DVD Cover ideas

Some ideas for the DVD cover is a complete black background with a spotlight on it, with a picture from the video and our makeshift font, with information on the back.
Another idea is to have the pictures from our website idea and to have them on the front of the cover, again with the information on the back.

stuff still to do

We still have to add many clips as we are still filming, so as soon as we have the clips we adding it as we go. We still have to finish of the website home page for the band and the evaluation questions which will also need to be filmed and edited, which is going to take time to complete.

Change of cast

We have had to re-shoot some of the video due to the change of the cast. Originally we had Piers as the geek in the early days of filming, but it has now changed to Lewis, a member of our media class. We also needed a drummer, our original one, Joelly is no longer able too, so I have had to replace her as the drummer. Gina is a guitarist and Charlotte is mostly behind the camera doing most of the filming. We still put in equal input about the direction of the video to see what is the better idea or the better shot. Luckily, both Adams are still able to film. We are continuing filming tonight and hopefully finishing the band shots.

Website pictures

These are the pictures we are going to use on the website. They include pictures of te band, the video, performance shots and even some pictures that 'fans' have taken themselves. This is so the 'fans' and audience feel part of the band.

Backstage video editing cont.

I have made a few adjustments to the backstage video, for instance, croping the clips and inserting it into random places with the spotlight song in the background. We will have the evaluations after the backstage footage.

This is part of our editing, this shot is during the first band performance, when the geek meets the band.
This is part of the process of editing including some of the transitions we are going to be using.
Also it shows how much we have dont towards the editing so far. Some of these pictures are going to be used on our website which is going to be the final peice with our coursework. With this we are also doing a backstage video that will be part of our evaluation, also we are going to include some written text to go with it this is so we can explain most of the points that we miss out while speaking as we are going to do it sponteously (no script.) We did a backstage video for last years production piece which we may put on the blog as en example of our work. We choose to do a backstage video because when we did it last year, me and charlotte did the backstage video while filming and then did three intense days of editing.

Editing

Today we started editing we also started the backstage footage as well as our main video. We still need to do more filming to fill in the gaps in the video, so we will be busy and hopefully get it all done by the deadline.

This is a picture of the backstage editing, with part of the resorce video, on the left, and the actual video its self on the right. I also inserted title slides in the the video like so:

HAHAHAHAHA - Filming day 4

This is meant to be part of some filming that we did the other day. When watching it back we realised that Adam (lead singer) did this cheeky litle smile that kind of summed up the whole video and it was right at the end! should be able to put it up tomorrow or at least a picture of it:)

30 seconds to mars videos

I have choosen to put these videos on the blog because, firstly there just really good videos the settings are amazing! If we had a limitless budet i wouldn' have minded filming somewhere like china! Also the shots used during the video are amazing. For example the second video is filmed in and around ice and ice burgs, to show the isolated surroundings it uses establishing shots that show the whole surroundings. This makes the band look tiny in comparison. This idea also fits in with the lyrics of the song.
I really like the beginning of the video shot in China. The High angle shot of the army before the song starts is a great use of framing that makes them look quite threatening but at the same time quite prestigous...

30 seconds to mars the kill

30 seconds to mars

More filming

Wednesday, today we did some more filming. We included doing some shots of The geek and the girl he likes (ella.) We shot some different things that were not in the storyboard this was so we could add anything if we ran out of footage or song. These shots included, the geek and the girl finally talking to each other. We also did some shots of the lead singer pulling the geek up when he falls over.
We did experience some problems during todays filming however when we were not allowed to use the hall or music block for filming, we then had to use the sixth form centre. In the end this wasn't so bad as it turned out to be quite a large space that allowed us to get quite alot of filming done. More filming to come...

EVALUATION - how we will be doing it

Our evaluation will be produced in two forms. One will be through blog posts, we will produce a write up in an answer to each of the questions. The other form will be through backstage videos with questions asked to each of us aswell as the actors. This will also be published on the blog once it is finished.

Filming!

Monday evening, Charlotte did some filming of the main band member, the lead singer with the geek. The main shots filmed included lots of different vital CU's of the lead singer (Adam) and M2shots of the geek (Lewis) and the lead singer. Using the actual song in the background helped ensure that the lip sinking was in time. Charlotte designed a dolly this meant that we are now able to shoot footage that moved steadily along without having the problems of movement in the actual shot. This also meant that we could continually film the actors without stopping, we could then film a lot more than if we had started and stopped during different shot.
The setting used, included the hall this meant that the lighting could be controlled and that there was a wide amount of space to use. Props used during yesterdays filming included microphone and mic stands that were kindly supplied by the music block. More filming will continue tomorrow when the whole cast is scedualed to take part - fingers crossed.

Death Cab For Cutie Homepage

http://www.deathcabforcutie.com/home - The 'Death Cab For Cutie' homepage is similar to the original homepage of MuteMath and the song we are doing. It sticks to several main, bold colours, black, white and orange with a few beige colours. There is also a very fifties feel to the homepage as well, there is a fifties microphone (which MuteMath use most of the time and also in the original 'Spotlight' video.), radio and TV on the page which fits in with the style of MuteMath. The layout of the homepage also resembles a fifties record cover with the 'paperbag' stlye of spikes at the top and at the bottom of the page and the circle in the centre.

Technology and equipment which we will be using

There will be a number of technology that we will use to shoot our music video. The most important will be of course the camera. This is a small hand held camera so is easy to take with us on location. We have had experience with it before so there have not been many problems occurring. However we did experience difficulty with the disc used, at times it seems that it is not recording but this was over come by making sure we upload the disc properly before filming. Another piece of technology that we are using is not to do with the filming but with the album cover that we will be producing. To make the album cover, we will be using the software Photoshop. We have all had to learn how to use this and at the beginning this was quite difficult, but we practiced and are now ready to complete our album cover. A final piece of technology is the lighting, for which will occur both at the beginning and at the end. We hope to use the school spotlights for the end to create a performance feel to it. At the beginning when a spotlight appears over each of the band members, again we hope to use the school spotlights with the rest of the hall pitch black, this will create an illusion of professionalism.
When it comes to equipment this does not just mean technology, for instance, for one shot we will be panning round the main character but we do not want to do this hand held. So we came up with the idea of the dolly. One idea for this was that we would take the top off of the swivel chair and attach the tri-pod and camera to the bottom. We already new that the year previous this had been used so we were confident that it would work again. By using the dolly we will hopefully gain a smooth pan around the character.