‘Making of’ Videos.
Created November 20, 2008 Last updated November 20, 2008 By martha‘Making Of’ Videos are really useful to watch for us because we get to see how scenes are filmed and how everything happens behind the scenes.
‘Take Back The City.’
Created November 19, 2008 Last updated November 19, 2008 By marthaSnowpatrol - Take Back The City.
I like the use of speed editing in this Video.
Production Photos
Created November 12, 2008 Last updated November 12, 2008 By holly
Our first day of filming in Abbey Park, Leicester.
Storyboard
Created November 12, 2008 Last updated November 12, 2008 By hollyThis is our stoaryboard for the first couple of seconds of our video.#
Lyrics.
Created November 12, 2008 Last updated November 12, 2008 By marthaPanic at the Disco - Northern Downpour;
This Video uses the Lyrics of the song throughout on Billoards, tshirts and even in windows. This is the same kind of idea as we want to do in our Video.
Messages
Created November 12, 2008 Last updated November 12, 2008 By emilyPanic at the disco - Northern Downpour
This video uses text very well throughout the video. This interlinks with our idea of subliminal messages to show bits of the lyrics.
First Shooting Day
Created November 12, 2008 Last updated November 12, 2008 By hollyThis Tuesday (28.10.2008) we went to film the live performance band section of the video at RPM Studios in Leicester. We were just filming their weekly band oractice but we got some really nice shoots. When we loaded the footage onto the Macs we discovered that some of it was too dark. We altered the saturation and the brightness but it was uneffective, so we need to make the decision either to reshoot or to not include in the video as we do have enough not to include it.
We also used the oppurtunity whilst in town to shoot some of the female protagonist scenes including the text scene, some traffic and urban settings.
Filming the band
Created November 2, 2008 Last updated November 2, 2008 By emilyLast tuesday (28/10/08), we travelled into Leicester to go to M48’s band practice at some studios, to film a section of our music video. We were planned better for this filming session, and knew exactly what we wanted to film.
We did some good close-up shots of the band members, and instruments, that now need editing down and some pieces syncing to the song itself.
More filming: The Band.
Created October 31, 2008 Last updated November 12, 2008 By marthaOn Tuesday (28th Oct), we travelled out to Leicester to film some live performance scenes. The band were kind enough to let us film in in their practice session. The filming was better as a whole as we knew what we were going to film this time, and at what angles.
However, when we uploaded the film onto the Macs we found out that a couple of the shots were too dark to use. We are going to reshoot some of these.
Whilst in Leicester we also fiilmed some of our night time scenes including the ‘text’ scene and urban settings.
Planning and Construction
Created October 30, 2008 Last updated October 30, 2008 By joniWe have planned to use dulled down colours in our video, which we be done during editing, for the settings for scenes and actors costume, but picking out certain colours and picking out the girl in brighter colours to show how the guys world brightens with her, and to hint at the mood of the scene. The costumes our actors will be wearing reflect the genre of music. This is the colour guide we have used to hint at the mood.
Grey
Decay, dusty, pollution, urban sprawl, blank emotions, boredom and mourning.
White
Light, purity, innocence, peace, snow, sterile, bland, empty, unfriendly and cowardice.
Black
Death, evil, absence, mystery, fear, anger, sadness, remorse and anarchism.
Red
Passion, strength, energy, fire, love, excitement, speed, heat, ambition, leadership, masculinity, power and danger. (Studies show that red can have a physical effect, increasing the rate of respiration and raising blood pressure; red also is said to make people hungry.)
Blue
Skies, peace, unity, harmony, tranquility, calmness, coolness, confidence, loyalty, dependability, cleanliness, air, wisdom, royalty and nobility.
Green
Great intelligence, life, nature, bad spirits, spring, fertility, youth, environment, wealth, money, good luck, vigor, generosity, go, grass, aggression, inexperience, envy, misfortune, coldness, jealousy, illness, greed and natures abundance.
Yellow
Sunlight, joy, happiness, earth, optimism, intelligence, idealism, wealth (gold), summer, hope, hazards, dishonesty, avarice and weakness. Yellow ribbons were worn during times of warfare as a sign of hope as women waited for their men to return.
