Character & Location Change inc Location Shots

After spending a whole two days filming with my original cast and locations due to the majority of my footage being out of focus due to a combination of my bad eyesight an autofocusing, focusing on a different subject in the shot, Re-filming the footage was crutial. I got in touch with my original cast although they refused to take 2 days out again to refilm. Back to the drawing board it was for me, analysing the footage for me was key to find improvements to be made in take to of filming my music video. I realised the locations were random and didnt allow the 'love' and 'awkwardness' of the couple to stand out. I felt stripping locations back to basics was my only was of making the couple obvious and also create enigma without confusing the audience, my next stop was Cheshire. My parents have passes for castles over the country so I felt a location like that would be the perfect setting for establising love in a music video, simplistic yet dramatic- Beeston Castle. I did a wreccy trip on my own and thought it was perfect!

As well as this I saw a cute country pub which I though would make a nice scene for a 'date' when going in I realised the warm feel of it that could juxtapose the cold outdoor scenes again making a perfect location! This too was in Cheshire- The Nags Head

Next I thought a few country walk scenes would tie in perfectly, so no better place than The Sandstone Trail-Cheshire.

From here I found some excellent actors who agreed to act for two days on set of these locations IN FOCUS, and did a perfect job!

Website design rough plans

This is a rough draft of my homepage of my website design,  I intend to use continuity of the digipak and the music video I will do this by using similar overlays and settings as well as using the same 'Example' symbol. 

   

I want to keep the 'Album Page' quite simplisic, this will have the same header as the other pages:

As well as this photos of the digipak will be included as well as a link to buy the album, I will put the photos in large circles to make it look nice and simplistic.

The photography page will carry the same theme of circles, and the same header of course, they will also contain captions.

Finally the music video page will contain the same header and a large square imbedded youtube video of the music video.

Other Artists Website Conventions

Rihanna: We can see from Rihanna's website there is an immediately clear colour scheme and the site contains photos of the artist, it is simplistic and the top of the page there are other tabs including 'shop' and 'music' The simplisity of this is something I want to take on board in my website design. We can also see the 'R' is her clear logo, so I will also make sure that I include the 'Example' logo on mine. In addition Rihanna's

webpage view is constantly shuffling the images- this presents her with a clear visual style; simplistic yet querky seen through the costume and make up choice and the 'green' splashes.

Calvin Harris: I don't really like this website design although again we can see the simplicity of the webpage is something of that is popular in this genre. There is continuity with this and his album- a look I endeavour to create. And photos of him are included.

Here we can see an example of the continuity between the album cover(above( and website design(below)due to the brick wall design 

Katy Perry: Here again we see continuity; photographs of her as the artist and a drop down menu, unlike the other ones I researched into we can see overlays and blur effects are used on the photographs- two techniques I really like, as well as this I love the use of icons to create links to her sites such as 'twitter' 'facebook' etc this convergance means she has enhanced social media sites to promote herself and her music.

                                           

     

As we can see her twitter represents continuity of the photographs used on her website design.

Animatic- Rough Cut

When making my animatic although I timed the pieces when making my storyboard I soon realised that I had to much footage for the length of the track, reorganisation was needed as I rearranged the clips to make sense and still represent a clear narrative.This is a rough copy and I intend to make new clips for the blank parts as well as adding key frames for my final animatic.

Location Premission

Bargain Booze: I went into bargian booze in Oswestry to request premission for filming, I requested to speak to the owner/manager who granted me premission which was excellent,LOCATION SORTED!

Police Station: I visited Oswestry police station to ask for premission to use a policeman for my arrest scene, unfortunately the woman was extremely rude to me laughed in my face and told me I could not use anyone for filming. This is something I will now have to edit on my storyboard and final anamatic!

SkatePark:  I inboxed this location to ask for premission unfortunately they did not reply so I called them and received a really supportive excellent response which is perfect, LOCATION SORTED!

Prop List

Things I need to sort for my filming day, including props:



Packet of Cigarettes 

Car

Lighter 

Skateboard

Smirn Off

Pills 

Location Planning

1. Block of Flats at night (Dusk)



2. Kerb at night (Dusk)



3. Door-For Slamming 



4. Skatepark Rednal (premission asked)




5. Road - For Running down and Zebra Crossing in Gobowen




6. Off Liscence 




7.Car- and back of car 




8. Alleyway and Police Car