Thursday, 20 October 2016

Album Cover Inspiration


Below i have listed three album covers which we are using as inspiration for our own. An aspect of the covers which we like is the simplicity with a block colour theme. The first two covers are of a very similar style with an image on an off-white canvas so it shows up on websites such as iTunes. This is an aspect we are going to include. We also liked the colour scheme of Roy Woods album along with the simplicity. The colour scheme is slightly dark for our band however the theme is something we will consider.





Wednesday, 19 October 2016

Dancing Inspiration


Below are couple videos, one from the 70's and the other from modern day but both include the happy vibes, dancing that we want in our video.





Social Media

Below is the bands social media starting with the Instagram Page, Twitter, Facebook and the Snapchat Profile.






Photoshoot


As a group we never officially set a date for one specific photoshoot, as the be all end all photoshoot of the band, whenever we were all out on location and i had my camera i would either be recording shots for the video or shooting pictures in-between takes.

I am a well versed photographer (going to study it at university) and can shoot good pictures on the fly; paying attention to the composition of the shot - where everyone is framed, levels of subjects, rule of thirds, focusing and manual settings.

So every time we were on location i was snapping pictures; at the avenue, in the playground, in the gym, during the smoke bombs scene, in the science - all of these places i was taking pictures of the band to get them in a wide variety of performances and styles with the mise en scene.


Below is a photo bucket that Harry made of all the pictures i have taken that are being used for the website.

harryhazell4's AVENUE album on Photobucket

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Monday, 17 October 2016

Smoke scene inspiration

The crowd and artist involvement in the nightclub parts of Tom Odell's Wrong Crowd video is what i aim to take inspiration from, obviously ours will be out on a field rather than in a nightclub and ours will be more of a low angle with the dancing crowd behind the artists.



I want the smoke to fill the screen just like in this gif :::


Risk Assessment - White Sheet Scene

Monday, 10 October 2016

Drama Studio Plan

Drama Studio

White t-shirts, jeans, hand prints (red, blue, green),

Casey Flip up transition - now into the Performance part in the drama studio (or other location) with the trio having different coloured hand prints on their faces (colour selection of just those colours on their faces, rest Black and White),

Midshot of trio again of singing, Keyboard starts - Extreme Low angle tilted up to hands playing the chords on a keyboard. High angle of someone hitting a drum on the snare beat.

Deadlines come and deadlines go - girl runs through a wide shot of the group playing instruments, she has a t-shirt on or a sign around her neck that says deadlines on it, maybe dances with JK and leaves when he needs to sing - and there's the pressure.

Break free and lose control - Dance moves, longshot

Different fillers of shit in the scene

Casey flip out for next scene

Risk Assessment - Drama Studio

Friday, 7 October 2016

Science Experiment Practice

Below is a video of us as a group practicing the experiment that we will display in the science room scene, as a filler, bit of action to cut away from the performance to.

We were working with Bicarbonate Soda and vinegar, testing the food colouring and its effect on the fizziness of the reaction of the baking soda.


Thursday, 6 October 2016

MTV Interview

Below is the MTV Interview with our groups band Avenue.

MTV Interview Script




Presenter: " Today i am at the school where it all started for the band avenue. Lets go meet the band."

Presenter: "Who are you? Tell people who might not know?"

Presenter: "Avenue is an interesting name, where did it come from?"

Avenue: Anecdote about where they lived. Lead into fan base in Iceland.

Presenter: "How is the music video coming along for your single Pressure?"

Presenter: "What type of visuals are we expecting from the music video which is coming soon?"

Presenter: "Final question. What is with the hats?"

Evidence of Filming - MTV Interview




Wednesday, 5 October 2016

Band Dynamic Inspiration




This is madness - Our House. The persona and the way the band acts is how we want to be. Its a nice and relaxed feel to there work. Also its fun and it looks like they are having a good time. Which makes the audience feel like the whole band us a good group of mates together and it makes it work well in he video. The video isn't serious and it looks like they have just pout it together randomly but this is what makes the video good. This is he sort of feel we want to give across and the theme of our song gives across this feel. When you listen to our song it makes you happy and its far from serious.



This is another Madness video which looks fun and joking. The way someone is sitting in a lock down a river then gets up and walk away with flippers on makes it look funny and feel different. Also the person running away from a Hurst down the road. Which would never happen in real life and therefore gives an unrealistic feel which makes it show the bands persona. The different people in different costume makes the video look like they're actually going to be like that in real life which we want to put across. Also when the band is in all the same outfits and are singing and dancing to each other gives off a happy and fun vibe. This dynamic come across well. The outfits shows they are together as one and no on is above the other so they all dress similar. All the people are singing which doesn't make one person the star. All of them are equal together unlike some other bands

Evidence of Filming - First Avenue



Practice opening sequence






Fifth Avenue Filming





Risk Asessment - Fifth Avenue Location

This is the risk assessment for our first day shooting on Fifth Avenue.


Tuesday, 4 October 2016

Opening Sequence Practice


This a practice of the opening sequence scene, we practiced the whole movement of the scene and the filming of it so we are prepped and ready to make the most of our filming day coming up.

Shooting Schedule




Written Video Plan

Close up over shoulder shot of JK writing out the band name and song, spin out transition.

Spin up transition (Casey Neistat) to Long/Wide Shot of the desk and subject/artist (JK) in the middle of the street sat at desk, JK’s head comes up once shot is still and starts singing the song:


Sitting at work on a monday morning then stands up and steps over the desk (or flips it?) and starts walking towards camera.


Spreadsheet files and Coffee Pouring Harry walks into frame with spreadsheets and hands them to JK and starts walking with him, Oli walks in also and hands Joe a mug of coffee.


