Final video Feedback

Camera Work:

• Fits in with the style of the song
• Strongly narrative based
• Smooth, great shots

Mise en Scene:

• Good use of location and props
• Lots of variety of locations

Editing:

• Shot of perry at the locker talking didn't fit very well, thought he was singing but out of sync.

Performance:

• Well acted, although could have been more believable such as the ending. However this could show that he was not very confident.
  

Artist ( record label demand):

• More shots of Adam singing needed to make it clear.

Conventions of genre:

• Fitted very well in terms of love song, and genre
  

Making Of The Picnic Scene

Below i have found some footage that gives a good insight to the making of the picnic scene which is the first date the pretty girl goes on with the average guy. This footage has some funny bloopers as well and shows the thoughts we went through when we was filming this, like a birds eye angle of the picnic date, attention to detail and a wide angle pan of the scenery.

JOSH - PLEASE READ

Hi mate, its adam

How have you been?

You do sound stressed lol

The video is coming along fine, i just need to upload the work i have done so far onto the blog. I'm guessing you can't make the monday evening slot then if you can't don't worry about it too much i will be there though blogging like mad and editing like crazy.lol

would have uploaded it sooner but it takes a age to import onto a blog post, if you know what I mean

I will try and keep my phone on but with its shocking short battery life i'm not hoping for much

try texting or something

We do need to talk about filming extra footage sometime and talking over blog posts is a very slow way of doing it. If either Perry or Alicea are reading any of this feel free to try and blog talk to us.



See you Wednesday or some other time

Adam

ADAM - PLEASE READ

Hi Adam its Josh.

I have been trying to call you but can't get through at all! thought this was the only other way as i cant get into college at all.

How is the video coming on? Have you done any more editing or made any changes? If so, export it as a Quicktime and post it on the blog so i can see. I will try to come in again on wednesday to see it then if you cant but ill probably call you before. SO TURN YOU PHONE ON! LOL

Ermm, we need to talk about any extra filming and times and dates etc. Still working on it but ive got the media essay due and lots and lots of business studies as well as work on top. Man i sound stressed lol.

I'll hopefully see you Wednesday if not some other time,

Josh

Thursday 16th October- work done

In this Thursday media lesson in the first week the majority of the group has been away on business studies work experience i have been editing the rough cut from the point josh edited up to when he came in on Wednesday 15th. To give the group an opportunity to make any editing changes from major changes to minor tweaks i have save a copy of the work josh has done so far so i could continue on my own copy of the rough cut in case members of the group wanted to come in and edited from the point we finished editing as a group.

To show what the progress of my edited rough cut i have quicktime the work done so far on Final Cut Express HD so I can get feedback from the members of the group that are away. The black parts would represent footage that still needs work on and therefore could not be put in yet.




feedback on this from the members of my group would be gratefully received

Week One- work done so far

This week is the first week three members of the media group has been away on business studies.
Below I have done a quick recap of what has been done by myself so far as well as mentioning additional help from members of the group that have come in on their spare time to help while still doing they work experience.

Monday 13th:
In the first lesson without the majority of the group, I gave feedback on the rough cuts of the music videos done by the other groups in our class as they also gave feedback on our rough cut. To give comprehensive feedback each group analyzed camerawork , effects, Performance/genre, Editing, Mise en scene and overall comments to mention any improvements they could include. Once this was done I typed up the rough cut feedback onto the blog and then imported the rough cut work we as group done on Friday the 10th.

Wednesday 15th:
In this lesson, josh came in during the day from 10:50am through to 14:35pm as he had spare time to carry on any editing to ensure the work gets completed by the deadline. He also helped me solve the continuity problem which Andrea spotted out which would have lost us marks if left unsolved. While Josh editing our footage, I blogged the method of solving the continuity problem and also wrote about the colour correction josh attempted after Adrea showed us how. After the lesson me and josh were allowed to work through our free period to brush up the work on the rough cut so far as well as progressing to the next scene of the picnic from finishing the locker scene and the library. This also gave me the chance to blog some more.

Thursday 16th:
In this lesson I made a copy of the rough cut so i could make my own attempt on finishing the music video. Another blog posted explains the process in more detail. I also started structuring the daft of part one (1500 words) in for Monday 2oth of October.

Editing tip from Andrea

After recent feedback from Andrea over the start of our edited music video, Andrea pointed out that different shots of the same scene see to have different brightness levels due to the angles we have been using and the position of the light. This caused continuity problems which were reflected in our editing feedback. An Example of this was the picnic scene date with the average guy and the pretty woman when looked back on after filming each shot had different shadows and shades of light.

To solve our continuity problem Andrea suggested increasing the brightness of each different shot. To apply this effect we had to highlight the desired footage and then click effects and then video filters to then apply the colour correcter from the colour correction tab. This then able to finely tune the brightness of the shot as well as the contrasts to create the lighting that suited the scene and could be easily recreated for every shot in that scene.

