Below is all my pre-production paperwork for my project. Equipment List:Risk Assessments:Call Sheets:Shooting Schedule:Storyboard:
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Other than the studio filming, I filmed on one other day. I filmed with one of the actors from the performing arts course. During this day, we shot in a classroom. In the classroom, we shot some shots of the actor throwing some papers in the air and walking along the tables and jumping off the tables. After filming in the classroom, we decided to move outside and film some footage of the actor running out of the college. We decided to film in the tunnels outside the college and we sued a following shot and followed the actor as he ran down into the tunnels. This shot came out very well. Overall, I beleive that this shoot went well. The reason being, I got all of the shots I needed and I managed to finally ge enough footage I needed to begin editing.
After collecting all of my footage for my visuals, I had to edit them together. I ended up making three different cuts of my visuals. I shall include all of them below along with the screenshots of the editing process: The editing process was very long for me. This project took almost two while weeks of editing 5 days a week until it was finished. I had to add effects to the footage as well as put the footage together and make sure it flowed well to the beat of the scratch track I received from my band. First Cut:This is the first cut I made of the visual. ranted, it moves well to the beat of the visual. However, it is very boring as the overlay footage is very bland and often blocks out the other footage. The footage is also not edited very much at all. This cut was thrown together very quickly though. Second Cut:This is the second cut and in this cut I added a lot more effects to the footage I had and I also sorted out the overlay footage to make it more colourful and less bland. Third/Final Cut:Not much changed between the second and final cuts. However, in my final cut, I had effects on almost all of the footage, I made sure the visuals were colourful, they moved to the beat of the song and the overlay footage worked well. However, to improve my visual, I would have used more of the footage I actually shot instead of suing footage from Pink Floyd's video as I think that would have given me the chance to showcase more work that I actually cerated.
The first stage of actual filming for my visual was the studio filming. I had two people involved in this. I had a teacher and a student. The firts lot of shots I took in the studio were the shots of the student alone. I had several shots of the student sat at their desk looking bored. I had the student writing in a book. I also had the student throwing his book and pen away and leaving his desk. After shooting with the student, I shot the shots with the student and teacher. I had the teacher shout at the student for a few shots. I also had the teacher just walk behind the student and just give him disapproving looks. Then I got the teacher to rip out pages from the student's book. Finally, I got the shots of just the teacher. I got a lot of lower angled shots of the teahcer. The reason being, I needed to make him look intimidating. Overall, I beleive that this shoot went very well. The reason being, I got all of the shots I needed and I was able to use the majority fo the footage I shot in my final cut. I also didn't really need to repeat a lot of hots, due to the fact we suually got them first time.
The Beatles always refused to play in front of segregated audiences at their shows. The first place to be refused was the Cow Palace in California. This incident is mentioned in The Beatles' new film Eight Days a Week (2016), the trailer for which I have linked below: Since October is black history month (and October has just ended), I thought I would talk about black history in regard to The Beatles. The Beatles always refused to play in front of segregated audiences and the clip from The Beatles' new film Eight Days A Week (2016) explains the actions the band took against racism in the US in the 60s, particularly in Jacksonville. As the video said, the band did not condone segregation and refused to play to segregated audiences anywhere. The Beatles actually played a rather significant part in helping to get rid of segregation and intolerance towards black people. The Beatles just played to people' as Ringo says in the video.
