PODCAST #10

SR

Script:

Welcome to our 10^th weekly podcast. This week we had our mock exam, so besides looking more at sample footage, there was mainly revision going on. Also, we didn’t manage to shoot the color powder scene, due to a lack of actors showing up. Hence we will try to film it on the 20^th of December. This week, we intend to create a full rough cut 1 with the narrative and performance together. I suggested that we for each week Friday create a rough cut, which we take turns on creating each week. Therefore this week it is my turn to edit rough cut 1. Also, we then intend to film audience feedback every week, in order to be able to provide evidence of our journey. This week we will be looking at our website and the creating of our merchandise. Furthermore, Bronwen will be creating our logo, which we will then photoshop and put up on our social media. I will be updating our production schedule and creating a post on call sheets and our social media.

FOOTAGE: Narrative Rough Draft #1

This is a very rough draft of the narrative. There is still a lot of editing still to do this was just to get feedback on what was good and what can be improved on.

Improvement's:

• Before music starts edit to the beat
• Remove shaky footage
• Might use layering (0:18)
• Use layering where one half of the screen is empty/out of focus
• Experiment with filters
• Don't have female protagonist on screen for to long, might ruin the immersion
• Experiment with having two of the same person on screen (eg 0:28 have him stand next to himself)
• Shot the drop through editing

Notes:

• Intertextuality to Blair Witch Project at 0:23
• The singer is not glamorized and due to this audience can identify 

DIGIPAK #3: Design

Here are some ruff idea of what the first idea is for the digipak. The front cover is of the singer holding an umbrella which is intertextuality to the real album that we are creating a digipak for where the logo is an umbrella the location of the band im not sure where to place but in this design it is on the right next to the medium close up shot of the singer with just the initials of the band (BMTH).

The back will have a long shot of the singer standing in a tunnel with the sun hitting the camera creating lens flare, The name of the songs in the album will be in the center going down the back. The font is not yet final we will do more research on that in a later post as well as the costume the singer will be wearing in the picture.

When you open the digipak there will be pictures of the band members in different locations with different filters on the picture. In the border of each picture there will be the initials of the band (BMTH). The CD will be in-between the covers so we can have a separate design for the cover. The costumes the band members will be wearing will also be experimented with but will be of the same concept as the performance shoot.

JP: Stabilizer

The school received some cheap new 3 axes gimbals for the media department. While they aren't as high quality and professional as a Steadicam, they cost about 10x less than one. A real Prosumer Steadicam Solo starts at around €300. These can go up to tens of thousands of dollars for professional film making.
For our needs in school the €30 AFUNTA Pro should do just fine. Kristian (a fellow student) and I began playing with and learning how to properly use and balance the gimbal. We made this short video on how to setup and use the gimbal with some test footage.

PODCAST #9

SR



As Sophie has been off school, she was the one to record our vodcast today. Before recording, Bronwen and Sophie went over everything we had done and wrote a script, which Sophie then recorded using Final Cut. 

Script:

Welcome to our 9^th weekly podcast. This week we each looked at our sample footage that we have filming over the past 3 weeks. Bronwen and I edited some footage and in our group of 3 we concluded that we need to shoot some more footage of the narrative, to show more of the relationship between the female and male protagonist. Furthermore, we looked at the digipack this week and decided that we should do individual photoshoots for each member of the band. Kristian also worked on our website to get it up and running. We decided to split the work between us by having Kristian and me looking at the website, Bronwen doing our band’s Instagram and Facebook and I will be running our Twitter account. 

Next week we will shoot our color powder scene, which is going to be the audience interaction in our music video. Also, we intend to film the missing narrative scenes and work more on blogging on digipack, merchandising, audience and website.

Performance Shoot Problems

This video shows a few of the shots we filmed for performance. These shots are shots that we can't use because there are either cameras in the background or the footage is to shaky.

• The first clip the camera is clearly visible and the camera isn't to shore where to focus. We do have footage from this angle where these problems are fixed. 
• The second clip the footage is to shaky and the camera is tilted which in some cases could work to get a message across but in this situation it doesn't work.
• The third shot was filmed with a drone and therefor was hard to film with when I was the only one with experienced with flying but I am in the band. The problem was that one of the band members are hard to see and the drone moved which resulted in cropping out half of the other band member. I think the drone footage would be good to have as it expands the use of technology and can look very good if its done right. 
• The last shot was filmed with a GoPro. Most of the GoPro footage can be used but this shot is to shaky.
• In the last shot the drummer is seen smiling which is not what we want as we want them to be sad and angry. 
• The things we really want to avoid next time is shaky camera, bad framing, and smiling.   

BV: Gun Footage: Why we won't be using it

For our music video, we decided to film 2 different endings, and choose which one to use after filming both. 
We have decided to definitely not use this ending- Where the main character pulls a gun to his head and there is a fade to black- As we thought it would be too problematic. 

Violence in music videos is less more common and tolerated than it would be in Film. Because of this, we decided to decrease the amount of violence in our video. 
To add to that, a violent ending to the video would restrict where it would be shown, (For example, certain TV channels may not want to show it), therefore giving our video less views and opportunities, specifically with our young adult Target Audience.

Using Final Cut Pro X, I edited some of the gun footage together. We shot this on two separate occasions (once without tattoos, as a practice, and once with)