Wednesday 14 December 2011

Evaluation

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

We used several forms and conventions to help us with our music video. The first was the Destiny’s Child Video ‘Girl’ which really led to the inspiration of our music video. When watching the video we found that a lot of the same elements that where in the Destiny’s Child video matched what we wanted our own video to look like, this included the narrative, genre and style. The target audience was also very close to ours. We really like the idea of friendship and that no matter what happens you can always talk to your girls about it, this became key in our music video. Once we settled on a base narrative we went on youtube to look at more music videos to pick up any research about that sort of genre that would be helpful to us in making ours. We found that with a female solo artist a lot of close-ups and main focuses where of her, the camera was pretty much always on her so that was really key to us, we took that in and made sure that when we shot ours we would shoot close-ups and keep the artist as the main focus. We also found that they all had some sort of narrative to them, which again included the main artist, not someone else, so we followed down that road also. The genre of our music was very pop solo artist, with the whole telling your feelings through song type of thing then in the end everything working out, we played with this in our narrative stage trying to really capture the true meaning of the song and genre. The pace of the song was fairly slow, which is normal for a love song so we made sure the cuts of our edit fitted in time with the music, getting faster snaps when the music sped up when she hit her long note in the song. Over all I think other conventions really helped us achieve a piece of work that would fit right in with other music videos that carried the same genre, I also think we wouldn’t have gotten as many close-ups in if we hadn’t of watch music videos over and over.

How effective is the combination of your main product & Ancillary texts?

We knew from working on our music video we wanted to keep the same theme though out the work, so we looked at female solo artists album covers to figure out what sort of shot we would most likely use for out digi pack. After looking at that we decided to have a close up shot of Keke J on the front of the Digi pack in black and white, this still in keeps with the same style we used in the music video, keeping it the same genre. We wanted to show more of an artistic creative style for the front cover so we looked at different fonts than the normal ones to make the cover stand out and be different. When doing the photo shoot we took a range of different shots so we would have a range to choose from. This worked out really well because we actually had done a photo shoot before starting work on the Digi pack and when we decided to go for one those photo’s as the cover we then used the others to make up an artist booklet with signed photos of the artist that would be included in our Digi pack. The poster was a great way to advertise to the target audience what would be included in the Digi pack, it also gave an online option to find out more about the artist. The poster makes the artist look fun and popular, the font on the poster really makes it stand out and would grab a lot of people’s eyes. I think that all three products work really well together and they all link to each other, which sort of makes them a package. I really thought we caught the mood and genre of the whole image of the artist. The songs we put on the back of the Digi pack where all songs from the artist Keke J, which helped add to the genre because they all had the same theme in common. We added more promotions on the three products to get more people to buy them, for example we said that the first 200 copies that where sold would get a free pair of Keke J limited addition head phones and we included a bonus track featuring Drake another popular music artist. This was advertised on the poster and the Digi Pack.

What have you learnt from the audience feedback?

 

The audience feed back we where really keen to hear because we wanted to know if we where heading down the right direction or not, it also gave us a chance to watch the music video we had so far and see if we could spot any mistakes or changes we than needed to make note on and change. Over all it was all really good the video wasn’t quite finished when we showed it for feedback so of course there was some confusion on where the narrative was going. The comments we got from the video where over all good, they really liked the style and genre of the music and they thought we matched the tow up nicely. They said that the lip sync was really in time and they really liked the performance given in the video. Comments where made about the pace of the edit being to quick for the pace of the song which we took on board and after seeing it our selves we agreed with this comment and went back and changed it. Another comment made was about out narrative and where it was going, even after explaining it they still thought it needed more. We did consider putting more elements in the narrative maybe adding a male into the story but in the end we where running out of time for filming so we thought instead of rushing it we would stick to our original plan and make sure the shots worked together. This turned in our favour because everyone preferred what we did rather than the other idea we tried to add in, they said when it was finished it worked a lot more than they thought it would have. Over all the positives outweighed the negatives we got which we where really pleased with. A small comment was made about out locations and if we had planned for any more, they said it would have look more effective if we had one more location but we where pleased with the locations we chose, we already had four locations so we where happy with our music video location wise but still took the criticism on.          


