Production Schedule.

Date//Time:
The date i am going to start filming is from 19th of October till we come back, the time of the day i am looking to film at is mostly at night time due to the narrative of the video i want to do.

Locations:
I am looking to film outside of my house for the first shot with the closing of the door and also the taxi coming over. For the bar scenes i am looking to film it at two local pubs where i have asked permission, this depends on the night we do it as they are busy on different nights. I have organised to get a taxi as my friends dad is a taxi driver so this will be easy to accomplish.

Actors:
At first i had no problem with getting actors i had several friends who were all up for it, but then two dropped out due to work issues. So therefroe i am still currently looking for some people to act in it, although i do have most of the parts taken care of.

I have now finnalyy found my main character actotr and he is top :D

Video Of Story-Board.

Here is my video of my storyboard along with the music:

Storyboard Making.

Drawing:
To help us to be able to plan out our music videos shot by shot, we all drew up story boards, using post stick notes and fine liners we drew out every scene shot by shot using the timings of the songs. I liked this part a lot as it allowed me to give my ideas some thought and also it allowed me to plan out my sequence very carefully but it also made it daunting as i showed me how many shot and different angles i needed to use to fill the time.

Filming:
I drew them out as stick figures to make it simpler and as a way of saving time, as long as i knew what they meant, thats what was important. after this i then filmed each post stick note for about 10 seconds, this was not a very lengthy process at all and i achieved this reasonably quickly. Then we had to take stills of the post stick notes this again was not a very lengthy process and was done quickly.

Editing it together:
This was the most time consuming part of the process, not only due to the fact that it all had to be in synch with the song but also due to the fact that the computers kept crashing, which i found really irritating, as it caused some time to be lost that was not needed to be lost. We uploaded the film onto our computers and used Adobe Premier Pro to edit it together along with the song. Despite the difficulties i liked this part of the process the most as i could start to see my video coming to life and began to get more and more ideas as i went on. then finally after doing it all we had to export or videos and upload them onto our blogs.

Final Proposal for "Red lights Indicates doors are secure" by Arctic Monkeys.

The song i have chosen to do is "Red lights indicate doors are secure" by Arctic Monkeys the link for the song is at the bottom of the page, the reason i have chosen a new song is due to the fact that "Emily' Heart" by Jamie T was too slow paced and bot hmyself adn my teacher were concerned with filling the time with different and varied interesting shots. The main idea i have had for the video is to basically play out the lyrics in the song, but by using a narrative style to be the driving force throughout  the piece . I am looking to use a Point Of View shot throughout nearly all the video, much like the "Smack my bitch up" video by The Prodigy see also the beginging of the video Like a G6, by Far East Movement. I am thinking of having the lyrics being sung into the camera almost like he is talking to him about incidents going on throughout the night, like a real night-out.

The idea i have is mostly based around a lads night out and is mainly based around the lad culture of drinking a lot and causing trouble, look at the video below from the "Football factory" at 0.18 seconds. As the lyrics are being said i am also going to have some of them being played out in a flashback, like the fight scene at the taxi rank at around 1:30 in the song, i would love to use an effect to make it look like CCTV footage to give the video a gritty feeling, look again at the Football factory video but at 2:15 this time. also with the effects of alcohol taking a heavy toll on the POV i would love to use an effect to distort some of the shots, much like the Marilyn Manson video, also i have taken a look at some shots in Lock Stock And Two smoking Barrels for inspiration, both of these shots use a great effects and capture the mood and vibe brilliantly, one uses a snorri cam shot which i would love to use also, as it gives the impression of drunkness, see also Mean Streets snorri cam shot and also Dust Devil video by Madness. I am hopig for a very stylised look to the video, taking inspiration from directors like, Martin Scorsese, Quentin Taratino( his corpse and trunk POV shots used throughout his films which is like you are the corpse or the trunk and also his black and white shots used in kill bill, and what has become known as the God's Eye POV shot, which is like a birds eye view, i would very much like to get this for my CCTV camera footage shot), Oliver Stone ( POV shot used in Natural Born Killers), Guy Ritchie and Nick Love. These can be found at the bottom of the page. I want the style of the video to be both gritty but also vibrant and also humorous in places with a hint of aggression throughout.

