Wednesday, 30 March 2011

Animatic Storyboard

Below is a short sequence of our animatic storyboard that kenny created to give us an idea of colour and depth of the shot compared to the original panel in the storyboard.


Thursday, 24 March 2011

Shot List

Props

Here is the prop list that we have constructed for shooting out music video.

Performance
- Guitar
- Guitar Case

Narrative
- Picnic Food
- Picnic Mat
- Baseball Bat
- Baseball
- Bicycle


And here is a document explaining the choice of props and why we will be using them in our music video.

Props
View more documents from harrywbfmv

Saturday, 19 March 2011

Costumes

Costumes
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Make Up

We both decided that the use of elaborate make-up is unnecessary in our video. The song has a very 'raw' and natural feel to it, as it was a home recording. And hence wee felt we would like to continue this natural-ness and not use any make up for the performance or the narrative sections of the video.
Another contributing factor to the non-usage of make-up is that neither of us have any knowledge of different types of make-up and how to apply it.

Monday, 14 March 2011

Location Shooting Plan + Annotations

If you click on the image above you will be able to see a satellite view of our chosen location - The Walks in Kings Lynn. This annotated map was created using the Adobe Photoshop software.

Digipack idea 1

Below is a document that I composed as part of my questionnaire. The purpose of the document was to give to people answering my questionnaire enabling them to see the 2 pictures of one of my digipack ideas. After handing them the pictures as a print out they then completed my questionnaire using the on-line questionnaire facility "Survey Monkey". The pictures I included on the first page of the document were the front cover of the digipack and the digipack as whole unfolded.

Now for the questionnaire:


Please click here to view the on-line questionnaire.

Here are the results from my questionnaire

QUESTIONNAIRE

Below is the on line questionnaire I composed for my audience to fill out about my music magazine advert. I handed them a print out version of my music magazine advert and then gave them the link so they could complete the questionnaire.

Please click here to view the questionnaire

Below are the results of my questionnaire and analysis

DV or HDV?

Please Click Here to read post on Kenny's blog

Wednesday, 9 March 2011

Initial Storyboard



Below is our initial storyboard, will upload our animatic storyboard soon. (Please click to enlarge.)

Pink arrows show the movement of the characters or props in the shot, and green symbols indicate wether the camera is moving, hand held or filmed using a tripod. Information in the angle section. UWS - Ultra Wide Shot, WS - Wide Shot, MS - Mid Shot, CU - Close Up and finally UCU - Ultra Close Up. More information on the types of angles (Such as over the shoulder shot etc, etc) will be included in the shot list post.

Panel 1:


Panel 2:


Panel 3:


Panel 4:


Panel 5:



(The storyboard panels were scanned in using a Bizhub c451 - pictured above)

Friday, 4 March 2011

My Music Magazine Front Cover













Above you can see my final Digipack front cover. I constructed the front cover using Photo Shop CS3. I started with my photo of Lewis. As the initial photograph of lewis was not the right size/format of a typical digipack cover, I decided it would be a good idea to use the clone tool to make the picture bigger but still have the same scene. The next thing I decided to do to edit the image was to flip it over so it was basically a mirror image of this. The idea behind this was so that the blood on his chest was now on the left side of his chest, representing a bleeding heart. I decided this would make the digipack cover be more metaphorical and would allow my target audience to relate to the album cover. Another edit I did to the image was to change the sign that Lewis was holding. In the original photo Lewis is holding a sign saying Monsieur Lewis. I thought that it would be better for the digipack cover to use his stage name of The Next Forever as this would enable my target audience and his fans to notice his name and recognise it. Another reason for changing the name is to stop any confusion arising to the viewers. I then developed the idea of changing the name to change it to the actual song title name and then have The Next Forever in another area of the digipack album cover. So now I changed the sign he was holding to say the tracks name - "Upstream". I did this by using the clone tool to select an area of the sign in which the sign hadn't been wrote on and then colour over the writing. I then used the paint tool and a graphics tablet to handwrite the word "upstream" on the sign. Next I had to create a album title. This process involved going onto www.dafont.com and from there I downloaded a font that I thought would be ideal for the album cover. I then installed the font onto the computer and then opened it on photoshop. When it came to selecting a colour for the title, I decided red would be an appropriate colour for the album cover. This is because red connotes thoughts of romance and this as the songs theme is about love I thought this would be appropriate. I then decided to use the colour of the fake blood from lewis' heart in the image. To do this I extracted the colour from the heart using the pipette tool. Then I selected the font and composed the title. I thought it would be a good idea to link up some of the text to make it flow more. I did this using the graphics tablet and the paint tool. I drew lines to link up some of the letters such as the letter "x" in the word "Next" and the letter "v" in the word "Forever". I thought this looked nice and made the title more interesting looking and visually appealing.