Final Cut

Final Location Visit - With Sandhya Gulsin

Before the day of shooting at Littlewood Barn, Me and Sandhya thought it was essential that we went down there so that we could do a bit of extra planning and have an advantage on time when the day came. We took a few images to help us when we got home.

The barn was absolutely stunning and we we're lucky to be filming in there. There was already lighting inside which could be moved and turned on and off separatly. There was also discrete plug sockets which were even hard to find at times and they were scattered all over the place so that was a lot of help.

Call Sheet - With Sandhya Gulsin

To help with our planning and the smoothness of the day of filming we needed to create a call sheet so that it was proffesional and everything was clear to us and the band.

Feedback - With Sandhya Gulsin

After we had completed our initial rough cut, both our class and the other class in our year all sat in one room and watched each others rough cuts with pen and paper at the ready to give constructive criticism on the work so far. Below is the feedback that we got.

Final Costumes

For the day we told every member in the band separately what we wanted them to bring and so that we were prepared we told them to bring a number of items so that we could choose. These are the final costumes that they wore on the day of the shoot. 

Music Video Mood Board - With Sandhya Gulsin

This video evidences the production of me creating a mood board of a more refined selection of ideas that both me and Jake have for our music video. At this stage in the research production of our music video the moodboard should evidence a development in ideas as well as the most successful ones.

Planned Costumes

Below are our initially costumes which were planned based on our knowledge of the song and bands in the same genre so that our band will fit in.

Lead Singer:
- Dressed all in black.
- Black leather jacket, in the style of Brandon Flowers.
- Black jeans.

Drummer:
- Fake Sleeve tattoos.
- white patterned vest.
- Black jeans.
Considering going for the style of Travis Barker from Blink 182. As this is quite a risky look we have a back up.
- White T-Shirt.
- Flannel Shirt.
- Black Jeans.

Bassist:
- Blue jeans.
- Dark coloured blazer.
- White T-Shirt.
In the style of Mark Stoermer.

Electric Guitarist:
- Blue jeans
- Brown Leather jacket
- Dark logo T-Shirt.
General style of guitarists.


Example:

What is a Digi-Pack - With Sandhya Gulsin

What is a Digi-Pack?
A Digi-Pack is the package the song comes with if you buy it physically. Normally this includes a graphic front and back including copyright owners, name of the single, name of the band and sometimes other information, plus the CD and sometimes an advertisement or inner slip of paper. It is typically made out of plastic or cardboard with either CD slots or sleeves.

What are the advantages of a Digi-Pack?
There are advantages for the seller and the customer with purchasing a digi-pack. The front of a digipak almost acts as a controlled exposure to what the artist does and doesnt want to reveal about themselves. It is likely to embody a theme and a message about the artist and/or the content of the album. This also strongly supports brand image. The artist and the digipak work alongside eachother almost promoting each other in which obviously soley bennefits the artist. It could be argued that from an audience perspective purchasing an artists digipak establishes a loyalty to the Artist.

Lighting Plans

The place we shall use to hire our lighting: http://www.iasoundandlight.co.uk/hire.htm
They are close, reasonable and also do a massive variety of different lights.

We are planning many different ways of using the lighting. Here is a diagram we mapped up before hand:

Initially we will be using silhouettes meaning the lighting would be behind the band. This may prove harder than initially thought.

We are also planning to do flashing lights from different angles.

We will also use a smoke machine.

We have asked to hire :

3x halogen flood lights - Ordered 1 more than we plan to use just in case we have an issue with one.

1x fog machine

1x strobe light

Outtakes

Rough Cut

This is our first rough cut of our music video. Due to us booking the barn so early in advance that we didn't realise the Wednesday after was our deadline for our rough cut so after the shoot we edited it in around two days and are already at a very promising stage to complete the final product.