Rough Cut Feedback

Feedback of the Rough Cut

Camerawork:

• had some great shots
• when you half walk out of the door then edited well to flow
• locker shot cleverly done
• great use of panning with locker scene

Editing:

• good but transitions need some work
• lip syncing also needs work

Effects:
no comments

Mise en scene:

• good use of scenarios
• good simply ideas for outfits
• good involvement of using the guitars
• good locations and using props
• like the different locations

Performance/Genre:

• performances were believable

Continuity:

• the picnic scene had parts where it appeared that the bottle was teleporting

Overall Comments:

• rough cut is very good and can see what you guys are trying to acheive
• will look a lot better once finished
  

Rough Cut

Below is the rough cut footage of our progress so far in the music video

Behind The Scenes

While filming our video, we took out an extra camera which, thanks to Adam, came up with the great idea of behind the scenes. In my previous project which Perry was a part of as well, we had a behind te scenes, however in this one, becasue there was four of us within the group and a maximum of 2 infront of the camera ant any one time, we kept the camera rolling throughout the majority of the day.



This brought us laughs as we looked back on the footage and also revealed problems and issues that happend while filming. Also, we thought tis was great because it showed exactly how we shot the film, the methods we used to shoot it and who contributed the most and what each of us did. An example of this would be the shot of the locker scene where Perry and Alicea ar having a coversation. This showed how we managed to hide perry in the distant sht and then appear as the camera pans around Alicea. (watch it and you'll see). This example also showed how we all contributed with ideas and who had what tasks like Adam was on the Behind The Scenes camera, i shot the music video using the college camera, as required, and Perry and Alicea were acting.



I have placed some of the BTS (Behind The Scenes) footage below so that anyone can see either to have a laugh or analyse our working methods etc:

Locker Scene Camera Angle Method

Another look at the way we shot our locker scene

Testing how we could shoot the legs close up shot

Leaving scene 1 to move on to Cineworld to shoot some more





Costume change (perry being a perve!)

Alicea dropping everything and Perry picking them up and dropping them again, being a gentleman, NOT!

A p*ss take of Alfi's video

Look closely at Josh....We wondered where Adam's clothes went to, they fell down a gap and we couldn't get them back! I think there still there....

Adam making a quick getaway to Boots for some food.

Our transport to get about each scenes

Walking back to the car from college

Overtime

Also, today as me and Adam stayed in class throughout the day we worked out how we can both contribute to the video at the same time even though we have one computer to edit on. This was that i carry on editing the video as Adam, as he likes to say, "blog's like mad".

We chose this way because i enjoy the editing part of the project and can do it reasonably well and quickly in order to get it done and Adam can then write about what ideas WE came up with on how to edit it. This also gave him the chance to blog any problems, gaps and other issues which will affect our video.

From todays editing, we found that there are some gaps in which we will need to shoot some more footage and perhaps some additional scenes where Adam is too plan tonight ready for next lesson and maybe another.

Another thing we did today was write out notes for a Call Sheet including costumes, props and locations where again we decided that Adam was going to write up a finished one. When doing this, because we will be reshooting some scenes, we had to consider any props which were seen in the shot, costumes which went right down to Alicea's wristband and lighting and/or weather such as the picnic scene. This will need to be carefully planned out so that we do not misuse this time and lose the oppertunity to finish any filming so during next lesson, i will go over the Call Sheet and double check with all of us that e can all attend and speak with our teacher to book out the college equipment when needed.

While Me, Perry and Alicea ar away

Today, me and adam took advantage of any spare time possible we had in order to complete as much of our music video as three of us including myself, have a business studies project and will be missing the following two weeks. However, because this music video is such a big part of our final grade, i will be trying to come into college over those two weeks whenever possible to help Adam with the editing. Also, as this will be the last practical part of our Media Studies course, i want to take the opprtunity to use the equipment and learn as much as possible because this is, i hope, the sort of industry i would like to persue a career in.

We have as a group worked out a plan to help while we are away and this included Adam publishing the video he has worked on on the blog so that we can see it and thegive as much feedback as possible so that we all have an input into this project.

Location change

Locations we were going to film at have change because of lack of permission and time management.

Below are the locations that have changed:

Restaurant date with business man at

Address: Pizza Express
7a Jesus Lane
Cambridge
CB5 8BA

has changed to:

Address: Frankie and Benny's
Cineworld
Cambridge


Jewelry window shopping with business at

Address: Grand arcade
Cambridge
CB5 8BA

has changed to:

Address: Grafton Center
Cambridge
Cb5 8BA

Bowling alley date with player at

Address: Cineworld
Cambridge Leisure Park,
Clifton Way
Cambridge
CB1 7EA

has changed to:

Cafe date with player at

Address: Cafe Nero
Cambridge city center
CB1 7EA

Cafe meeting of girl and business man at

Address: Starbucks
Quayside
Cambridge
CB5 8AB

has changed to:

Restaurant meeting of girl and business man at

Address: Frankie and Benny's
Cineworld
Cambridge

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Video editing session 2- Wednesday 8th October

Plan for today's video editing session
"Wednesday 8th:
we as a group, have a media lesson second period (10:50 to 12:20) time spend in that lesson will be on editing as well as the chance to work through lunch time and third period which me and josh have taken advantage of. This gives us a three hour and fifty minute window to get editing done to best possible standard "

What we have done in this session:
In this additional video editing session to involve the members of the group that will be away from the 10th of October onwards, Josh has been continuing the editing previously done in the first additional video editing session on Monday 6th of October. The editing work that has been done by Josh is finishing off the first meeting of the average guy and the pretty woman and started editing the first meeting of the player and the pretty woman which was filmed near the lockers.

