Evaluation Question 4

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Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFqAKnQryCM

Today

Today I filmed the last shots, I refilmed the keyboard shots but instead used a piano. This enabled me to film at different angles and it fit with the music better as it was a piano type music.

Plan for today

Today Holly is coming round to film the last shots of the video. I will hopefully get it all done today and today I will be filming the night time scenes so she will be coming around 5:00 as this is when it starts to get dark.

Feedback from class

From my feedback from my class I found out:

The lip syncing is a bit off
She is looking at the camera a lot
Some shots are a little quick for a slow song
Some locations are a bit random
The black and white shots are effective
Shots in the car aren’t framed as well as others
Shots on the grass work really well
Singer looks a bit underenthusiastic, needs to be more energetic even if it is a slow song

Good syncing with piano
Locations get repetitive
Very repetitive
The piano setting is good because it looks realistic
Well framed
Singer looks realistic
Styled to fit genre
Lips could be more open

Good range of shots
Piano element looks good
Lip syncing looks good
Piano intro really effective
Singer really looks the part
Some shots cut really fast
Good lip sync
Use of white rose is good and related to song title
Good use of black and white effect
Hair and make up works well
The rose looks good
Black and white outfit looked a bit out of place
The piano shots look nice especially in black and white
The mise en scene is a bit too school
Some of the shots are a bit wide
Really good extreme close ups
Good dressing/ styling of character, looks very authentic
Could possibly have more action taking place
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Feedback of Video so far

I have asked some of my friends what they think of the video so far, I showed Mr Ford and he said that he liked it and that it was a massive improvement from my draft. He said that I may need to refilm the Keyboard scene because he feels she may need to be looking up as it shows confidence and shows she is a proffesional player. He also said that the field scenes work really well as it fits in with the genre. He also said that I may need to add more of the phone bit because he thinks it is a little random.
Feedback
Kam - I think that you have some good shots but do need to improve on other shots and think about the setting more but otherwise I think that the field shots work the best.
Karishma - I really like the styling of the artist because I think that it works really well. I love the field scenes as it looks really good and I think that she looks really confident.
Holly - I absolutley love the car bits but it's a little confusing at some bits because you don't know where the car is. I think that you definately need to fill in the parts which you haven't filmed.
Jaiman - I think that maybe the video needs to be more understandable and also I feel think that the styling is really good of 'Skye' as she looks really believable as an artist.
Leanne - I think that the style of 'Skye' works really well as the makeup looks really good and she has really nice clothes. She is really good at lip syncing but I think that to improve it to make it better.
Hope - I really like the car scene as she looks really believable that she is upset. I also think that the hair and makeup works well and it fits in with the song.

More Editing

First Editing of the Video

Filming

This was the location for the keyboard part of the video and this was what it looked like before and I had to remove my room around in order to get a better mise en scene and to make it look more simple.

This was what it looked like when I moved the sofa and the other things away I moved the keyboard around in order to get the possible angle and I started filming with this angle but after I felt it looked better at an angle.

This was the keyboard scene and this is an image of the scene. I had to make sure that I cleaned the keyboard before as it was quite dusty.

This was the car scene and I put Skye in the front of the car. I wanted the grass to show through the window of the passenger side because I felt that it would make it look more countrysideish so the car was positioned on my drive so it looked like the car was on the grass.

This was the field scene and I had Skye lying on the grass. I filmed in my garden as it meant that I could be more organised and it meant that I could refilm easily.

I filmed from different angles to make sure that I had a variety of shots and I filmed above Skye to get some  upside down shots.

Styling Skye

This was the first outfit that I put Skye in. I chose this outfit because it was very flowy and natural which is what I was Skye to be portrayed as. I added fake eyelashes to Skye as you couldn't really see her eyelashes in the filming. I added them as they were more seeable in the filming. I also curled her hair to make it more presentable and so it looked good in the video.

This was the second outfit for the car scene. I though that I would keep this much more casual as well as keeping it quite fashionable. I kep the top as flowing because I felt it brang the genre through the clothing. I added jewellery as it meant that it was less boring and I added dark purple lipstick as it meant her lips struck out and this kept with the idea of male gaze.

This was the last outfit that I put Skye in was a long dress as these are in fashion at the moment, however the dress wasn't too fitted so I added a waistbelt in order to show of her waist. Again the dress was quite flowing which meant that it was easy for Skye to move aroudn in.

