Shooting Schedule

From the video planner, we have now been able to create a shooting schedule, which means we can plan and insure we will have all the props and order of which scenes we need to do is clearly presented to each of us. Therefore, there will hopefully be no complications when we decide to shoot the video. (By 'page' on the shooting schedule, we mean a A1 sheet of card we will use to form a background whilst we take photos.).
Here is the shooting schedule:

Video Planner

This is the video planner. These images show how we plan to shoot the video. Now that our storyboard is complete, we can concentrate on this aspect of the preparations:

Audience feedback to storyboard update

We recieved some audience feedback from our initial storyboard ideas. We took this into account seeing as our audience need to be happy with our production for them to rate it highly. A comment which read 'The shots before the song plays seem unnecessary,' raised a point that we took into account, since it was discussed amongst the group too, where we removed 30 seconds of none music based video before the music began. The final storyboard presents these changes with the shots at the beginning of the song. Instead, we chose to show the guitar playing the beginning guitar part to give it a quick snap to action, hopefully to interest our audience from the very beginning. Another piece of audience feedback caused us to decided to change the sweeping shots between each member and instead, change it to straight cuts to keep the audience in that quick snap of action, and instead utilise the other shots and transitions later in the video. For instance, tracking shots of the drums at 1:24-1:28

Here is the final version of the storyboard:

Storyboard updated

Here is the latest version of the storyboard:















The changes we have made were mentioned in the last post we posted involving the first draft of the storyboard. We decided to make it short and sweet with a sweeping shot of all the band members, whilst the music starts. Therefore, the introduction of each band member is still included as an integral part, but not dragging out unnecessary time. This hopefully will be more effective for our audience. At the start with an establishing shot, silhouettes of the band will be present until the start of the lyrics at 0:14 seconds. Later in video, when we decided to implement the animation, the drummer will throw a drumstick out of shot, where we would cut to a whiteboard with another person who then catches that drumstick to activate the animation section. This is the current stage we are at with storyboard so far.

Animation Experiment (unfinished)

Since we are considering implementing animation into our music video along with live shots, we saw it important to see what the type of animation we would be using (stop-motion animation) would look like in a basic form. The quality of the video isn't very good, but this due to the phone camera we were using, where as we would probably be using a high quality camera in the real product. This is only a test so the animation bares no relevance to our actual product.

Storyboard Idea

As a group, we have been thinking of a few ideas, which we decided to move into the style of a storyboard. This is an image of that storyboard so far.














The ideas shown in the picture we did decide to change, so another image will be posted later on. We are not changing too much from this idea, however, the initial 30 seconds of the each band member getting hold of their instrument we believe could be an extended 30 seconds before the video actually starts that is very unnecessary. It may prove to be tedious rather than a interesting beginning. Each band member instead will start with their instruments in hand, playing along with the music. We believe this to be easier to watch for our demographic, especially for possible new viewers who have never heard of the band, they are more likely to want to get straight into the music.

'Lonely Hearts' - Belingo

We have come to a final decision to use 'Lonely Hearts' by Belingo, (George and Myself's band) as the recording to use for our music video. We believe the recording quality is far better over the other option of 'Let Us Be Known'. Moreover, we find that 'Lonely Hearts' is far easier to generate and create theme for the video, for instance, following a theme of a heart break in reference to the title. As we feel that animation will be best suited for our video, we believe that this song would be the most appropriate for that technique, as well as any others we decide to use along the way.

Main Product Planning - Flowchart of Stages

The brainstorm sheet has allowed us to gather our ideas, and we have now processed them into a flowchart, which we can now use as a guideline for our production tasks.

Update: Aiden noticed that the storyboard was not mention in the flowchart. We decided it will be the next stage after choosing the song and features that it will include.

Main Product Planning - Brainstorming of Ideas

After researching various different forms of audience and product details and information, we began to start planning the main product of our A2 production. Here is an image of our brainstorm sheet: