First Day Shoot

Saturday 31st October:

Today we did our first proper day of shooting.

We met at Carnaby Starbucks at 10.

By the time we had finished sorting out equipment and sians costumes and make-up it was about 1100.

11.30- we starting filming various shots down carnaby street

As we had found an alley called Little Marlborough street, we thought this was a perfect spot to film a variety of different shots.

We filmed her a number of times singing the song the whole way through whilst changing costume.



1230- we moved into Soho, where we met a cab driver and filmed the narrative. And we thought as we were already there it would be a good idea to make use of the nice surroundings and film sian the whole way through again

Shot list

Shots we need to get for every location are:
CU, BCU, MS, LS  track shots
Side tracks, walking in to shot shots, lamppost shots, changing clothes shot, person wipe shots.

Sian swinging round a lamppost
Location signs (28th Wednesday)
- Carnaby street
Sian walking down Abbey Road

Cab shots:
- CU on eyes
- Her hands on blackberry (perhaps with a message on the screen)

- Her feet in heels

^ We are planning on having her drive down the road/round the corner in a black cab.

But in these shots you don't get to see her full identity, keeping it on a low will create the suspense of who it is.

Walking down bricklane, with the graffiti

^ shown in pictures below

what do you think?

I was watchin some random clips yesterday and looking and some shots and editing techniques,
and what looked quite good wasa shot of the actual station name, therefore allowing the audience to briefly understand where our actress is and then do some quick cut aways to well known landmarks within the place.

just a suggestion,
:]

Below are the pictures from our location recee,
We went to carnaby street and brick lane.
Unfortunately we were unable to go and check out Abbey Road therfore have decided to do another recee type thing on wednesday 28th.
On this day we will travel to Abbey Road and take a look at what good shots we could shoot, also we have decided to take the camera out and shoot all the scenery shots rather than performance shots, this will therefore save us time when we go to shoot on saturday. And don't have to leave our actress waiting around for ages.

Shots we can film without her will be:
Carnaby sign.
Liberty store
Soho square
Spitafields sign
mirror sculpture
routemaster bus

Doing this will really give us a head start and a much smoother shooting day on saturday and sunday!

RECEE

Things to Do... ASAP

* Lyrics Break down
*Detailed Shot list
* Visual Representation of Shot list, for shoot.
* Detailed Schedule for each shooting day - Start, Finish, Breaks - plot around that
*Call List
*Release form
*Props and Costume

Call List

Here is a list of number of our cast and crew, so we are able to get in contact quickly and ensure everything is set up and planned well.

Hannah Dukes (crew) :
Mobile: 07722857836
Home: 0208 346 3675

Daniella Andrean (crew):
Mobile: 0785618326
Home: 0208 245 9005

Tomas David Deason (crew):
Mobile: 07944443649
Home: 0207 359 7837

Sian Parkinson (cast):
Mobile: 07934845177
Home: 0208 366 4653

Make-Up

As we are sticking with the 60s Twiggy theme we really want to try to replicate her iconic eyelashes...

I didn't know whether it would be better to do it with A LOT of mascara, or just to buy false eye lashes. So i tried it out with mascara (above) and it didn't really work as well as i had hoped, because they are not really very striking, yet if i had put any more mascara on, my eye lashes would have been really really clumpy and ugly.

I did some research and found that Twiggy's make up artist actually drew her bottom lashes onto her bottom eye lid, that's why they look so long. I did try this out but it completely failed, it's so hard to do unless you're a professional. Soo. I think it will be easier and look better if we get false lashes.

Also i noticed that in one picture Twiggy has quite striking blue eye shadow and bold black eyeliner, so I thought this could work well with our video. I also thought that having bold glittery eyes would be a modern update to a striking eye look, so i tried this out a little bit too.

COSTUME

We need a lot of costume changes for our video, so we need to get a lot of outfits. We are going for the Twiggy, 60s look so we want Sian to wear straight mini skirts, shift dresses and colourful tights and coats. (More outfits pics to come...)

Shooting Times

Yesterday at our location recee, we had a chat about the change of dates of our shoots.
We were originally filming 24th, 31st and 1st.

however now with weighing up the pros and cons of things. have decided to not shoot on the 24th anymore. Mainly because we really on need two days to shoot and we know that after actually looking through our footage and starting to edit it, we will most definitely need to do another shoot.

We are filming the 31st and 1st 11-5.
And doing over time if need be.