Plan for tommorow

Holly will be coming round my house tomorrow and we will hopefully get most of the filming done. I am going to be filming the keyboard bits and also redo the grass bits as I feel the camera angles on them don't work too well. I am also going to be filming some parts in a car because I have been looking at videos to get inspiration and I feel that this works really well. I will be doing all of the night bits another day because Holly will be coming in the daytime.

Final Poster

Final Album

Weather Forecast

Plan for today

I am going into Lutterworth with Holly to start filming today. I am hoping to get the indoor shots done and I will be looking at costumes with her aswell.

Lyrics

Say you're sorry, that face of an angel
Comes out just when you need it to
As I paced back and forth all this time
Cause I honestly believed in you

Holding on, the days drag on
Stupid girl, I should have known
I should have known

I'm not a princess, this ain't a fairy tale
I'm not the one you'll sweep off her feet
Lead her up the stairwell

This ain't Hollywood, this is a small town
I was a dreamer before you went and let me down
Now it's too late for you and your white horse, to come around

Baby I was naive, got lost in your eyes
And never really had a chance
I had so many dreams about you and me
Happy endings, now I know

I'm not a princess, this ain't a fairy tale
I'm not the one you'll sweep off her feet
Lead her up the stairwell

This ain't Hollywood, this is a small town
I was a dreamer before you went and let me down
Now it's too late for you and your white horse, to come around

Plan for filming

I am hoping to film on Sunday and Monday. I have looked at the weather forecasts and found out that the weather looks good for Sunday and Monday and all of the other days it is raining. The weather is the same on both days so I hope for it to stay the same so the shots look the same. I will need to film all of the outside shots on these days as this ensures that the weather conditions will be similar in the video

Schedule List

Room: 1, 2, 3, 4, 32, 33, 43, 44, 62, 63, 64, 65

Field: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 39, 40, 41, 42, 45, 46, 51, 52, 53, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61

Forest: 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 47, 48, 49, 50, 54, 55 

Road/ Pavement: 11, 12, 13, 14, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38

Locations

Room:

Actors - Skye

Props - Keyboard, Chair, Clothing

Technical Kit - Camera, Tripod, lighting

Notes - Refer to risk assesment, Make sure Skye is already dressed before filming

Field: 

Actors - Skye

Props - Guitar, Chair, Clothing

Technical Kit - Camera, Tripod

Notes - Check weather forecasts, refer to risk assesment, Make sure Skye is already dressed before filming

Forest: 

Actors - Skye

Props - Clothing

Technical Kit - Camera, Tripod

Notes - Check weather forecasts, refer to risk assesment, Make sure Skye is already dressed before filming

Road/ Pavement:

Actors - Skye

Props - Clothing

Technical Kit - Camera, Tripod

Notes - Check weather forecasts, refer to risk assesment, Make sure Skye is already dressed before filming

Animatic

I have put together a animatic on Imovie on my mac where individual pictures were taken of each of the shots and then put into imovie and then set for the amount of seconds which I plan it to be in my video. It will help me to get an idea of what the video is going to look like and to see if I have enough shots and to see if they are long enough/ short enough. This won't be guaranteed to be exactly what my video is going to look like but it is going to be an idea of what I are going to do and if some shots don't work then we will try other ideas to try and make the video as good as I can.

Storyboard

I have created another storyboard for my final song. It is 65 shots and I have also cut the song down from just under 4 minutes to just over 2 minutes. 

Song decision

I have chosen a Taylor Swift song because I feel that they are of the same type of genre and I can use the same locations and the same sort of shots which I feel will be easy to replicate. I have chosen the song White Horse because it has slow music and it also uses a guitar.

Note to Examiner - Song change

I am going to be changing the song choice to one of a similar style of music. I have asked my teacher 'Miss Hammond' if this would be allowed and she feels if it works better for me then I will be allowed. I am going to choose a song of the same genre and style and keep the locations similar in order to make it easier for me. Another reason why I have decided to change the song is because I feel that the song has a manly voice and it doesn't fit in with my actress and I don't think she will feel comfortable to lip sync with a song that makes her look a bit masculine and therefore the video won't look good.

Photographs of equipment

Actress

Holly Martin

Draft Final Album

Draft Final Poster

Photoshoot

Photoshoot

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Colour scheme final

The colour scheme that I have gone for for my final idea is going to be Red, Black, Dark Grey and also Light Grey for the background. I have used these colours because I feel that they look really good together and I really like how the neutral tones bring out the red which makes it stand out. I will make various parts stand out by using Red on bits to stand out.

