Weather Planning

Monday Weather:

Monday's weather looks very promising in terms of it not raining, we are planning to film from around 8am, so when looking at the weather it will be fairly cloudy, the fact that isnt not going to rain will help us to be able to move all the stuff into the location without any hassle however we weren't too concerned on the weather whilst were filming this bit as were all in the barn and will stay dry however the weather decides to go.

Once we have shot all the performance material we will hopefully move straight onto filming some of the narrative, but looking at the weather it will be even better and sunnier mid-day, this will give us a really nice happy feel to the most part of our narrative where we want it to be.

Tuesday Weather:

Tuesday's weather isn't brilliant, however I believe this wont cause us too much hassle as we are looking to film at night at a firework/bonfire night in a local village for the last part of our narrative, looking at the weather it just look like it will be a dry night, this is what we are hoping for as it will give us difficulties when filming if it is raining.

Narrative Changes

After having another group meeting, we have decided to alter the narrative to fit more with the location we have chose, this is because we feel it will be more of an effective video and we will be able to film more of our production in one location.

We have came up with the narrative being along the same lines as our original narrative which is the couple being together and having a really close reltionship and then they start to argue and it then ends in them fighting and breaking up, the male character then goes into the woods which they walked in and buries the memories of the relationship in a small box.

This we feel will gives us a very strong narrative and will help the story in the video link with the lyrics about digging a hole and burying their feelings.

New Location - Pickworth

After speaking with a friend, I have been able to secure a barn to use for our video, this barn is in Pickworth, although this is a bit further than our other location, it is still within a resonable distance.
 

This barn location owned by the farmer is a large barn which has a shutter for a door, this isnt what we were looking for, however, it will shut out all the light, this means we can film in the day and just use our lights, this will help to show any continuity errors with lighting.

 

This location is also next to a wood, this has meant that we wanted to look more into our narrative and use the resources we are given on the location.

Group Meeting - Location

We have had to have a group meeting as our location that we were planning on using on the outskirts of Bourne has fallen through, we have discussed other possible locations but we feel we should stay along the same type of building, I have contacted a friend who works for a farmer and we hope he will come back to us with good news about being able to use one of his barns, this means we will have a location of the same type, if not better.

Once we have confirmation of a location to film our band shots on, we can then think about our narrative more in depth and whether it will be best to alter it to fit to this new location.

Try Out Shot - Burning Photo

Below I have done two tester shots of me burning a picture of a couple, this is something we wanted to incorporate at the end of our video so I have done the first one using a lighter and the second using a match, this will give me a good feel of which works the best and will look the best in the video.

This first video was with the lighter, this worked well and burnt just on the ladies face and then burnt outwards from there, this is an effective look, however maybe in the video we should use a vintage lighter to go with the old feel.

This second clip was filmed using a match, this could work well at giving the old feel as you would have to strike the match. The match burnt well, however it burnt more as a spread and not direct on the woman's face, this could still work in our video.

I think overall the lighter worked best for having more of a direct burn and will look effective with an old style lighter, we just need to be careful on how the flame effects the light sensitivity on the camera, so this shot may take some perfecting when shooting it.

Laser Lighting Idea

After watching the video for 'Earth Medicine' By 'We Are Fiction' we all liked the creative lighting used in the live shots with the use of warm back lighting and the use of a laser to add some color and creativity to the shots. The use of lasers in this genre is not very conventional as the music videos are usually created very low budget in small venues where the lighting is very basic and more natural with not many gobos, effects, or colors; however we feel that the use of it in this video creates a unique and memorable effect that works well with the live shots, and helping them keep interesting.




 

We are going to try and create a similar effect with the lighting equipment we have already arranged to borrow and use from various people but after taken influence from this video we have decided to use a 4 Lens Laser light owned by me along with the previous lighting to attempt to create a similar effect from this video. In order for this to work we will need a smokey atmosphere at the right density so that we can still get clear shots whilst still enhancing the lighting and laser effects.
Below is a picture of the laser light we intend to use and a video of it in action in a smokey atmosphere.

Posted By Daniel Harris

http://danharrisadvancedproduction.blogspot.co.uk/

 


Costume Planning

For our costume we wanted to keep it very stereotypical of a hardcore video, so for our video we have chosen to have a very basic costume design, we have chosen just a simple t-shirt (maybe a band shirt if possible) and then some casual jeans and trainers, this means the actors have a very simple look to them, focusing on the video and what is going on more than the clothes.

 

I have taken a few screenshots from other hardcore music video to show how we have taken influence from them to get our choice of clothing.