More Extended Filming

On Tuesday morning we decided to film the scene in which Oscar's character jabs a youth in the eye with a cigarette resulting in him being arrested. We used a friend as the younger boy who is playing football where the criminal come to sit down whilst smoking; he is then hit by the ball which knocks the cigarette out of my hand. Which is all done with a many short-takes to add to the speed of it. The youth then goes to retrieve his ball but the criminal then orders him to pick up his cigarette with an over the shoulder shot which the results with him being poked in the eye with it.
To make the scene look more realistic we filmed a couple of extreme close ups of Oscar holding the unlighted cigarette an inch away from his eye because for this shot the cigarette will appear to be alight and his eye burned after editing effects which Ali has taken care of and looks very good. We then filmed another couple of shots of Oscar actually jabbing him in the nose with a mid-shot but from behind and the side so that it will look like its in the eye and we will edit the angles together to make it look as effective as possible.

Extended Filming

For our next scene that is to be filmed we had chosen to film my scene which was of me stealing a bike from a passer-by which resulted with him being in the road. Luckily we had finally found a bike that was available and so we commenced filming immediately. We had decided to film me walking down a street as a way of introducing my character. We had done a variety of angles of just that one shot such as a low shot and mid shot to see which would be the most effective. We also did a number of shots from the point of view of the recipient of the theft. We also had to do a number of shots from different angles during the part where I was stealing the bike off of him to achieve the most realism. This included filming low-shots, and some mid-shots behind my character. During the filming though we had an elderly woman complain about us because I was wearing my mask throughout this part as required of the film and she had gone to the police as she felt intimidated although she could clearly see us filming, but this just showed that the effectiveness of the mask was good.

Filming Day 4

On Thursday at the end of the day we stayed in 6th form to film our friend Julia singing/miming the verses sung by Beverley Knight in the song. We did this in the photography room as the studio was unavailable, so we cleared the tables and had Julia stand in front of and on a white screen so that the background was plain white. This way we can add effects to the background during editing with Ali's programmes.



We placed one camera on a tripod directly in front of her which was stationary at mid-shot distance and we had another handheld camera used which enabled us to do close-ups and different angles. Unfortunately we only had about 30 minutes to film because we were ushered out of the building by the receptionists because they were leaving themselves, which made it harder for us to get some good footage as it took a while for Julia to get confident. We actually sang along with her and danced behind the cameras to encourage her. I think we filmed a good amount of her as we have a lot of footage of her singing each verse so we should have a good selection of what to keep in during editing.

Before Editing Questionnaire

How do you feel about violent being portrayed in the scenarios?


How do you think that we can involve Julia’s scene’s smoothly with the scenario narrative?


How do you think each scenario should begin?


In what way do you think that the criminals should get arrested?


Do you think that the policeman should look traditional?


Do you think that the masks are effective?


How many scenarios do you think there should be?


Do you think that using special effects could enhance the film?


How do you feel about the video being cut down?


Which scenario do you think is most effective?

Filming Day 3

Today we were filming one of the scenarios with Francis one of the criminals. At first we filmed him leaving a block of flats as to film part of the very first scene as we were unable to do another scene of the bike being stolen due to not having being able to get a bike. For this the camera was based outside the door at mid-shot distance and featured him walking towards the door and walking past it eventually.

The scene which was originally the criminal jabbing a cigarette into the eye of a kid who runs into him playing football the but we couldn't find any children and so we had decided to change the scene and took advantage of national suit day as some people were wearing suits and found another actor Pete, to be filmed walking down a street on his phone and having his phone stolen.

We filmed him walking and talking on his phone at a long-shot and we filmed Francis (the criminal) with a variety of shots such as a close-up of the phone getting taken from Pete and a tracking shot of him running away. I think that the scene worked well and we had taken a lot of shots, which can be effective as they are from different angles although some would be deleted and we will start on the editing process as soon as possible.

Filming Day 1

Today we started filming some establishing shots, for the opening part of our music video to give a sense of where everything would be taking place, because we couldn't film with our masks as they hadn't come yet but they should be being delivered today so that we can start filming tomorrow afternoon, which will be the bike scene and maybe some more scenes as well. We also thought that we would add a scene of a church to symbolise the cleansing of the wrong doers in our video.

CD Sleeve Draft 1

This is the first attempt at making the CD cover art. The final sleeve will be designed after we have finished recording the music video. This one is designed with Photoshop and cinema 4D.

CD Cover Ideas

We have come up with CD cover ideas that have various designs. Some of the designs weren't including in the drawing process because we had more or less chosen which images we were going to include. The images we have chosen to use are the ones where four silhouetted figures are standing on a hill with a tree next to them which would also be partially seen on the back of the CD but would then fade into another image showing a flower and a knife representing peace and violence.

The title of the album is 'No More' which is also the same name of what would be the first single of the album. The concept behind this is that the lead single is called No More and the image is showing that people don't want to live with societies injustice and so they escape to the paradise shown on the cover. The other concepts we had looked at including on the inside of the CD case were an image of a man smoking, a policeman in a spotlight and one of the masks that will be used in our music video.

We have also chosen what the tracklisting of the album will be:

1. Tell Me
2. What Is It
3. Thunder
4. Rocket Storm
5. Fire
6. No More
7. Dove
8. Pimp Town
9. Corruption
10. Last Dance
11. Final Stand

How did you use media technologies in the research and planning stages?

During our planning and research stages I had used youtube to first to find out about the artist we were going to choose which led me to wikipedia.com enabling me ot find out information about the artist. This then led to our group going to Youtube.com individually to find a song for us to choose. I also had to use it to find the music video's so that I could analyse them.


We then had to goto Google.com so find the lyrics for the song. I also had to use Google images to find different images of Drum and Bass covers so that I could analyse them and see what the conventions of them were. I had to use a photocopier to get my different CD adverts onto Blogger.com to be analysed aswell as using it to copy the storyboard on so that it could be described and explained. Lastly I had to use Microsoft Word to print off the lyrics and write up a letter confirming the use of the song to the artist. I also used it to write up the questionnaires we did.

Storyboard

Below is our story board which shows all of the music video including the 3 different scenarios. Although this is the complete storyboard some things are subject to change.