Feedback

We were told that we had a good variety of shots.
The Mise En Scene was referred to as Spot On.
It was called professional.
The footage was described as crazy, random and quirky, and this fitted in very well with the genre and gave a good music-visuals relationship.
The continuity of lighting worked very well, as it was all shot in one day.
It had a good lyrics-visuals relationship.

Rough Cut

Class feedback

This is the feedback we recieved from the las about our rough cut.

Camera work

Lack of shots, static.
Close up and distance shots shows great ideas.
Really good with long/close up variety

Editing

Really good use of speeding up footage to keep in time with the pace of the song.
Lots of variation keeps things interesting.
Some black shots

Effects

Good use of speeding up clips
Start of song makes for a good intro.
Love the colour effect at the beginning, works really well with genre

Mise en scene

Balloons, costumes pretty plain
Balloons make a random effect that matches the song
Good lighting

Performance/genre

Good ideas like balloons
Hard song to lip sync to but it looks really well done
Brilliant, genre fits really well

Continuity

Alot of the main guy singing, maybe break it up a bit
Could include more footage of clowns doing tricks.

Overall comments

Really good, just needs a bit more work
Interesting but where's the rest of it
Love it :)

New Plan

Now we intend to film our footage in the woods near long road, so that we can film during lessons and have more security in our location, so that if it is raining, then it won't be so much of a dangerous issue.

Weekend Of Filming: Disaster

Saturday:
Due to the fact that we didn't have access to speakers to lip sync, Anthony and I decided to film cutscenes. However, the very strong wind and patchy rain, caused wardrobe issues and a danger to us by making the floor slippery.
We filmed a small amount of footage, but it's partially unusable.

Sunday:
Unfortunately on Sunday the wind was very strong again and then there was the issue of the heavy rain so we decided that it would be unsafe to film in the slippery chalk pits and plan what to do on monday

Response To Peer Assessment

To make our blog better we plan to go through all our posts and enclose more detal.
We will also upload location shots and more detailed test footage.

Feedback

1. List below the content of each of the posts (e.g. analysis of real music video). Are there any types of post that you think are missing from the blog?

- Need video analysis of all music videos
- What purpose do videos have? No explaining
- background research
- more research into the band

2. Is there evidence in the blog that the group has:

- Completed background research?
- Organised personnel, locations and equipment for shooting?
- Developed ideas since the initial concept?

You must give specific examples as evidence.

- Some research but not in depth discussion into it (S Club? why is it there?)
- Carried out test footage - but not many shots on scenes
- what is the test footage about? Is it to do with the song?
- good test footage

3. Assessment question - What could make our blog better?

- Analyse the music videos you have put up as examples.
- Number the shot lists
- location shots
- assess the pictures/videos

4. Overall assessment.
If you were to give this blog a marking level, what would it be?
- Level 4: Excellent planning 24-30 marks.
- Level 3: Proficient planning 17-23 marks
- Level 2: Adequate planning 10-16 marks
- Level 1: Poor planning 0-9 marks.

I would give this a level 3, there are alot of ideas but not enough explanation about the ideas.

Level 3-19

Level 3-20

Level 3-20

Could be really good but has to be not so out there - 16 marks as the stuff is there but needs explaining, bit kinky!

Test Footage

We wanted to see which way of doing the shot would work best, so we tried two different ways of shooting it. One of which where Anthony, who will be playing the main character held it and spun around, and then one where his whole head was shot from 360 degrees.

We decided that the best type was the one in which Anthony held the camera.




We also put all of the footage we filmed during our test footage together to create a busy video representing the pace we intend to edit at, and in the "random" style we want to create.

Props

To make our video we will need:

Candles













A guitar














Pillow










A giant pound sign














A tent









A sign saying Glastonbury












Lots of jewelry













Helium Balloons














A Newspaper












A Clock

Costumes

Main Boy:

Costume 1: Black suit, trilby hat

Costume 2: Indie jumper, skinny jeans

Main Girl:

Costume 1: Alice in Wonderland costume

Costume 2: Indie style skirt and jumper

Bankers:

Bowler hat, pin stripe suit, cigar.

Burglar:

Striped black and white top, black trousers, black mask, swag bag

Glastonbury people

Hippy clothing.

Emo Teenager


Black clothes, white and black makeup, emo style hair.

Praying People

Conservative, church going clothes.

Clowns

Clown costumes, mime makeup

Animatic

Costume Ideas

Here are some ideas for costumes

Pitch

We want to create an Alice in Wonderlandesque video.

