Rough Cut

TO DO LIST:

• Learn synchronized dance routine.
• Get feed-back on rough-cut.
  
• Finish final narrative shots (filming) to bring together the overall purpose of the video.
• Complete editing for the finished product.
• MOTIVATE STUART
  

This music video by duck sauce shows a perfect example of synchronised dance and singing which we are seriously considering to add to the content of our final product although in a different style to this video. also this is a tune

Analysis of test footage

The main point of posting the video was just to show some really rough ideas. The editing doesn't bare any resemblance to what the finished product will look like.
However, Stuart's dancing and the lighting are what we hope to replicate in our final piece.

Items to take on Sunday

Instruments: 2 guitars
1 microphone
1 bass guitar

location ideas include:

• The top of Grande Arcade car park (as above) we dont deem it to be copying as only a small part of our video will be shot in that location, probably the dance routine as that is an abstract idea in th first place.
• Bang in the centre of town, restaurants, shops and other night life locations.
• Center of Parkers Piece, with the four sided lamp.

Planning for the weekend

Schedule for Sunday 18 October

12:00 meet
12:10 go to location
12:20 set-up
12:30 begin filming
12:40 next shot in same location
12:50 move to next location
13:00 set up in new location
13:10 - 14:00 dancing/different shots
14:10 get out instruments
14:20 continue with performance with different shots

Experimenting with practice shots

Video ideas

We have just done some footage of a shadows with Stuart dancing and us filming his shadows. We used different light filters to create different lighting on the wall behind adding to the relevance of the lyrics. We a good idea of incorporating the woman into the shadow by giving the audience a sneak of the girl but you don't actually see who she is which will continue throughout the video. We are also going to elaborate on the shadow effect by making Stuarts shadow change while hes dancing, so it looks like his shadow isn't part of him. We will do this by filming a simple shadow dance of Stuart, place it on the projector, have Stuart dance the same move but then change giving the effect of his shadow being seperate.

Cut and Copy- analysis of their music video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khGPcAa8_YI

We found after viewing Cut and Copy's music video for their song 'Lights and Music' that it lacked a variation of ideas. The majority of the video are shots of the band playing with a larger reflection of them shinning on the background. It has good visual effects with the reflections well lighted with different coloured tints, however, it is all rather same-ish and possibly lacks some sort of narrative. After our initial ideas we have decided to film some extra footage of more abstract aspects to maintain audience attention, if needed.

Comments on T-48

Generally our points were quite positive and we put our opinions across as well as we could. One of our main comments was that it needed to be more visual with just notes marking on what they are talking about so that the reader doesn't get bored. I really think we have established this in our blog with is being extremely visual. One thing that we needed to include in our blog for the future was a location plan for our video.

Ed Lovelace's Lecture

Ed Lovelace is a previous media studies student at Long Road college and is now directing music videos. He made many useful points that would help us to understand the industry. Here are his main points:
- The difference in technology between the top and bottom of the industry is very small, i.e anyone can do it
- If you desire to proceed in the industry you have to be committed and constantly making new material to present to possible employers
- The cost budgets for his videos vary massively from £100 to £40,000
- The length of time he has to create a video can be as short as a week
- The higher you become, the more there is to worry about, for example, each second of film costs money and therefore every shot counts and needs to be valuable.

Development of plans

After failing to attract one choreographer to construct our dance, Marcus has contacted another individual, Albert. We feel that if a dance student choreographs our dance then it will be easier to perform as we'll know what to do and just do it, and it will appear far more professional.

We are hoping to hear from Albert before the first filming session.

This is our timeline of shots, unfortunately backwards due to blogger.

These are some general ideas for what shots we would include.

Instrument miming footage

As well as a narrative storyline in the music video we will have footage of the band ( Stuart, Louis, Matt and Marcus) miming and playing instruments. Instruments will include 2 guitars a keyboard and drums. We will use vibrant night life lighting to our advantage to create more of an immersive atmosphere.

Shot List (rough edition)

1. Long Shot - slow motion walk of the entire group, reminiscent of the famous Reservoir Dogs walk. Initial planning and general take on the style of our video suggest that we should dress in a stylish formal manner, preferably black suits.
2. Panning Close-up Shots - establishes characters involved within the video. Final shot finishes with lead singer, possible opportunity for visual effect to to define between the opening and the introduction shot of the girl which starts the loose narrative.
3. Long Shot - group walks past the girl.
4. Close-up Shot - showing the lead singers noticing of the girl by dropping glasses in order to take a better look.
5. Medium/Long shot - short synchronized dance routine with backs to a brick wall as a backdrop. could incorporate a high/low angle shot to create a variation of shots.
6. Close-up Shot - displaying the goldfish singing the backing in his fish bowl.
7. Long-shot - Cut back to the walking through the streets with another one or two move choreographed dance steps breaking up the walking.
8. Long shot/ Over the shoulder - follow the girl moving round a corner and out of vision, with her looking back hinting at her interest in the band. But disappearance displays her as the idyllic girl, always out of reach.
   
9. Long shot - Group arriving at the destination.
10. Close-up - Switch to band playing instruments. extreme close-ups could make playing of instruments appear more professional.
11. Other shots displaying further instrument playing.
12. Further shots yet to be decided.