How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Blogger was key for when we where planning out everything. It really helped us manage our time and helped us organise filming time and photo shoots. It also gave us a place to keep all our ideas in one place and it was easy then to reflect on the ideas we had and ether make them better or add and develop them. Blogger I would say helped us the most as planning was very important to this task and I don’t think we would have achieved to the same standards as we did. Final cut express was a really in detail software which help us get snappy shots more effective and made it fairly easy for us to sync up the lyrics to the miming in the performance. I was really happy with the software and found it easy to operate around. I played around with some of the tools at first so I could get a feel of what I could use then when I was editing the video I found it easy to get the intended effect on the video. I really liked how our video turned out and I think the editing and effects we put on it helped. We had a lot of comments on how the black and white wash looked really nice in the studio shoots, it separated the locations out and made it more clear I was in a studio. It also help separate the narrative to the performance to a certain content which then made it easy for the audience to follow. We used different software’s when it came to doing the Digi pack as we didn’t have photoshop on computers at home, but we did use the software when doing the front cover, we made the picture clearer and then edited the writing over the top of the cover. It was good we had access to these programs, as the advertisement of the product is just as important as the music video was, if hadn’t had these software’s the product wouldn’t have looked good as a whole.

Tuesday 13 December 2011

Keke J Final Music Video R115

Front cover & Back cover

This is the front cover for our album slightly edited from the original with the album name printed on it at the bottom in white. the photo has been made clearer and sharper.
This will be the inside cover where the CD will be placed
This will be the design on the CD it's self
This is what the CD will look like inside the case over all

Photo booklet / posters

Promotional KeKe J Headphones

Final Album Cover

Final Poster advertisement








Our advertisement poster for our digi-pack  goes straight to the point with whats on our digi pack  which appeals to an audience. Knowing exactly what they will be getting for their money and in an easy and informative way. We have also included an oppinion a well know tv channel 'MTV' and also information for a facebook page where fans are ale to follow keke j and what she gets up into in the music world.

I chose a couple of different fonts that stood out and were different from the genreal ones like Arial and calibri. This was so it was unique from other posters and also attracts the audience and fits the style of our poster. I put them in different colors to make different sections to the advertisement so all the text is read.

First i made the photograph Black & white but then decided it was to predictable as our album cover image is lack & white. So i tinted the B&W to a more yellow color giving it more of a vintage edge to it.

Monday 12 December 2011

Evaluation\

  1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Our media product uses, develop and challenges forms and conventions of a real media product for a few reasons. Firtsly we have gained inspitation from other videos and artist on the market, we watched Destiny Childs music video for the song 'Girl.' After watching the video, it showed our group that we could do a similar narrative as it fits in with our genre of our chosen song 'Crush' by keke J, and also has the theme of love and lost in both the inspiration video and also our ideas for our music video. Our video contains a range of shots but focussing mainly on extreme and mid clos ups, a typical convention of a music video. Weused wuite alot of close ups to show off the artists strong emotion in the video fitting the facial expreesion with the lyrics of the song and advertising the artist themselves. Like most other videos, our product had a narrative showing the key points of the storyline and linking the lyrics of the song, to the imagery shown. The genre of our product is a female solo artist pitching her feelings or oppinions through her music. The pace of the footage and how it's been cut between the lyrics fits well with the video as it flows well with the speed of the music. For example our video uses slow cuts between each clip as our song is quite slow, however if it was a more upbeat song like rock the cuts be quick and snappy. Music videos similar to ours show close ups of the group/ Artist face throughout the video really connecting with the audience and showing them the style and what she wants the audience to be feeling. I also find that listening to songs puts you in moods depending on the genre.