Office work can be so boring JK chucks the coffee and files behind him. Still walking with camera.


But then there's the pressure, I’m under pressure. The trio stop walking, should stop at a midshot of trio shoulders and heads. On the first pressure oli flicks his head to the right and sings that to a new camera shot of him and flicks back to the trio midshot and then on the second pressure Harry flicks his head to the left and sings in his own shot and flicks back.


Casey Flip up transition - now into the Performance part in the drama studio (or other location) with the trio having different coloured hand prints on their faces (colour selection of just those colours on their faces, rest Black and White),


Midshot of trio again of singing, Keyboard starts - Extreme Low angle tilted up to hands playing the chords on a keyboard. High angle of someone hitting a drum on the snare beat.


Deadlines come and deadlines go - girl runs through a wide shot of the group playing instruments, she has a t-shirt on or a sign around her neck that says deadlines on it, maybe dances with JK and leaves when he needs to sing - and there's the pressure.


Casey flip up to a low angle shot tilted hup, wide shot of the guys standing on the mini hills/mounds of dirt (that are hopefully still there, behind the graffiti wall at the Essex Records Office) sing the chorus or next verser - revolution in my head
Red smoke filling background?
Props in this would be a pallet of red paint and a big paint brush, the people on the side can hold one of these things. Close up shots of these things, matching visuals with lyrics. Stand my ground = shot of feet on the ground moving about on the spot or
moving rocks.


Need to fill the little instrumental with something - Close up of certain parts of all the characters, arranging cuff, coming hair, close up on eye, shuffling feet, doing tie up OR this could be like a slow mo dance sequence


New walking tracking shot? Singing the next verse


Hot as fire cold as snow - we should shoot a part all dressed as scientists - lab coats, rubber gloves, goggles, tongs - in the science department, bunson burners and mixing chemicals, something to overlfow would be cool - 3 different colours interchanging, using the clone tool or something


Revolution - Dancing in science room


Revolution two -Sitting at a table (location = Gym) for first round, all smart and nicely laid out, chucks table cloth at camera - editing reverse shot table cloth comes back from camera scene is now messed up, would have to cut away to close ups to then be able to cut back to a performance
MAYBE MAYBE -  setting up narrative of going to the field, text message/call, could lower music during this, make a scene?
Spreading the word, whisper shots (Close up), passing word on.


I’m under pressure, pressure (slow bridge) - Big open field red smoke, group of people (maybe about 6), red flag of some kind, baseball bats, cricket bats, longshot walking towards camera - can do cuts to filler shots closer up to feet walking, flags unfurling, bashing bats etc.


There's a revolution in my head x2 --- Dancing and singing on the field with smoke

LAST Chorus - Cut together everything into a mash up chorus from all the locations

Storyboard Narration

Storyboard



This is the storyboard plan for the whole music video.

Tracklist

Here is the tracklist we created that would be used on our digipack when we begin making it.


Annotated Lyrics


Props List

Below are the props we will be using throughout the video -













Monday, 3 October 2016

Location Scout

Olly and I went to the locations that we were thinking of using for our groups music video and scouted them out and took photos of certain framings; mostly of the long shots that would be used.


Low Angle Tilt Up Shot - Location: Graffiti Wall
The picture shows how we plan to use the stairs at the wall to our advantage of creating a shot that is different to the general midshots and longshots that we would continually fall back on.


(NOT) Shooting against the Graffiti Wall
We decided after looking at the location that shooting against the graffiti wall wasn't the feel that we wanted in our video, maybe if it was covered in block colours or more artistic graffiti then it would be different but this "chavy street" look doesn't fit our video in our mind.


Shooting in a grassier area, a Longshot from a High Angle

This type of location really filled the frame but you can see the concrete space in the centre which would be useful as an easy space for the band to stand and do their performance.


(NOT) Shooting inside abandoned building


We decided that firstly this shooting location would not be worth the work when we could easily shoot somewhere else and that to be able to shoot inside we would need some lighting and a generator and working with a strict shooting schedule this could be hard to work with.


Shooting longshots around this cabin, as well as other shots closer and within


This area has some interesting scenery to play with within the composition of the frame, also if we shot at this time again (sunset) I thought the lens flare could be used interestingly.

 Shooting walking sequence down a road


I just like the symmetry that can sometimes be found down a road, of the nice framing that can be seen. We also thought of doing these shots down one the other avenues nearby...
As you can se this length of the road vastly improves the shot, giving that real sense of depth and as seen on the photo of the map we have six different avenues to choose from on the day that we shoot this location, so we can find the one least filled up with cars.

Longshot of group walking across field (red smoke)


This field with the lighter ground compared to the green hedgerows and trees and blue sky makes for a nice three colour spread across the frame and picture (even though the colour was going by this time, this shot at Golden Hour would be fantastic).

Other Locations :::













Permission Message

This is the message we sent to Tensnake the artist who created the song Pressure that we are using for our music video task. The message was to make him aware of the fact we are going to use his song and to ask his permission.


Sunday, 2 October 2016

Flip Up Transition Inspiration

Below is a video from the YouTube Creator Casey Neistat, this is one of his early video displaying a really interesting transition that combines filming/camera action as well as a slight edit.

I want to replicate this camera movement for transition within our music because of the combination of two different skills form the teams editor and camera man.

The transition is done by flipping the camera upwards/downwards/sideways really fast, whipping it into place creating motion blur of the image then stopping to capture the image and then whipping/spinning out again. This blurred image can then be cut (in the edit) half way and spliced into line with a new clip half way into there (beginning) spin transition. This creates a pretty seamless transition into a new clip of video, rather than just cutting to the new visual you as a viewer are transported there through a movement of blurred goodness.