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Wednesday Shoot Details- 24/11/10

Today we sat down as a group and composed an email to all the group members of all the detials and equiment needed for Wednesday's shoot as it is drawing closer. We decided to do this today instead of the night before as we took into account people need time to collect all of their costumes/ cameras need to be checked etc.. therefore to give us time to properly get everything together we decided to plan today.



Email of Wednesday Shoot Details:

Location = Check!

Well today we got good news from the drama department that we were able to use the drama room and all equipment for our Wednesday shoot. We are all happy about this as no location meant no shoot therefore we can now begin the real planning and send out crew lists/ emails to all members of the group.

Response From Mr. Collins:

"I have cleared with all members of staff that you are able to use Drama Room 2 on the 24th to film your video, any problems come and find me..."

(taken out of an origional email)

Letter To Drama Department

This is the letter we wrote to Mr. Collins (Head of Drama) asking for permission to use the theatre/drama rooms and equipment for our shoot on the 24/11/10.

Hope He Replies with a yes! :)

Dear Mr Collins,
We are currently studying A2 Media and as part of our media project we are creating a music video. Therefore we are writing to you to ask for permission to let us use the drama room on:

Wednesday 23rd Novemeber (9.00am - 3.00pm)

We hope you will be able to help us with this enquiry and reply with an answer as soon as possible so we can either arrange alternative shoot days or venues. We greatly appreciate your support with this and many thanks for taking the time to read this letter.

Kind Regards,

Group 1, Media

Planning Shoot 2

Now that we have all of the parts needed for Shiggy's verse within the song, we need to film the rest of the video. We sat down as a group today and planned everything we needed for the next shoot and also set a date as to when this was happening ensuring everyone was able to make it and we were all 100% committed to getting it finished.

The date set is the 24/11/10 as this was a suitable day and we had to give ourselves a week to get everything ready and plan our exact loaction. We need to write a letter to the drama department in order to ask permission to use the theatre or one of the drama rooms as this is the only place we had. We wanted to book a studio however, after looking around we were denied more than 2 hrs access therefore it wasnt enough.

We need to do an email, crew list, letter to drama and get all of the make-up/costumes sorted asap.

Finishing The Animatic

Today we split the group into 2 as we had a lot to get done before the next shoot can be thought about, so we decided me and Sohail would finish the animatic whilst Shiggy and Sam looked through the footage we took on Sunday and began to edit/eliminate clips that were of poor quality.

We managed to finish the animatic today, not without a struggle however but it has certainly helped us gain skills on how to use Premier which will be useful at the editing stages of our video. Below is our finished animatic:

Animatic- Rihanna "Only Girl"

Sunday Shoot!

Yesterday was the day of our shoot, so we packed all of our equipment on Friday ready for the shoot at Sam's house. We first did a run through of Shiggy's parts and filmed this on a hand held camera in order to make her more comfortable performing in front of it and so we had a better idea of how we would film the scene.

It was tricky as we had a little room to work in (Sam's Bedroom) but we did it and after several long hours of shooting this part we finally got the cuts we need ready for editing. Overall, it was a very successful day and our camera skills are continuoslly improving as we were sure to let everyone have a go at filming, even Shiggy for Sohails thief part!

These are some pictures we took whilst on set:

 

These are the two videos created on the hand held camera when we did the run through of Shiggy's part:

Clip #1

Clip #2

Group Picture :)) -after Sunday shoot

After a successful day of Shooting :)

Schedule Session - Sunday Shoot

Today we all sat together as a group (seen in picture) and agreed that our filming needs to be hurried up a little as we want to leave ourselves enough time to edit and complete the ancillary tasks to a high standard therefore we have made the first shoot arrangements.

The page below is the copy of the email we composed and sent to all of the members of the group including all of the schedule for Sunday 7th Novemeber.


Doc 1

Final Coreography Rehearsal

So we managed to get a two hour session in to ensure we have finished all of the coreography needed for the chorus part of the video as last timte we left things a little unfinished. the video below shows us doing a run through of the final dance routine for the chorus. We hope you like it :)

Pre-Shoot Coreography Run through:

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Corerography Rehearsal

Today we all got together to try and do some of the coreography that we had learnt and picked up from our last meeting where we researched different people dancing to our chosen song. It was quite challenging for us because none of us are dancers therefore physically it was challenging. However, we did have fun doing this and the dance we came up with goes well with the chorus as its quite high energy.

Starting Animatic

Today, we worked on the producing the animatic for our video. It was a little tricky at first as we have 12 sets of extremely fast moving images from 0-20secs where we have to get the music beat just right in order for it to flow the way we wanted it to.

However, all of these fast steps were hard to put into place and it ended up taking us the whole 3hr session to complete solely the first part as we were new to Premier. We left it at this, but have planned to definately get it finished by next week, so watch this space :)

quick pic of me whilst doing the animatic :)

Researching Coreography for the Video

We now have a song but we need to come up with a dance routine as part of the chorus and to help us we looked at some ready-made dance routines to our specific song.

Video #1



The dancing in this video is extremely fast moving and getting ideas from it to use within our video was hard as it is very fast. Also, we have taken into account that the people dancing are proffessional dancers therefore the quality of our dancing is not up to the same standards as we think it would be better if we found something slower to match our dancing abilities.


Video #2




This video is still fast moving, however it has many different dancers and they all have their own styles of dancing the same routine whjich was helpful for us as some did it slower than others and we could take some ideas. Overall this video was better as people improvised on parts and we were able to spot newer dance moves that we could alter slightly to suit our abilities and use for our video.

Costume Gallery

We also did a dress rehearsal at my house today deciding what outfits we want to wear. We based some of these looks on what we found in our moodboard trhat we created previously as we wanted to keep the dark/gothic theme within the clothing subtle as Rihanna the artist we are doing uses this look often. Below are images of the potential costumes in our video.

Myself

Sam

 

Shiggy

 

Sohail

Make-Up Ideas

These are some of the make-up idea's we came up with when we did a make-up rehearsal at my house. We decided to do it on eachother so we could see what suited who. 

Lips

Make-Up Ideas

These are some of the make-up idea's we came up with when we did a make-up rehearsal at my house. We decided to do it on eachother so we could see what suited who.

Eyes









Styling Ideas

Now that we have decided on the content of the video itself, it is time for us to start considering how the asthetics of the video will look. This will include how we build up the characters within, therefore styling, makeup and clothing will need to be considered. I have conducted some research into artists of the same genre of music, their styling, makeup etc. This is so we can gather some ideas for how we create different looks within the video.

Rihanna

Hair

Tied up, red hair

short black bob

very short crop

Make-up

Smokey eyes, gothic look

girly, full on makeup

Clothing

Beyonce

Make-up

Heavy makeup

Smouldery eyes

Hair

curly and long

quiff

Clothing

short, party dress



glamorous gown

 Ciara

Make-Up

Party, vibrant makeup

Hair

sleek and straight

Clothing

Little Black Dress

Location Ideas

Below are the different location we want to shoot our video in. I have broken it down into which parts of the song will fit in each location.




Parts 1, Chorus, Part 3:
This is the drama room we hired out and want to shoot parts one, two and the chorus on. We booked it out and did a test on how we want it to look and we are quite happy with it.

Part 2:

The two images below are the two bedrooms we might shoot Shiggys bit in, however due to space issues we have decided that Sams bedroom is more suitable because the scene we are shooting involves movement therefore space is needed.