Final Video Feedback

Positive

• Lighting was good and effective.
• Microphone shot at the end was good.
• Good variety in shots.
• It looked professional.
  
• Slow-motion running at the end was effective.
  
• Good looking transitions.
  
• Most people thought the overlay was good.
• Silhouette shots matched our original planning (see animatic).
  

Negative

• Some people did not like the overlays.

Final Video

media music video from Antoine Dutilh on Vimeo.

Filming 2nd time around

By doing a second shoot we hope to correct any of the problems that were created when trying to edit the video.
Tonight's Filming

• Many of the shots taken tonight will be filmed on a tripod to ensure clear and steady shots.
• The same footage will be captured numerous times from multiple angles to allow for a wide selection of shoots to choose from when editing.
• The footage will be shot at various times during the day aiding the narrative within the video. The narrative will be based around a guy running towards the band and to display time change within the video we intend to shoot as it gets darker (until nighttime).
  

Filming

We ended up filming the video in Cambridge, as going to Newmarket proved to be difficult. We used a large space on top of a car park to shoot all of the band performance. Even though the flood lighting helped us to accomplish the silhouetted look we wanted it has also seemed to create problems when editing the footage. Parts of the footage is unnecessarily dark and may ruin the overall appearance of the video. In addition, many of are shots are panning shots and although they are not shaky they are in motion and we feel we may have benefitted by using some still shots.

Rough Cut

Main Narrative Idea/Structure

Part 1: Original Band Performance shots
Man is woken up by band and is confused, why is he in a dim car park with a playing band?

Part2 : Flash Back shots of Man seeing band through out his day like in street and stuff, this is mixed in with more band performance shots + man watching band.

Part 3: Man freaks out starts running from band, through car park, runs past creepy band members watching him. He finally escapes leaves through door, as he goes through he realizes hes back in the car park room with the playing band................end

Equipment List

Ipod Speakers:





Step ladder.




River







Guitar








Drm Kit

Performance Shot List

Pre-music start
1. Close-up shot of microphone blurred and coming in to focus when the singer steps up to the mic.
2. Side shot of the bass drum being practiced by drummer.
3. Front, close-up shot of guitar strings.
4. Close shot of bass head.
5. Picture of plugging in to amp
6. Singer taking mic out.
7. Turning volume up on the amp.
Music starts
8. Overhead mid-shot of drummer.
9. Full band mid-length shot panning from right to left.
10. Close-up on singer.
11.

Camera Angles

We are intending to use quite dramatic lighting to create silhouettes in the video. To create the right effective we need to choose particular camera angles to complement the light. Low angle shots accentuate the height of the figures in the videos. Angles square on create a very strong looking figure. Using a low depth of field we will blur the background, drawing attention to the main figure in the shots.

Potential Props

We may shoot some of the footage at night time and then use car headlights to light up the band (silhouetted look).
There will be a live band performance and therefore the video will contain many instruments: microphone, guitars, bass guitar and drum kit.

lighting and tone

example of what the lighting is going to be like for the band playing part of the video. also a possible location. (Newmarket car park)

Location, location,location

For the band performance we are intending to film in a barn. This spooky and dark setting will will aid the eerie atmosphere our video will contain.
At one point in the video we may have someone running down a road/lane being chased from the barn in the video.

Animatic Feedback

• Introduction, with the plugging instruments in, fits in with music genre.
• Drawing the arrows on was good because it gave a clear sense of direction and the camera movement during the shots.
• Could've done with adding in a few more of the narrative shots to make it clear on what's going to happen in the narrative part of the video and we perhaps left it a bit short.
• If we could do the animatic again, we would put some more narrative shots in, to give a clearer direction of where we want the video to go.
• We could have made it more clear that the figures where silhouettes.

Animatic

Narrative Ideas

We felt that the narrative could be of a person getting into a fight as some of the lyrics would relate to this idea.

'....got be thinking bout the way that we live,
I've got this feeling it's gonna stop'.
These lyrics could be relating to the low/bad (thug-like) life that the character in the story leads. However, the lyrics indicate that he wants to change the way he lives his life.

'A billion faces running round my head,
All got opinions but they don’t mean shit
This could be displayed my a group of people (a billion faces) trying to intimidate a person, shouting their 'opinions' all at once.

Very Cool Idea Please read.....
I think that we should have a silhouette figure watching the bands performance, sort of as if the band are playing to this silhouette. It adds the feel that they are being watched/ judged, which fits in with our being watched narrative. Also it puts depth to the bands performance.


'A battleground indeed'
Signifying the place where the fight takes place.

'The hate that drives us needs to be stopped.'
This could be almost voicing the thoughts of the character in the story that is getting bullied.


We had originally thought of having a person look as if they are coming out of a river. If we had this clip at the beginning of the video it could be as if the person was re-living the moments that led up to them being in a river. We could incorporate the idea above by having the person coming out of the river being the one that gets into the fight. The video could end with the person getting pushed/thrown into the river from the fight (gives an explanation of how the person ended up in the river).

Our band.

Our guys.

Shot list

band shots:
for the intro, we'll start with an extreme close up focusing on the individual band members (preparing/setting up instruments etc) then it will go into a zooming out panned like shot to introduce the band. they will then start playing. a low shot of the band can be used to show dominance and more when the shot is zooming out, we will cut parts out to create a sharp cropped out effect continuously zooming out.
the shot will be in a fairly dark location lit up by car lights to accentuate the band members.

Narrative shots:
based on a movie called 'Donni Darko' it will have the same sort of introduction. we are still not sure what will be our opening for the video but either one will be used. we'll have someone wake up in the middle of know-where and just walking away and he will be filmed going through the town and various incidents will occure.

- window shots from cars, showing someone singing on the street.
- transparency effects for various shots.
- fast abstract shots from various view points e.g. of instruments.
- steady panning shots from car showing actions of the people walking in the street.
- action shots; someone falling into a river (reverse shots can be used)

Location Possibilities

Cambridge Science parks
Riverside (Somewhere in Cambirdge e.g. Mill Pond, Newnham, Grantchester).
Performances done in an area in evening with lots of light (possibly Grantchester).
Various locations out and and about in Cambridge on the roads from car.

Many of the location possibilities are specifically chosen for dramatic effect. Overgrown areas tend to have a perhaps more intense atmosphere. In conjunction, these areas will not be as populated and therefore we will be able to concentrate fully on the band when filming rather than trying to constantly avoid the public. When watching the video it will also somewhat force an audience to pay attention to the desired bits of the video, rather than having to many things going on, on screen, at any one time.
In contrast the narrative part of the video may be filmed in town and on roads (in the company of the public) completely distinguishing it from the band's performance. This will diminish any confusion between the two parallel bits of action/ storylines that are taking place in the music video.

Related Ideas

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This video is similar to the idea we had about filming some of the footage through a car window. We liked this video because it sets up a more interesting frame for the shot and with the headlights, it provides good lighting.

Related Ideas

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We like the technique they used for filming this video, in which they filmed the footage at a reduced speed and then put it back up to the normal pace in editing to create a jumpier, snappier effect for the video.