Shot Schedule

Shooting Schedule

Diary Update

Today we have been looking closer at our song and editing our animatic so that the images appear on a constant beat throughout our song, as the beat will emphasise the images and vise versa. We have been playing around in the studio and getting a lot of footage for our music video lately. We have been filmed separately for each solo, but we have also had shots of all of us together to show that we are a band. However, some of us found it very hard to learn some of the lyrics, and Sam didn't seem to move his mouth as enthusiastically as we hoped for whilsting filming his part, so we have decided that we need to go back into the studio and get more footage. I also got quite embarrassed in front of the camera which led me to become quite coy, so i also want to go back and re-shoot some of my scenes, as i am featuring in every chorus, plus, Fergie never acts shy!

Diary Update

At the moment our editing is going quite well and our rough cut is coming along. We have captured footage of us 'getting ready' which will be at the beginning of the video, as looking at a lot of Black Eyed Peas videos they are often getting dressed up and ready separately at the beginning of them. Although we recorded these scenes for the beginning of our video, we realised that we have based all our footage on too much of a studio performance trying to make it look more of a professional video than anything else, which led us to abandon the narrative performance more, which is also what a music video needs. Due to the lack of this, more footage was gathered over the weekend to create a backlog of rich content to enable more of a storyline for our media product. This footage is of Troy and Sam walking towards where it is said the 'rap battle' is commencing.

Our Animatic

This is our animatic that was mentioned in my previous post. As you can see it gives us quite a clear idea of what we need to do. Obviously our final result will probably end up looking quite a bit different yet it gives us something to work with and shows us some structure at least.

What we've been up to...

Over the past few weeks I have been drawing scenes for our animatic, I think they have come out really well as they are quite well drawn that gives us a very good idea of the sort of shots we want to take, With this firm showing of what we're aiming for, we can also create more ideas around them as now we have a solid foundation. Sam has also designed a shot list based on these ideas to make it even easier for us to plan out our shots. Hopefully Mikey and Troy will be done with our animatic soon!

What to wear? And what to do?

Due to the Black Eyed Peas' futuristic approach in most of their music videos nowadays myself and my group have decided that we need to consider a similar approach also. We are going to do this very simply however. We want metalic kind of looking tops, for example i was wear a sparkly top and so on. Black would also be quite striking as we would be focusing on our faces. We also want to incorporate things such as glow sticks, and use metallic items to also show a futuristic effect. Watching the video 'Countdown' by Beyonce, there is also tonnes of ideas that we want to try out, for example the various backgrounds that changes with the colour of her top, the split screen of the 4 close up images of her, and also the effect of when she is blinking which is obviously produced by taking a lot of still images and putting them together in a sequence to make a flickering effect, the best example is probably when she imitates a clock countdown with her arms. This is done quite a lot throughout the video... Take a look for yourself!