2.   How effective is the combination of your main product & Ancillary texts?

From working on our music video and then starting our ancillary products, we had the same theme ideas throughtout.  For our Digi-pack front cover we used a close up of the artist showing her in a similar location to what she was in the video. We edited the photograph in Black & White the same as our studio footage. Using different fonts than the genreal ones, showing a more creative side to the production and an eye catching cover standing out to the target audience. I think our Magazine advertisement shows clearly to the reader whats included in the digi-pack package. It shows a way to find out more and to followe keke j online. I think the advertisement potrays the artist as being quite fun because of the brighter colours used on the poster and also showing her songs may be about love because of the lips image and her facial expression. I think all three of the products work well together as a promotion package because of their similarities and appeal to our audience. Our target audience of young female teenagers may like it because it's simple and the genre of love and boys. It would most likely appeal to them because when girls become teenagers they have alot more emotions and can relate to keke J and her song lyrics.

3.  What have you learnt from the audience feedback?

Overall i beleive our group has learnt quite alot from other people's feedback. When recieveing feedback we got both good and bad points. Most people thought that our performance, lip sync, shots and affects were really good. However some people thought that we could have included more locations, a wider range of close ups from different angles and that the narrative was unclear. When looking back at our rough cut we felt our main aim was to focus on adding alot my angles of shots between both performance an dthe narrative. we chose a song that was over four minutes long and when showinf our rought cut we had edited it up to one minute and people thought it wasnt going anywhere. So in order to stop this from happening in our final music video, we decided to cut it down to just over three minutes so people didnt get bored or confused about our narrative and also being able to introduce it alot quicker. When showing out final music video we found that the positives overtook the negatives. Many were the same as before and they liked the fact that we changed some parts to black & white and shortedned the fotage so it didn't drag. We found that the majority of people were pleased with what we had chnaged. However some poeple still thought there could have been more locations, but as a group we dedcided not too as we felt we had enough.our teacher also said that we just have involved a narrative of a guy however when watching the final product he thought that we made the decission not to also.

3.  How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and     evaluation stages?

The blogger, photoshop and final cut were all important in helping us with our media products all in different ways. Having the blooger was great as we were able to write a plan for each lesson and writing aims along the way, also being able to show ourselves and others what our ideas and plan are for our music video. Photoshop was a help when we wanted to do editing, however we decided to use something different called Gimp to edit our products as we found it easier to use and more easy to work with. Having the advantage of being able to use HD video cameras, we were able to do clear shots without picelated footage. We also used a school SLR digital camera for our photoshoots for our ancillary products as we believe we were able to get a clearer and more professional look to the photograph.

Friday 9 December 2011

Rhian's Evaluation Questions & Answers

1) There are several ways in which our media product uses forms and conventions of real media products. Our first piece of inspiration for our product came from the Destiny’s child music video for ‘Girl’ as we felt that the genre of this song, theme of the music video, and narrative were very similar to our product and the theme we wanted to convey which was feminine, and shows friendship and friends being there for each other. After researching music video on YouTube by other female artists, we noticed that music in our genre (R’n’B/pop)tend to have a lot of shots of the artist themselves with a lot of close-ups, so we made sure that we shot a range of different close-ups of our artist to use for our music video. As well as looking at a range of music videos for inspiration, we also done some research on Google images to get some ideas for costumes and props to use that would fit into our genre; we went for feminine, bright but simple costumes with simple jewellery like ear-rings, rings and necklaces. The narrative for our music video is quite typical to the lyrics of the song which is about a girl having a crush on a boy, so we produced a narrative to show our artist feeling down about this, and feeling lonely until her friends meet up with her and cheer her up.

2) The combination of our main product and ancillary texts is very effective as the combination of posters and photos gives a clearer insight to the artist’s personality which increases likeability. The cover of our digi-pak is a posed photo of the artist - we chose to have the artists face as the main feature for the front cover because research showed us that the majority of album covers for our genre of music had the artists face on the front cover. When first seeing the digi-pak, the front image may convey a typical image of a female artist - hair and make-up done and posing for the camera. The photo also shows confidence as it is a bold and striking, clear image in black and white with a very small amount of colour. However, the photo booklet on the inside of the digi-pak conveys the artist’s personality rather than her image as she poses for the photos. These photos are more playful and light-hearted to show her fun side. The target audience for our product is aimed at teenagers and young adults – it is suitable for a young audience as it does not contain any swear words. This product would be more attractive to a female based audience as the artist is female and singing about her crush, so other females are able to relate to her; this factor alone would help to attract the target audience. Younger females may be attracted to the product because they see the artist as someone they look up to and idolise. On the other hand, a male audience may also find the product appealing due to the attraction to the female artist – photos and posters would contribute to the attraction.

3) From feedback we received on our rough-cut of the music video, we used the negative feedback as constructive criticism to improve our music video. As the rough-cut was unfinished when viewed, some people said that they couldn’t see where our narrative was going which meant that we gave it quite a slow build up, however with fast-paced cuts and short shots it worked well for our video and balanced out the pace. In our unfinished rough-cut we were also advised that we needed more locations as there were only two different locations at the time, but our finished product had one other location that we had intended to introduce towards the end of our music video. We were pleased that the performance was complimented on and the audience liked that we used black and white effect for various clips of our video. There was positive feedback on the pace of our clips so we kept this consistent throughout, and we were happy to hear we had a good range of
footage as we were very sure to get more than enough footage to be able to choose from, and use what worked/looked best in our video.

4) In the planning of our music video, we used technology like a HD video camera to go out and film some test footage so that we got used to the camera and tripod, lighting and working one of our locations to the best of our ability. Having this specifically set time to make some test footage saved us from wasting our time when it came to filming footage that we would be using in our music video because we already knew the equipment and location. Bloggr was one of the main technologies that we used in the process of our planning as this is where we put our inspiration and ideas down and where we noted down what and how we had done things/what needed changing and what we wanted to try, so we could go straight to our blog to arrange what we would do next. For the production of our product we decided not to use Photoshop and used an alternative called ‘Gimp’ as the whole of my group seemed to have difficulty with using Photoshop for particular things that we wanted to create like certain effects of images and certain fonts, so instead of wasting our working time, we used a different programme. Final Cut was the main piece of technology in the creation of our video as this the programme that we used to make and edit our music video.

Tuesday 6 December 2011

Screen shots 'Destiny childs- girl music video'


This shot was chosen from the video as it gives the audience knowledge of the location for the video. we chose a cafe also for one of our narrative locations because this where we showed the feelings and emotions of keke j with her friends comforting her.









I took this snapshot from the video because its good close up of Beyonce singing with little spacearound her. This is similar to one of our shots as we used a similar shot but from the side on and had little space either side of the artist.



Even though its been edited i black and white i think it still looks similar and has the same effect on the video, it shows her facial expressions and a plain background.













Here you can see that they've shown the girl group hugging creating a theme of friendship and happiness.









In our music video we tried to show off the same atmosphere by having them all meeting up together for a drink and talking about the main girls crush.






We showed the girls individually saying hello but them becoming a group when they all sit down. We chose to shoot a medium long shot showing half their bodies so its not too far away and not visible in what was going on.
















We chose these screen shots as we may use some of them for our commentary video to exaplain our answers. we chose takes from the cafe to show similar environment in our music video and showing close ups of Beyonce's face. We chose these particular ones as they have similarities to some of our shots showing the importance of close ups in a video. We will use some of these snapshots from the video to put over our commentary so whilst one of us is talking the audience will have more of an idea of what they are explaining.

Thursday 24 November 2011

POSTERS

this poster is very simple and blank. It shows off the main focus of the band and what kind of style they have they are also wearing different outfits. The colour scheme is all the same so you can tell its a group, it also helps adds to the style of them and the music.









