Narrative

My music video starts off with a scene in the main character’ (Keith) household. He receives a text from his girlfriend where she informs him that she isn’t happy and wants to take a break. Keith tells his dad he's going out and then the music starts. He puts on his coat and goes to the airport in a cab, as he waits for the bus various camera angles surround him and act as if it prolongs time. He gets on the plane and starts to feel happier as he's now with his friends and his girlfriend is off his mind. He changes position on the plane quite a lot and it seems as if everything around him is passing by and his life is not really meaningful. As he starts to grow sadder he gets off the plane and suddenly the song drops which changes his mood into some kind of celebration. He starts his journey to the hotel where he puts down his bags and then the screen goes black with a time caption and skips straight to the club. The club scene involves panning and a close up of the main characters face along with various mid shots of people dancing. The song is called “Blinded by the lights” which means I have to get lots of the lighting in the video aswell as It’s the climax of the song. The song then cuts back to the hotel where all of the characters are feeling the morning after and can clearly see the hangover taking its full effect.

Diary

It has taken us a while to get to the airport and I am using my mobile to update my progression on the filming as I won't be able to be near a computer for the journey.
I am going to take a few shots of me entering the airport and going up the escalators, a lot of these shots will be shot by my camera men and will be of my main character, although we will be holding lots of luggage I think they can still do a very good job.
It is quite cold at this moment in time but I think we can use this to our advantage as the snow can really bring things like roads and pavement to life as it isnt something we see everyday here in England.

Diary

I arrived at my first location where we will film the opening scene.
Even though I planned to have an hour slot to film the first scene I had to take up 30 minutes of my time teaching one of my cameramen what shots are what and how to hold the camera. This was quite important as no matter how good the camera is it can still look unproffesional if the camera is shakey.

Risk Assesment

Risk Assessment

First scene Shot

I have already shot my final scene as it was hard to get a place where we were alowed to smoke at the location. I knew someone who knew a garage and they let us film there. Most of the shots were Mid shots or close ups showing people drinking/smoking or laughing. This brings a happy freindly mood and shows the contrast between my main characters relationship with his girlfreind breaking down.

Luckily I have found a better location for all of my scenes so I will keep the story line and the main plot but instead use a lot more interesting location for all of them

Diary Entry

This week I have been practicing using the camera and looking into the places that I can shoot my scene. We got in groups and shot a wide variety shots, these were then edited to create certain styles of shots.
Split screens were basically two shots that were split in half and made into the whole screen, this can be used to show two different pieces of performance at the same time or show maybe the same person but in a different place.
Another camera technique we used was slow motion, slow motion was visually exciting as the slow motion helps emphasise on the small things and make them attractive. In our piece we threw water at someone which looked entertaining in slow mo.
We reversed the clip and it also looked good as its not every day you see water coming from the floor to someones face and back into the cup.
The next clip took a while to film as we did a split screen but kept the camera in the same position. I had to make sure that I didnt enter the other region or it would not work as in editing I had to crop out the other half, this gave the illusion that there was 2 of me in the same area.

Digipack photoshoot

My original plan was to do a nightshoot and to take a photo of my character at a bus stop when the bus is pulled up. As the time got closer I realised a few of the problems that I might come across when filming at night and problems with the type of shot I want.
Firstly the lighting was practically pitch black so we had to use flash, the only problem with flash is that it made it look like the picture was taken in the daytime and not at night due to the light.
Also because I wanted a bus to be infront of my character I could really only take 1 photo every 20 minutes as I had to wait for the bus to come and also there would be people coming off it that might be in the way.

Because of these problems I decided to go to my back up photoshoot which would be to represent the last scene and to have the text in the right hand side. When filming my last scene there was cardboard in the background which I realised could be used as a canvas to write my title on either on photoshop or in real life.
I am doing the final photo's for my digipack tonight and will upload a picture of my sketch on my next post.