Last week on Tuesday, Me and Michael got our actors together and filmed the majority of our narrative. We filmed it in two parts, one during the night-time, which is our first setting (The first attack), and one in the day-time which is the second of the attacks. The shoot was a success and we got pretty much all of the shots we needed. We filmed the day part of our music video before the night part so that we could get it done in one day. This assisted us in making the most of our time aswell.
The actors, Amy and Jay were great and put forward ideas to what would look better etc. This was great and helped us a lot as we had a second opinion from people that were experienced. Pretty much everything went perfectly, although it began to rain later on in the shoot which was a bit of a restriction. However we filmed under a moterway bridge which was dry and seemed to work better than our origional idea.
The fact that we got it all done in one day was great as the actors were not available any other time, before we filmed this was restricting, although now we have all of the shots we need, it does not affect us.
Tuesday, 13 December 2011
Monday, 5 December 2011
Item list for filming...
2x cars for lighting
1x item list
2x cameras (if we can get them)
2x tripods
1x Dolly
2x SD cards
costumes for actors
1x storyboard
2x actors
1x smashed bottle
1x item list
2x cameras (if we can get them)
2x tripods
1x Dolly
2x SD cards
costumes for actors
1x storyboard
2x actors
1x smashed bottle
Some filming done!
At the weekend me and michael filmed our establishing shot. We went down to a local motorway bridge in elsenham at arouns 8:00pm(when it was dark) and filmed the traffic. We filmed it from 2 different angles, one low and one high. We spent half an hour on each shot because the idea is that we speed it up a considerable amount so that the lights merge and create a few seconds of interesting effect. This will also fit in with our horizontal intertextual reference "All of the Lights" and aswell as that it will set the urban scene we are trying to establish.
Shots
We have spoken to some of the employees at a local shop, about a shot regarding the CCTV television, this will be a very effective shot for our music video to get a varied amount of shots and interesting one. This shot will also help connote the whole "watching" aspect to our film and help the audience understand the narrative more. We have asked if we could film the TV rather than getting the actual footage as it will be easier for them and for us to film.
Another place we will be asking to film in is an industrial estate in elsenham that has a lot of urban mise en scene for example skips, propane tanks, CCTV cameras etc that we could use to our advantage to build up the setting of a more urban place rather than a rural one.
Another place we will be asking to film in is an industrial estate in elsenham that has a lot of urban mise en scene for example skips, propane tanks, CCTV cameras etc that we could use to our advantage to build up the setting of a more urban place rather than a rural one.
Weather...
Problem!!!
The male actor for our narrative (Martin Baldwin) is not able to film on wednesday, so i have planned to ask another friend of mine who is also a drama student called Jay Kahtri, we are hoping he will say yes as he is also a good actor and will take it more seriously.
This is martin who will not be able to act in our shoot due to problems with availability.
This is martin who will not be able to act in our shoot due to problems with availability.
This is Jay Khatri who will be replacing Martin Baldwin for availability reasons.
Filming>Shot list..
We are thinking of filming our performance on Thursday, so we will be booking -
-2 HD Cameras,
-2 Tripods,
-1 dolly.
Luckily we have looked at the pit timetable and it is free afterschool. We have spoken to the site team and they have said that it is fine for us to film on Thursday after school. Although we may have to wait until 4 o clock as there is a pit gig at lunchtime and they will have to tidy away. Although we have to wait, we are going to ask the lighting people to stay and help us, also there are going to be projections on two screens, so it will hopefully look proffessional. Also, it will look like a conventional performance as the set up for the pit gig is set up for a performance within our Drum and Bass Genre.
Shot list - Performance
- Close ups with handheld camera
- High angle shots with tripod
- Medium and long range shots with tripod
- Close ups and pan/tracking shots on dolly
- Low angle shots on tripod
- Sillouette shots on tripod.
We will be filming the narrative part of our music video tommorow, so we will need the actors and costumes ready so that we can get straight on with it and have enough time to get to the specific locations so that we can aim to finish it in one day. I have checked out the weather also and it looks good for filming.
We will also be booking out -
-2 HD Cameras
-2 Tripods
-1 Dolly.
Shot list for Narrative -
- Close ups with handheld camera
- High angle shots with tripod
- Medium and long range shots with tripod
- Close ups and pan/tracking shots on dolly
- Low angle shots on tripod
- Tracking shots following actors on dolly
-2 HD Cameras,
-2 Tripods,
-1 dolly.
Luckily we have looked at the pit timetable and it is free afterschool. We have spoken to the site team and they have said that it is fine for us to film on Thursday after school. Although we may have to wait until 4 o clock as there is a pit gig at lunchtime and they will have to tidy away. Although we have to wait, we are going to ask the lighting people to stay and help us, also there are going to be projections on two screens, so it will hopefully look proffessional. Also, it will look like a conventional performance as the set up for the pit gig is set up for a performance within our Drum and Bass Genre.
Shot list - Performance
- Close ups with handheld camera
- High angle shots with tripod
- Medium and long range shots with tripod
- Close ups and pan/tracking shots on dolly
- Low angle shots on tripod
- Sillouette shots on tripod.
We will be filming the narrative part of our music video tommorow, so we will need the actors and costumes ready so that we can get straight on with it and have enough time to get to the specific locations so that we can aim to finish it in one day. I have checked out the weather also and it looks good for filming.
We will also be booking out -
-2 HD Cameras
-2 Tripods
-1 Dolly.
Shot list for Narrative -
- Close ups with handheld camera
- High angle shots with tripod
- Medium and long range shots with tripod
- Close ups and pan/tracking shots on dolly
- Low angle shots on tripod
- Tracking shots following actors on dolly
Thursday, 1 December 2011
Narrative codes
To show my understanding of Roland Barthes' Narrative codes I have applied them to popular music videos and films. This is also to help me include some of the codes into my production.
Enigma Code - Offers a puzzle and delays the answer - For the Enigma code I feel that a good example would be Eminems' "Not Afraid", this is because he is standing at the top of a building and the audience doesnt know whether he is going to jump off or not, however this is revealed at the end when he steps down from the ledge.
Action Code - An event having a series of logical consequences which helps the audience understand the narrative better - For this code I have chosen "The Taking of Pelham 123", which is a crime thriller film that I used to reference my AS production from, In this film the 'crime film' conventions are apparent. For example first the train is taken, then people are taken hostage, negociated with and then a happy ending. Much like that of "Phone Booth".
Semic Code - The connotations suggested by the characters, settings and props. In Kanye Wests' "all of the lights, the little girl is wearing a white jacket connoting innocence and vaunrability, this is also connted through the age of the girl.
Symbolic Code - The idea of narratives being based around opposing forces.
Cultural Code - The knowledge that audience's have to bring to a video to fully understand it. A member of my class found a really good example of this which was "Moves like Jagger" by Maroon 5. The audience would have to know his dances to understand the narrative of the video although clips of Mick Jagger are shown throughout.
Enigma Code - Offers a puzzle and delays the answer - For the Enigma code I feel that a good example would be Eminems' "Not Afraid", this is because he is standing at the top of a building and the audience doesnt know whether he is going to jump off or not, however this is revealed at the end when he steps down from the ledge.
Action Code - An event having a series of logical consequences which helps the audience understand the narrative better - For this code I have chosen "The Taking of Pelham 123", which is a crime thriller film that I used to reference my AS production from, In this film the 'crime film' conventions are apparent. For example first the train is taken, then people are taken hostage, negociated with and then a happy ending. Much like that of "Phone Booth".
Semic Code - The connotations suggested by the characters, settings and props. In Kanye Wests' "all of the lights, the little girl is wearing a white jacket connoting innocence and vaunrability, this is also connted through the age of the girl.
Symbolic Code - The idea of narratives being based around opposing forces.
Cultural Code - The knowledge that audience's have to bring to a video to fully understand it. A member of my class found a really good example of this which was "Moves like Jagger" by Maroon 5. The audience would have to know his dances to understand the narrative of the video although clips of Mick Jagger are shown throughout.
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