Friday, 6 December 2013
Monday, 11 November 2013
Evaluation of shoot date
Today
we have done our Music video shoot of the song “Down the Road” By C2C the shoot
was successful with the outcome that we wanted. Initially, The afternoon before
the shooting day we were suppose to prepare and set up our set in the studio
but due to the previous group who overlapped their time slot resulting in my
group, struggling and found it impossible to set up the set that afternoon and
have to set the set up the following morning, which is the shoot date morning.
Fortunately, we mainly shoot against the green screen, which means we don’t
have to spend a lot of time on setting up the set, just only the lighting and
camera. During the shoot we rotate our roles, at first I started off as continuator
then change to cameraman and director. I found myself enjoy being director and
continuator as these roles allow me to express my ideas of what I want the
shots to be or look like, not that when I’m the continuator other people don’t
listen but when I was director and cameraman people tend to listen and to my
ideas and take to their consideration more. Luckily we did not face any problem
during the shoot, we managed to work as a team really well every member of our
team turned up on time with props that they required to bring. Our music video
is mainly focus on performance and silhouette, which means to make this music
video a success we need to find actors with other talents than acting,
fortunately, we found 3 gifted dancers, two of them are in As year and another
is in A2. Personally, I found filming these people dancing is the most
successful and enjoyable bit because we can see how hard they try and they
always surprise us with their cool dance moves. However, there is also one
particular scene where I wish it could be better that scene is the guitar scene
where the acoustic guitar is smashed by one of our actor who dressed up as a
clown. In this scene there is a lot of tension on the clown because we only
have one guitar to smash and we need to get it right at the first time round
otherwise the whole scene would be a mess. I wanted the guitar to break after
two smashes but our actor found it hard to succeed and he did it in 3 smashes.
Apart from those points, everything went smooth and normal as expected, and now
I’m looking forward to editing as we have a lot of post-production to work on.
We will have to use a lot of special effects, due to we shoot all of our
sequence against green screen.
Overall, I think I have learned a lot from the shoot in term of team work, how to prepare for our shoot, to be more responsible and learn how to trust people in our team, which these can adapt into our real life situation. Also in term of media production I learned about, which lens to used when. for example if we want to shot wide shot we would use 35 mm.
Overall, I think I have learned a lot from the shoot in term of team work, how to prepare for our shoot, to be more responsible and learn how to trust people in our team, which these can adapt into our real life situation. Also in term of media production I learned about, which lens to used when. for example if we want to shot wide shot we would use 35 mm.
Wednesday, 6 November 2013
First Session of Editing
Earlier today we have started our first editing session of our music video that we shot early on in the previous week. We managed to make bullet points of what we've done during 1 hour of editing.
- First to start off with we reviewed every clip that we shoot the other week, which this process took us around 20 minutes or so. We did not look into every clip in detail but instead we skim through it just to see which shot is where, in case later we need to find them then we can easily identify where they are.
- After we looked to every clip we then decided which shots to use and which shots are not, we only decide about this roughly based on the act of our actors' performances. Good performance we would put into good bin and bad performances we would put into bad bin.
- Then to make it more convenience for us in the future, we decided to label different shots inside the video to help identify which shot is in which clip for example within the clip of the guitarist we would tag the bit where he solos then we would label it "guitar solo".
- Following, we create folder of characters in the good bin. The reason for this is to help us find the clip that we want much easier next time round for example if we want a shot of the DJ wearing a horse mask we would enter good bin then DJ following by looking up for the tag that says Horse mask.
These process took us roughly 1 hours and 20 minutes to finished, which I think it's a time well-spent as it will help us to save significant amount of time next time we come to edit.
- First to start off with we reviewed every clip that we shoot the other week, which this process took us around 20 minutes or so. We did not look into every clip in detail but instead we skim through it just to see which shot is where, in case later we need to find them then we can easily identify where they are.
- After we looked to every clip we then decided which shots to use and which shots are not, we only decide about this roughly based on the act of our actors' performances. Good performance we would put into good bin and bad performances we would put into bad bin.
