Microphone (60's - modern)
Bass (60's - modern)
Guitar (60's - modern)
Drums (60's - modern)
Bongos (60's - modern)
--> These instruments in 60's style and modern version are provided and organized by the school. We want these to change as well because that will signify very clearly that we are changing time.
60's TV Camera
--> We will rent that for about 100 £ for our video.
Posters for the corridor
--> We will take pictures of people (and ourselves) plus the band (Jack Thompson and the Quartet) and then, with the help of the photography department print these of and make them in a 60's style to use for the corridor in our music video.
Thursday, 21 October 2010
Cast List
Lead Singer: Will Teal
Guitar: Tom Evans
Bongos: Glen Pegado
Drums: Jamie Parker
Bass: Sam Hindmarsh
Main Girl: Paula Riemann
Audience Members: Helen Lagender, Courtney Madinca, Tabitha Brown,
Emma Stack
TV Presenter: Hugo Ellis
Bodyguard: James Tunstill, Adam Grant
Camera Man: Jason Guildford
This is the Cast for our Production. We had to find a Cast that could, especially in case of the band, look very 60's (hairstyle) but easily be made modern. With the lead singer being Will Teal we found someone perfect even though he is A2 so it was very hard to get him out of lessons, but he has the perfect hairstyle and look for the video. The rest of the band kind of fits that description as well and most of them play the instruments they are meant to play in the video which will probably make things easier. The audience members were chosen simply because of looks and availability and the bodyguards as well because they both look pretty scary and stereotypical. We chose Hugo as our TV presenter, because he has the kind of look as well and as he is my drama teacher I know he will be perfect doing it.
Guitar: Tom Evans
Bongos: Glen Pegado
Drums: Jamie Parker
Bass: Sam Hindmarsh
Main Girl: Paula Riemann
Audience Members: Helen Lagender, Courtney Madinca, Tabitha Brown,
Emma Stack
TV Presenter: Hugo Ellis
Bodyguard: James Tunstill, Adam Grant
Camera Man: Jason Guildford
This is the Cast for our Production. We had to find a Cast that could, especially in case of the band, look very 60's (hairstyle) but easily be made modern. With the lead singer being Will Teal we found someone perfect even though he is A2 so it was very hard to get him out of lessons, but he has the perfect hairstyle and look for the video. The rest of the band kind of fits that description as well and most of them play the instruments they are meant to play in the video which will probably make things easier. The audience members were chosen simply because of looks and availability and the bodyguards as well because they both look pretty scary and stereotypical. We chose Hugo as our TV presenter, because he has the kind of look as well and as he is my drama teacher I know he will be perfect doing it.
Monday, 18 October 2010
Editing Process of Animatic Timeline
We start to edit our Anamatic Timeline using the Storyboard we have filmed, each slide for about 10 seconds, by taking these, putting them onto the timeline and putting them in order with the right amount of time. As we haven't downloaded the song for the first lesson as it is very hard to get because it isn't that famous, we relied on the time that we wrote on the timeline in the process of storyboarding because we already listened to the music while doing it to make out storyboards as precise as possible. This helped us while producing the Animatic Timeline.
In this lesson, we finally got the song and stuck it onto the timeline. Then we had to adjusts the shots, because we had to make sure that editing cuts etc come and beats in the music. To make this easier we put a mark everytime there was a specific lyrics rythm or music rytyhm. This helped us starting the process of polishing our Animatic Timeline.
To finally get the music has helped us to look at our idea and storyboards again and we actually moduled them aroung quite a bit because you get a different view on the whole things once you see the storyboards moving together with the music etc. The idea in general stayed the same, however we simply switched storyboards back and forward to create a better version of what we want to produce. An example of this would be the shots of the girl getting ready. In the original storyboards, we had cut-aways to the girl getting ready for a long time while the singer is singing but now we actually figured, that we have to have the shot on the lead singer while he is singing the lines and therefore the cut-aways need to be shorter and quicker so that the break can actually come in the change of sound.
So far the first steps have been very easy but now that we have the music it is getting harder, because everything has to be extremely precise and perfect for the music as well.
In the last lesson we finished editing our storyboards and putting them onto the timeline. We perfectioned the bits that weren't good and played it over and over searching for possible mistakes. Then we proposed the idea and showed it to our teachers to figure out whether they were happy with the end result as well, as we changed the whole thing around quite a bit and also left some shots out. Luke said that there were some things he still didn't like, as for example the shots of her putting on make-up, the fact that we cut out the bit where she enters the club and there are two bodyguards in front of the door, the fact that the changing around of the band takes too long and the audience becoming modern because they felt it was too boring.
Basically they wanted us to have shots of Paula getting ready in colour, probably in over-the-shoulder shots, and more about in her bedroom than actually in her mirror. Furthermore we should think of a way how to change the audience more interesting than just touching them. An idea that had been proposed was that Paula could rip of the audiences clothes and underneath there would be colorful stuff and then suddenly, as we do not have enough time, the audience would start changing themselves and figuring out that they have colorful clothes underneath as well. Also, as the song is about 3 minutes they said that we should put in a break at 2:30 and then the first minute (up to the change of sound) would be in the 60's style with colour cut-aways - then 23 seconds in the break of changing the band around, however also the audience members would come on stage as well and help, as we don't have enough time and the instruments and everything else needs to be changed around as well as the styling make-over.
Then the last minute of the song would be completely modern.
Furthermore we thought of some more interesting shots, for example when she is walking through the black and white postered corridor, the door to the studio would open and we would have an over-the shoulder shot of the audience (black and white) looking at her when she is in colour and the corridor behind her as well. As well as this we changed the ending, because instead of her walking out, being happy with what she did, we will end with the modern band as a last image.
So basically the next lesson we will spend with doing these changes to the editing process of the storyboards to complete it.
In this lesson, we finally got the song and stuck it onto the timeline. Then we had to adjusts the shots, because we had to make sure that editing cuts etc come and beats in the music. To make this easier we put a mark everytime there was a specific lyrics rythm or music rytyhm. This helped us starting the process of polishing our Animatic Timeline.
To finally get the music has helped us to look at our idea and storyboards again and we actually moduled them aroung quite a bit because you get a different view on the whole things once you see the storyboards moving together with the music etc. The idea in general stayed the same, however we simply switched storyboards back and forward to create a better version of what we want to produce. An example of this would be the shots of the girl getting ready. In the original storyboards, we had cut-aways to the girl getting ready for a long time while the singer is singing but now we actually figured, that we have to have the shot on the lead singer while he is singing the lines and therefore the cut-aways need to be shorter and quicker so that the break can actually come in the change of sound.
So far the first steps have been very easy but now that we have the music it is getting harder, because everything has to be extremely precise and perfect for the music as well.
In the last lesson we finished editing our storyboards and putting them onto the timeline. We perfectioned the bits that weren't good and played it over and over searching for possible mistakes. Then we proposed the idea and showed it to our teachers to figure out whether they were happy with the end result as well, as we changed the whole thing around quite a bit and also left some shots out. Luke said that there were some things he still didn't like, as for example the shots of her putting on make-up, the fact that we cut out the bit where she enters the club and there are two bodyguards in front of the door, the fact that the changing around of the band takes too long and the audience becoming modern because they felt it was too boring.
Basically they wanted us to have shots of Paula getting ready in colour, probably in over-the-shoulder shots, and more about in her bedroom than actually in her mirror. Furthermore we should think of a way how to change the audience more interesting than just touching them. An idea that had been proposed was that Paula could rip of the audiences clothes and underneath there would be colorful stuff and then suddenly, as we do not have enough time, the audience would start changing themselves and figuring out that they have colorful clothes underneath as well. Also, as the song is about 3 minutes they said that we should put in a break at 2:30 and then the first minute (up to the change of sound) would be in the 60's style with colour cut-aways - then 23 seconds in the break of changing the band around, however also the audience members would come on stage as well and help, as we don't have enough time and the instruments and everything else needs to be changed around as well as the styling make-over.
Then the last minute of the song would be completely modern.
Furthermore we thought of some more interesting shots, for example when she is walking through the black and white postered corridor, the door to the studio would open and we would have an over-the shoulder shot of the audience (black and white) looking at her when she is in colour and the corridor behind her as well. As well as this we changed the ending, because instead of her walking out, being happy with what she did, we will end with the modern band as a last image.
So basically the next lesson we will spend with doing these changes to the editing process of the storyboards to complete it.
Storyboard Process
After choosing our initial idea, we started producing our storyboards. Our initial idea was, that we had the setting of a 60's television show and we would simply have shots of the band performing live as well as the audiences reaction to the band. However then we were told that this wasn't enough and so we thought we bring in elements of the modern would that have been invented in the 60's but are still accurate today to represent a connection between the two. We came up with the Car MINI, as it was invented in the 60's but there are newer versions of the car today and it is very popular as well. Furthermore we wanted to play on the style element according to fashion and looked at the mini skirts and typical 60's fashion, that are becoming popular again today. Then we would dress the audience and the main female fan of the band and the band itself in 60's fashion, but make a transition to them in modern fashion, however in 60's style.