Two Examples of Quentin Tarantino's God's Eye POV shot, one from Jackie Brown and the other      
from Kill Bill, and also an example of the trunk POV shot from Pulp Fiction  :

The locations i am hoping to get are a bar area, like a pub or something of the sort, and also a taxi cab, as a lot of the song is sung while in one or waiting for one, i would also like to haev a lot of neon lights present to reinforce the vibrant nature and look of the video, as a lot of British dramas, E.G. This is england, make places look very bleak, i do not want to do this as i think the gritty british style has been used to death, look at the vibrantness of the trailer below of The Firm, the neon lights and colourful clothes make it stand out I think they can be accomplished especially the cab as i have a friend who's dad is a cab driver. i would also like to film outside on a highstreet and an estate where the video starts. The costumes i am hoping for are smart jeans and shirts, almost what a bloke wears when he is going for a night out, either this is or a more indie look with Fred Perry polos etc.


POV shot, Smack my bitch up video by The Prodigy :


POV shot, Like a G6 by Far East Movement :


Football Factory, drinking snippet and CCTV :



Sweet dreams by Marilyn Manson, fish eye effect :


Snorri cam shot from Mean Streets :


Snorri cam from Lock stock and two smoking barrells watch from 4:33 :


Snorri cam shot, Dust devil by Madness :


Lock stock and two smoking barrells drinking scene :


Here is Red lights indicate doors are secure by the Arctic Monkeys :


The Firm Trailer, the vibrantness of the clothes i love, but i want this to be in the background of the piece and to also be accomplished by lighting :


Another example of a POV shot :

Proposal For Emily's Heart By Jamie T.

The song i have picked was Emily's Heart by Jamie T the link for this can be found at the bottom of the page, the main story i have gone with for this song, is that a girl has who is going out with Jamie T has seen him kiss another girl ut really this means much more, hence the lyric " dont ever mess with Emily's heart", and basically he gets beaten up by her brother or family and his mates, when the chorus comes up everytime it will be a shot of Jamie T "bruised and bloody" on the floor, and he is singing it, this can been seen in the video "Chasing Pavements" by Adele, which is on a link below at the bottom of the page.

The lyrics fit in with the story i have manufactured from the song lyrics.I have asked one of my friends to play the part of Jamie T in this video, and i am currently asking around to see if there are any girls who are interested in playing the part ofthe girl in it, also me and some of my friends from rugby are going to play the girls brother's friends.
The costumes i am going to use is for the main character, (Jamie T) is goin to be dressed in a pair of jeans and  polo top, bloody and dirty and covered in mud and grime. the girl at the start of the video will wear a nice neautral coloured dress to resemble a placid soul, but after she sees him kiss another girl, she begins to wear darker colours, to resemble her mood. The girls brother and his mates, will be wearing hooded jackets and big coats to give them a threatening look, i want them to look like thugs, so i am taking some inspiration from the clothes that hooligans wear in the film "Green Street", which a link can be found at the bottom of the page...

The location of the piece i am yet to find, i am thinking of shooting it around my estate as it gives the video the desired gritty feel. In the lyrics there are moments in it where he imitates him or her talking e.g "She said, get your coat, come on". this will be mimed by the actual performer. Most of the song especailly the chorus will be mimed by Jamie T, who like in the song is bruised and bloody on the floor, but is singing this. I really wanted to use long cuts and a very bleak colour scheme, the parts when it says she says or he says will be done in black and white indicating a flashback this can been seen in the film "American History X" i think it adds to the horrific nature and also reinforces the bleakness of the piece. Another example of the black and white technique is in the video fro the Oasis song "The importance of being idle" and also in Quentin Tarantino's film Kill Bill, it is used.

Black and white shots from Kill Bill.

