15th January - Digipack Finished!

Here is the final copy of my Digi pack, complete with all effects and pictures!

Enjoy....

12th January 2011 - LAST FILMING!

OK, so today we finally wrapped 'Bullets and Barbies' music video!! WOHOOO....
We did the final touches like bits with Pete and Solo's, so all is left now is editing for the deadline of 21st January!!
Screening on Wednesday 19th January so cant wait for feedback!

Material used for Digi Pack and Poster - Our images and off Google!

All these images are featured on the digi pack!



This image is used without the man, on the CD holder -
http://grumpymanwithtoomuchtimeonhishands.blog/

This image is used again on the cover - http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-02/15/content_10821363.htm

This is the background image from - http://www.wallpaper4me.com/wallpaper/Leopard-Print/

 These two images are used with a black ground, and in black and white to reflect the video! Taken by us!

 They both show the band in funny, light hearted appeal!

07 January 2011 - Such a productive day!

After so much procrastination, we finally filmed the crowd scene today! We used Year 10's from two media classes to take part. This was great for them to see what a Music Video shoot was like and helped us tremendously! The crowd where amazing fanatic fans, screaming and shouting at Bullets and Barbies.
So after we had done this we started edited as the deadline is increasing closer the 21st Jan! Whilst the half of the group started this, i had time to finish my digi pack! Which I'm really proud of, and although i say it myself looks great!

So now we just need to edit...here's to the 21st January! I will upload pictures soon!

Wednesday 15th December - Digi pack begins...

OK, so again the shoot didn't go to plan. Due to band members being ill, and not being able to complete the shoot. So instead we did something far more productive, we began our digi packs. I really enjoyed using Photoshop again, its so easy and fun to use. And its the only programme i know how to use! So i started playing around with my ideas, and used my plan to lay out all the panels. Here is a little preview.

 I started playing around with fonts and stuff, which i loved doing! The background i got off Google, along with the 'B' which we have used all through our campaign.
The bullets and lips, i just added because i felt it needed a little extra thing to spice it up!!
However this isn't finished, still need to complete the other four panels and the insert!





But I'm loving it so far!

So close to the end...

OK, so we have had an awful week.
Last week we were faced with snow, which lasted the entire week meaning that the school was shut!! Meaning that we couldn't film the last remaining pieces of our story board!! Then this week came and some group members were ill and i wasn't in, so we thought all going bad and not to schedule as we had planned to be finished and start editing this week. So, on Monday the half of the group started a rough edit on iMovie as final cut has not been uploaded to the new Macs yet. Looking at it today, started to get really excited for the final product. Also today we luckily got to film small easy cuts to put in, and we also continued to edit.
The schedule has been re done for Friday, that should be our last day of filming and then editing the whole thing!!
WHooooop.

3rd Shoot...

OK, so today we decided to shoot odd bits we had left over from the story board. Pete wore his red tie, so we shot many scenes with him and they looked wonderful. So Friday should be the final day for filming for us then its a WRAP! Hopefully, fingers crossed.

2nd Shoot

Ok so we plan to shoot the second time. With some hiccups Ellis forgot the storyboard, so we had to watch the animatic and remember what shots we had to use. Also Peter forgot his red tie so we couldn't include any shots of him. So we thought OH DEAR, but we resolved this by doing individual shots of just the band in our changed of outfits.

Here's to the 3rd shoot on Friday! WHOOP.
Till next time Nanceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

Wednesday 17th November - Our first shoot!

So second time lucky, we decided to shoot! We checked with the teacher and asked her if we could use her room during the morning, and she said it was only available last lesson in the afternoon. So we thought rather than waste the time, we thought we would so the photo shoot for the digipacks and film later.
So we got all dressed up, and began shooting in the IT room with the green screen, as there was no available black backgrounds. At first we had trouble getting the lighting perfect, after that was sorted, the camera became an issue. As it was a long exposure most of the pictures were 'blurry' and out of focus, there was limited space as well for us to act our positions, so this became a challenge. We over came this by shooting individual pictures for our digipack, and getting 'quirky' pictures that we could use. This worked well given our limited time and space!