Friday 18 November 2011

digi pack- photoshoot

  • Since our first ideas we have decided to new pictures as the first shoot didn't really fit with our genre of music and so we have planned to do a shoot on Monday morning  for Tuesdays media lesson.
  • We are going to have a plain white backdrop, lighting and a fan to create a good affect to the photograph.
  • We want to have makeup that stands out and is eye catching to the audience.
  • We feel that our previous ideas for our digipack does not fit in with our theme and genre of our music

Digipack- not final



Back of Digi pack

Ideas and research for digipak

As we have been focusing on creating a digipak that will fit the genre of our album, we have been researching album covers of similar artists (which have been posted on the blog) and we took photos of Catherine to edit and use on our digipak as we feel that a photo of the artist is fitting for our genre of music.

One photo shoot was done and the photos were edited and we felt happy with them, however after further research and brainstorming we have all decided to try another photoshoot with different background scenery to create a more modern feel.

Initial Ideas

Before we had started to do any filming of our music video we made sure we had a thorough plan of the narrative and theme in which we wanted to convey through our music video. The narrative, costumes/hair and make-up, and location didn't differ from what we had initially planned to use for our video.
Our story boards are not exactly the same as the outcome of our video as we knew that we had planned to use quite a lot of shots, so not all of these were drawn up; however the locations on our story boards are all the same as the locations that we used in our final video.

Once we had uploaded all of our footage and were in the process of editing, we knew that we had more than enough footage and were happy with what we had, so we didn't feel as though we needed to spare some time to film extra footage. When we eventually finished editing our music video together and polished everything off, we decided that we would go out for 10 minutes and couple of more shots. This didn't take long as we knew exactly what we wanted as we had planned to put this clip in from the start.

One thing that we drastically changed about our music video from what we had originally planned to do, was the use of slow motion. Instead of adding the effect of slow motion for the whole of our music video, we decided that we would only make use of slow motion on the very last shot of the video.

Tuesday 15 November 2011

Album cover




 I really like the Leona Lewis album cover as its simple yet stands out because of the way she looks. it has a color theme of brown because of her hair, eyes and makeup all fitting together. Having her making eye contact directly at the camera makes a stronger image rather than having her turning away. Also, not having her smiling or looking too sad shows to the audience what type of music it's going to be and attracting a certain target audience. The text is also quite simple, basic Ariel text all in capitals, simple but still stand out above the image.





This Duffy album cover is very different from the first one. Its in black and white creating an older and vintage look to the cover. Her clothing seems to be black and white also, having the white stripe on the jacket makes Duffy stand out more from the landscape behind. The text uses two different fonts, the artists name looks like its been signed by her and the bock writing fir the name of her single.


I really like this Album Cover as there is a good color scheme and strong photograph. The dark purple and brown fits well together, the writing in the purple matches with Demi Lovato's lipstick and hair. the accessories of rings on her hands stand out and creates a more feminine touch.



This album cover really stands out as everything is defined and in place. Her hair covering one eye having a perfect curve position and not one hair out of place. how the text covers this part of the hair i think creates a good affect and looks different from other album covers.







This Ellie Golding Album cover fits in with the theme of the name of the album 'Lights.' The way the writing has been edited to look like there lights lighting up in the letters and how it carry's on up towards the image of Ellie Golding with some of her hair glittering gold, also the same.


















Most of these Album covers are close ups just showing the Artist face which i think we would want to do for our Digipack cover. Then it shows that it's purely just about the single artist and the way its show showing off their facial expression.