While editing we noticed huge gaps within the edited work josh had done so far that was missing vital shots that worked well with the song and linked each shot smoothly. While editing was being done i took the oppertunity to note down the missing footage we need and plan when we are going to film it as well as updating the blog mentioning the process we are going through at the time and stating changes that we have made.

In Conclusion:
A lot of progress has been achieved with the first 55 seconds of the song nearly edited well enough for the rough cut.

Editing feedback from Andrea

Extract from a recent conversation our group had with media teacher Andrea Joyce

"After looking at the early stages of your editing for the rough cut deadline, I have noticed that your skills in editing have dramatically shown improvement since your last project being the thriller "Double or Nothing". As well as this the group has also maintained the signature humor that Josh and Perry have brought into both the thriller and kids TV opening sequence "Jungle Files"."

Behind the Scenes

We decided to use an extra camera to film behind the scenes when filming the music video so we could show the public the making of this video as well as the challenges we faced while filming that would of remained secret, or otherwise out of the public view. Footage of the behind the scenes is still in the process of being edited.

Time management of music video editing

Our timetable of the editing of the footage we filmed when doing the music video has changed because three of the four members of our group have arranged job placements as work experience for their buisness studies course. These recent events have affected Josh, Alicea and Perry contribution to the editing. In a attempt to help Josh, Alicea and Perry, me and Josh discussed the new timetable and have explained it below:

Business studies work exprience starts monday the 13th this timetable gets the majority of footage editing done before that date so our whole group doesnt lose marks on quality of editing or personnal contribution to the editing. Keeping in mind that the rough cut of the editing is due in on the Friday 10th.

Monday 6th:
we have a media lesson last period (13:50 to 3:20) time spend in that lesson will be on editing as well as the chance to stay after college hours, this depends on the staff's decision.

Tuesday 7th:
no media lesson and no oppertunity to edit

Wednesday 8th:
we have a media lesson second period (10:50 to 12:20) time spend in that lesson will be on editing as well as the chance to work through lunch time and third period which the majority of the group have a free period. This gives us a three hour window to get editing done in making it a great oppertunity to take advantage of.

Thursday 9th:
we have a media lesson first period (9:00 to 10:30)time spend in that lesson will be on editing as well as the chance to work through lunch time depending on decision made by our group and staff members.

Friday 10th:
hand in rough cut of edited music video

Hopefully this new time table gives the whole group a chance to work as a team to get the editing done so we reduce the chances of losing marks.

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Plan for Thursday's Filming

Thursday is our best day for filming as we have the whole day for filming allowing us to get alot of work done without distraction.

Below I have listed the scenes we still need to film (rough idea of what needs to be done):

• meeting of the average guy and pretty woman in library
• meeting of the buisness man and pretty woman in a cafe
• first date with average guy in the park having a picnic and walking along the river
• first date with buisness man at a fancy restuarant
• first date with the player at the bowling alley at cineworld
• shots of the average guy singing the song while playing acoustic
• pretty womans choice between the guys
• ending

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Wednesday Filming day review

camera was booked out at 4:10 on wednesday 1st october and I have review the progress of our first evening of filming the music video. Has been done in bullet points as it was done quickly by me before i forgot what happened. Basically each point is explaining the shot, techniques used and problems we came across and how we overcome them.

Filmed three shots in the Long Road Six Form Library
(when the pretty woman catches the eye of the average guy)

Shot 1:

• went really well, shotlist came in very handy
• filmed Alicea(pretty woman) walking towards the camera

problems with Shot 1:

• problems faced with doing a side on angle on the walk because it was unsteady and couldn't be acheive with the use of the dolly as the tripod could get low enough. Hence having Alicea walk towards the camera.

Shot 2:

• the other shot worked great with height advantage for the camera which covered all the areas needed for the actors to work in.

problems with Shot 2:

• no problems with that apart from finding the right angle with enough height and distance to have the whole location in the background as me and Alicea acted in the foreground.

