Friday, 14 December 2012

Music video- first edit



Because of the issue we had with the lighting, we decided to film shots 2 to 8 first as they were required to be filmed outside and we got a one-off chance to take time off school to film. After editing these shots, we showed our Media Studies teacher in order to gain Feedback.


We were advised to use more close ups and also to use a range of different shots from different angles. He also suggested using static shots instead of using camera movements. Also, we were told not to use a shot for longer than two seconds.


The editing stating “two weeks ago” was seen as inappropriate. This is because my teacher felt that the Font size was too big and Font size wasn’t right for the slow, ballad-like song. He also thought that red wasn’t suitable and said that removing this editing and portraying this in a narrative way would be better.
 

After Feedback: The changes based on the feedback

 
 
 

Friday, 7 December 2012

Production Schedule


Production schedule problems:

The production schedule which we initially planned did not work. This is because of various factors. Firstly, we had the re-film shots 2 to 8, which we did on January 13th.

Next, our actress, Hilary Arredondo, started a new job which required her to work during the day. Consequently, we had to film later on in the day where some days we filmed up to midnight. Also, through this, her schedule was extremely busy and we had to check with her each week for when she was free as her rota was produced weekly.


Also, on one of the days that we had planned to film, Hakan got ill which meant that we had to reschedule a day to film this scene (Phone conversation). So that we didn’t waste time, we used this day to film a performance part of Hilary’s as we didn’t need Hakan for this.


Furthermore, we had underestimated the time required to film each section, especially for the performance scenes. This meant that we ran over time and, on the times where we had planned to film two days in a row, we were all too tired to do so.


However, through all these difficulties, we still managed to film on time, even if it meant filming until very late at night.

Experimenting


Locations reports

Wednesday, 28 November 2012

Cast

Hilary Arredondo
Age:22

Hakan Ayden
Age: 22

Couple



Costume ideas

Changes

We attended a study day, based around the production of music videos, at the BFI in Southwark. Here, we were advised to keep our song short, with a maximum time limit of approximately three minutes. We realised that our song was a lot longer than three minutes at just over four and a half minutes. To solve this issue, we decided to cut our song in order to make the length shorter. We felt that the perfect timing to cut the song was at 03:13, where we faded the song out.
Also, we were instructed not to have too many different locations. To follow this order, we decided to change location of the scene where Hakan proposes to Hilary. We will film it at Grovelands Park, where we will also film shots 16 to 20. Therefore, we will have one less location which is a positive result.
 

In addition, we were told that close ups are an essential part of music videos. Therefore, we will be attempting to include many more close ups of our main characters, especially Hilary.

 

Treatment








 
                                               
 




 
 
 
 






Michaela



Marianne


Katherine

Animatic



As the first animatic didn't have the song included we edited the animatic and imported the song into premier pro so that the song could come up with all the different shots.


Thursday, 22 November 2012

Survey analysis

 

Peoples answers for the questionnaire

1. Text messaging 




2. Whats App



3. Facebook messenger 





Questionnaire



Storyboard










Brown eyes lyrics


We annotated the song lyrics on what we would like to include in the music video on each of the lyrics. 

Song choices



These are the three song that we were deciding choose from. We decided to use 'Brown Eyes' by Beyonce. 

Permission letter



Sony Music Entertainment
9 Derry Street London
Greater London
W8 5HY

09th November 2012


St Anne’s Catholic High School
Oakthorpe Road
London
N13 5TY


 Dear Sir/Madam,

 We are writing with regards to BeyoncĂ© Knowles’ song Brown eyes. As A2 Media Studies students at Saint Anne’s Catholic High School for Girls, we have been given the task to produce a music video for a song of our choice.

As a group, we have decided to use ‘Brown Eyes’ as the song to our music video and ask for your permission to do so.


Yours Sincerely,



Beatriz Arredondo and Roshani Perera.

This is the letter we sent Beyonce's record company asking for permission on using the song 'brown eyes' to record a music video to.

