Video Shoot 3: Crystal Palace

 Video Shoot 3 - Crystal Palace Park

In this video shoot we filmed our remake to the rocky running scene shown below at the bottom of this post. We used this as a reference for our music relating Charlie s training scene to being similar to rocky. We thought it would be a cool idea to remake the famous running scene up the stairs so the audience if they watch the film before , can notice the reference we made.

Location:

We got given a recommendation of a similar area in which looks like the stairs Rocky used. We need the stairs to look like the ones they used so the reference can be more clear for the audience to notice. We found the perfect stairs and they where the stairs at Crystal Palace Park( shown below). From our research of the stairs around our areas , it was torn between these stairs and the stairs at the Nation Art Museum. We chose these stairs due to their being a less amount of people , making it easier for us to film.

                                           

    


We got the train and the journey planner above shows how we got there and the route we took.


Equipment:

The equipment we used was the following:

• A Tri Pod
• A DSLR 600 camera

Roles:

Charlie: Actor

Charlie: Camera man

Harry: Camera man

Daniel: Camera man

Props:

None

Costume: 

The costume charlie wore was the same he been wearing in the whole music video. We wears a grey tracksuit as that is the training gear which is used when you do sporting activities.  In addition , the grey tracksuit helps with the recognition of the rocky scene as he is wearing a grey tracksuit too , making our rocky recreation more similar and noticeable.

Review of the filming:

Overall , the filming of re creating the rocky scene actually worked well. We had the rocky clip up on our mobile phones so it made it easier for us to follow how they filmed it as we filmed it from shot to shot. Of course , it was difficult to make it spot on due to when filming rocky they would of had the best equipment around so we had to work with what we had. For example , there is a close up of rocky running and the camera is following him. However , we didn't have a camera or equipment to be able to follow charlie smoothly without the camera shaking. But we done it to the best we could of and it turn out to look better than i thought it would be. We feel that this is a great idea for our music video , as music video do make reference , weather its from a film , other artist ect. So to fit in a reference , make the music video more interesting and fun for the audience when they see it.





Results:

We uploaded the rocky scene to the internet to get feedback and to see if people can guess the reference and as you can see from our results it went perfectly.

Video shoot - band peformance

This video shoot was for our first band performance.

From our research we carried out , we noticed that indie bands music video have some band performance in their music video. This is because I believe they want to share and show their skills they have as it's their music they sell not that much focused on their image like pop music. Therefor we wanted to have a band peformabce element in our music video. To decide who goes with what position , from the photos we took of us in different roles and the results we got back showed us that this was the Perfect set up.

Booking

This week we had to book the drama room and book the equipment from the music department bellow are emails conferming both we also booked it for an additional 2 more weeks infront.

In this music scene we just done the first verse as we feel it be easier to break it down by with each session with a verse.

We went through the song many if times as we wanted to get the verse done in as many different shots and angels as possible. Firstly we focused just on close ups of the lead singer and what heels is having the lyric and song playing for him on the imac. Next we done individual shots of the band members such as the drummer guitarist and base. We struggled on how to perform the instruments as we don't play them and we know it need to look realistic. We don't abit of research before hand but we still struggled but done it to the best we would but it was difficult. Finally we done wide shots of the whole band. The reason we done so many of everyone is because in band performance scene they are cut short to be exciting and fast paced to go with the music , they are a band so they need to show everyone , so we had to cover the performance in all aspects and angles.

Location 

Drama hall

Equiptment:

Drums 

Base

Microphone

Guitar

Tripod

DSLR

IMac

Costumes:

Skinny jeans ,

White t shirts

Shirts

Jackets

Shoes

Tattoes

Overall I am happy with this performance I feel like we done the best we could be being it is our first time we could do better next time , as we was wasting time in trying to figure what shots to do. We looked at music videos as we was there to give us more ideas so that enabled us to work better next time as we got a more undertanding. The drama hall was perfect as it was black and had the lighting so we played around with that to give it the best effect we could.

Inside Panel

This is only a slight change but I added the social networking sights . After looking at my digi pack and then looking at real life ones , i felt something was missing. And i noticed i haven't got no fan interaction links for them to check out. With my target audience being young , i felt it would be a great idea to put the bands social networking sight in their. This allows the fans to check out the social network pages and either like or follow them to interact and gain the band more recognition and also a chance for the public to find out more.I also got the images/logo to be red so it goes along with my red theme. 

video shoot 5 band performance

In the second band performance shoot , we carried on with us perfomaning but in the second verse.

This verse had singing and a guitar solo we. Again we took the same process as before and Filmed everyone individually and together from different angels to ensure we had enough footage. We wanted to stick to Godwins theory of visuals and music and applied this through the singing and the instruments being played at the same time. We didn't want the same shots as before as we done some more from different angles and technique such as out focusing and focusing in.

In addition we created our own dolley through using this wooden platform with wheels as our dolley so we could push it around and get some good shots. We used this for the guitar solo as we came in on Charlie playing the guitar and then coming back round to the rest of the band. This idea was brilliant as we would now do different shots we couldn't do before and the camera would be kept still. We used this to our advantage and used it on the lead singer by doing a 180

Degerees movement around him. 

Instruments:

Guitar

Base

Microphone 

Drums

Costume:

White tees 

Shirts

Skinny jeans 

Tattoes 

Glasses

Jackets

Equipmetemt:

Tripod 

DSLR

Woden platform with wheels as a dolly

Overall I am happy with this as with the addition of the dolly enabled to use to use a more range of different techniques making our music video more exciting which it should be. In addition we followed the conventions of our genre and god wins thoery. Once editing we our hoping the results are really good.

Editing the video Transformation scene

For our transformation scene , we edited this is in final cut pro. We want the transformation scene to be quick and easy for the audience to see so we applied the cross fade effect like shown in the image. This is to show the transformation in age from the young charlie to the older charlie and again made the video black and white as that is a theme throughout.

Second draft of digi pack

front cover of special edition box

This is my front cover so far for my box. The reason I am making a box is for the digi pack to be stored in. I want my digi pack to be special to my fans just like other indie bands have done such as kasier chiefs and nirvana. I wanted to do the same and make it feel that special. In addition , just like the liberteens , i wanted to take the idea of having a strong meaning of the image of the cover and have a strong image here of these photos are documenting the progress of creating and putting together the music video and digi pack . Creating a bond between the audience and digi pak , making it feel like a collators item and special to the individual.