Tuesday 8 November 2011

Song list (Digi pack cover)

  1. Crush
  2. Arguing
  3. Promise Ring
  4. Fed up
  5. Breaking point
  6. Remember me
  7. Speechless
  8. Love you more
  9. Writing a letter
  10. Whatever
  11. Just fine
  12. Time
  13.  Pretty Girl Rock Featuring Drake

Monday 7 November 2011

Target Audience

We thought that the song would be suitable for the younger audience, teenagers and young adults. As it's a love song it's not everybody's taste, but with the video and narrtive of ours, i think that this type of song would mean more to younger people and also it would attract more to girls than it would to boys. It's a classic pop song and i think it should be shown in the same way as the others. The song would be easier to show on music channels and played on the radio as it doesnt have any violence or swearing in it. In a way it's a cheesy love song with a video to match.

Review on Artist covers

The artist covers shown on the blog are the types of style we are going for, they relate to the right genre of the music video we are doing. They are very bright and colourful or focusing on one colour. They all focus on the artist on the front of the cover in some way or another, you rarely see a female solo artist who isn't on the cover of their own album so we are going to stick with that theme. We took photos to go on the cover of our digi pack which are also on the blog.

Original Artist covers




Research on Special Effects

Nowadays probably more music videos feature CGI and special effects than don`t.  Visual Effects and 3d animation are a great way to create a stunning and original look for your promo, and because CGI allows you to do more than ever before – even if your budget is measured in thousands rather than tens of thousands of pounds– the opportunities for using post production effects in your music video promos are greater than they`ve ever been.


One of the reasons for this is that video effects artists and animators tend to see music videos as a way to try out new visual effects ideas and techniques that they don`t usually get the chance to use in more tightly controlled, and higher budget video productions for TV and film.  They get to be more creative, and can often suggest their own ideas of how to use new cutting edge FX techniques that even film producers aren`t yet aware of.  If you`re prepared to be flexible, then you can often get a good deal on some really impressive visual effects.

Possile Fonts (Digi pack)

KEKE J - Freestyle Script



KEKE J- Mistral

Possile Digipack images


Analysis of students work

http://www.youtube.com/user/longroadmediastudies#p/c/90B97A72C742C076/17/rm2p9fgOeEs

Location

I really like this location as its completely different from other videos that i have been watching. Its more eye catching with the grafitti and run down look aout teh place. It creates a sense of loneliness in the video which suggests that this is the couple acting in the video. It seems abandoned and away from teh main of the city, showing taht teh locationwas thought about well and the shots are purely based on each chracter and their surroundings.And it also looks like a real music videos choice of location.

Coastumes

I thought overall teh costumes were good as they fitted in with the mood of the song. They were not over the top like they are in more up beat songs, they were simple yet noticale to the audience. However i do thinkthere could have been a costume change from the girl when she is being filmed in a different part of the location so she had 2 cosumes like the male, on teh other hand this could have een done so it looks like just one day instead of showing timepassing in thair music video.

Effects

I really like the way they have shown time passing quickly y speeding up teh footage of themwalking around through the arch ways and mving spaces on the sofa. I think its fits in with the music well when there is no singing and just generally looks good and effective to me the audience. Another effect, where there rewind the footage of them spray painting the wall, it creates more of a narrative to the story with what they write without having to have the narrative actualy being shown by the chracters acting it out.

Filming/ Shots

I think the music video does an excellent jo of showing off the location to the audience, by showing long shots and close ups of parts of the place with no people. Showing empty food wrappes, drink bottles, wheel of a bike, missing flooroards and bits of rubish really sets the scene and gives off ideas about the music video itself and the atmousphere they were trying to potray. Theres a take where boteh chracters sit in a archway individually one at a time, th girl sitting teh middle then the boy sitting more to the left. They fade one in as the other is fading out which i thinklooks rea;lly good asit suggests that there not there together yet there singing to each other.

Lip singing

It looked like they had learnt the song well as tehy seemed to know the words and it fitted well with the footage.

Thursday 3 November 2011

Music video Anlysis

JoJo- Disaster Music video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9rGNfJmXRc&ob=av2n&noredirect=1

This music video shows both love and anger within the lyrics and narrative. There are signs of attitude in the video and also sadness creating ups and downs thrughut the narrative and performance.