Then came the afternoon, we set up in the drama room on the stage they had, and the lighting looked perfect! But then came a problem no one had brought the music! So we found a way around that too, there was a computer, so we played it out of the speakers and it worked perfectly.

So we started filming, and then collected our microphones from the music department and everything was set. We began filming the performance scene, and all of us gave it our all! And really got into it. We managed to shoot the whole song, and then addition scenes that we thought would work.
So together the day went really well, and to plan.
We plan to shoot, on Monday and Wednesday to finish !

Wednesday 10th Novemeber - Lets shoot...maybe not?

Today we pitched our idea to the class and got great feedback on our idea and things we couldn't and should include. These were;
- not to stick too much to visuals and lyrics
- make sure lighting is perfect!

Whilst our plan was to shoot today, we decided against it, to do some test shots of lighting in our location on site. As it is in black and white we wanted to see what lighting looked right and what didn't. Here is our favourite shot, although i am blinking this type of light is perfect for our video.

Tuesday 9th November - Rich Mix, Music Video Conference.

Today all of the class went to Rich Mix, in Shoreditch High Street where they was hosting a music video conference.
It was held in the Rich Mix arts centre where we had talks from Pete Fraser who wrote; Teaching Music Video. He gave us tips about how to make the perfect video!
Here is Pete's blog -  http://www.petefraser.co.uk/
 Pete gave us some background and history on music videos. He showed us Colour Box, by Len Lye one of the first videos put to visuals and music.



Then he went onto explain the current day, and how people now imitate a video shot for shot to get views possibly on the Internet. Here was one that stood out to me,




Finally he gave us 10 steps to music video success, which was -

1. Limber up - learn to plan, test shots, remake existing video
2. Choose track
3. Treatment - clear concept, plan everything, props, location
4. Blog - keep a blog of all ideas
5. Know your equipment
6. The shoot - shot times, storyboard, extra angles
7. Capture footage - label everything, organise
8. Edit - cut again, dynamic, whole picture
9. Screening - feedback
10. Analysis



Also Liz Kessler who is a music video commissioner for Academy Pictures. Here  is her work, and who she has worked with!

Aired Video titles Artists Directors


2006-Feb Sewn the Feeling Caswell Coggins

2005-dec Ballad of Paul K McFly Corin Hardy

2005-oct Nothing but green lights Tom Vek Adam Bartley

2005-sep Push the button Sugababes Matthew Rolston

2005-aug Destroy everything you touch Ladytron Adam Bartley

2005-jun Your woman Tyler James Phil Griffin

2005-may CC (you set the fire in me) Tom Vek Adam Bartley

2004-nov This is the last time [version 2] Keane Howard Greenhalgh

2004-sep U stood up V Ben Taylor

2004-aug Caught in a moment Sugababes Howard Greenhalgh

2004-jul Can U feel it? V Otis & Ben

2004-may Meet you on the other side Kid Symphony Gav $ Luke

2004-apr Never been a rockstar Kid Symphony Jamie Morgan

2004-apr In the middle Sugababes Matthew Rolston

2004-mar Five colours in her hair McFly Gav $ Luke

2004-mar Blood sweat and tears V Phil Griffin

2004-jan Somewhere only we know [version 1] Keane Corin Hardy

2004-jan Alone Mark Owen Phil Griffin

2003-sep Hole in the head Sugababes Matthew Rolston

2002-sep Celebrate your mother the Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster J.T.

2002-jul Round, round Sugababes Phil Griffin

And alongside her was Corin Hardy, music video director. He has worked with bands like Keane, Paulo Nutini, The Horrors and Prodigy.
He gave a speech about his carrer and life within the industry which i found really interesting! He started i the art department and worked his way up. He has a passion for graphics and drawings in his video which make thm very distinctive. Here is my favourite;
The Horrors - She is the new thing,



Here is hes blog, http://www.corinhardy.com/

Monday 8th November - The final animatic and The banners

Today we finally finished our animatic after four hours of lesson time! This helped us to lay out all the shots that we were going to use and ones that we thought could work better in the real shoot. The the animatic really helped us, and made us all excited for the real shoot.

Here are some pictures.....

So after that, we starting thinking of a day were we could begin filming. This is going to be Wednesday 10th November, during our period one and two. We are going to bring in all our props and costumes and start shooting the easier scenes first.
Finally we went through our props list and started putting together a 'To Do List' of things we needed for Wednesday, so as a group we started creating banners for one scene in our video. Here was what we came up with...

Wednesday 3rd November - Final Storyboard and Animatic

Today we finished our story board and concreted our final ideas start shooting next week!
We also started our animatic to get a preview of what our video will look like.

Here it is!

Till next time Nance,

LOL

Wednesday 20th October - Final Ideas and Story Board...

Here we needed to concrete our ideas into a music video format so we sat down together and carefully thought out every detail.
Where each shot would be, what it would look like and how it would flow.
The song and the video flow together and are closely linked but we didn't want our video to be too attached to song so we changed bits up, to break up the lyrics.
Here we drew out the sets as simplistic as possible and the shots as detailed as possible, to make every shot as real as it will be!!!

So we began our story board of our indefinite ideas....

Our Mood Board...

This is our mood board. This sets the overall look for the music videos.

Here we put background pink to show that it is a girl band. We added the skulls to show that the band has 'edgy' and 'rebelelious.'




The 'B' is going to be used for the font in our name. Standing for Bullets and Barbies .

This explains our influence from the video 'Vogue,' we were inspired by the photographic element and the emphasise on the lighting.


We got stills from the Internet and close ups of the shots we liked to use.

Here we explain in detail our strong emphasise on lighting. Also shows how we would like to use split screen as an editing technique.


Here is an example of a closeup......>









This image of the 'B' is going to be used throughout our fonts on the CD over and Digipacks.


In the video we are also going to use the red lips and the black face, which explains this.

This explains our costumes for the video. And where our inspiration is drawn from, 'Independent Women,' shown by Beyonce, Rihanna and Ciara.

This is going to be Peter's look for the video. Stylish yet 'charming' as during the video he attempts to be a player!!

Wednesday 13th October - Our ideas for the video.

During this lesson we had a sudden rush of all ideas we were inspired and felt went with this independent song.

The video we envisioned was...

• 'Vogue' inspired - black and white, emphasise on lighting
• Flashing transitions
• Red lips and tie being highlighted items - danger, love
• Split screen
• Independent look, not too feminine
• Blazer, skinny jeans, dark makeup
• Low camera angles
• Girls being bugged by boy (Peter)

These overall rough ideas, will be developed in a later stage.

First, as a group we wanted to change our band name, we wasn't a fan!!!! So we decided to brain storm ideas of names. As a band that is edgy and independent, we didn't want a name that was too feminine but also showing us as a girl band!!

We looked at names in different languages - Avec L'Amour, which meant 'With Love' we found too feminine.
We wanted to 'rough it up,' so we started thinking about girl toys and we thought 'Barbies' which we liked, and to contradict this we used 'Bullets.'  
So together we are, 'Bullets and Barbies.'
As an image we like this -

So we began making our mood board for out video, to piece together our overall look of the video...

Wednesday 6th October - Choosing our Briefs!

In today's double lesson, we decided our groups to work in for our music video project. In my group is Ellis, Emily and Peter. Together i believe we could make something amazing!!!

Then we decided to choose our brief of the music genre and song. After much deliberation we decided, "Good Girlz Bad." This was the tried we decided would fit our group. The 4 piece band we changed to 3, because of there only being 3 of us! Peter will be used in the video.

The band are independent, hates WAGS, and love travelling and new skills.

Our next challenge was to pick the song, the song choices we had were
- 'My Lovin' - En Vogue
- 'No Scrubs' - TLC
- 'I know where its at' - All Saints

As a group we couldn't decide on our song, so we did some research into our favourite songs and bands that fitted this criteria...
Destiny's Child - Bugaboo

We all loved this song, and had amazing ideas when we heard it !!!