As the song is quite indie, and the lyrics are so visually strong, we feel that it is very surreal and dreamlike.

We will start with a girl dressed in a white dress and tights with very high heeled shoes, wandering around the location looking very confused, as soon as the first "ayeayeayeayeaye" of the lyrics come in the shot will change to the face of the singer, and we will use a 360degrees shot, spinning round. We feel that this shot will be effective as the tempo of the "ayeayeayeayeaye" will give this shot a good visual to music relationship.

An example of this shot is used in this student video from last year:



Make Out Fall Out- Group 39

The rest of the video will be a speedily edited, with shots varying from the singer with his guitar, to shots of the girl walking through a sea of people in weird costumes which represent the lyrics.

For example, for the lyric "the pressure of a pound sign", would be a shot of two men in very stereotypical banker costumes, holding a giant pound sign.

The whole video will have a very surreal, dreamlike vibe to it. We were inspired by Alice In Wonderland, and would like to create our own versions of the kind of characters Alice meets, but symbolic to the lyrics.

Both the Gwen Stefani video What You Waiting For?, and the Ashley Simpson video Outta My Head, create the kind of illusion that we are hoping to create.






Throughout the whole song we intend to use very fast pace editing, to create the confusing nature of a dream. As the song has quite a strong fast tempo, we feel that it will benefit from fast editing.

Target audience is anyone who likes the song/ kid harpoon, so mainly younger people.

Basically, our idea is AWESOME!

Issues With Idea

We want to create a very symbolic video, as we feel that the song has very strong lyrics.

Our initial idea was to set the video in a maze, however we are not sure if we will be able to find a large hedge maze to set it in, and be able to get all of the extra characters to travel to a location, so we have found an alternative location in Cambridge.

We also need to advertise for extras to star in our video, because we have ideas involving lots of extras, dressed up in costumes symbolic of the lyrics.

Other Music Videos For Other Artists

Here are some examples of videos we thought were interesting:



Ok Go: Here It Goes Again.

We liked this video because it is very different to most other music videos, and we liked the continual way in which it was shot. We thought that the choreography was good and interesting and we too want to create a video that is different.




Beatsteaks: Jane Became Insane,

we feel that the mise en scene of this video is much like the kind we want to create, both songs are fast pace but with quite "dark" lyrics, and we liked the lighting and the pace of the editing.



S Club 7: S Club Party

We chose this video because we liked the fun vibe and had hoped to include it in our video, however our lyrics are a little too dark for this type of atmosphere, but we would like to keep the energy levels in our video as high as in this video.

Ideas:

We are considering working in stop motion for part of the video, so we looked at examples of stop motion music videos.

We are considering considering usingtop motion to portray the "real-life" parts of the video, so that the dream occurs with actors and the conscious moments are made in stop motion.

Here are some examples of stop-motion used in music videos.

We looked at these videos to see how the figures were moved to appear as though they are dancing in a music video.








We also vonsidered taking still photos representing the different parts of the song, so we have included a fdamily guy video.

Other Songs & Videos By Kid Harpoon

Riverside, by Kid Harpoon.



Colours, by Kid Harpoon.




Airplanes and Neon Lights, by Kid Harpoon

Lyrics To Song

You say you are my friend, your not my friend

The pressure of a pound sign crushed our coupled hands

Remember corporations, stole your Glastonbury

The winning ideology stole you away from me

So burn light up the sky, it makes me laugh when you sigh

We trade in muscle movements a verbal song and dance

Bleed into your guitar strings, give peace a chance

Vomit on my pillow, suck my honesty

Pray for all the innocents, that made your jewellery

and I, I pray for them, we pray for you to come home soon

and I don't want to live here any longer,

all the promises we made we never kept that strong

but collossal vision and laughing gas

Well, we can't forget all of that so we go

aye aye aye aye aye aye aye finally I can see

aye aye aye aye aye aye aye how the bigger picture painted me

I will see you on the outside, beneath the fallen wall

If you cannot count past number 1, you cannot count at all

So burn, light up the sky, it makes me laugh when you cry*

Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh But i'll see you in the morning.

* On the online lyrics it says die, however we know that it is actually cry

Final Pitch Idea

We have decided to go for idea number four, only with a few modifications.

As it would be expensive to film in a maze, as we would have to rent it and ensure that all of our cast would be able to get transport, we have decided to film at the Cherry Hinton Chalk Pitts in Cambridge.

We feel the dramatic and maze like scenery will correspond well with the lyrics and the beauty of the local are will look attractive on camera.