I want there to be lots of close ups showing the emotion of the characters, almost like Sergio Leone's films, where he has a really close close up of a character, then a wide shot to get in the scenery behind, i would like to do this as i think it adds a lot of depth into the piece and also shows that they are small fish in a big pond, and are perhaps insignificant. Also i want to use some close ups of objects that are important in the story, like the brother's face when he sees Jamie T hugging his sister. Also items like the hooded coats and close ups of thier fists when they are standing there, a really wanted to use a silouete like shot of the brother and his mates, to give a dark and threatening feeling to it. In the scene where Jamie T is beaten up i want there be be a split screen of the beating and another shot of the girls face watching from a distance at the beating taking place.

The general pace of the song, is relativly slow, so most of the editing, will be long takes,but this is to enforce the sadness of the song and also the emotion that will be evident on the characters faces much like the Video for the song "Bittersweet Symphony" by The Verve, i like the fact that this song i just one long take but still manages to put across so much emotion. The style of the piece i think will be very important to me, the feel of the song and the piece need to be both in harmony, so therefore, there will be no gratioutious violence, most of it will be covered up by a mass of the bodies taht are baeting him, mainly i am just focusing on the after effects of everything, not only of the violence, but that that is due to the fact that he kissed another girl etc.



"Chasing Pavements" by Adele.


Examples of Sergio Leone camera shots.


Amercian History X Flashbacks, please excuse the language the flashback black and white is why i'm using this scene.


Green Street, the look i would like to accomplish for the girl's brother and his friends:


Bittersweet symphony by The Verve, encaptures the mood and sorrow that i would love to incorporate into my piece,and also the fact it is nearly one long take and provokes such emotion.


The importance of being idle by Oasis.


Emily's heart by Jamie T.

Bad Touch Music Video Remake Analysis.

Filming:

When filming our remake of the first minute of the music video for "Bad Touch" by The Bloodhound Gang we all found that we didn't plan the shoot particularly well, therefore causing some loss of time, despite our use of story boarding, we made time up, by working very well as a group, and found that the shots that we  wished to shoot would usually be complete on the 1st or 3rd time. This has taught me the fact that when we shoot our own music video we will need to be far better prepared, and we will need to scrutinize everyone of our shots we choose to shoot, and also to story board and plan out the shoot much more efficiently so we will  have more time to actually shoot instead of it taking a long time to set up each shot. 

The actors of the film despite feeling nervous and rather embarrassed by some of the things that we had to do and despite the odd laugh or two throughout the shoot we worked remarkably well together. An issue that the cameramen and women found was that holding the camera without a tripod was harder than they thought, and something that we will all have to consider when shooting our own music videos, especially some of the ones with quite complex camera techniques and shots that they are thinking of using.  We also found the fact that some people on some days were ill, and therefore made it hard to allocate roles to people which again is something that we will have to take into consideration when filming our music video.

Editing:

The editing i found personally a nightmare. It was the most time consuming part of the whole project, it took around 8-9 hours just to finish off one minute of film, which made it rather intimidating considering that we would have to film a music video that spans around 3-4 minutes of film. I also found that i possibly didn't allocate myself enough time, which i defiantly will be sure to do when editing my own video. another factor that made the editing a drag was the fact that the program we used "Adobe Premiere Pro" kept unexpectedly shutting down therefore causing loss of work, although this annoyed nearly the entire class with hours of work being lost, it also taught us an invaluable lesson to save your work every so often, which became routine for us to do. 

Using "Adobe Premiere Pro" i found taught me many tools i would later need to use when editing our video, such as how to speed up time which was very useful, as some of the action we shot was too slow for the lip synchs. We also learnt how to cut, move, resize, reverse. flip shot, crop them and also slow them down. 

Conclusion: 

Although it was very time consuming to do both the shooting and the editing, i think this can be remedied by planning more effectively and to have my actors and location all planned out and available to shoot and also select a certain time and date to do it like a real shoot. I also think that his task taught us valuable lessons and skills to consider and used when making our own music video. 

Here is the remake of the video :