Video Shoot 2: Streets

Second Video Shoot:

Today we filmed our second video session for our music video. In the second video shoot the scene involved Charlie (3rd transformation ) and Frankie ( 1st transformation)

Location:

We used a number of different locations during this filming shoot. We filmed at Bostell heath in Welling and at some garages in Welling. At Bostell heath , we filmed some boxing/training scenes which involved Frankie punching on the pads.

Furthermore we done some training scenes involving running where Frankie is running down the streets and garages. We also done this with Charlie.

Equipment:

The equipment we used was the following:

• A Tri Pod
• A DSLR 600 camera

Roles:

Charlie: Actor

Frankie: Actor

Daniel: Camera man

Harry: Camera man

Charlie: Camera man

Props:

Boxing pads
Boxing gloves
Car

Costume:

The costume we used was the same for Charlie and Frankie , a grey tracksuit. We wanted it to look simple for the audience to understand that Charlie is a grown up version of Frankie.

Review:

Overall , the filming session went well. We adapted to the equipment we had and took advantage of having a car so we filmed some moving shots and using the mirrors of the car to film in to make it look interesting and engaging for the audience. In addition , we used interesting locations and locations that look working class so it adds to the working class family feel that Charlie has been brought up in.

Chosen Song

This is our chosen song for our music video. We chose the song Kasabian - Club Foot . The link is above so you can have a listen. The reason we choose this song is because we done some audience research on my facebook page and i got feedback from the voting poll and comments on which song fits our music video idea. music video idea was posted in the description so people know the idea before they listen. Kasabian club foot was picked due to this song got the most votes but the song has a fast beat to it , so this creates excitement and a idea of a adrenaline which links in with the fight scenene and the training where a adrenaline rush can kick it due to the motivation of the trainer. In addition it has a dark airy feel to it which gives links in with the darkness of the video such as the fight scene at the end.

Pitch Video

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This weeks progress

This post is for a weekly journal post commenting on what we have done this week for either the Digi Pack or Music Video

Music Video

This week we have started  storyboarding and have got to the 2min half of the song. We plan on finishing our story board for next week so we can start getting ready to shoot filing soon. We are currently working on a production plan while we storyboard , listing the following:

• Actors
• Location 
• Props
• Costumes

We can't upload these yet as they in finished but hope to be uploaded next week

Digi pack 

For the digi pack this week we have done a production plan for the different photos we need to take. This week we have booked the studio to take some photos in there producing music. Furthermore , we have planned a day out Saturday up london to take some natural photos of the band out.

We also have a booked a camera man for this which the conversations of booking the camera man and the studio to help document my coursework.

Photos of the photoshoot will be uploaded shortly.

Week 4: Meet the band

MEET THE BAND

Band Members Name : Charlie

Age: 22

Religion: Atheist

Likes:  Music , Football , Fashion , Drinking , Sleeping and  Nights Out

Dislikes: Pop Music Bands , Feminine boys 

Band Position: Guitarist 

Band Member Name: Dan Kelly

Age : 21

Religion: Atheist 

Likes: Gigs , Socialising , Alcohol , Going to the pub , Camden Town, Tattoos and Drugs

Dislikes: Feminine Boys , Barbie Girls , Religion 

Band Position: Guitarist 

Band Member Name: Charlie Lilly

Age : 23

Likes : Smoking , Being Unique , Being with the band , Violence , Films and Music

Dislikes: Feminine Boys , Fashion 

Band Position: Drummer

Band Member Name : Harry Monan 

Age: 22

Likes: Music , Football , Alcohol , Fashion , Night Clubs , Performing and Patriotic to England

Dislikes: Pop Bands and Chart Music 

Band Position: Lead Singer 

Group Discussion

Me and my band members recorded a conversation of us discussing ideas on what we need to do next about our up and coming photo shoot and briefly about the music video idea.
We spoke about:

•  Costumes
• Props
• Locations
• Music video idea 

Photo-shoot

Costume 

The costume we going to need each are the following:

• Dark skinny jeans 
• White background tshirt / shirt
• Jackets 
• Desert boots or shoes

Props 

The props we going to need is for the photo shoot is:

• Clothing
• Fake Tattoos 
• Cigarettes
• Alcohol  
• Music Equipment

Locations: 

The location we need for the photo shoot is:

• Outdoor locations 
• Music/Production room 

This video is to indicate the progress of our band in what we are up to at this present time , as we needed to discuss about our up and coming photo shoot. 

