Group 8: Second Shoot Planning

• Today we plan to do our second shoot as a group.
• After trying to edit the current footage we have realised that we need to shoot our first shots in the video, to give ourselves as structure and edit in chronological order.
• Therefore we are going to shoot our house scene, this will potentially be the most difficult scene to film. This is because we have to shoot the domestic violence scene.
• This will be the most difficult simply because the domestic violence shoot, will have to be done in a variety of angles and movements. This has the potential to go both horribly wrong or being a huge success.
• The shots that we are going to use too emphasise and highlight the importance of this scene will include a vast amount of tracking shots as small amounts are vital to make it look professional and make the shots more interesting. Some of the different angles that we need to incorporate to better our production will include birds eye views and low angle to give different perspectives on the story and establish character exposition.
• Therefore we have to plan our shoot specifically, which Jacques has noted in his exercise book.
• Several other shots we aim to take are the boy and his mother, creating the initial relationship between them in which we base our whole production on.
• As well as this we need to take an abundance of establishing shots, in order to set the scene or act as filler shots if necessary.
• Finally we will also need to take shots of Noah, again planning how we are to initially introduce our protagonist to the audience in a way that will create verisimilitude.

Group 8: Concept Development - Psycho Idea

• Our song No Angels by Bastille, starts off with an interview between a man and a woman.
• After research, we have found that this interview is from the film Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960).

• We want to cut up this interview, and then put it into our video. It will only be there for the start and will then cross cut to the house where our video starts.

Group 8: Concept Development - Group Update

• Today in class, our group was split into different roles.
• We felt we should swap the allocated roles around, giving Jacques the chance to edit. He has several creative ideas, an example being implementing the Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960) interview to follow the track.
• Nathan however is going to add to the magazine advertising we have, he has found the picture he is going to use and the font. Because we have little experience of 'Photoshop' we are still adjusting to it.
• I am going to update the blog, and highlight key terms. Also I may add to Jacques digipak ideas, with another concept post on the Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960) scene.

Group 8: Concept Development - Magazine

• Today we allocated roles, for the prints. We have decided as a group that Jacques will be doing the Digipak, whereas Nathan and I will be doing magazine advertising.
• We decided this because we thought in the future Nathan and I, are more likely to be doing editing therefore Jacques will have more time to perfect the digipak.
• Following conventions that we have found in our research, as well as deciding on the perfect picture following the theme of our video.

Group 8: Concept Development - Digipak

• In todays lesson we allocated roles as who would be creating the digipak and the 2 advertisement posters.
• I will be designing the digipak. During the lesson I began by using the template from the student shared area on the schools computers to begin the layout. I then went through photos that what we had taken in London on our first shoot to see if there were any suitable images for that could be used.
• To begin I struggled with using Photoshop as it has been a long time since I have used the programme, however as I spend more time on it I am sure my skills will improve and will become quicker.

Group 8: Concept Development - Editing

Editing

• Today we began the initial stages of editing our production. Our track has three very clear sections and so makes it easy for us to work on a specific part.
• We have started to view all of our footage and filter out the best and worst shots and break them down into useable footage.
• So far we have edited just over 40 seconds of our production using quite a lot of the footage that we took from our first shoot in London. This is helpful to us as we know now that we will need to take even more footage than we initially realised.
• Some evidence of our editing is shown below along with some screenshots of footage.

Group 8: Print Update - Digipak Font

• In research for our Digipak (which we have decided Jacques will be doing) we have been looking for the font. We felt as a group we wanted to follow the conventional typography that Bastille use in all their album artwork, because we feel its an iconic part of the bands meta-narrative. After some research we think we found the font, its named 'Futura'.

• As you can see from the screenshot, the font is exactly the same as the album covers, however the font in those are bolder. However one potential problem that we have with our font is that in all the Bastille album covers they all use a triangle for the letter 'A'.