Location Reece 18/10

1) Carnaby Street
Scenery Shots
- Signs
- Liberties
- Soho Square



Quite Street Shots
- Little Marlborough Street
-Marlborough Court
- Marshall Street



Taxi Drop Off Shots
- Ganton Street
- Broadwick Street


2) Liverpool Street
Scenery Shots
- Pretty shopping ally
- Revolving doors
- Mirror sculpture
- Routemaster bus



Quite Road
- Corbet Place
- Buxon Street
- Grimsby Street, E2 - (Graffiti ally)


3) St Johns Wood
Location
- Abbey Road Crossing

Test Shoot

Changing Outfit Test Shoot - DONE :)

In out triple lesson on Thursday we practiced some of the shots we are hoping to do in our video. We found a gorilla costume in the media prop cupboard, so decided to use it to make our test shoot more interesting. The shots where to test out some techniques of costume and location chan Here are the results...

The Lampost Shot - Walking past a lampost we are going to try and cut and change the actors costume with a replica shot and croping the shots in editing. I think that this test shot was relatively effective, but it did move and we could not have that in our final project, so we will try and shoot it, but we will cut it if its wrong. The editing is tedious and minute camera movements are clearly noticeable, however the rewards of implementing a shot like this could really boost our videos style and technical calibre.

Changing Cotsume Shot -This is a technique where our actress walks towards the camera and along one long take (shot multiple times in alternate costumes) her clothes change, hopefully as smoothly as possibly. In the test I think that the changes where not subtle and therefore where ineffective. I want to have multiple costume takes of each shot, so that this technique i an option, but again I reckon it will not come out too smoothly unless we take care with each shot. I want to try and use this technique in the final project.

The Person Wipe - This is where we shoot our actress walking fom the same angle, twice in different costume and possibly in a different location. Then by getting someone to walk in front of the shot, close to the camera we can edit the shot so that it appears the person pasing is a wipe and the change of location or costume looks fluid. Essentially if pulled off this shot is stylish and an effective way of moving the video on. I think that we can do this, and that it will look good. The test shot is pretty effective on our second take, and now we know what to be careful about doing the same and how to shoot it. I think that its likely this technique will make it into our final cut.

Group Meeting 14/10/09

Things to do..
* Storyboard - DONE
* Location reece of londons treets - Sunday 18th Oct
* Changing outfit test shoot - Lesson time
* Shooting Schedule - Lesson Time Next week
* Going to Sian's to choose cotumes: tba
* Green Screen test - yesterday we took a look at the green screen and realised that it wasn't right as it wasn't big enough and we want to shoot her full length. So now we have to look for a studio... --> Danni: going to try and call up to find a decent and reasonably priced studio.


Group meeting 14/10/09
Today we have just sorted out times for our London recee sunday:
Meeting at Carnaby Street/ Starbucks @ 11.30


Also need to book a day to go and raid Sian's wardrobe.

YAY!

Heyy,
ok so basically I just asked my dad about the narrative bit of using his taxi and he has AGREED to it. so that is all sorted, however he will only be able to do it early in the morning as i explained earlier obviously.
Any later and i won't be getting dinner for a week;)

Cheers guys, very pleased the storyboard is complete.
we need to upload a pic of it, ill try remember my camera tomorrow.

XxX

Hi
I was thinking as we have a lot to do, and me & danni have a half day tomorrow maybe we should do the lampost change of costume test shoot then? i know you are in a lesson Tom but maybe we could start it at lunchtime so you could help (...or you could just not go to your lesson?) - but yeah i think we need to use that time.

Also we really need to work out how we are going to acheive the white box effect - we should maybe try out the green screen and see if it works or not - if not, we need to start looking at studios i think :S

H xx

Group Meeting 12/10/09

Ok so we had a group meeting today at lunchtime and continued it in the lesson, and we think it went really well as we achieved a lot. We discussed Sians lip syncing test, and as she barely knew the words we think she did really we'll and with a bit of direction she could be great!

We began to do our storyboard on post-it notes which we then stuck onto sugar paper. This was really good and we all had so many ideas, and so drawing them helped us all to visualise them. This also helped us to get a clearer image in our minds of what we wanted, and so we can really see this video coming together now! yay.

We confirmed that our london streets location reece day would be this sunday 18th october. And we also decided that either monday or tuesday next week we would go round to Sian's house (our actresses house) after school and pick out the exact outfits we want her to wear, as she has a lot of very nice clothes to choose from that fit the image we are going for. We may also be borrowing some 60s inspired clothes from another friend of ours, Holly, so depending on what Sian has we can see what we need, and arrange to borrow somethings from her too.

Basically we are now getting orangsied so that we know exactely what we are doing on each of our shoots so that they run as smoothly as possible.

H, T, D
xx

Currently Hannah and I are doing a group meeting, and are thinking that now our main priority to have done by Wednesday is a Storyboard- even if need be a draft one- it should include the shots we are definitely thinking of and then perhaps add in a couple that we would like to try out and see if they would work.

Unfortunately i was unable to film a shot sequence of Sian changing her outfits, however we have decided that during our meetings we will leave 30mins to film one of us walking past certain surroundings around the school just to get a feel of what types of shots look best and how long it will actually take to change clothes and set up different sets.