Purple
Envy, Sensuality, spirituality, creativity, wealth, royalty, nobility, ceremony, mystery, wisdom, enlightenment, arrogance, flamboyance, confusion and pride.
Orange
Happiness, energy, balance, heat, fire, enthusiasm, playfulness, overemotion, warning, danger, autumn and desire.
Brown
Calm, boldness, depth, natural organisms, nature, richness, rusticism, stability, tradition, dirt, dullness, filth, heaviness, poverty, roughness and earth. Brown can stimulate the appetite, wholesomeness, steadfastness, simplicity, friendliness, and dependability.
Pink
Spring, gratitude, appreciation, admiration, sympathy, femininity, health, love, June, marriage, joy.
This is a time line we have planned out for our video, which details the narrative and layout of the video we are constructing.
Intro: before music starts - guy sat on bench - Abbey Park, Leicester
- Camera behind them - Mid shot
*Music starts* - camera pans round the side to the front
- mid-shot - zoom in on face
*drumming starts* - montage of shots - memories of him & girl together
- fast paced
@ 0:23 - before vocals start: past back to present - low angle, close up of guy’s feet
- he stands up and walks off diagonally into the camera
- camera spins to follow him: location changes: town - girls feet walk diagoally into shot
- walking away from the camera
- Boy1’s feet in the background - girl walks up to him and hugs him
- Camera zooms out to show off centre full body shot:
- shows guy stood close by being ‘3rd wheel’: - hands in pockets
- disgonally stood - glancing up
- girl hugging boy1 - over the shoulder shot: sees person walk by in crowd
- Wearing ‘I need you’ t-shirt - Subliminal message
- does a double take - t-shirt changes.
@0:50 - Break up scene between girl & boy1 - St.Martins, Leicester
- Full body shot - imposing
- energetic arguement
@1:08 - girl goes to guy for comfort - shows up on doorstep - raining - pathetic fallacy
- go up to his bedroom - sit on bed - she cries into his shoulder
- switches to sofa - watching film - she falls asleep on his lap
- sits and strokes her head
- film in background playing - ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ scene - intertextual piece
- cutting to start montage pieces - slowed down
- towards the end of ‘Comforting scene’ intercutting performance band practice scenes
- Location change to practice room
- close ups of instruments
@2:18 - Pace of the music slows - Party scene - focus more on guy
- main guy & girl not moving - scene around them sped up.
- girl in the middle of the sofa, surrounded by boys - guy sat on arm, sat twisted - watching girl
- Girl2 trying to talk to him - not listening to her
(Scene demonstrates physical & metaphorical distance between guy & girl)
@2:48 - Girl walking by ‘Curved wall’ - St.martins, Leicester
- Guy sends her a text - asking to go to a gig with him - text projected on to wall
- walks past gig poster on the wall
@2:58 - cut to band setting up for gig - leading on to the main gig sequence- Car park
- using interesting angles of band and crowd -
- picking out guy & girl
@3:40 - end of the gig - guy walking around - camera tacking backwards
- boy stops - camera keeps tacking back
- girl with Boy 3 walk diagonally into shot from the left
- ‘Please stay with me’ - subliminal message - appears on the guy’s t-shirt
scene continues a couple of seconds after the song has finished.
We started our filming in Abbey Park in Leicester on 22/10/08 by filming shots for the montage at the beginning of the song and the “foot shot”. We experienced some trouble (for example we forgot to take the dolly wheels with us so had to film a dolly shot by hand, which took several takes), as it was the first day of filming, but as the day went on, our confidence improved and we learnt more about the camera and how to use it, and so we had become quite good by the end of the day.
We are however a day behind in filming as we had planned to film on 21/10/08, but the people we have cast did not show up, so instead we used the time to find some good locations around the park.
On 28/10/08 we went along to an M48, the band we are using, practise to film shots of the band performing for the sectrions where we show the band at practise. We got on very well, and got the shots we wanted, although several couldn’t be used as the light was not as good as we had hoped.
We have since loaded our film onto the computer and began editing, and have successfully edited two shots completely.