Shot 3:

• final shot in the library with the final shot of the average guy singing after the pretty woman passes him by.
• this went well after testing diferent angles to filming in. the end result worked well.

problems with Shot 3:

• problem was lip synching at times but was overcome by playing the song in the background to make it work better with trail and error improving the overall performance of the lip synching

Filmed three shots outside the lockers of Long Road Six Form College

(where the pretty woman meets the cool talking player)

Shot 1:

• slight problems occured before hand with cleaning out my locker and making it look more girly using props such as a girl magazine and a pink folder
• great use of shots with rotating camera pan of Alicea and Perry acting
• get a great idea of a touch of comedy when perry(the player) pops up from behind the locker door after remaing hidden which works extremely well as camera angle has Alicea look more 2d making it more of a surpise when the locker door is closed to find the player there.

problems with Shot 1:

• use of dolly was brilliant but problems appeared when the dolly path was obstucted by other lockers to get the desired angles we wanted but was overcome with smooth steady filming by Josh

Shot 2:

• is a over the shoulder angle of Alicea looking at Perry asking her out
• is a refreshed new way of doing a close up of each character when they are interacting with each other

problems with Shot 2:

• slight problem with shot bloopers but was avoided by trail and error technique until we created a impressing angle to portray the view Alicea has

Shot 3:

• final shot outside lockers showing Perry(the player) give Alicea his number, done well with good acting and body language with no on screen bloopers when it came down to filming
• camera angles was mid range to show reaction of both characters as they acted and looks realistic enough to work

problems with Shot 3:

• none simple shot required no talking

Filmed three shots of Jewellery shopping

(Alicea goes shopping after a date with Josh(the buisness man))

Shot 1:

• Josh walks Alicea home through a shopping mall after a date
• test footage of corridor filming technique worked brilliantly here as Josh and Alicea walk towards the camera.
• Walking talking to each other, telling jokes for the purpose of body language between the two (as diegetic sound will be muted for the song) and sharing eye contact to maintain the illusion of romance we are trying to create

problems with Shot 1:

• main problem here was strange looks from the general public, didnt stop us that much and planning a route for Josh and Alicea to walk so they were close enough to the jewellery store as well as a route good enough for the dolly to follow and film them. Final route chosen made the bullet points above appear much better, in my opinion.

Shot 2:

• Alicea grabs josh's hand and drags him towards a jewellery shop
• Camera angle used was a mid range shot of the both of them with the dolly following them side on and then behind them as they looked at the jewellery leading onto the next shot nicely

problems with Shot 2:

• problem here was one only as a member of the public walked in front of the camera while filming. We decided to use this to our advantage of him being a extra that made this shot more realistic. A decision to mention his contribution to this music video in the credits is still undecided.

Shot 3:

• in the final shot showing Alicea and Josh both pointing out peices of jewellery they like
• this was done with a close up of a over the shoulder camera angle so we could get the outline of both Josh and Alicea in their characters pointing out the jewellery they like. This worked well as the detail we got of the jewellery was incredible

problems with Shot 3:

• this shot was accomplished with no problems and was done in one take.

I think thats conclude our progression of the music video in the first night of filming

thanks for reading

Blog Feedback

Today, we analysed each groups blog to give both positive and negative feedback in order to help them improve their final music video. Below we have placed the feedback we received about our blog:

Are there any types of post that are missing from the blog?

More video to portray our intentions for this music video.

Is there evidence in the blog of completed background research,locations, equipment, organization and developed ideas from initial concept?

The Joe Brooks research
the character
the planning the camera hire
lots of information and research- good stuff you guys are great

Does Our Blog effectivly portray the end result of our media video?

Media Deadlines: Final Hand In

Final Part One and Two hand in

due on Moodle:
Monday, 26 November , 09:00 AM



Final Both Parts:

Final full version of essay. This is the final version for submission. If you do not upload anything here, it will be assumed that your earlier version is for submission as it stands.

Media Deadlines: Draft of Part One and Two

Full draft of both One and Two

due on Moodle:
Monday, 12 November, 09:00 AM

Full draft of part One and Two:
(roughly 3000 words)
first part (hopefully amended in the light of teacher comments) should be here with part 2

Draft of Part Two:
(roughly 1500 words)
(including about 500 for the last part on the industry)

Feedback criticism
What feedback did you get at the rough cut stage and how did you change things as a result ? Refer to what the class said, anything you got from youtube and from the video directors.

Analyse
Analyse the images and editing in the finished music video, paying close attention to characters, performance, narrative (or absence thereof), mise-en-scene and the ways in which you have constructed the video to sell the song. Make reference to Goodwin's aspects of music video as discussed in the introductory work. His list of points is available on the music video blog. Compare your video to the conventions of music video, referring to actual examples where possible. How did the audience read your finished video ? make reference to comments from class, from iCritique and from Youtube. If you got their feedback, what did the artist think of what you'd done? compare with real videos by the artist (see what's on youtube or their MySpace).

Concluding section:
the industry Make reference to the process of making a video in the music biz as outlined by Lindy Heymann or Jake Wynne. Talk about the process from commissioning through to budgets, planning, shooting, editing and screening on TV. Use the video clips from the talks to help you ! Talk about the significance of MySpace and Youtube to the music industry. Use the articles on the blog and any others you find to help you. What impact is new media having on the business ? How does what you have done relate to that ?

Media Deadlines: Draft of Part One

Full draft of writing part one
due on Moodle :
9am 20 OCT

Part one:
(roughly 1500 words)
Introduction
Explain what task you did for the AS production and how this one differs from it.(e.g. thriller/kids Tv,)

Research
Explain briefly how the work came about and what the tasks were. (Talk about learning more techniques for final Cut,analysing some real music vids and looking at student examples,talk from promo director, music range of choices, etc) Which band/artist did your group choose and why ? (give some positive reasons here) How did you ‘pitch’ for them ? (summarise briefly) Where did you get your ideas from ? cite actual examples as shown on your blog !

