As a group we have each contributed to creating a storyboard
for a music video. This includes 50 drawn shots with descriptions of camera angles
and movement on them. During this lesson
we filmed the storyboard shots and intend to import these onto our computer and
create an animatic storyboard, we also used camera movements to reinforce the
movement intended each frame when filming.
We believe that the storyboard will be useful when filming
our music video as it gives us a basic series of events, assisting our planning
and therefore saving us time during the filming of our video as we will know
what shots we want to shoot, where.
However it was also hard trying to demonstrate the feel of
our music video through the use of our storyboard as we intend to film a lot of
footage spontaneously at our locations, for filler shots. Therefore we were
unable to put these in our storyboard.
In this lesson Jacques edited some footage he took over the weekend, these were preliminary shots of actual shots we hope to create in our final production. We did this because feedback from our pitch said we needed to practise filming in a house, to ensure we understood the difficulties. One of which being the constant movement needed in every shot of a music video. As well as this some feedback from our pitch was that the pitch audience could not visualise particular shots, meaning we should do some practise shots. Jacques filmed his brother, who is to be our protagonist, to try and show our pitch audience what it could look like.
Nathan and myself aimed to storyboard our actual concept. We found it fairly easy as we had ideas about specific shots, however as Nathan and myself are not artists we found it hard to make detailed sketches of shots. Currently we have 18 frames, but we hope to have around 40 shots when creating the animatic. Which we will start filming in the next week. Here are some examples of the storyboard sketches so far:
We are planning to use Brighton as a location of the childs dream world. We took shots of different places in Brighton that could be seen as happy and playful. Examples of these are shown below.
We pitched our idea to the class and explained our concept in depth in order to establish whether or not we would get the green light and the go ahead to do our production.
On the whole our concept received positive feedback from the class; it was thought to be a difficult, but good idea.
We realise that our concept is dependent on the quality of camera work, otherwise it could end up looking like a film as opposed to a music video.
Some of the feedback we recieved from the teachers was constructive as it made us realsie we need to practise filming our lead character to make sure that the acting does not ruin the idea.
Furthermore we were asked to look deeper into secondary research and show clips and stills of shots that we liked from other music videos or films.
We came back and presented our pitch again, this time with more research, both primary and secondary. We included clips which included similar themes, such as Eminem, Plan B and Rudimental music videos. We also included the opening scene from the film 'Sucker Punch' as it has many shots that we would like to dupilcate.
Targets
Our main target is the filming aspect of our production. We were given very clear feedback that all shots were important and had to be filmed in a certain way. For example we shouldn't have any static shots in our production.
So when we come to film our first actual shoot, all though instinct may affect our filming in the sense that we might not think about just moving the camera slightly to make the shot more interesting, we have to just think every shot through and take more takes than we realise.
Today we started producing our pitch, to do this we had to discuss what each individual member was going to do and then start working on developing our ideas.
Furthermore we had to make sure there are no holes in our idea and that we have enough A* shots too fill the whole track.
Here is the beginning of our pitch (screenshots from prezi).