However we then figured that actually doing the whole efford with getting the car and fashion together because in the end it wouldn't actually look very good. Therefore we skipped the idea and figured that there were other ways to create the modern-60's transition. Then we came up with the idea that we just stick to the 60's studio, but to make it more interesting and to get the connection with the moden world we would blue-screen all the instruments the band is playing on and we would have cut-aways to fans writing modern stuff on the instruments and as they are playing the images and writings would appear. However we figured that the blue-screen paint would cost a lot of money and actually it wouldn't work perfectly and look blurry or might not work at all, because while the instruments are being played there would be shadows which would create a different type of blue and then the blue-screen wouldn't work.
Then we came up with the idea that we could just actually paint the instruments so we wouldn't have the issue with the blue-screen - however this would lead to the fact that we would need at least 5 different guitars + 5 different drums etc and the transitions between half-painted etc wouldn't look great at all.
So we skipped that idea even though we all really liked it - but we liked the element that there were some things in colour and some weren't so we came up with the idea that we could have eveything in black and white except the band playhing and their instruments which would then be in colour. However this would look good being shot in two layers, however it wouldn't actually say or signify anything so we skipped part of that as well.
Moving on we realized that we had Paula Riemann as the actress for the main girl who is a great dancer and we thought we could have her coming in being a great fan of the band trying to get through them and we would split the screen and have her in black and white on the one side in a 60's style and on the other side dressed very modern and in colour. Then she would come in and dance. However we didn't actually like the whole split screen idea and also this would make the whole video about the girl and we didn't really want to do that either. However then we figured that she could actually be the one making sure that it becomes modern and in the song that we have chosen there is a great drum break after about a minute which we wanted to use to represent the change.
Through this process we came to our finished idea which is, that basically we start off in the 60's television studio with the presenter etc. and we would have the band performing and shots of the audience but cut-aways to Paula getting ready (in colour) and she would try to enter the club modern dressed and everything is black and white except her. She walks throught the studio etc and whenever she touches some people in the audience, they become modern and in colour as well. When there is the change of sound in the music she would go and stage and start modulling the band arround for the rest of the song by givbing them a more modern style, new instruments etc and at the ende of the sound they are all in colour and also the change of lighting has changed. The last shot would be Paula walking out, happy with what shes done.
However we then figured that actually doing the whole efford with getting the car and fashion together because in the end it wouldn't actually look very good. Therefore we skipped the idea and figured that there were other ways to create the modern-60's transition. Then we came up with the idea that we just stick to the 60's studio, but to make it more interesting and to get the connection with the moden world we would blue-screen all the instruments the band is playing on and we would have cut-aways to fans writing modern stuff on the instruments and as they are playing the images and writings would appear. However we figured that the blue-screen paint would cost a lot of money and actually it wouldn't work perfectly and look blurry or might not work at all, because while the instruments are being played there would be shadows which would create a different type of blue and then the blue-screen wouldn't work.
Then we came up with the idea that we could just actually paint the instruments so we wouldn't have the issue with the blue-screen - however this would lead to the fact that we would need at least 5 different guitars + 5 different drums etc and the transitions between half-painted etc wouldn't look great at all.
So we skipped that idea even though we all really liked it - but we liked the element that there were some things in colour and some weren't so we came up with the idea that we could have eveything in black and white except the band playhing and their instruments which would then be in colour. However this would look good being shot in two layers, however it wouldn't actually say or signify anything so we skipped part of that as well.
Moving on we realized that we had Paula Riemann as the actress for the main girl who is a great dancer and we thought we could have her coming in being a great fan of the band trying to get through them and we would split the screen and have her in black and white on the one side in a 60's style and on the other side dressed very modern and in colour. Then she would come in and dance. However we didn't actually like the whole split screen idea and also this would make the whole video about the girl and we didn't really want to do that either. However then we figured that she could actually be the one making sure that it becomes modern and in the song that we have chosen there is a great drum break after about a minute which we wanted to use to represent the change.
Through this process we came to our finished idea which is, that basically we start off in the 60's television studio with the presenter etc. and we would have the band performing and shots of the audience but cut-aways to Paula getting ready (in colour) and she would try to enter the club modern dressed and everything is black and white except her. She walks throught the studio etc and whenever she touches some people in the audience, they become modern and in colour as well. When there is the change of sound in the music she would go and stage and start modulling the band arround for the rest of the song by givbing them a more modern style, new instruments etc and at the ende of the sound they are all in colour and also the change of lighting has changed. The last shot would be Paula walking out, happy with what shes done.
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