- Then to make it more convenience for us in the future, we decided to label different shots inside the video to help identify which shot is in which clip for example within the clip of the guitarist we would tag the bit where he solos then we would label it "guitar solo".
- Following, we create folder of characters in the good bin. The reason for this is to help us find the clip that we want much easier next time round for example if we want a shot of the DJ wearing a horse mask we would enter good bin then DJ following by looking up for the tag that says Horse mask.
These process took us roughly 1 hours and 20 minutes to finished, which I think it's a time well-spent as it will help us to save significant amount of time next time we come to edit.
Thursday, 31 October 2013
Shooting Schedule
Time
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Shot no.
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Shot description
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Characters
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Prop
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09:00 - 09:30
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1
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Over the shoulder looking
at keyboards
|
Sebastian Walters
|
DJ decks -
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2
|
Panning shot looking at
his face then moving down towards the decks
|
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3
|
Wide shot with everything
in
|
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4
|
Extreme close up of Seb's
eyes
|
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5
|
Close up of decks so that
it fits to the screen
|
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6
|
Mid shot of Seb on decks
|
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09:40 - 10:10
|
7
|
Wide shot
|
Max Melhuish
|
Key boards
mask
|
8
|
Over the shoulder
|
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9
|
Close up - panning shot
moving across the key board
|
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10:30 - 11:10
|
10
|
Close up of the guitar
|
Mike Asaturov
|
Guitar
Hat
|
11
|
Wide shot of him play
|
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12
|
Slow motion close up of
string (while being played)
|
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13
|
Panning over the head
shot looking down at him playing guitar
|
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14
|
Panning wide shot
|
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15
|
Filming wide shot of him
facing the other direction (back towards camera
|
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360 shot
|
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11:10 - 11:40
|
16
|
Mid shot of him dancing
|
Brandon Koen
|
White mask
|
17
|
Close up of his feet
|
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18
|
Slow motion wide shot
|
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19
|
Crane shot moving around
him dancing
|
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20
|
Wide Shot from the side -
wearing zebra mask
|
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11:40 - 12:10
|
21
|
Wide shot of him doing
the flip from two different angles
|
Deyo
|
White mask
|
22
|
Slow motion wide shot
|
Deyo
|
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23
|
Low angled shot of him
moving over the camera
|
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13:10 - 13:40
|
24
|
Shots of them dancing
together
|
Kalvin
Deyo
|
White mask
|
25
|
Wide shot of Kalvin
|
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Wide shot of Deyo doing
the flip from two different angles
|
Kalvin Deyo
|
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26
|
Panning shot of him
dancing around the camera
|
Kalvin
|
||
27
|
Crane shot looking down
at him
|
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28
|
Slow motion of his feet
moon walking
|
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29
|
Panning shot moving
around him dancing
|
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13:40 - 14:10
|
30
|
Crane shot of him
juggling balls
|
Alastair Brook
|
Coke cans
Juggling balls
guitar
|
31
|
Crane shot of him
juggling coke cans
|
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32
|
Close up of Alstairs face
while he smashing guitar
|
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33
|
Panning shot moving down
his face showing his costume and makeup
|
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34
|
Wide shot of him smashing
the guitar
|
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35
|
Low angled shot of guitar
being smashed on the floor
|
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36
|
Slow motion shot of
guitar pieces flying into the air
|
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14:10 - 14:45
|
37
|
Extreme close up of Pauli’s face singing
|
Paulina Keller
|
Mic
|
38
|
Crane shot showing her
dancing around and singing in the mic
|
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39
|
Wide shot of Pauli
|
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40
|
Panning shot moving
around her showing a wide shot of her singing
|
|||
41
|
Extreme close up of her
eyes in the camera
|
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42
|
Close up her feet
|
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14:30 - 13:10
|
43
|
Close up of her face -
looking at her eyes
|
Lucy Gavan
|
|
44
|
Wide shot of her blowing
bubble gum - sitting in a doll like position
|
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45
|
Dancing around like a
girl licking the lollipop
|
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46
|
Crane shot of her dancing
around with the sparklers
|
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47
|
Both blowing bubble gum -
sitting on chairs
|
Lucy and Pauli
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