Mood board

Mood board from St Peters RC Comprehensive

Props

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These images are the props that were are going to use in our music video. We have the instruments to for our performance part of our music video. the sleeping bag and the tent is going to be used to show that the actors in the video are travelling and camping in the woods.

Health and Safety

Health and Safety

During the production of our music videos we will encounter many instances where we will need to be careful that we may retain our health and safety.

When filming our part with the camp fire, it is important to know the dangers when dealing with an open fire. For example, it is important that hair, clothing or hanging items should not be near the open fire that nothing can catch.

 

 

 

 

When jumping in the river, it is important to know that rivers can reach levels of 4 – 5 degrees on certain days. This means that we should not jump in straight away but get used to the temperature first, this way we can avoid getting hyperthermia and shock from the cold. Furthermore, heat reflecting covers should be ready and at hand for when the actor are out of the water so that they may retain their heat.

 

 

Photographs of work in progress boards and Storyboard changes

21st October 2015

These are the first set of illustrations that we together as a group have come up with by brainstorming ideas. It has started with the concept of using locations that are outdoors, with a mixture of narrative and performance scenes (including having instruments in the video).

4th November 2015

Over the week we have made some storyboard changes to improve our music video when filming. In our music video we are using binary opposites of freedom and being trapped, which is shown in the illustrations that show Lucy being wrapped and tied/unable to move in black bed sheets (symbolises being trapped and black being a dull and lifeless colour), as well as the freedom side which is illustrated in myself (Ben), Darwin and Ryan having fun. However, we felt as though this was not enough to clearly tell the audience there are binary opposites, and so we have changed the storyboard and added scenes of the 3 boys using colourful paint splattered on our blank white t-shirts to symbolise the binary opposites through colours as well as having fun. We also had to make changes to how long we should have each scene for, as when going through the song first time when filming we noticed that some scenes were too short, and we had to correct our error on the storyboard so that next time we go filming it doesn't cause any problems.

6th November 2015
The final storyboard changes have now been made and our storyboard has been completed. We decided that there wasn't enough editing, therefore we have added split-screen editing as well as 're-winding editing' (playing the paint clip backwards so the paint comes off the t shirt and back on). We also thought that our storyboard was too focused on a narrative, therefore for the last chorus, bridge and scat we added scenes showing the instruments included in the clip to give the video more variety so that it is not  dominantly a narrative music video.

18th November 2015
Although we have finished our storyboard, during filming we have gone off the storyboard target as we  have come up with more ideas during filming. We have kept some shots on the sticky notes, such as the close up of the instruments, however have cut out others such as climbing on top of the UBC and a close up of the singers mouth singing. However, we have added other scenes such as having leaves being lifted up and the still stop-motion images edited with the green-screen.

How will this be used?
For our actual product, having a storyboard gives us as a group a general idea of how we are going to create our music video, what shot angles we are going to use, what location/settings, what editing and even what mise-en-scene factors we are going to include. After having drawn a different range of shot types, we decided that mid shots will be one of our most frequent shots. We decided this because it is common in the Ska genre to have this shot type as shown in other music videos. This will be effective as it means the audience is able to see the mise-en-scene as well as the actors/singer performing the instrument playing/lip syncing.


Photos of final storyboard after changes
(In order, top right is the first page, top left is the second page, and the bottom storyboard is the final page which also includes scrapped scenes which were changed as well as the location shots listed.)

Todorov's Narative

For this task, we looked at Todorov's Narrative theory by making a draft storyboard of our music video using his theory. Todorov's narrative theory suggests that all narratives follow a three part structure where they begin with equilibrium, where everything is balanced, progress as something comes along to disrupt that equilibrium, and finally reach a resolution, when equilibrium is restored.We examined whether it is effective to base it solely on narrative. The other members of our group made a story board but base it solely on performance. This allowed us to compare each and make a decision on which one we want to go for.

Narrative theories

For this task, we examined Todorov's theory of narrative by looking at what is effective and what is not. Whether is is better to have an order of Beginning, middle and an end in our music video (chronological) or not in chronological order.

We have created two videos, both chronological and not chronological for a scene in our music video. As well as creating the videos we have created a voiceover for each video, explaining Todorov's theory with the three stages as well as the positives and negatives of having a video that is chronological and one that is not chronological.

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