1st Session of Recording

In our first session of recording we started with moving the tables from the front of the threate to the sides so when filming you couldn't see anything which wasn't supposed to be in the shot. Then I went to the music department to ask for someone to adjust the lights in the threate to look like a proper music concert. The colours of lights we used were blue and red, we used these colours because these colours are easy to manipulate using the iMovie program on the Macs.

As we was filming we had a laptop which was connected to the audio cable which is connected to the speakers around the threate. We did this for two reasons which were to make sure the drummer and guitarist know what they will have to mimic in the song, and the other reason was so that when re-watching the clips and cutting them together we know what part of the music video is where.

The final shots of some of the performance music video are alright but we will need to touch the shots up using some of the software on the iMovie program.

Making of the Cardboard Guitar

As this is a very playful song we decided to use a different way of showing this by using varied instruments instead of the real thing, For example here we are making the card board cut out guitar which I feel, sticks to the joyfulness of the song without straying off making the music video look budgeted.

Another reason which we used these types of instruments was that are search for musicians could be increased to nearly anybody who could keep up with the beat of our song.

The instruments we decided to use where a comb which is for the singer of the group, four cooking pots which will be put together to look like a drum set and a card board cut out guitar which is for the guitarist of the group. The pots and comb will be easy to collect as i already have these objects but for the guitar there will be a bit more effort which will be needed to go into the designing and making.

To start with I found a picture of a guitar on the internet and used that as a template which I based this guitar around. Then I used a stanley knife and a cutting board to cut around the template of the design which left a basic outline. This was all we were going to do but decided that the guiat looked flat so we decided to add two stripes of cardboard where the guitarist would strum the cords which gave it a more three dimensional feeling.

Preparing for our filming for the music video

We now have to start and find people for the three different instruments we were going to have a band which we asked for from the music department but that was before we had the idea of using playful instruments like the cooking pots for the drums. So then we decided to go with three of our friends which we knew, were able to film when we wanted.

We used Brendan as the singer as he didn’t mind doing the singing parts of the music video. As he is the singer we decided that it would be best to use a comb instead of a real microphone because it adds to the playfulness of the song.

We used Josh as the guitarist as he looked the part when holding the guitar which means a lot in a music video like this one. As we intended to keep to the playfulness of the song we used a card board cut out guitar instead of a real electric guitar.

We used Rowan as the drummer as he had the most experience with even messing around with the drums as he actually does music. We wanted the most experienced person with drums to play them as it can be hard to match up the beat with the drums when editing it together at the end. As we intended to keep with the playfulness of the song we decided to have cooking pots instead of a real drum set.

Ideas for final piece

As we were progressing through are animatic storyboard, we were still thinking about different ways the mise en scene could change the way the audience listen and think about this piece of music. One idea which we had was the conventional instruments for example a real guitars and instruments. But as this song is upbeat and joyful we thought that these types of instruments wouldn’t keep to the conventional joyful music so we had another idea which would be where we had playful instruments for example a cardboard cut out guitar.

Having instruments which aren’t real makes the music video flow better because this means that it doesn’t matter if the person playing the instruments isn’t good at it as this will add to the playfulness of the song.

We also decided to film the performance parts of the music video in the threate at our collage as this gives a believable concert feel to the music video.

Another idea we had to give our performance parts of our music video a concert feel is to have a first person starting for example a real person entering the concert and sitting down which I feel will make the audience watching the music video feel like they are actually there making the music video feel more personal to them.

Animatic Storyboard

Commonly used camera shots

These are a few camera shots which are used a lot by music videos.

Example Shots

These are two example shots of a pan which follows on from the last shot.

In these shots there are panning shots which didn't work well so we will be creating a better version with the panning which we may use in the final piece.