Filming

Filming is going particularly well so far, we've all turned up on time and a lot of the shots have taken not as long as we thought they would.

The parts to our narrative (in order) are as follows:

• The church intro - we see character 1 praying and then being followed out the church and through the churchyard by the man in the mask; his conscience
• The hit and run scene - we see character 1 in a car with a body on the bonnet after he's hit him
• Being followed - shots of character 1 being followed by the masked conscience
• Conscience death - character 1 kills his conscience and lifts off the mask to discover who it is

Storyboard 1

Storyboard 2

Storyboard 3

Storyboard 4

Nick supposedly 'filming'

We've all been together as a group when we've filmed but one of our actors couldn't do a Tuesday so we decided to film on the weekend. However, we all had things to do and it was decided that I would go with our actors to film the following shots. Thankfully it was a sunny day and we managed to get all the shots (plus some extra ones) filmed and finished!

Nick Filiming

We have a 'death' scene which is where the character kills his conscience because it's supposed to have been driving him crazy as he's being followed by it all the time. However, when we were thinking of how to film/edit/plan this, we just wrote down some initial ideas on what to do and how to do it:

Planning!

Whilst thinking about this 'death scene' we also wanted the character to unmask the conscience to see who it really was. The angle that we wanted this to be from was a worms eye angle and we got this inspiration from Quentin Tarantino who uses it quite a lot and he calls it the 'trunk shot' as it's usually in the trunk of a car. In Inglorious Basterds it's a point of view shot as Brad Pitt is crouched over a Nazi. For example:

Although Quentin Tarantino isn't a music video director we still decided to use or think about using this angle as it's interesting and can be seen as a POV shot. In our music video we've filmed our POV shot from the conscience and this is what it looks like:

C.D Cover

As part of this coursework we need to design and make a CD album complete with a front and back cover. In class we've been looking at different CD covers from different genres; for example Massive Attack, Nicole Roberts, Cheryl Cole, Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Ian Brown.

We had two sheets of paper with two different cover images and we analysed them. The cover images we analysed were:

Front Cover Album Image

Nicola Roberts: Cinderella's Eyes (Pop genre)

Front and back covers

Marilyn Manson (Rock/metal genre)

and

Back Cover Album Image

The Red Hot Chilli Peppers: (Rock genre).


We analysed each of the covers and discussed several topics:

• Why the artist had used this specific image
• If the image fitted the genre
• Was the image related to anything that had happened in the artist's personal life
• The font of writing
• The placing of the information of the record label and copyright signs
• Track titles (Red Hot Chilli Peppers)

We've come up with some ideas for our own CD cover. We drew them out roughly and hopefully they relate!

Front Cover Design/Idea

This is our first idea for our front cover. It's not very clear but it's a freezer with two people dressed in black wearing the white mask that features in our music video. This idea ties in with the name of the song we're doing; Frozen and we also wanted an iconic image that audiences would remember as it makes it popular and also it sticks in the mind. We looked at iconic album images in class and had to guess them. Here's the sheet:

It begins...

Storyboard Template

Our group have started to storyboard and in our last lesson, we went out to one of our locations and walked through what we would be filming in the song's introduction. Our first location is St Mary Redcliffe church and we chose this as one of our locations because our college is right next to it and also it's gothic and would fit right in with our music genre; metal/rock.

The introduction/first section is twenty seconds long and we have three parts and shots to it. The first shot will be of the church and the camera will be moving towards the door. Once at the door the second shot will be of the inside of the church and it is here that we first see the character who is praying at the altar and the third shot is a close up of their face.

Whilst walking through it, we split the twenty seconds up into three; the first shot will be nine seconds, the second shot will be eight seconds and the third shot will be three seconds. Whilst we were discussing this, the idea of a video blog (vlog) came up. We thought this would be a good thing to do whilst we're filming because then we won't forget anything which we would have to write on our blog, so we would film a video blog or 'vlog' and then upload it with maybe a few written lines to present what we've done and filmed.

Tilly storyboarding

GarageBand Logo

However, after we had finished the first part of filming (the church), we realised that the introduction wasn't twenty seconds long, it was actually forty seconds long! In Garageband we had begun to split up the song into sections so we could see how long each part was. (By section I mean first the intro, then the first part with lyrics then the instrumental bit after that and so on and so forth). What we were looking at which we thought was the second counter was actually the bar/beat counter. 

iMovie Logo

Thankfully we realised this after we had uploaded our footage which was of the introductory shots into iMovie. We then changed the bar/beat counter to seconds so we wouldn't make that mistake again! Because of this mistake we have to go out and film more footage for our introduction so hopefully that'll be fine!

Our actors consist of two of my friends who are both interested in acting. Me, Tilly and Nick all have two hours free together every Tuesday so that'll be time used to film with our actors! 

Questionnaire/Audience Research

Our group have decided to create a questionnaire to present to a group of 16+ year old people on music, music videos and the rock genre.

Our questions will be made up of 3 parts. One part will be about music in general; for example what is their favourite genre and what music genre they hate. The second part will be about music videos in general; for example what do they prefer in a music video, narrative or performance and the third and final part will be about the rock genre. Questions in this section will consist of whether they like/dislike the rock genre and what they would expect to see in a rock video.

Our questions are:

1. What is your age group?


16-18                 19-25                 26+


2. What is your favourite genre of music?


3. What is your opinion of the Metal genre?


4. Would you watch a metal video?

Yes No

5. If not why not?


6. What would you expect to see in a Metal Video?

The band
Fire
A Narrative
Female Representations: (please select)
                                                               Singers
                                                               Characters
                                                               Just to look good
                                                               Other

7. If other what else would you expect to see?


8. Do what you see in music videos and what bands look like influence you?

Yes No

9. If yes, how?


To present our answers, we made the closed questions into graphs. Here they are:

Question 2

Question 3

Question 4

Question 6