Planning/Time Management
What tasks had to be done in the research and planning phase? How were these handled and what could have been done to improve them ? (talk about storyboarding, animatic, organising places, props, equipment, people) How did the group come to decisions about approaches to the tasks to be completed? (what range of options did you consider and why did you opt for the choices you made?) What roles did the various people in the group take on ? Concentrate particularly on your role in the various activities. Talk about any test footage you shot. What did you learn from doing these tests and from the animatic ?

Filming/Editing
Write about the shoot. What went well/badly ? what could you have done differently ? Consider your early editing and how you reached the rough cut stage. Outline this process and discuss decision-making you undertook. What does the group feel about the rough cut ? What feedback have you had from director/ other students etc ? what still needs to be done ?

One Influence was....

One of our major influences was the blockbuster romantic comedy "There's Something about Mary" as it perfectly capture the picture of three guys going to extreme lenghts to impress the woman creating laugh out loud moments in the film. This is something we would like to acheive but without so much comedy as it could risk ruining the mood of dates.

The Plot: A high-schooler Ted (played by Ben Stiller) lands a prom date with his dream girl Mary (played by Cameron Diaz), just to have it cut short by a painfully humiliating zipper accident. Thirteen years later he's still in love with her. On the advice of his best friend Dom (played by Chris Elliot), he hires a private detective called Pat Healy (played by Matt Dilon) to track her down. Healy finds that she is an orthopedic surgeon living in Miami but falls in love with mary and resorts to lying and cheating to win her heart. Tucker, however, also turns out to be a fraud himself, who is also in love with Mary and drives potential rivals ,including a man named Brett who she almost married away by slander.

Ted drives down to Florida and seems to have won Mary's love when an anonymous letter exposes his link to Healy. While Ted confronts Healy and Tucker, Mary is confronted by Dom, who turns out to be her former boyfriend Woogie in college. Having found out that Tucker also lied about Mary's former love interest, football player Brett, Ted decides that Mary should be with Brett, as Brett was the only one who did not resort to deceit to win Mary. After reuniting Brett and Mary, Ted leaves tearfully but Mary however chases after him, preferring him to Brett. The film concludes with the two engaging in a kiss.


The kind of thing we are trying to achieve for this influence:

The way this next video has been done is almost exactly the kind of shots, effects and kind of scenes we are trying to create and has been done by taking scenes of the film and mixing them together to "Girls all the Bad Guys Want" by Bowling For Soup. This is a brilliant example of want we are trying to achieve.

The Acting Cast

The acting cast are the people that will be playing the main characters of the music video, below is a brief introduction of each person of the acting cast.

Perry Noble
Perry Noble will be playing the jock/ the player in this music video and has been doing media at long road for two years so far. Perry has also been acting as himself in two other media projects, one being " The Jungle Files" as a Australian TV presenter with co-presenters Jack Story and Josh Carter for the kids TV introduction below is the opening video.



Perry has also starred in "Double or Nothing" playing as the unlucky nervous card player who loses his cool in a high stakes poker match against king ping Mr Lee (played by Adam Roberts) with the smooth dealer(played by Jack Story) and serious player Mr Carter(played by Josh Carter) going all out to ruin Perry's characters chances of winning.



Alicea McKirdy
Alicea McKirdy will be playing the girl in this music video and has been doing media for two years so far, recently joining group T2 from T1. Alicea work has also featured in kids tv introduction of "Justine Time" starring as herself in a group of friends with the ability to stop time to save people from trouble. Below is the introduction video.




Alicea has also edited in the media horror project " devour" and couldn't star in it herself as the character list required only one female lead character. Below is the video.



Josh Carter
Josh Carter will be playing the high rolling business man and has been doing media studies for two years. For his kids TV introduction Josh co-starred with Perry Noble and Jack Story to produce a Australian version of "The Really Wild Show" called "The Jungle File" with the twist of comical relief by playing the friendly leaf. Above the video has been show.

Josh's other media project was the tense thriller called "Double or Nothing" a remix, revamp view on the modern James Bond movies.

Adam Roberts
Adam Roberts will be playing the nervous average guy and has been doing media studies for two years. Adam was previously in group T2-53 and starred in a kids TV introduction to "N00b to This" about a larger than life happy group of friends that help children learn numbers and letters while getting into mischief. Below is the video



Adam also starred in horror flick "Double Or Nothing" playing king ping Mr Lee who tightens his hold over the unlucky card player (played by perry noble) who loses alot more than he bargains.

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Costume Possibilities

The average guy:




Nice simple shirt or t-shirt with
very basic colors e.g. blue,white,red
something an average guy might wear.




Bootcut blue jeans, again very
simple but smart. The jeans
could even be tattered or even
torn.




Brown, black or white trainers very
simple and maybe looking abit tatty.





The player:

Polo top or shirt with big name like
ralph lauren or fred perry showing
that he cares about his appearance. stripes
down it giving it the rugby look.