Before I go into creating anything for my visual, I thought it would be a good idea to write down some of my ideas for my visual in a constructive format. I got most of my ideas from the live performances I will link below. One of the performances is of the original Pink Floyd performing in 1994 in Earls Court in London and the other one is of The Australian Pink Floyd's performances. Below, I will be linking each video from which I have taken inspiration and I will talk about the ideas each video has given me. Pink Floyd HD Another Brick in the Wall 1994 Concert Earls Court LondonFrom this live performance, I found the idea of filming the following: - Scribbling out answers on test papers or marking them with an 'F'. - Setting test papers on fire. - Throwing test papers in the air. - Setting a blazer or tie (some kind of uniform) on fire or cutting it up and throwing the pieces in the air. I know that some of the above ideas will not be able to be filmed in college due to the fact I will be using fire. However, I plan on film the fire visuals outside of college. Another Brick In The Wall (Pt II) - Live in Germany 2016The inspiration I took from this video was to use shadows against a wall in my visual. These shadows would be school kids' shadows and they would be walking in a uniform line. I am unsure if this idea will go ahead though as I am unsure right now as to how I would do it. I also had the idea of having a wall and having it knocked down and then reversing the footage. You can see this idea in action more (i used the part two version of the music video for this video)in the video below: Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall (HQ) & Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall, Part Two (Official Music Video)Another idea I had for this project was to take some footage form the above excerpt from the 1982 film "The Wall" from Pink Floyd and the music video for part two of the song. The reason I decided to do this was because there is a lot of Pink Floyd iconography that I will not be able to recreate and therefore, since this visual is for educational purposes only I should be ok in using this material. Overall, I am happy with my initial ideas as I think they will portray the song very well. However, I think I will create some sort of animatic or just a storyboard to demonstrate my ideas in a visual way before I go onto production. Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK5WLq4pBFg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nws5KsD1jL4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRR91DebuSI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR5ApYxkU-U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrxX9TBj2zY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgNRi3Ldx4c http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084503/ Parker, Allan (1982). The Wall. UK: Goldcrest Films International. 95. As I said in my research into The Beatles' style, The Beatles were famous for showing a lot of personality while on stage. Therefore, it must be expected that during a live gig, the members of the band will show some personality and put on a show without needing any extravagant visuals, props or lighting. This is demonstrated in the video below form The Beatles' performance of "Twist and Shout" on the Ed Sullivan show back in 1964. As you can see from the performance above, The Beatles are famous for showing a lot of personality on stage and for having fast paced songs mainly. therefore, the main expectation a The beatles fan would have for a gig I believe is just that the band will show personality on stage and put on a show. This was at least the expectation in the early days. However, towards the end of The Beatles, when they started to get more into psychedelic music, i think more visuals and lighting would be used and maybe a little less personality would be shown on stage (a bit like Pink Floyd).
Overall, I believe that the expectations form a live gig for The Beatles from their fans would be: the band shows a lot of personality on stage and they put on a show and possibly during their psychedelic era the audience would expect some colourful visuals and props. Due to the fact that my project will inevitably involve me using the tv studio in college, I will defiantly be using lighting in my project and therefore, I am going to research a bit into some basic lighting techniques and some colour palettes (and what different colours represent) just to expand on my know,edge form last year. Lighting Techniques:The simplest lighting setup consists of one camera shooting one subject. There are several lights used in this setup: Key Light: The key light should be positioned thirty to fourty-five degrees to the side of the camera. This light can make the subject appear bigger or smaller than they are. the closer to the camera, the smaller the subject looks, the further away from the camera, the bigger the subject looks. The shadows create a smaller looking subject. Back Light: The back light is paced right behind the subject. This position is in line with the camera. The back light is aimed at the subject's neck and is then flooded until it is the same intensity as the key light. This light is here to create a crisp but subtle boarder around the subject. Fill Light: The fill light is added on the side of the camera, opposite to the key light. The light coming from the fill light should be around half of the intensity of the key light. It should produce a softer shadow and for this a soft light is normally used. Background: The background light is sued to bring the background up to a level in the middle of the subject's greyscale. Background lighting needs to be even.The background lighting should not be the centre of attention. Cross Lighting: Cross lighting is when adjustable spotlights are placed in the corners of a room and they throw their lighting for a long distance. This lighting can make the camera's view a bit out of focus and therefore, is not too effective unless you are prepared to move the camera around. High Contrast: This technique is when you take away all the lights excluding the key and back light. This will create a high contrast look with the lighting.However, this is not a good thing to do really as this lighting can be overdone and can make things overexposed. Colour Palettes:We did a lot of work on colour theory last year, therefore, I will talk about the colours I plan to sue in terms of lighting and what they represent.