Note to examiner

I have changed the person who I am going to use for my music video. I will be using 'Holly Martin' this will be easier for me to film more as she is able to get lifts to mine. I have changed who I am using because the group I was in has been split up and I am now working by myself so I will change who I am going to use in order to make it easier for me.

Plan for filming

I am hoping to film on Saturday and redo all of my shots. I think that I will use the shots that I have done which don't incorporate Skye in them because I feel that they work well and I can manipulate them with effects and edit them to fit in with my video.

Plan For Photos

We are hoping to take photographs tonight of 'Skye'. I am hoping to get a proffesional camera from Leicester College in order to get the best possible photographs I can. For the photos I feel that we will need to make sure that 'Skye' is wearing a lot of makeup and is in the right costume. The images will need to be much stronger than the ones in my draft as I don't think they stood out as much as I hoped they would.

Feedback for Digipack and Poster

For the Digipack I got 3/10, I feel this was because the images aren't strong enough. To improve this we will need to make sure that 'Skye' has more makeup on and that she is also more made up i.e. costume. I was told that I wasn't allowed images of trees in the pictures on the album so therefore I wil need to rethink about the location and what poses I want Skye to be doing. I will be keeping to the simple theme throughout the album as I feel it works for the genre.
For the Magazine Poster I got 2/10, I feel that this is because again the image isn't strong enough. We are planning to take more images for the album cover and poster therefore it will hopefully improve it's mark. I will need to add a record label to the Poster in order to make it more realistic and to fit in with others.

Weather Forecast

This is the weather forecast for the weekend, I feel that it is best if we film this weekend because it is the same weather as our other shots. Next week it is raining all week apart from Sunday therfore I think it would be best if we film this weekend in order to get the weather the same. I think that we could film all the indoor shots next week whilst it's raining so we use our time efficiently.

Evaluation of Draft Video

I feel that the first video that we have done works quite well however I feel that we definately need to record the car bits in order to make it relate to the lyrics. I think that the stairs bit works really well as it looks like time has gone by really fast. I also think that in order to improve the video we need to make our video more proffesional and make it look more like a sterotypical music video. I feel that the video needs to be more sharp and I think that it also needs to have more locations. I think to improve the video Skye needs more makeup and we need to style her more. I also think that there needs to be more shots in the dark as I think that it wiull make it look much better visually. The most important aspect is that we need to finish all of the shots and get it done. I feel that some parts need to be refilmed as they aren't very proffesional looking.

Video so far

Trying out techniques with words

Editing

For the editing I plugged the camcorder into my iMac. I then opened iMovie where I then opened the shots which were shown in the shots part. I then looked through my storyboard in order to see how long each shot was and to see which part went where. I then cut down some shots and sped some up in order to make a visual effect. I slowed some parts down which was the money going into the hat which I thought worked well. I then added the music to see if it looked right. I had to cut the song down on iTunes because it was too long and I did this by going onto the settings of the song and then changing where I wanted it to start and stop. I kept watching the video in order to see if parts looked good and to see if some things didn't work.

Progress so far

Currently I am working on editing more of the video. Seeing as there isn't all of the shots I am working on doing half of the video and then the rest I will use my Animoto so the teachers can look at it and so we can work out what we are going to do.

Equipment

The tripod was used to hold the camera and make sure that it was still and made sure the shot didn't change. It meant that the camera was in focus at all time and it meant that the camera didn't fall.

We used a sony HD camera which we got from Leicester College as there was no cameras left at school within the holiday. I felt that the camera worked really well because it has HD which meant that it was of good quality.

we used a guitar in the video because the music has guitar instruments throughout the song. The guitar was used throughout the street shots because it meant th

In todays lesson

Today we have talked about where we are going to film next. We have all decided to film tomorrow because that's when we are all free. Me and Hanna have decided where we are going to shoot the next location in a field in Enderby as 'Skye' lives in Narborough so it will be easy for her to get there. There is also a motorway near the field so we are going to use that motorway when filming.

Plan for tomorrow

There has been a bit of a problem getting 'Skye' for filming tomorrow so we are planning to try and rearrange something or instead we will try and film all the parts which haven't got Skye in it. If there is still a problem with getting hold of 'Skye' then we will try and use each other in the video in order to get an idea of what the video is going to be like, this will make it easier to see which parts work and which parts don't work. It also means we have footage to show to 'Skye' so it makes it easier for her to understand what she has to do throughout the video.