Smart jeans with designer make
dark blue or grey with topman
belt.





Smart fred perry shoes white with
some red and blue on them.







The buisness man:


Very smart suit black, brown or grey with
or without tie and some leather shoes.
This suits tells the audience that he cares
way to much about his appearence for
a date.

The Test Footage

Test Footage

As i intend to persue a career in the film industy, I have been doing deep thorough research towards it such as the jobs roles, tasks, responsibilities, qualifications, equipment, techneques, and even industry terms. This has proven to be a great benifit to our group in many ways for example camera techniques, methods of editing and use of equipment such as the dolly.

Yesterday, as we were taking out the camera and tripod, i suggested we took the college dolly as well to carry out some test footage. Through this, we found that the dolly provides a excellent steady shot on smooth flooring but unfortunately not on carpet, grass or pavement.

This could prove to be a problem when it comes to shooting some of our scenes however we will have to improvise to gain the best looking and most professional footage possible.

To the right is a picture of the dolly in which we used and are going to use in our video to creat moving shots.

With this test footage, we also had a go at different camera angles and camera movement which we could choose to use in our video. This gave us a very good idea of which ones look professional and ones that don't along with bad quality ones and ones that attract the attention of the viewer to the camera which is something we need to avoid in order to produce a good music video.

Planning the camera hire

I gave the permission slip to rent the camera out back to my teacher meaning we could now work out a time and date when we can use the college camera.

Yesterday, we decided as a group that we are going to rent the college camera from Wednesday 1st October at 4:10pm through to Friday 3rd October at 9:00am. we chose this time as it seemed to suit everyone the best giving us maximum time with the camera. We looked at using over a weekend but it worked out we would have had less time togeth menaing it could have caused problems. This way, we have all of thursday, apart from one lesson, where we will film the day scenes. Then during the night to film night scenes where we have nights with the camera.

In addition to the camera, we have chosen to use the camera tripod and the college dolly in which we think will come in very hand as we have many moving shots within our music video. This will be the first time using the dolly because we didn't think to ask if the college had one when film our previous projects.

Links to more information about Joe Brooks

Below are some links we followed to get our background information about Joe Brooks and have been posted on this blog to give you more of an insight about the artist we are covering.

Joe Brooks Myspace

(Joe Brooks myspace picture)

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=10656908

















Joe Brooks Oficial website

(Joe Brooks Oficial Website Picture)

http://www.joebrooks.co.uk/

Camera Allocation - Teacher Post

Make sure you discuss and plan your filming times now. You can start filming next week, assuming you have returned your signed camera loan letter.
Cameras can be used in your usual class blocks (just for that hour and a half), in addition groups can book out either one weekend (Fri 16.10 - Mon 9am) or two overnights during the week (excluding Friday night, for example Tuesday 16.10 to Thursday 9am).
There are around 60 music video groups and nowhere near 60 cameras! Book your camera slot as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

Anamatic

Description Of Each Shot Picture (NOT a shot list, this isn't our shot list just the written version of the anamatic above)

Shot: 1
Info: Pretty girl walks into the library.

Shot: 2
Info: While looking through books she bumps into the average guy.

Shot: 3
Info: They chat for a while and agree on a date.

Shot: 4
Info: The pretty girl goes on lunch alone and catches the eye of the buisness man.

Shot: 5
Info: As the pretty chats with the buisness man, the average guy looks on from outside in confusion.

Shot: 6
Info: The average guy sees the pretty girl again at the gym talking to the player, as he starts a game of rugby, the average guy remains puzzled.

Shot: 7
Info: On the day of the date the pretty girl looks into a mirror as she gets ready.

Shot: 8
Info: The mirror reflection then turns to the average guy, singing the song and also getting ready.

Shot: 9
Info: The mirror reflection then turns to the player who winks into the camera while posing as he gets ready.

Shot: 10
Info: The mirror reflection then turns into the buisness man who tightens his tye and dusts off his suit while he gets ready.

Shot: 11
Info: On the first date the average guy takes the pretty girl onto a park for a picnic on the river.

Shot: 12
Info: They continue to talk as the average guy tries his best to make a good impression.

Shot: 13
Info: The second date is the buisness man at the fancy restuarant.

Shot: 14
Info: The average guy looks on admiring the pretty guy as she gets to know the buisness man.

Shot: 15
Info: The third and final date with the player is at the bowling alley.

Shot: 16
Info: The average guy sings in the foreground as behind him the player continues to impress the pretty girl.

Shot: 17
Info: The location switches to a table and a dog earred magazine with the pretty girl thinking about the three dates she has been on.

Shot: 18
Info: The final scene ends with the pretty girl holding hands with the average guy where they had their first date

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Locations of each scene

Location of each scene.

