Location Reccie comment

In order to test our location efficiency, we carried out a series of test runs at the locations from our storyboard. The aim of the exercise was to test the locations light (in darkness, since we will be filming late at night), as well as the street furniture and how we can use/avoid in where and when we need to, whilst filming.

In order to test the lighting of our locations, we used a character to walk similar to how we will get our main character to walk at our locations when we do the actual filming of our narrative. Whilst filming, we tested various camera angles, zoom and focus settings to see which would work best at the location.

Overall, the lighting and (street) furniture seemed perfect for the setting we require for filming our narrative. The natural street lighting provides the perfect amount of light we need to capture the protagonists facial and body expressions, so we won't need any additional lighting. the street furniture, such as benchs, lamposts, alleys and roadsides are in a perfect position to meet our requirements of the locations of our narrative.

Location Reccie

Call Sheets

A call sheet is a document which shows the details of planned recording shoots. It includes details such as date, time, location, cast, props and equipment requirements, whos responsible for equipment, contact details and technical notes. The purpose of these being to easily organise our time, equipment and cast effectively to make the filming process as smooth as possible.
The people responsible are those that are included in the shoot details on the call sheet itself.

Animatic Comment

We created an animatic for our music video to enable us to see how well our storyboard and ideas fitted in with the music. We created a storyboard for the narrative which set out how long each shot and where it would be placed in the song so to cover all possible timing problems we would have. We then storyboarded our performance based side of the video. However instead of setting it out how we would have in the video we just drew some of the shots we wanted to use and then slotted them in between the narrative storyboard allowing us to move them around when it came to the animatic and fitting our ideas to the music.
We then filmed both the storyboards and exported them into premiere. When filming we filmed each shot for twice the length we wanted to use them for in case we needed to stretch a shot. Once this was done we added the music track and began to cut down and fit the video and images to the music. We found that although we had timed it fairly well when storyboarding alot of tweaking had to be done to ensure the beat of the song fitted the images. In hindsight it may have been better to do the animatic shot by shot rather than edit the whole video at once because when stretching one shot it would put the rest of the video out of sync. However after a while of tweaking we managed to finish our animatic.
Looking back at our finished animatic i think it will have helped us to alot of the work that we needed to do for the actual shoot because we can now easily fit in the shots to the music knowing how long each shot needs to be and also what looks best when fitting into the track.

Our Animatic for Hoobastank - Never There

Narrative Locations and Details

Introduction - Chase begins under street light within a housing street.

Verse 1 - Character walking/ running through lit housing streets, creating suspense within the narrative.

Chorus 1 - Character enters and walks around selected car park.

Verse 2 - Character leaves car park walking.

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Verse 2 leading into/and Chorus 2 - character walking through High street and receives text.

Verse 3 / Chorus 3 - Playground occurrences.

Outro - back to intro location, concluding chase and revealed ending

Video Narrative Filming Dates

Saturday 10th January - Evening/ sunday morning - Recci - Photos and sample video camera techniques.

Monday 12th January - Analyise and link in with narrative and storyboarding drawings.

Monday 12th, wednesday 14th and Thursday 15th - Performance filming dates.

Saturday17th January - Film the narrative - later evening / early Sunday morning.