Pitch Powerpoint

Pitch powerpoint from Dan Kelly

Music Video Idea

Week 3: Band Survey

Click here to take survey 
This is a survey to give us feedback on our band weather in the public opinion we have heading in the right direction.

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Audience Profile

What is it about?

This is our audience profile of our band 'Rogues Gallery'
The audience profile is to specificity, in depth, show the main type of people our band will appeal too.
Researching into similar bands , such as the artic monkeys , out audience profile would be similar to there , so we took that into consideration , and had to make ours as similar as possible otherwise , our band wouldn't be appealing to the right target audience.
We went with the main target audience being young males , due to younger generation tend to link in with our similar lifestyle of the night life of partying drinking drugs ect. With the age being young men , we believed that they will mos likely be students either at university or 6 form/college as now you have to stay in education ill your 18 and due to their being no jobs out there , most people tend to stay in further education now. Furthermore , the image of the men will be scruffy looking , very unique with tattoos and facial hair. They like to hang around with their group of 'boys' and have a laugh drinking watching football , going out or playing video games.

Week 3 - Mood Board

This is my mood which we created for our band. For the mood board we associated imaged to do with our band to create this mood board. In the middle of our mood board is our band logo stating the name of the band , with the song we choose to do for our music video. The song we choose is Kasabian - Clubfoot.

Around the logo is a boxing ring , this is because our music video is based around a boxing fight between to men who hate each other due to one man bullied him and made his life hell when he was younger. The boxing ring is a main prop in our music video as when the story is not being told  , it will cut back to us ( the band) performing in the same boxing ring which the two men end up having a fight in towards the end of the music video. ( for more information on our music video check my previous blog post of our music video idea)

The images around the ring is of images associated with the music video/band. We have images of 4 bands which are similar to us:

• The kooks
• Oasis
• The libertines 
• Kasabian.

These bands are most influential to us and the creation of our band as we research into this bands to help us create 'Rogues Gallery'

We placed words around the edge which link into our music video:

• Rock- as its our genre 
• Revenge - as the man is getting revenge for the troubles the other man caused.
• Fight - as the two men have a fight at the end as the resolution

Furthermore we placed images of our band which shows our band image such as

1. Tattoos
2. Brogues
3. Leather jackets
4. Facial Hair

Survey Results

These are the results from the online questionnaire we made on www.surverymonkey.com 

The significance of this is that it shows that we are heading in the right direction , the results we got back suggest that the band name definitely suit the indie rock genre. The music video feedback suggest that the video needs to have some sort of action , making the video exciting and violent .  Our music video fits in with the feedback as our music video is about a fight. Furthermore , the results about the image of the band stated that the public believe we should wear skinny jeans scruffy looking ext. That is the image we are going for. Overall we are pleased with the results as now we can move forward in the progress as the results fit in with what we wanted with the band.

Week:2 Band Logo

OUR BAND LOGO

This is the first and current logo for our band. We created this logo in Photoshop by playing around with different tools on the software. Firstly , we want the the website www.dafont.com and chose a simple but bold font which gives of a  masculine feel. We didn't want a font which gives off a soft effect and looks feminine as that will give off the wrong effect about our band.

We choose to put black rectangles going down our logo as it looks like prison bars , which links in with our rebellious lifestyle and  image, with the fists behind the text to give a effect that someone is locked up behind the bars. 

The colour scheme is just simple black and white , nothing fancy or complicated,as from the research of the bands , they all don't have colour in their logo. They all go for a simple black and white colour scheme so we followed the bands we are influenced by.

Brainstorm of ideas for our genre as you can see we covered all the aspects of our genre and we will use this to get an idea of what our band image and video can contain and similar bands such as kasabian. we also believe their is a band and narrative element and this is something we will apply/ However , due to not being one of most popular personal genres we struggled so research is needed /

Week 2 : Brief into our band Rogues Gallery

This is a brief on our new band  called 'Rogues Gallery' 

The meaning behind the name of 'Rogues Gallery is by definition: a collection of photographs of known criminals, used by police to identify suspects. Furthermore 'Rogues Gallery' is the term for the various villains that Batman has faced over the years. 

The reason we chose this name we believe that our characteristics/personalty is rebellious which is shown through the lifestyle we live in and this suits perfectly as the term 'Rogues Gallery' is to do with villains criminals which by law we could be seen as them.

The brief shows the band members:

• Dan( ME ) aged 22
• Charlie aged 23
• Charlie aged 21 
• Harry ages 22

We are lower class , from the same school and that's how we all got to know each other , we got to start performing ant school/local pubs ect and that's how we got a recognition. We researched other bands and they all have the similar background to ours , they were all mates and grew up together in a lower class background  we choose to do the same as that seems to be the most common method of how bands form. 