Restaurant date with business man at
Address: Pizza Express
7a Jesus Lane
Cambridge
CB5 8BA

Jewelry window shopping with business at
Address: Grand arcade
Cambridge
CB5 8BA

Park date picnic at
Address: Parkers Piece
Jesus Green
Christs Piece
Cherry Hinton Hall
location not entirely decided just yet

Bowling alley date with player at
Address: Cineworld
Cambridge Leisure Park,
Clifton Way
Cambridge
CB1 7EA

Library meeting of girl and average guy at
Address: Cambridge Central Library
7 Lion Yard
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
CB2 3QD

Cafe meeting of girl and business man at
Address: Starbucks
Quayside
Cambridge
CB5 8AB

final anamatic

Teacher Feedback

Your blog is looking really dense, well done. In terms of improvement some images would help to effectively communicate the mise en scene you are hoping to create. See if you can find some images of your other characters to illustrate roughly what you want them to look like.
In terms of feedback on your pitch you did a good job at communicating your idea to the group and your powerpoint was an effective way of doing this. Your idea is concrete and fits with the genre and lyrics of the song.
My only advice at this stage would be to consider a variety of shot types and angles to give the video variety and also to maintain the viewers interest.
Keep up the good work.

Shot list

shot 1: Girl walking.
Shot 2: Bumps into nerd at library.
Shot 3: Girl and nerd talking.
Shot 4: Girl needs Business man in restaurant
Shot 5: Girl and business man talk, Nerd sees through the window.
shot 6: Girl meets player at the gym, players runs from the changing room and sees the girl.
Shot 7: Girl gets ready to go on a date. Mirror shot
Shot 8: Close up of the geek
Shot 9: close up of the business man.
Shot 10: Close up of the player.
Shot 11: First date, picnic with the geek.
shot 12: Close up of date, geek singing the song.

Pitch

I have posted our pitch slide by slide below so you can get a detailed description of our final idea we have chosen:

Main Idea Character information

After discussing which idea to follow in more detail to present in our pitch, we have decided to use Josh's idea of three men out to impress this one girl. To give you a better idea of what kind of men these characters are I have done short descriptions of each below.

The Geek/ The Average Guy
This character who is also the singer of the song we have chosen doesn't have extremely good looks or lots of money and gets by on a average salary that pays for his small house. This character doesn't have much to offer the girl, but does have a great time with the girl on their dates, with his personality winning her heart in the end.


The Business Man
This character is rich and successful and is never seen in any other clothing other than a smart clean suit. The Business Man owns a fast car a big house with a salary to pay for both very easily. The dates he goes on with the girl are high class restaurants, posh parties and expensive spars with shopping spree's in the thousands. His money gives him power but his personality needs more money spent on it.



The Player
The personality of the player is smooth, sly and outgoing taking any measure to get what he wants. The player is sporty, the stereotypical jock type and his good looks always attract the ladies, unfortunately brings him to his downfall with his chances with the girl.

Idea research

Following on from my idea, one of the character is a geeky nerd. From one of our previous Media projects, we also had a geeky character in which we thought we could use in this project too. I have pasted the video below:



We thought that this nerdy character is a perfect example of the third character in this music video.

The Photo Album Idea, in more detail

hi there, my name is adam from the group here to discuss the photo album idea. A saying I once heard in a movie helps describe this idea much better.

"You never see pictures of bad moments in a photo album but its those bad moments that lead you from one good moment caught on a photo to the next"

It went something like that, i not that sure but it helps to keep that in mind while reading this to understand where this idea is coming from.

The idea plays a key point in the presentation and storyline of our music video as a technique to change scenes smoothly according to particular verses of the song. This method allows to keep the singer present in the minds of the audience while still progressing the storyline.

The storyline begins with the lead singer sitting on a sofa or a chair looking at a photo album, as he starts to turn the pages the audience starts to realise the song is about the girl in the pictures involve with our lead singer. Each picture or alternate picture takes the audience into a new scene of song, happy scenes with the happy scenes and etc. As the pages keep turning doodles and messages come alive on the pages, moving around the page. The song would then come to a close with the book being close as the girl in the pictures joins him on the sofa.


That was a very basic idea of the photo album idea in action with numerous things to consider. The photo effect can be seen in a cover of Air Traffic's "Shooting Star" by a previous long road media group, so we know its possible but remains a time consuming progress to make the transactions between shots close to perfect.

Another effect mention above was the doodles coming to life on the page, this effect can be acheive much more easily with a short clip of a flip book in action. Another method for this effect is using apple software "istopmotion" to capture each drawing separately before putting them all together. This method simular to the one used for "The Simpsons" is much more detail that the first method to recreate this effect but much more time consuming as a result of this.

Because of all of the technical issues involve with this idea, it remains a idea.

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Another Idea

I have come up with an idea which is more of a storyline idea rather then a editing idea. This includes three complete different male characters, one a business man, another a player who always gets the lady's and a third, a geek/nerdy character. Also, a female character as the song is about a man trying to attract a woman. I took the film budget, locations and characters into consideration when i thought of this idea.

The story to the idea was that the woman dates all three men, the business man buys her loads of jewellery, the player is really attractive and the geek has a great personality but cant offer anything else. Then further on in the video, the business man and the player lose her interest such as treating her badly, cheating etc and the video ends with her choosing the geek over them all. The moral is basically 'it's not all about money or looks'

I thought that this was a good idea because some of the lyrics in the song state "I'm no superman, I hope you like me the way i am". This meant that the film would relate to the song lyric and also to the type of song it is. (love song?)