Plan for photographs

We are hoping to take some new photos in order to get them more proffesional. We are hoping to be using someones house in order to get the lighting right. From the draft photos I have realised that Skye needs to be wearing more makeup and needs to look more glam to ensure that it looks like an actual album cover. I also think we need lots of different locations to be photoraphed. I really want an image in the countryside on my album cover therefore I will be taking some photos in a field. I will use an image with a blank background for my album cover.

Plan for filming next

We will hopefully be filming next week sometime where we hope to film the rest of the shots. Currently we have filmed all of the street, stairs, fountain, John Lewis and clock tower. We will need to film the cars and also the motorway, the room and the forest. Hopefully this can be done quick and I can edit all the shots together in order to get an idea of how it looks so I can see the things that need to be changed. I think that there needs to be more lip syncing in the video as we haven't really got much therefore we need to think more about this when filming. This shots that still need to be filmed are:

Motorway: 19, 91, 94,

Outside of car: 6, 46, 47, 50, 51, 52, 53, 90,

Inside of car: 7, 24, 48, 49, 102,

Room: 1, 2, 3, 4, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 97, 98, 99, 100, 114, 115

Field: 5, 28, 29, 30, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113,

Road: 18, 20, 21, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 92, 93, 95, 96, 101, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124

Filming

First of all I got a camcorder from Leicester College but we couldn't find a Tripod therefore I had to look around at home to find one. I met up with Hanna who had the guitar and Skye who was in her costume. We then went to the first location which was the stairs in town, these were located near John Lewis Car Park. We then filmed all the shots here and Skye got changed into a different outfit so it looked better. We then went to a street and then we started filming the street parts. We brought the storyboard and the schedule list so we were sure of what shots to film and where. We then went to the clock tower and then filmed there. There was a problem though as there was something in front of it therefore we will need to film the close ups again in order to get a better image of Skye next to it. We then went to the fountain where we thought that it would work better having hand held motion therefore we used some hand held imagery. Last we went to the John Lewis glass bridge part, however this bit doesn't really work well therefore we may not put it in and also we may change it to something else. Other than that it was a very succesful day.

Testing out editing with our first test shots

Final Location shots

Evaluation of Digipack and Poster

Digipack:
I feel that my Digipack was a bit too simple. I think that the image on the cover needs to be much stronger in order to capture the ordiences attention and I also think that 'Skye' needs to wear more makeup to make it stand out but she still also needs to keep with the natural look. I feel that the images throughout the album cover needs to be much stronger. I also think that the images on the album cover need to link with the video. I feel that the back of the album needs much clearer writing. I think that on some pages she needs to have the guitar with her.
Poster:
I feel that the poster uses good colours and I really like the idea of the black and white image. I do feel that it needs to be much stonger and also the writing may need to be changed in order to be much bolder. Skye should be wearing more makeup in the image but  I feel that the stance is really good as it looks like she has attitude which works really well.

Plan For Filming

We are planning to film tomorrow, we have had a problem with getting a camcorder because they were all booked up for the holidays so I am hoping to get one from Leicester College and use it for tomorrow. We are hoping to film the shots in town. The shots that are needed to be taken in town are:
Street: 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 22, 23, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 116, 117,

Stairs: 14, 15, 16, 17, 103, 104, 105, 106,

Fountain: 25,

Clock Tower: 26, 31, 32, 33, 59

Glass bit at John Lewis: 27


The props for tomorrow that we need are the guitar, camera, tripod and also maybe a camera. We will also need to make sure that Skye is in a costume which fits in with the genre and we need to make sure that she is portrayed how we want her to be portrayed.

Weather Forecast

I have looked at this weeks weather forecasts in order to see which days would be suitable to film because we need the same weather throughout the video. From looking at the weather I think that the best days to film would be Wednesday and Thursday as the weather is pretty much the same.

Digipack Draft

Poster Draft

This is my first draft of my poster, I used the draft pictures of 'Skye' and thought that this was the strongest out of all of them. I then used the colour scheme of red and black which proved to be the most eye-catching when I looked at colour pallets. I chose to keep the layout simple and also I changed the picture to black and white because I found it to look more proffesional and bold in this colour.