The performance side of the music video is mainly shot in close ups, extreme close ups and medium close up. We decieded to the same as we think it shows more emotions and facial expressions from the artist creating more realistic atmosphere of the video.

It also uses short and snappy takes from the narrative point of view showing the main points that the audience would want to see so we know exactly what is going on and dont get confused with the storyline.

The Start of Editing

We started editing our music video after we shot all the footage for it. We were pleased with how much footage we got as it made it easy to pick. We decided that the video should be fairly fast paced and so did a lot of cuts between two takes. We have mixed all our locations up to keep the video interesting for the audience to watch. We put in a black and white background on the green screen shots which seems to have worked well, it also makes it interesting to watch and identifies the fact it's not the narrative. We have taken the feedback from class mates and are working on improving the video to make it more understandable. 

Feedback from our draft

Positive Feedback:
-Good Performance
- Good use of close-ups
-Nice black and white
-Good pace of clips
-Nice range of footage
-Good lip sync

Negative Feedback:
-Didn't see where the narrative was going
-Needed more location
-Got too pacy at the end
-Close ups where at the same range

Anamatic

Tuesday 18 October 2011

Day 3

For our studio part of our music video we filmed in the green room as we are going to change the background to the color black so its purely focused on keke (Catherine) and her singing. In the green room we used two lights, one focused on the green wall and one on  Catherine so there was no reflection off green on catherine.

We Mainly had close ups of Catherine from the sides and front so its not one shot all the way through. We didn't want to have too much space within each shot as its more about the lip singing in these parts of the filming. 

We had to make sure that the lights were in the right position in every shot as sometimes our fottage was too bright and reflected alot of light onto catherines face.

October 11th Fimling

Day 2

Today we decided to film footage near the river in Chesterton as it had good natural sunlight and was not busy with people creating a feeling of loneliness for keke (Catherine). Rhian filmed close ups of Catherine in different locations showing a lot of movement in the video as we decided we wanted quite a few different locations so it wasn't fully based on the studio part of our music video. Hearing feedback from Catherine and Rhian i believe that it went very well as the natural lighting was a good affect to the footage filmed and was peaceful.

This evening of filming was also for a narrative part of our music video. Today we filmed the sleepover part of the narrative where its more relaxed because of where we are and our costume choices. We stuck with our brown and beige color scheme that we had in the cafe and bought it into the living room also. in the room we had dark brown leather sofa for our seating area, we had a wooden table in the center of the room matching the one in the cafe. we also had white candles and flower petals on the table to give it more of a welcoming image towards the audience.

We faced quite a big problem towards the end of the end of the evening when filming this part of our footage as our battery was very low so we had to know exactly what we were going to film and work around the amount of filming time we had left.

October 10th Filming

Day 1

This was our day for shooting the narrative part in cafe Nero for our music video. We planned to shoot a scene where keke's friends meet up with her to talk to her about her and her boyfriend as she is upset in this scene. We decided to do medium close ups of all three us talking together to represent friendship within the group. We then shot close ups of each character (Catherine, Katie & Rhian) showing their facial expressions and feelings towards KeKe (Catherine).

Overall the filming went well we decided however it didn't come without its problems. Even though we had emailed quite a few cafe's we were still unable to film when approaching them as they needed permission from head office for us to be able to film on their premises. We then tried cafe Nero in the town center near the market center and they let us film in their premises under the conditions that we do not disturb and have respect for the other customers.

We were filming for 2 hours which we planned as we knew the upstairs part of the cafe shut at 6pm so we made sure that we were going to fit all the footage into this day as we may not have another opportunity to film here again.

The color scheme of  the cafe was perfect as they have dark brown leather chairs that suggest wealth and upmarket dining. Also have more sophisticated images in the background of places rather than your general cafe images of a coffee mug or machine.

Friday 14 October 2011


PRODUCTION: KeKe J- crush
CALL SHEET NO 1 – 11th October



Production office/base: Media Department, Long Road Sixth Form College, Long Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PX                                       TEL:01223507400
Director/Producer: Catherine, Rhian & Katie

CALL TIMES
Camera/Production crew: Rhian’s house- 3pm
Actors/Band: Catherine & Rhian - 3pm
 Katie- 5:30pm

Locations:
1) Rhian’s house
2) Chesterton- riverside

Location Contacts:
1) House number- 
2) No contact number



PRODUCTION CONTACTS
Producer/Director:
Camera Operator: Rhian and Katie
Production Co-ordinator:

SHOOTING SCHEDULE
TIME
LOCATION NO.
SCENE
EXTERNAL/
INTERNAL (EXT/INT)
CAST/BAND
3pm
2
Walking
external
Rhian & catherine
5:30PM
1
Sleepover








CAST DETAILS
NAME
ROLE/CHARACTER
CONTACT INFO
CALL TIME
Catherine
Main character (keke j)
Mobile-
3pm
Rhian
Friend (Film crew)
Mobile-
3pm
Katie
Friend (Film crew)
Mobile-
5:30pm


REQUIREMENTS

EQUIPMENT:
Tripod
HD Film Camera


PROPS:
·       Mugs
·       Blanket
·       Cushions
·       Sofa
·       Flowers/vase
·       Plates
·       Cakes
·       Onion

COSTUME:

Rhian- Joggers, t-shirt, straight hair

Catherine- jeans, jumper, Hair in bunches

Katie- Slipper socks, joggers, t-shirt, hair tied up

EMERGENCIES:   
Addenbrookes Hospital

Cambridge university hospitals NHS Foundation trust                         Telephone: 01223 586655
Hills road Cambridge
CB2 0QQ

Police station

Cambridgeshire constabulary                 Telephone: Emergency: 999
Headquarters                                                    
Huntingdon
Cambridgeshire
PE29 6NP

Emergency numbers/under 18

Catherine’s mum-
Katie’s mum-


MAP OF LOCATIONS: 


PRODUCTION: KeKe J- crush
CALL SHEET NO 1 – 10th October



Production office/base: Media Department, Long Road Sixth Form College, Long Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PX                                       TEL:01223507400
Director/Producer: Catherine, Rhian & Katie

CALL TIMES
Camera/Production crew: Cambridge City Centre – 4 pm
Actors/Band: Cambridge City centre- 4pm

Locations:
1) Café Nero- Cambridge city centre

Location Contacts:
1) café Nero- 01223 307728


PRODUCTION CONTACTS
Producer/Director: Catherine, Rhian & Katie
Camera Operator:
Production Co-ordinator:

SHOOTING SCHEDULE
TIME
LOCATION NO.
SCENE
EXTERNAL/
INTERNAL (EXT/INT)
CAST/BAND
4 pm
1
Meeting up in the cafe
Internal
All 3 characters











CAST DETAILS
NAME
ROLE/CHARACTER
CONTACT INFO
CALL TIME
Catherine
Main character

4pm
Rhian
Film crew

4pm
Katie
Film crew

4pm


REQUIREMENTS

EQUIPMENT:
Tripod
HD Film Camera


PROPS:



COSTUME:

Rhian- beige jacket, Straight hair, blue top, jeans, black bag- necklace

Catherine- leather jacket, curly hair, Pink top, denim skirt, black leggings, black bag- Ring

Katie- curly hair, Black blazer, pink top, leggings, boots, fur bag- rings



EMERGENCIES:   
Addenbrookes Hospital

Cambridge university hospitals NHS Foundation trust                         Telephone: 01223 586655
Hills road Cambridge
CB2 0QQ

Police station

Cambridgeshire constabulary                 Telephone: Emergency: 999
Headquarters                                                   
Huntingdon
Cambridgeshire
PE29 6NP

Emergency numbers/under 18

Catherine’s mum-
Katie’s mum-


MAP OF LOCATIONS: