Final Cut

Account of Shoot Day

We began the day with Megan and I rounded up all the dancers and taught them a short routine and then began to paint their bodies with UV paint while Tom and Geroge set up the white performance room and then started making the band practise with the instruments before filming them. The band managed to pick up nicely the song as most of them new their instruments well. Filming the performance room only took an hour and a half, and we were very pleased with the shots we collected.
Next was the UV room, which we set up and then put on the UV light. After Megan and I had finished the first 2 dancers we sent them in to start shooting. Megan would stand and tell them how to dance while filming, while I carried on painting the other dancers. I painted each dancer slightly differantly but with the same intention to make the patterns look tribal. The painted patterned bodies under the UV looked amazing, and we were all very pleased with how it looked on camera (better than expected)
We shot the dancers individually, in pairs and then as a group. we got the dancers to do the sequence and then we got them to improvise. The filming went very well for this as all the dancers could do big bold shapes. The only small issue we had was that the paint dried quickly and flaked off a bit.
We then finally filmed in slow motion a 3 second shot of a drum with blue UV paint on that is being banged. The only problem we had was that the paint was too thick to splash so we had to apply lots of water.
After Lunch we then set up the lazor room. The lazor pens we had, some were weaker than others, and few only had 3 red and the rest green. The green ones worked better. In order to create more lazors we first thought of using mirrors to reflect the lazors into, however this didnt look good on camera. We had one shot of our lead singer, with all the lazors moving on his body. We then did another with one dancer and the green lazors back lighting her and red ones oh her. Her silouette looked incredible, especially when she bent down backwards.
The green screen room was next which only had our lead singer (Felix) in. In this room we placed Felix on a platform and asked him to improvise him moving objects and photos around on a imaginary electronic board. I was on camera for this and filmed Felix doing these movements in wide, medium and medium close up shots.
Our last room was the dry-ice room. This is where most of our problems lied, as the dry ice was very late to be delivered and we had feared that it would not turn up at all. This did take a while to shoot because it took a while for the machine to keep heating up.
The day went very well, and I feel we all worked well as a team, and gave each other equal tasks without any confrontation. We didn't run over time on the day, and now we can begin editing.

Shoot day photos

Rough Cut

From our finished rough cut it is clear that there is the narrative of our lead singer making his own pop video on what will be an electronic touch screen. However this was a new idea that arose after we cut all our footage to the beats, which we realised didn't have a flow. This new idea gives it a structure that works. To do this idea, we started from scratch, making a new timeline, which begins with the green screen shots and then introducing the band performance narrative and then the dance shots. Our original shots when cut to the beat were too fast, which the viewer was unable to focus on to see what was going on. This new structure meant the shots could be longer, making it more comfortable to watch.

Now what is left to do is create the green screen rooms using after effects, which we will do in our next editing lessons. An idea for the screen and and element of our lead singer creating this music video is to make sound waves of the track and fuze them in with digital white structure imagery.

DIGIPAK

These DIGIPAK's that we created are used as the cd cover but also as advertising and so it had to relate our band and the themes of our video.This idea came from the legs of the dancers in our videos, the differant photos will have all the stages of the legs, some with UV paint, some plain and some in x-ray to see the bones.

This one is more technology based that originates from the lyrics that are about soical networking.

Animatic and Feedback

After screening our animatic, we were given feedback, which was overall positive. We we're however asked to have more of the narrative point of view, from the guy on the computer and the main 'mysterious girl'.When focusing on the main girl, we are using lots of picture stills focusing on one point of her (eyes), and then compliling them together at the same point, so her eyes will stay in the same place, but the rest of her body will be moving. We feel that this will create a unique shot, in comparison to the rest of our video footage.

Props - instruments

Guitar Drums

Bass

Amp (we will need a lot of these to look effective)

Microphone

Synth

Cast List

THE DANCERS:

Jess Wilson

Nico Dunkert

Paula Riemann

Amy Ruble

Yulia Sukalenko

THE BAND:

Victor Stromberg

JJ Benzimra

Charlie Hiett
Felix Klinkhammer

Tom Warhurst

Legall Permission Letter

So that we could use this track for our music video it was required to email 'Almost Gold Records' for their permission.

This is the email we sent:

To Almost Gold Records

We are a group of A Level students working on an A Level project for
a qualification in Media Studies.We are writing to request permission to
use the following track as part of this project:

We Are Rockstars by Does It Offend You, Yeah?

With your permission the track would be used as the accompaniment to a
short form video that is made purely for assessment purposes and will have no commercial usage. The video will be viewed only by members of the school community and the assessor of the examination board.


The link to the company's homepage where we found their email address is -

http://www.almostgoldrecordings.com/

Storyboard