Also, this idea is not too expensive and can be filmed quite easily IN Cambridge such as in a restaurant, bowling alley and other places in Cambridge. Where the jewellery idea comes in, this can simply be a shot of a jewelers window showing the woman and the business man shopping so therefore no jewellery i necessary.

Initial Ideas

We struggled to come up with any sort of decent idea for this song but I have briefly described the small editing idea we did come up with below:

We thought that it would look impressive if we include some sort of picture in picture motion within our video. This idea was influenced by a video we saw on Youtube which was made by a group in Long Road College. This video is shown below:



The main bit in which we want to attempt in our video is 33 seconds into this video. We think this idea would help our video stand out from others meaning that viewers would remember it which is what we want. It would also give a professional touch to it as well.

We are still in the process of coming up with storyline ideas but it is proving harder than we thought. We have one main part which is the video has to be to do with a male and female character as it is going to be a love story.

The song we chose

We narrowed our choice of songs down to two, one of which was Superman by Joe Brooks and another was Curbside Prophits by Jason Mraz. After listening to them both over and over to come up with video ideas, we found that Superman came out with more and better ideas so therefore we have chosen Superman by Joe Brooks.

A little more about Joe Brooks

"At the age of 15 I picked up my first guitar, although old and battered, with a sound that can only be described as dodgy, it proved to be a spark for new inspiration. As a self-taught guitarist, I began by experimenting with my own tunes, whatever sounded good at the time I guess. My inability to read guitar music provoked the creation of new, unique sounds, oh and duff note after duff note.


However, it was a year down the line when I discovered an ability I was unaware existed. I began accompanying the strumming with vocal melodies heavily inspired by an early Jack Johnson in Brushfire Fairytales. Simple yet wonderfully mind-blowing. Lyrically there was to be no stronger influence than the genius of Ben Harper, his words tailored to capture every emotion.


Over the years, what was once a dead-end hobby, has grown to become part of a much bigger dream. One that I will work endlessly to achieve.

Teacher Post - What your pitch should include

All groups must produce and present a pitch as an integral part of the planning stage. Your pitch is a proposal for your music video to the record company thinking of hiring you:
It must include:

* A clear written summary of the content/key idea for the video (at least 500 words). The summary should include a reference to performers, locations, props, target audience for the video, reference to research conducted on the band, genre of the band and the song, relationship between the music and the visuals, relationship between the lyrics and the visuals, if the video will conform to or oppose the generic conventions of videos within that genre of music

* 2-4 (embedded) actual music videos which you think are similar to yours or that contain something that has influenced your idea (plus analysis, use Goodwin’s framework for analysing music videos)

* 2 (embedded) student videos which you think are similar (plus analysis)

* 4-6 Images which indicate location choices, overall mise en scene, costumes, props


If there is more than one group pitching for the same song, ensure you have a back-up choice and also try to make your pitch memorable.

Lyric Sheet

Below i have pasted the lyrics to the song we have chosen:


There are no words, to paint a picture of you girl
Your eyes, those curves, it's like you're from some other world
You walk my way, oh God is so frustrating.

So why do I disappear when you come near,
It makes me feel so small,
Why do I blow my lines, most every time,
Like I got no chance at all,

If I could be your superman,
I'd fly you to the stars and back again.
'cause everytime you touched my hand,
You feel my powers running through your veins.
But I can only write this song,
And tell you that I'm not that strong.
'Cause I'm no superman, I hope you like me as I am, oh yeah, aladadadadi

It aint no lie, I have to tell you how I feel,
cause Each time, I try it gets a little more unreal,
you walk my way, oh god its so fustrating

So why do I disappear when you come near,
It makes me feel so small,
If I could read your mind,
Girl would I find, any trace of me at all.

If I could be your superman,
I'd fly you to the stars and back again.
Cause everytime you touched my hand,
You feel my powers running through your veins.
But I can only write this song,
And tell you that I'm not that strong.
Cause I'm no superman, I hope you like me as I am - ladadadi, woahhhh, woahhh, yeah, babadadadiii- ,woahhh, yeah

If I could be your superman,
I'd fly you to the stars and back again.
'Cause everytime you touched my hand,
You feel my powers running through your veins.
But I can only write this song,
And tell you that I'm not that strong.
'cause I'm no supermaaaan,
I hope you like me as I am.
alallladali.

Joe Brooks Research

Below we found a little description Joe wrote about himself and placed on his Myspace. We found this very useful as it provides us with things he likes for example retro clothes and Mustang cars in which we can use within our video. You may need to right click and 'open link' to get a better look in!



We took a look at some previous Long Road music videos along with some love song music videos on Youtube and found a few that we thought we could relate to. Below is a Long Road music video:



This we thought was a particularly good video because it is between a male and a female having an arguement and splitting up, this kept coming up in a lot of our ideas we had for Superman by Joe Brooks.

We also found this music video on Youtube which we thought was a great idea for a video in which we can relate to hugely: