Costumes

From our research we can see that boy bands tend to wear jeans with the bottoms rolled up or long shorts, with no shoes. They are normally topless or wearing tank tops, unfortuantly with the cold weather this may not be possible for our video. the jeans are either blue or beige and the shirt are either white, black or grey. In the shots with the actors, they will be wearing smart casual clothes.

Practice Shots

In class me and Nick took the time to do some practice shots of things we are going to do in the video. This we thought would save us time for when we are at the location. We found that it is hard to keep the camera still whilest moving with it so we keep the carmera stil and just try to use the lever on the camera for any movement. We also practising close ups and found they need to be at eye level and they looked best when it showed the face aswell as shoulders as it fills the shot better.

start of filming

The inital start date of the 27th of January has had to been pushed back a week because one of the boyband members picked up a back injury in the morning before the group were planning to go out at about mid-day. this was very unfortunate as the weather was perfect for the look the group want to convey in the video.
To cater for this, the group will look to spend a longer amount of time at their main location this week-end, making sure they take plenty of shots, using enough different camera angles to have enough material required for all the coverage at the beach location.

anamatic

here is the link to our anamatic-http://www.youtube.com/v/CKAg_0PrTTI
we are very happy with the way our project is starting to look and we have learnt some important aspects we need to change. we realised some shots are too long and that we needed some shorter snappier shots which are present in the majority of boy band music videos.
over all we felt that we are happy with the style and feel we will be able to convert the anamatic drawings into the actual music video without too much difficulty.
http://www.youtube.com/v/CKAg_0PrTTI

Planning review #3

You completed the animatic ahead of deadline, however you have not posted the blog entry, reflecting on how you made it and what you learnt from it - do this ASAP.

You must also use this blog to record any rehersals, group discussions or amendments to your concept.

This should also now be a production log of your shoots too.

planning review # 3 - CF

well done - a confident pitch and clear ideas on location, performance and camera style. Practice shots helped inform your research. You now need to amend your blog to include posts on the following:

1. locations

2. costume, performance

3. types of shots / movement you will use

4. Audience research

5. initial concept (write a summary)



Your blog still doesn't reflect the progress you are making - which is very promising.

review of pitch

Dan and I presented our pitch to the group orally, without using powerpoint and i think this worked very well. Both of us felt confident in all our ideas about our video so far we felt it would be a better presentation if we spoke to the group, while showing pictures of our boyband, rather than just reading slides out off powerpoint. I thought the feedback was good and we presented our ideas very well. Unlike other groups, we are very clear of our aims, and that is to meet the generic conventions of a boyband music video. It seems other groups might have an advantage over us by using real 'bands' in their videos but they still seemed unsure on their conventions and myself and Dan have really made progress in knowing specifically what we want to do. We both got all our ideas across and showing photos of our band really gave everyone a stong image of how our band will look in our video. We both felt there wasn't much more we could have added to our presentation and were very happy with how it went.