own identity and image which subverts to the girl band stereotype. The second sketch shows the prom dresses while the band start to destroy the set and their dresses before revealing their true identity, and the edgy punk style costumes on the right. We can ask the cast to bring their own clothes which are similar to this brief as it will be cheaper for our group.

Props List

 Here is our props list which we gave to our set designer in order to show who is providing what to our set.

My contribution storyboard

 Our group was set the task to create a storyboard of our music video. I used our timeline to help me write out each camera shot/movemeent per shot. This is in order to help to plan our shot list to inclide the angles and camera movmemtn we will use in each shot of the music video. I wrote out the shot number, and the action which will be taking place at the specific time. I included the three most important shots, Wide, Mid and Close which will be taken in each shot. I was in charge of writing these details and descritions to the story board from the timing point 00:00 up to 1:56.

Rehearsal plan and edited

 We were set the task to film our cast for our music video campaign and film our cast video which I have previously uploaded. Our next objective in order to make sure our cast work well together and suit the part was to do a rehearsal altogether in order to practice for when we film our test shoot prior to our final shoot. This rehearsal was to experiment with a wide shot of the band performing the song, and then to do one long continuous shot while the camera moves angles and positions into close ups and mid shots of each band member. From practicing these basic camera angles and positioning, it will give the band an idea of what we are trying to achieve and also to see if their comfortable being up close to the cameras. 

My role in this rehearsal was to be the camera operator. I filmed these shots all on my iPhone Xr and then Adrianna edited these shots on iMovie on her laptop. While Bashy played the song out of his phone, Tegan positioned the members and guided me while rolling the recording. As it was a rehearsal for our test shoot, it gave the lead singer a chance to learn the lyrics and for the band members to get an idea of their instruments and arrangement in the band. It aloud us to see how they all look together and the image which we are trying to portray as well as allowing us to get a sense of costumes for them. 

We first shot the whole band performing the song in a wide shot, with the lead positioned center foreground, while the guitarist placed either side of her, leaving space for the drummer at the back. They lip-synced the song all the way through and then I did some close up shots of each band member and their instruments. We overall did about 3 takes altogether, two in a wide shot of the whole song, and one long shot where I moved the camera around the band members in close ups and mid shots. Once Adrianna had edited all the clips, here is our final result of the rehearsal. 

Set Desgin

Here is our set design for our bedroom setting. 

Advanced Lighting Workshop

 In this workshop, we  covered advanced lighting techniques in the film studio at school. We were introduced to the red head light and blonde light to demonstraight ways to make creative lighting techniques with photographic gel sheets, polystaring sheets and colour filters.

First thing to know is to turn off the mian house lights/ worker lights when oporating other lights. Turn them on when not using the other lighting to ensure nothing will break. 

The red head light was the first we were introduced to, it's feature is a netting over thr light incase ther bulb blows. Once you have chosen the lighting, set up the camera, with a 50mm mid length shot lens connected to a monitor screen and then place a model in center focus. 

The main use and advantage to the red head lighrs is that it portrays a warm light onto the set. once the camera and light is set up, adjust the exposure on the camera and move the camera as close as possible to the subject while in focus. First we were shown how to create key lighting. by putting a plasic, gell sheet of paper over th light, it softens the defined lines and sharp shadows to make a  softer light effect. 

To create 'Fill Lighting', set up another red head light in order to fill in the dark areas in the background  of the shot. To soften this light, put a piece of tracing paper over the light. However there is no defined contrast between the model and the background, so shine a blonde head light behind the model to seperte the model from blending into the darkness of the background behind. 

The next lighting technique we were shown called blade runner lighting. Firstly, turn off all front lighting and only leave the blonde lighting behind the model lit. Adust the depth of field on the camera setting to a shallow depth of field to ensure the modek's face is in focus.

 Using a polystaring board held up near her face, this bounces the light from the white polystaring back onto her face. To further soften the light, you can turn the power into the blonde light down. By using a matt box, this also will stop extra, exess light leaking into the camera and disrupting the shot. 

The next piece of lighting we were shown was fluorescent lighting. These tubes of light contain different colour gels. We then experimented by shining the fluorescent lights while using foreground and background lighting. Different colour fluorescent lights can portray different meanings, tones and moods to the shot and are highly effective. 

The final piece of lighting was Foto Flow lighting. This large rectangle light is good for shooting interviews as it reflects a sharp, warm light across the subject. 

From this workshop, it introduced me to new lights other than just soft box lighting, and also taught me new techniques and tricks to achieve a certain look and feel to the shot just by using photographic gels, lighting positioning and also by incorporating other materials to reflect the light. This workshop will be very useful when it comes to shooting my music video and to develop my ideas further.

Timeline

Here is our timeline which we created as a group to help us plan for the storyboard. The timeline shows what the band me members will be doing in each shot, and camera angle, at what time. 

Short Cast List

Here is our finalised casting list which we will re film as our call backs: 

Singer: 

Lottie Alford

Guitar:

Connie B

Bass: 

Cat D

Drums: 

Gina G

Incase we can't get these musicians to be in our music video we have also created a backup casting list: 

Singer: Connie B

Guitar: Emily B

Bass: Gina G

Drums: Neave VR

Cast List

 After running auditons and creating the casting video, here are the options for each instrament/singer: 

Guitar: 

Gina Gracia

Ella Watts

Ellie Previereio 

Matilde Damilio

Drummer: 

Neave Van't Riet

Emma Wright

Anna Cambell

Alice Silver

Singer: 

Abby Sparrow 

Arika Adams

Ella Overton

Lola Brown

Bass: 

Cat Donkin

Elodie Muncey

Casting video

Here is mine and my groups finished edited casting video. In our free time outside of class we auditioned potential guitarists, singers, drummers and bassists to cast in our music video. We filmed each audition and edited it onto iMovie.  

Advanced Camera Workshop 1

 In this camera workshop, we discussed the differences of fixed focus lenses, zoom lenses, and how to use a monitor. 

Firstly I learnt the differences of a zoom lens and prime lens. A zoom lens allows you to zoom and change the focal length, while a prime lens has a fixed focal length and cannot zoom in. 

I then looked at how the monitor works, its a large view finder which is connected to the camera. On the top left hand corner oif the screen, it says  the FPS and shutter speed. The shutter speed is used to capture the speed of the motion, so by changing the shutter speed on the settings it will wither capture a fast, sharp shot which is usually used when editing in slow-mo, sports, dancing and capturing perfomances. while a slower shutter speed such as 360 degrees, creates a blurred, dreamlike feel to the shot however it is less shakey and is a more smooth shot. But usually the natural setting on the shutter speed is 180 degrees. The FPS stands for frames per second, in the UK this is always going to be set to 25fps unless shooting in slow motion where this will change to 50fps. 

For our music videos, we will be using a prime lens as they have a fixed zoom and easier to focus. Our teacher showed us the box full of lenses, each lens had a fixed zoom which was written above it. We were also shown the tape measured technique in order to gain the perfect focus point. To do this we measured the distance from the camera to the subject, eg. 7ft away. From that information, we then adjust the focusing wheel to 7 in order to have a focused outcome. 

Usually for face shots in music videos, we should use an 85mm prime lens and for an establishing shot it is suggested ti use an 18mm to acheive that wide angle look.