Week 2 : The name has been chosen

Choosing our band name:

At the moment we got our band idea all set up and ready to go. The first thing we need to do is think of a band name.

We had a choice about 2 names on our band

1. Parental Advisory 
2. Rogues Gallery

The reason why we chose these names is that they show our rebellious behaviour of our band as these or the meanings of the band names 

Rogues Gallery: 

Parental Advisory: The meaning is its  not appropriate for the young generation , this means that we target the older generation similar to our age  who have the similar life style , for example , alcohol.   

How we got our results ? 

We went into the public and asked 41 different people who from their image would listen to our music, when approached we asked if they listen to similar bands such as oasis and Kasabian. If they replied 'Yes' we told them about out band brief and the meaning behind the two names. Then when they got there answer , they  told us which is the better name and then we record their answer in a tally chart.
We then inserted the results and produced a pie chart to see the results more clearer which is shown bellow.

OUR BAND NAME IS OFFICIALLY:  

ROGUES GALLERY 

Week 2 - We Changed Our Idea

A2 Media Studies
Week 2 - Changing our idea

ATTENTION !

We have changed our idea from the rap genre to a rock/indie band.

We feel like although that rap/hip hop is our strongest knowledge of the genre as that is the music our group listen too , we do not look like rap/hip hop artist ourselves. Together as a group , we look like a rock band from feedback given to us. The task is to create a digi pak , with adverts and a music video and they need to look as realistic and professional as can be.  So we have to go with what looks the strongest selling point and that is a rock band.  Our day to day image of us together  is at the moment we have  long hair but we have a ruff look to us with our facial hair ect , making us swing more to the rock side of music , rather than the main stream ,clean cut, typical boy band like One Direction.

We feel like with this change of idea , this is a positive move for our coursework as it will look more realistic which is key to achieve a good grade . Research is needed on the genre as this genre of music is not what we really listen too so we need to understand the genre before we can start production work. A good in depth research will be in place and  put up on my blog in a couple of days on the code and conventions of the genre and similar bands and music videos of our genre for us to get a understanding of rock .

Week 1 - Brainstorming

Week 1 - Brainstorming

A2 Media Studies 

Rap/HipHop Genre 

In this brainstorm we took what we discussed in the other lesson , and took the ideas which we had about the Rap/Hip Hop genre and looked at the genre in more detail . The idea of choosing this genre came due to the rap/hip hop genre was the genre was what we new more about as its our favourite type of music , so we feel that this would be our strongest genre to secure a good grade. 

We looked at similar artist and studied there image and took down some idea of what we need to look like. 

Furthermore , we noted down similar band to us which we can research into.

In the brainstorm , we started to write some ideas for our music video such as locations and story ideas ect.

Here is a summary of our progress so far.

The Image of the band:

The clothing we are going for are typical 'modern gangster' with tracksuits and chains ect associating the clothing with plain dull colours  such as black white and grey , we believe the band come from a lower class background such as a estate and all new each other from the estate they grew up in. Due to a lower class background , they need to look lower class so oversized clothing ect , ruff looking ect. 

The music video:

The music video ideas we had flowing was ideas such as the following:

we wanted to go for a strong narrative possibly a true story of someone.

Ideas of the story could be about a boy growing up in the estate , with each band member telling their own story of what happened to them. 

The music video we feel like has to be dark , possibly create shadows as we feel that what suits the genre to create a dark atmosphere for the audience. 

And locations of the video need to be in run down places such as the streets or estates. 

Week 1 - The Beginning

A2 Media Studies - Week 1

The Beginning 

In this Blog , I will be documenting mine and my groups progress of our A2 media studies coursework task. 

The task is to create:

1.  A Music Video
2. A Digi-Pak for the artist/band
3. Advertisements for the Digi Pak

Our group is made up with 4 members which is including myself. So far we have started to discus the genre of our music artist/band and any other ideas which have flown into mind in our discussion.

So far this is what our group as gone with:

• Firstly , we confidently gone with our genre that we feel we strongly we know more about which is the Rap/Hip Hop genre. This is because , this is the music we feet strongest with due to this is the type of music we listen too.
• However , we feel like instead of a artist , we going to go with a rap/hip hop band to include all of us in this.  
• For out music video , we agreed that we all like the idea of a narrative music video. A music video that tells a story.

This is what our group has managed to do so far in the first lesson , to give a ruff idea of what idea our group is going to be doing in our A2 media coursework task. Next  we need to start brainstorming some more ideas in more depth in the next lesson