Moodboard



Skills audit


My skills audit at the beginning of a2 from arreb001_308

Before starting my coursework I did a skills audit using my experiences from last year and rated each skill. I then set myself some goals to achieve during A2. 

A2 Media Studies

From this point onwards my blog will be used for my A2 coursework. I will be working with Roshani Perera. Our task is to create a music video.

Wednesday, 9 May 2012

Final Piece- Mind Games

Our Final Piece


This is our final piece; we were able to get to this stage by taking on board the comments that were made by the audience. The original idea for the storyline had to be changed because of the challenges which we face, for example the corridor light were automatic meaning that the fill would be too bright for it to have the thriller theme to it.

People's Opinions On Our Final Piece






We asked people to watch our final piece and comment on the good and bad things of our movie. From the audiences comments we saw that everyone enjoyed our movie. This meant that we managed to create an opening to our movie to good standards as the audience were attracted to it.

Changes we made to the scenes


Our story line had to change from our initial storyboard due to a number of reasons. One of them being the reliability of the actors who we needed were unable to make it during the times were we wanted to film. This put more pressure on the group in terms of time and keeping to a schedule. To go around this issue we were able to obtain a new character, Mario Tofaris who was our new character in the role of Christina’s father rather than David. This allowed us to be more flexible with filming as Mario attended our sixth form as a collegiate student making it easier for us to film after school without so much of a delay.

Another reason for changing the story line was due to issues with the school as we were not allowed permission after the first filming to shoot on site. This gave us even more limited time on filming and put more pressure on the group to finish. Luckily we were able to find permission to film on another site – Trinity at Bowes.  However as the building changed we were unable to film the scene with the corridor as it internal design was different to that at school and would affect the consistency of the filming if our character would be viewed in a blatantly different location.

We attempted to get around this issue by turning the lights off in one room and shine a torch on our character. This made it unclear of the room and would only view the location as though it were a corridor. However because the lighting was too dark even with the torch it still appeared too dark for us to film. This led us to come up with the idea of the lift scene which was also in the new building where we were filming. After the attempt to film the corridor scene in the one room did not work we had to quickly think of how we were going to film this part of our thriller and how we would link it straight after the toilets scene. We decided add more suspense to our thriller through the CCTV camera which allowed us to use the conventions of thriller of the use of black and white.

For our thriller we had intended to use white noise to reveal Mario in the toilets scene with Christina to add to the sense of suspense and give it that skipped heart beat effect. However because of the short amount of time which Mario was viewed in the filming we decided to keep it out and leave it only on the background music. This also kept the texture lighter so that not too many sounds were layered all at once.

Challenges we faced with our location


Our Locations had to be changed. This is because the site manager at our school was delaying his decision on whether or not he would give permission to film on school premises with boys for the third time filming. We required filming this many times because we didn’t have the sufficient camera shots. In addition, some of our camera shots weren’t to the best of standards which meant that we had to re-film them. As our school closes at 6pm and needs students to start leaving at 5:45 we only had a limited time to film. This is because we had to wait for the majority of the school students to be off the premises, which were at around 4:00 – 4:15pm, before we started filming.

However, after about a week of waiting, we were told that we couldn’t film at school with boys on site for the third time. This hugely impacted our planned filming and also resulted in three scheduled days of filming to be cancelled. We therefore had to decide whether we changed our storyboard completely and changed the location or if we would find somewhere similar to film. After some persuading, Beatriz’s volunteering place, Trinity at Bowes church, allowed us to use their halls to film our coursework. However, they asked us to agree to repay them by filming a music concert that was happening on Friday 30th March.

As our filming was pushed back so far, we had to work extra hard to complete the editing of our two minute movie opening. This also meant that we had to attend school during our Easter holiday on Thursday 5th April to finish our blogs and final two minute movie opening. Beatriz Arredondo recorded the final version of the voices we used in our final piece. She also edited the credits. Roshani Perera created the CCTV monitor effect. Mary-Grace Vicente was unable to attend as she had to go to work.

Checklist



This image is a printscreen of the checklist that each of our group member had. It allowed us to be organised as we used it to check what step we had to complete next.