We are also concerned on how we are going to show our treatment onto a storyboard as we have two main locations and are intending to get as much good footage as possible on both locations and then through editing make it work how we want it to look.

We have such good ideas for our video but are unsure of how it is really going to work, therefore today have booked another group meeting at 1 in order to do a rough plan of a storyboard and then hopefully by wednesday we should have a final one and be on our way to doing our shot list!!

DANNAH xXx

Above is a video of Sian, our actress, practicing her lip syncing to Chick Habit.
Hannah and I filmed her during our frees just so we could get an idea of how good she was and what we have to work on.
Considering she hadn't learnt the lyrics before i think she did rather well and with a little bit more work done it will look great and very realistic.

THINGS TO DO...

* Sian Lip Sync - Friday 9th p2 - DONE

*Location Recce of Studio / Test shoot - Tuesday 13th p6,7,8

* Location Recce of London Streets - Sunday 18th

* Storyboard - Monday 12th p1 and lunch

*Shooting Schedule - Monday 12th p1 and lunch


*Changing outfit test shoot - This weekend 10th-11th with Sian (Danni)

Ye great idea we'll arrange to do that early next week sometime.
xx

Ye ok lets meet up some time.

I want to do a test shoot. To try out the clothes changing technique. I was thinking one of us could walk past a lamp post, and then we'll film it a second time, in a different outfit - to practice the changing outfit look we want

from timmy

Heyyy
We need to reschedule our big group meeting that we were supposed to have today in 7&8 ASAP

My frees for the rest of the week are:
WEDS -2&3, 8
THURS- 6
FRI- 2&3, 4&5

any the same as you..?
xx

Our Storyboard

:]

Heyyyy hannah hannah hannah,
yur i was planning on doing it then but unfortunately she's been ill the past couple of days so ill give her a call tonight but im thinking she still may not be in, and if she is she may not be up to it.
SO, i could then either do it over the weekend on my own camcorder or somethangggg!

and YESS i love miss' idea about the signs.
up for that, sure Tom will be tooo!

xxxxx
:)

Hi
Danni if you are doing the lip syncing test with Sian tomorrow i have free in the morning so let me know if you want me to come and help.

Also I really like the idea the Mrs B suggest about having streets sign in our video (like the next advert) and she suggested fashion related ones, so i was thinking so far carnaby street, bond street, and spitalfields? what do you guys think?

Hannah xx

Epic Journeys Album Cover

Epic Journeys - General Branding and Styling

The Band
A london based band Female lead singer (called Jo, aged 19), Male lead Guitarist. Partnership similar to that of The Ting Tings and The White Stripes. They sing upbeat indie alternative rock with a techno beat

Target Audience
The target audience is quite young - we think the core audience would be teenagers and pre teens ; 12 - 19 year olds. Predominantly girls.

General Marketing Campaign for UK
* We want Epic Journey's to have an official website similar to that of Lily Allen quite simple, predominatnly balck and white - but then with bold block colours for headings etc.
* We would also have a facebook and myspace page for the band. Jo also has her own Twitter.
* Epic Journey will release their first single 'Lift Off ft Clavin Harris' on the 23/10/09 in time for the school holidays. And their self titled debut album will be released on the 14th December in time for Chirstmas.
* As Jo is the face of the band she would have her won clothing and jewellery line at H&M, she will also do a series with Addidas classics.
* They will do a free gig for fans in the H&M in oxford street on the 23rd Oct to promote their new single and soon to be released album. Free makeovers will be available for the fans at H&M as well, done by Rimmel London, create synergy between the Rimmel and the Epic Journeys brand, as well as emphasising that they are a London based band.

Group Meeting 30/09/09

Now we have our actress we can really start on the pre production planning for our music video. We realise that we need to have regular meetings in order to make sufficient progress, so we looked at our timetables and have worked out some regular meeting slots where we are all free. These will be on
Week 1 - Wenesday P3
Weeks 2 - Tuesday P7 & 8, Friday P5

We decided that Danni was going to test Sian's lip sycning skills by doing making test footage, on friday, this way we can be sure that she will be right for our video.

We have also decided on some initial shooting dates we are thinking of which are: Sat 24/10/09, Sat 31/10/09 and Sun 01/11/09.

The very exciting thing that was established from this meeting was that a studio shoot will be possible! YAY! Through a contact of Mrs Blackborow we have a studio in mind, the CLC Pinewood Studios and so we will go and see it with Mr Deans to do some test footage and discuss the details of dates with the man there. Will will go an see it probably on Tuesday 13th October ... :D

On our next meeting which will be tuesday P7&8 we have decided that we will make a detailed first storyboeard and shot list, to help us really begin to visualise and plan the details of our shoot.