Story Board

Risk Assessment For Shooting Days 1 and 2

Risk assessment

Activity assessed: As media task filming	Assessment date: 28/11/12	Assessed by: Toby Trew
Activity location: House	Who’s at risk: actors and cameramen	Next assessed by:	Approved by:
HAZARD:	Risk level Before High, mediocre  or low	Risk level After High or low	Control measures Reducing the risk to a minimal risk
General House hazards and mess	Low: as long as sensible on set there should be no issue.	Lower: Keeping a tidy organised set will reduce all risk	Keeping our set tidy and organised as to reduce any hazards
Ingestion of fake pills	Medium: Actor could choke on the pills	Low: Less of a chocking hazard	Have him spit out the pill substitute as opposed to swallowing
Ingestion of alcohol	Medium: depending on amount out actor could end up injuring himself	None	We will use alcohol containers filled with water or coloured liquid depending on the drink
Smashing a guitar	Medium: actor could hurt himself or others depending on how it's smashed	Medium	Have a controlled environment so there is no danger of hurting a pedestrian

Personal protective equipment needed:None	Provided by:-	Level of first aid provision needed Medical kit, just in case	First aiders: Toby is a qualified first aider
Nearest telephone: House, either on set or 5 minutes from		Nearest 24hr hospital/doctor: Harlow hospital

Editing Tests and Practice Filming

I decided that due to the complexity of some of our ideas I would test various editing and filming techniques to see if our ideas were achievable. After a morning of filming various bits and messing around with them on Final Cut Pro X I put two small testers together.

Lip Syncing feed back

Peer Assessment-
www- Gandhi Mate, Gandhi was my favourite out of the 2 lip syncing tasks. You successfully make it look as though you are actually singing the song. You accentuate your mouth movements a lot, which is exactly what the artist would of had to do when he was actually singing the song. You have a natural presence in front of the camera which helps to make your performance more realistic. 
EBI- You Be Tails I'll Be Sonic was just as effective and I loved the microphone prop. However, it made it more difficult to see your lip movements. If you was to be the performer within your own music video, I think that would work extremely well as you clearly have established how comfortable you are within this genre of music.

I would defiantly make that during the actual performance there was no blocking of the mouth from the microphone, that the mouth movements were clear and distinct at all times, it mas more due to the fact I knew the words better to Gandhi mate, Gandhi

Shooting

We will begin filming at 2 pm this Saturday for our narrative shots
Our performance pieces will hopefully be filmed the following week

Location Planning

Performance


When deciding on location we thought hard about were the ideal location would be. for the performance section of our video we wanted to use an arts center that was local so it would be easy to get to, we also wanted to use this venue because it has a large open indoor space in which we can film our video. This would be ideal because there are music videos within our genre that use open and plain areas to fill the performance parts for there videos for example Enter Shikari's "destabilise" music video.




Another band that use open areas to film there performance for their music video is a day to remember with their video for have faith in me.






however when we wanted to film we had trouble with finding a suitable day for using the venue so we had to change to our second choice. our second choice was the hermit which is a small local music venue.

this is also a popular type of venue for filming the performance in music videos that fit with our genre as seen by bands such as parkway drive.







Narrative

In our opening shot we want to have the singer walking away from the camera across a field. Looking around our local area we found one that has a perfect area for what we want to film and the background looks very calm and still which would go well with the nature noises that we want to put over the top of the shot, we would use this to create a peaceful and quiet feel to the video before the heaviness of the song.

As for the interior shots of the singer singing into a mirror we decided to use our friends bathroom because the mirror allows us to film from the shoulders up which is the ideal shot that we want to create.
for the other interior shots we also used our friends house because on the wall in the background of our shot there are metal hearts that juxtapose the nature of the video.

Treatment

treatment

artist/style and form
attitude and personality:
very passionate about their style of music. they also like to put across there views especially enter shikari with there songs having an anti government vibe flowing throughout. with a day to remember we see that they are very passionate about bringing there audience into there performance by interacting with them by giving out free merch and asking what the crowd wants. both bands also like to involve a lot of movement into there performances which puts across there carefree and there enthusiasm when performing.

costume:
usually seen wearing skinny jeans, shirts and T-shirts usually with logos or slogans printed on them. this is quite popular with bands in the same genre and is a sort of uniform for metal core and post hardcore bands such as Enter Shikari and a day to remember.




Enter Shikari (left) have a very indie and grungy style which would match our bands style.
a day to remember (right) come across through there concerts and in interviews as the right sort of personality that we would want our band to have.

there were however bands in our genre that we avoided using their style. bands such as trivium and bullet for my valentine.
 



we chose not to use metalcore bands with this style because it didn't fit with the image that we wanted to create for our bands.


