Thursday 15 December 2011

Evidence of Recce - Club scene





Production Journal 12 - Club Scene

Yesterday we filmed the club scene with all the dancers in, for our music video. I was in charge of directing again and my other team member was in charge of filming again because we thought that it worked better that way. We filmed this scene at school because it had a dark room with lighting that was sufficient for a club scene. We also gave the people at the club glowsticks. This scene was the hardest to film because the lighting was dark so when we were filming we thought the lighting was going to be really bad on film but watching it back it looks like exactly what we wanted.

Also, because we had so many people in this scene because it is our club scene, it was hard to direct a lot of people all at once.
We had to tell the dancers that were in our video what to do and at the same time we had to tell the extras that were in it what to do. Also we had trouble getting the DJ in the shot because he was at the far end of the room we were filming in. It was also hard to get everyone in a shot without it looking spacious because we wanted the club scene to look packed.
Overall, this scene went ok it wasn't as hard as we thought it would be before we filmed.

Monday 12 December 2011

Evidence of Recce - Priscilla 2






Production Journal 11 - Priscilla 2

On Saturday 10th we filmed the remaining part of Priscilla walking to church and seeing the DJ DELIRIOUS logos. This part of the video was filmed by the other member of the group and again I was directed Priscilla on what to do. This part was really easy but we had to film from various places.
The only hindrance we had was the wind blowing all the logos every time we stuck it somewhere. Apart from that filming on saturday went really well.

Evidence of Recce - Priscilla 1





Production Journal 10 - Priscilla 1

On Friday 9th we filmed Priscilla's first dancing scene which was inside the church. During filming we realised the pastor we initially wanted to use was unavailable so we had to find a replacement immediately. I filmed part of the scene because I haven't filmed much of the whole video so I was filming this time.
I also told the actors and dancers what to do because so of them didn't know we had plans to film that day as they just showed up to church but they were fine with us filming.

Tuesday 6 December 2011

Evidence of Recce 3 - Paula's scene




















































































Filming Paula's scene.

Production Journal 9

Yesterday me and Sybill my other group member filmed Paula's dance scene in a dance studio. Overall filming was really good because we knew exactly what we wanted the dancers to do because we had previously informed them about it for a week so, they already practiced the dance. It took us roughly an hour to film everything in total. Firstly, we filmed Paula dancing in the dance studio with other dancers and we tried to get them from many angles so we have a variety of shots to choose from.

Lastly, we filmed Paula walking down the hill this is where we filmed her seeing the logos of DJ DELIRIOUS around the area. We had problems with people and cars going past and that set us back a couple of minutes so, it got dark whilst we were waiting for the people to walk past but overall we got a lot of footage we could choose from.

Evidence of Recce 2 - Lawrance's scene


















































These are the photos we took whilst filming Lawrance's dance scene.

Monday 5 December 2011

Production Journal 8

On Friday 2nd, we filmed the first of Lawrance's scene of our music video. I wasn't there at the beginning of filming because I had a lesson but the other member of my group was there to film. Filming went ok but we had a little difficulty trying to film from different angles because we were in a confined classroom and the tables in the classroom didn't allow us to move the tripod around. Also, we had to make sure that every time we changed angles all the props and people in the last shot remained the same so it didn't look awkward in the clip that we got.

We learnt from filming this scene that we have to direct the actors and dancers in the video properly so they know what to do, because they were a little bit confused when we started filming so, next time we need to keep informing them throughout filming on what exactly we need them to do.

Tuesday 29 November 2011

Research into my digipack

Intertextual reference: MC Hammer

We decided to use the dance from MC Hammer's 'U can't touch this' video as our intertextual reference in our music video. We chose this as it is a popular reference to use and it fits into our dance concept quite well.
We have already got a person who has a MC Hammer costume ready to be used in the video and we thought it would be very useful.

























This is how the person is going to be dressed.

Cast of our music video

This is the cast for our music video. The first picture is of Thabo, the dancer who is going to be dancing at football practice and be distracted by the logos of DJ DELIRIOUS. The second picture of our second female dancer Paula who's going to break the style of dancing in a contemporary ballet style and switch to street dance. The third picture is of Lawrance and he is the dancer we replaced the first one with and he is going to be getting sent out of class for not paying attention to lesson and getting distracted by the song and logo of DJ DELIRIOUS. The last picture is of Priscilla, our last dancer and she is the one that is going to be sent of of church for been irresponsible and dancing whilst preaching is going on.
We haven't got a picture of who the DJ is on this post because we want it to be revealed in the music video.




















































































Monday 28 November 2011

Time Plan



This is the time plan we have made for our filming schedule, photo shoots for the music video promotion and digipacks and lastly editing. We have included on there all the times and dates we will be filming at. If anything changes, we can change it on the calendar but so far we have everything under control and we hope it stays that way.

Production Journal 7

Today Monday 28th November, we were supposed to film a dance scene with one one our dancers but unfortunately we couldn't do it today because the dancer was feeling a little ill and was too tired to do anything so we cancelled filming today. This is the second time we had to reschedule this dancers scene so me and my and other group member Sybill Scott decided to use somebody else for that scene and replace him. We have done a new schedule for all the filming and editing we will be doing over the next month.

Tuesday 15 November 2011

Storyboard Animatic: Boogie 2nite

Logo for DJ DELIRIOUS























The second logo is the one we've chosen to use as our logo for DJ DELIRIOUS however, we decided to put the other one we made on the blog to show that we had to consider different designs. We chose the first one because it communicates House music more because of the colourful background and the bright colours.

Wednesday 9 November 2011

Feedback from our Pitch








These are the feedback we gave to the members of our class to give their opinion of our music video idea after listening to our pitch. The first one is from our teacher and her main criticism was the age target audience needed to be low and we have already made those changes. Also, she thought we need to make sure all the people in the club scene need to be confirmed if they can do so the club scene looks realistic. She thought our idea of dance was very good because it is very current right now and it will fit in the music industry which is very important for anew artist like ours.
The feedback we got from other members also thought that casting would need to be sorted our carefully and after that lesson we went to the dance teacher at our school and we made sure she could provide all the dancers we asked for, and all we needed to do was tell her when and where we needed them in advance. However, most of them thought our concept was good and the incorporation of a logo in the music video to be able to identify DJ DELIRIOUS.

Storyboards