I plan on using a single white spotlight for the low angled shots I shoot with the teacher character in the studio. I also plan on using a lot of red and blue lighting when shooting with the teacher character for the mote high angled shots. However, when shooting with the kids, I plan on using an off yellow tint of light when I shoot with the kids who will be singing the second verse of the song. I think that by using the red and blue lighting with the teacher, it will make him seem more menacing and also I think red is a colour which can represent danger and/or fear. Overall, I think that the lighting in my visual will be very important and therefore I need to plan it further when I begin doing production paperwork. For my "Pink Beatles" project, I am taking on all of the main roles for my visual, apart from the camera and sound position, which I will have the other two people in my group assist me with. However, I am taking on the following roles: editor, producer and director. Therefore, I need to research my role and right now, I am researching a director's role and I will be researching three directors as examples. I will also include some examples of the directors' work, how thy inspire my project and I will then asses a director's roles. Director X:
Director X (otherwise known as Julian Christian Lutz) has directed some of this decade's most popular music videos. What I find interesting in Director X's work is his use of lighting to reflect the mood. For example, in his music video for David Guetta's One Love (2009), in the opening scene, the lighting is rather dull and you can't see much. this reflects the mood of this scene. However, Director X also makes connections between the lighting and the beat of the actual music. This can be seen in the music video for Drake's Hotline Bling (2016). When the beats change, so does the colour of the lighting in the video. Personally, I think I will take inspiration from both of the above videos as I plan to sue lighting to reflect the mood of the scene in my visual or to portray the emotion I want to portray. I plan on using colours like red for the scenes with the menacing teacher in it and I plan on make the visuals change to the beats of the song. Bartholomew Cubbins/Jared Leto:
Bartholomew Cubbins (or rather Jared Leto) is a director who has worked on several different types of things. Jared has worked in several documentaries, for example: he directed the documentary 'Artifact (2012)' under the name Bartholomew Cubbins as well as several of Thirty seconds To Mars' music videos. for example, the music video for 'City Of Angels (2013)' again under the name Bartholomew Cubbins (he also directed the lyric video, which you can see above). As you can see from the above videos, Leto/Cubbins likes to make videos surrounding controversial subjects (as 'Artifact' suggests) and he also likes to use colourful lighting. The inspiration I will be taking from this director is the idea of using colourful lighting and I'm also thinking of putting some text in the visual or some of the words of the song in the visual, like the lyric video you can see above for City Of Angels (2013). Ed Sheeran:
Despite the fact that Ed Sheeran is not a credited director, I do know that he does have a lot of say in what goes into his music videos. One things I have seen reoccurring in his videos is the fact that Ed isn't actually in them or is in them very little. You can see this in the above videos. In one video, he does not appear at all, in another, he is not the main subject. I will be taking the same approach in my visual as I do not plan to include the band within the visual. Conclusion:After researching on creative skill set, I have discovered that a director must fill the following roles: - Visualise and structure the film's look and make it come to life. - Casting. - Script editing. - Shot composition. - Shot selection. - Editing. - Be a link between the creative and technical roles involved in the production. Also, I looked into what kind of qualities, skills and thing you need to do to become a great director: - Have an artistic vision. - Have a passion for film. - Be a great leader. - Make decisions effectively. - Delegate roles. - Collaborate with others. - Have good communication skills. - Have an understanding of both the creative and technical aspects of a production. - Be able to work intensely for long hours. - Have self-belief. - Pay attention to detail. - Be able to work calmly under pressure. Overall, I think I would be able to fill this role, due to the fact that I have worked as a director before and have made films by myself before. However, I think I can do most of the above things and therefore, this project should be successful. Sources
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQyGYdRqulQ http://directorxfilms.com/musicvideos.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fCqr-ki5js https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtk8ro_eJZE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxpDa-c-4Mc http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001467/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtk8ro_eJZE http://www.riversrush.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAWcs5H-qgQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXvzzTICvJs For my "Pink Beatles" project, I am taking on all of the main roles for my visual, apart from the camera and sound position, which I will have the other two people in my group assist me with. However, I am taking on the following roles: editor, producer and director. Therefore, I need to research my role and right now, I am researching a producer's role and I will be researching three producers as examples. I will also include some examples of their work and I will then asses a producer's role. Tim Burton:
Tim Burton's films have always had a very distinct look. They are mostly made in a gothic style and feature some dark humor. Below are soem traielrs of Burton's most famous films:
Ridley Scott:
Overall, I will be taking inspiration from both of these producers and I will be using very urban setting but I will also have a very distinct look to my visual. Sources:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000318/ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000318/mediaviewer/rm4030241280 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1611224/?ref_=nm_flmg_prd_6 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1142977/?ref_=nm_flmg_prd_5 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2567026/?ref_=nm_flmg_prd_2 http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000631/?ref_=nv_sr_2 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078748/?ref_=nm_knf_t2 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3659388/?ref_=nm_knf_t3 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0172495/?ref_=nm_flmg_prd_100 |
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