Wednesday, 13 January 2016

Point 26- Collect props and costumes

Props:
Band equipment –  
Drum kit and sticks,
2 guitars and 1 bass guitar,
2 standing microphones and 2 leads,
3 amplifiers and 3 cables,
Leaves for the ground,
Lighting –
Multiple range of lights and gels (yet to be specified)
Multiple cables and power sockets.
Other props –
A chair,
A sofa,
A bed,
Bedside table, 
A Phone,
Doorway for charlie sneaking out.

Tuesday, 12 January 2016

Point 25- Casting

Charlie Bailey

Charlie is being cast as our lead
actor in our side story and our
lead singer in our band. We
chose Charlie because he is
a brilliant actor and recently has
been accepted to attend AMDA
next year and is also my best
mate so he was delighted to
help.









Grace Pritchard


Grace is going to play the role of Charlie's girlfriend in my
video. One of the reasons we chose her is that she has a strong friendship with Charlie and they will work very well together. Also she is a very good actress, she played Heather in  Gordonstoun's recent production of American Idiot and did an amazing Job so this is another reason why we chose her.













Ciara Middleton

Ciara is Playing the role of the girl who Charlie cheats on Grace with. We chose Ciara because she is in My A-Level Theatre Studies class and we performed in a play of William Shakespeare's Coriolanus together, which we were awarded Trinity College London Distinction for so this is why we have chose her.












Shaun Clarke

Shaun is going to drum for our band shots. Shaun played drums for American Idiot and is a great drummer so we are going to get him to listen to our chosen song so he can get a feel for the drumming so that when we come to filming he can play along to the song and the we will be able to create a convincing band sync

Tuesday, 1 December 2015

Point 24- Shot Locations and shots of the locations

This is the North Gate at Gordonstoun School. As all the members of Pyramid Entertainment attend Gordonstoun we already have permission to use it. This is the main place we will shoot the Unknown girl walking to meet up with the boyfriend in the video. They will meet at the gate and then walk through the gate when the boyfriends girlfriend watches him walk away with another girl. This location offers great opportunities for dramatic long shots and a great final shot to fade out from for a finish. This fade out shot will give the audience a sense that the video is over and complete.










This is the Silent Walk at Gordonstoun School. As all the members of Pyramid Entertainment attend Gordonstoun we already have permission to use it. Similarly to the North Gate the footage we take from the Silent walk will be mostly the unknown girl walking at night to meet the boyfriend and also the boyfriend going to meet the unknown girl. As well as the long shots we get at the North gate the Silent Walk proposes another great location to take some great long shots.





Point 23- Create a Shot List and a shooting script for your video

Below are images of the Shot List I made for my video.



Below is the shooting script I made for my Video.

















Friday, 13 November 2015

Point 21- Plan 5 sections to your video, to add variety. Create a storyboard for each section.

Shot 1                                                       Shot 2                                        Shot 3


Shot 4                                                                                 Shot 5 




    In the first shot the boyfriend and his girlfriend show signs of an unstable relationship because they are arguing. The shot is a mid shot.


 In the second shot the girlfriend reads her boyfriends phone when he receives a text message from another girl. This is a POV shot.

In the third shot the boyfriend gets very angry  at his girlfriend for reading   his phone.  This will be a series of shot revers shots.
                                                                                                                  
 In the forth shot. The boyfriend then sneaks out at night while his girlfriend sleeps. This will be a high angle shot.    

 In the fifth shot. We then see him meet up with another women... This is the over the shoulder shot.
        

Wednesday, 11 November 2015

Point 20- Create a story plan for the video; write a brief synopsis.

Our song is all about keeping secrets from people. Our side storyline within the music video is going to be about a boyfriend keeping secrets from his girlfriend. At the start of the video there will be shots of them arguing and falling out which shows they are not the best of couples. One shot in particular that we are going to use  around the middle of the video is them arguing about a text message that the boyfriend gets from another girl. His girlfriend tries to read the message but she isn't able to read it and the boyfriend storms off in anger that she doesn't trust him. The final shot of the video is the boyfriend sneaking out and going to see this "other girl" and they run off into the sunset holding hands and showing the audience that the boyfriend is cheating on his girlfriend. What he doesn't know is that his girlfriend knew he snuck out and followed him. We will show this by zooming out of the boyfriend with his new found lover running away until the actual girlfriend who is standing at a distance watching them run off comes into the shot. The lead singer of the band will be the boyfriend from the side story because this is very common in pop punk music videos. Therefore lip and band sync will be crucial.