Mise en scene: our band would have the characteristics of both these bands. both bands are very active when they are on stage. with Rory from Enter Shikari crowd surfing on an amp and Jeremy Mckinnon from a day to remember interacting with the crowds at there concerts we took away that we wanted our band to have a similar feel and to have a similar stage presents when performing.

when deciding how we want our band to look we though carefully about how the bands we based as from looked and how much we could take from each band to make our band without it looking to ridiculous and tacky. this is the reason why we chose bands that have a similar style but also have there own take on it.

camera: with the type of camera shots and transitions we want to use they would have to be quick and jumpy from shot to shot to keep up with the tempo of the song.

target audience: our target audience would be boys and girls aged from 15-18 because this is the age range that mainly listen to this style of music. we questioned friends that would be our target audience here are the following questions that we asked them:
1. What is your favorite genre of music?
2. What is your favorite part of a music video narrative or performance?
3. Where they would like our music video to be set?
4. What they would like the band to wear?
5. What would they like the performance to focus an singer or instruments?
6. Do the like our final song choice?
7. How many concerts do they go to a year?
8.How much they spend on music?
9. Do they prefer to have a physical copy of an album or illegally download it?

we found out through questioning these people that they enjoy there music because they are high energy bands that interact and listen to what there fans want which allows them to be able to product music that is enjoyable for there fans. we then asked them as to why they liked there style, they said that it is because there style matches there personality, makes them feel more individual compared to other people and makes them feel more like there favourite artists.
we will use the information that we have found to try and make the video appeal to as much of our target audience as possible, this would ensure that our video would be more of a success.

location: we have an idea of what we want our location for the performance to look like, our ideal location would be a black room we decide on this because it would allow for us to film at any time and because it would go with the theme of the song. This is our ideal location for the filming. our back up location would be the hermit in Brentwood. we decided to use The Hermit because it was a more suitable venue for our band. this is because we wanted to portray them as being a smaller more unknown band. so by having their music video based in a smaller venue it would emphasis the fact that they are a smaller band.






technology: the technology we would be using would be fairly simplistic with us just using Sony hdr-cx190e cameras, tripods, final cut pro x editing software and studio lighting.

logistics:

problems we could anticipate

 transportation to set, weather and people not being available to be in the video.

back up plans

moving equipment closer to the set a week before filming, optional indoor settings, multiple people that could be in the video.

any of your aspects of filming that could be too ambitious 
finding the ideal location, different editing techniques that could be too complex

Lip Synching

You Be Tails I'll Be Sonic - A Day To Remember


Gandhi Mate, Gandhi - Enter Shikari



This was an interesting and educating task from which I now feel much more prepared to film my music video.
The position of the microphone was something that I didn't put a massive amount of thought into therefore I wasn't really aware what proportion of the video I was blocking my from view for, this is something that when actual filming takes place I will pay much more attention to making sure I film from angles that will not block the mouth from view.
I also learnt from the first time I attempted to film this that you have to put a lot more emphasis into your mouth movements to show accurately that you are performing.

Britney Task

Songs We Considered

A Day To Remember - A Shot In The Dark
This song came down to our final two for the same reasons that we decided on our final song, the imaginary and ideas that link to the song and lyrics came to us naturally and we had several ideas one being based around a singer of a band and an obsessive fan trying to imitate the singer to the point he decides the only way he can be more like him is if he kills the singer and takes over the band.


Asking Alexandria - Morte Et Dabo
For this song our idea was to film a performance in a church for the rock and roll attitude of not caring and being in someone face, this was due to the lyrical themes of defying god 'You're not a god of mine' 'I never believed in you'. In the end we scrapped this idea as we felt it was too simplistic and a logistical nightmare.


Bury Tomorrow - Knight Life
This song was one we didn't consider for long, while the tempo and style of the song was perfect for us after watching the video several times through we come to the conclusion the video that they had in place had done enough, we felt like anything we did would come back to the original video and we was better off working with a song that didn't have a video as there is then no competition.


Blink-182 - First Date
This song was one of the first that I had ideas for, it has no current music video and the fact its light and upbeat would me the video didn't have to be serious and we could play on some more intertextual features. My idea initially was to have a series of men taking women out on first dates and failing while cross cutting shows a separate man getting ready for a date and this character upstages all the other guys and ends up as the perfect date.

Final Song Choice

A Day To Remember's You Be Tails I'll Be Sonic is our final song choice our reasoning behind this is that when we listed to all of the songs we had short-listed this was the one we had the best ideas and visualisation for. The ideas were just more flowing whit the themes and ideas of the music and lyrics, we also like this one more as it has no pre existing video so we had complete free reign without it seeming like we're comparing back to an original video. We can play with the themes of love and loss in the narrative and work to keeping the conventions of a rock video solid in our performance sections.