Thursday, 18 December 2014

Analysis of CD covers

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Pre Production - Animatic


Pre Production - Location

Pre Production: Location (by Jacob Osman)


Alleyway, Archer Close - As located at the end of a cal-der-sack, the location is never really busy - apart from the occasional dog walker, meaning that we could film there any time of day as long as there was sufficient lighting.
Bench & Common - The bench is located very close to three of the areas schools, this means that at before 9am, at lunchtime & at the end of a school day would be difficult times to film as the common would be full of students making their way out at lunch or going home. As we are filming in a particularly cold and wet time of year, we must be prepared for the muddy and slippery conditions in which we most likely would come across.
Langley Hill - These photos of Langley Hill were taken from outside my house, meaning it is a convenient place to film as it's where my house is. Langley Hill is the main road used by Rudolf Steiner School and Kings Langley School's buses, therefore it would be too busy and full of traffic to film at the start or at the end of the school day.
My House, Langley Hill - My group have chosen my house to film a large majority of our pop promo at because it offers spacious rooms which have sufficient lighting and how it is within walking distance from school and all our other filming locations.
Kings Langley High Street - The high street has very wide pavements on one side of the road, which is very good for filming Jeremy running through as of the space needed, it also contains various cafe's and coffee shops which we might need to use to film a scene outside. The high street is King's Langley's main road which connects Watford to Hemel Hempstead, so is always going to be fairly busy, so at rush hour and the end of school time would be the worse time to film at. It's in a practical location as it joins onto Langley Hill where most of our filming takes place and is only a 10 minute walk from school. If filming outside a shop or business we would need to ask the owners permission first to avoid any unhappy confrontation.

Pre Production - Prop And Costume List


Lighting and Camera workshop

During the production of making posters for my music video, I took part in a workshop dedicated to teaching me about lighting and camera. This was important  as it showed me the difference between different types lighting, and how they would change the mood/tone of the video. As a result of this I am now aware of the different types of lighting that we have to use in our music video, in order to generate the desirable feeling for the audience.

I was also taught about camera work, and show how important it is to ensure you have the focus and location for the shot being filmed. We were shown how long shots can affect the feelings from the audience, and how tilting and manoeuvring the camera in different ways can produce different notions to the audience, such as a pan shot or zoom. From, this I now know what I'm going to make sure we include in our video, in order to portray the desired message we want from the video.

The workshop consisted of our group using the cameras and lighting background to take multiple photos for our bands poster and digipak, which will the be used as part of my ancillary task. There were a range of different positions and lighting that we experimented with, which gave us a lot of shots to use when it came to making the ancillary tasks.

Wednesday, 3 December 2014

Pre Production - Equipment List

Equipment List
 
The equipment that we will need when filming our music video are:
  • Cannon 700D










This camera will be used because of its ability to film in HD improving the quality of the final video, we have also used this camera before and therefore will not waste time figuring out how to operate it, this means that we will be able to complete our filming tasks quicker.
  • Tripod

We will be using a tripod so that when we shot our scenes the camera will be as steady as possible, this means that the shots we produce will be clearer and easier to watch. By doing this we hope to give our work a more professional appearance.
  • External mic



From previous experiences we have discovered that the internal mic that comes with the camera does not pick up a high quality sound, which resulted in us rerecording the speech and adding it as Foley. Therefore we have decided that for the beginning of our video where we will have a short piece of dialogue we will use an external mic in order to gain a decent sound quality while filming so we can avoid having to spend a lot of time lip syncing the separately recorded dialogue.




  • Editing Software



The editing software that we will be using is Adobe After Effects this is a video editing system that we have used before. This will make the editing of our shots an easier task as we are familiar with the user functions.






  • Reflector / lastor light
This is a reflective piece of material that we will be using when filming close ups in order to ensure there is enough light on the subject of the shot, this will result in the shots we film being easier to see and understand.

Pre Production - Shot List




Pre Production - Schedule


Pre Production - Risk Assessment


Pre Porduction- Summary Of Star