Filming: Redoing the Chorus

We will be re doing the chorus as people thought that our costumes were repetitive in the video and also that the curtain behind wasn't very professional. This can be filmed tomorrow period 1 as that is the only time it is free.


Date to film: Friday 1st April
Time: 8:50am - 9:50am
People needed: ALL OF GROUP (no extras)
Location: Drama room (booked)


Props/Items we need to take:
- Video Camera
- Tape for camera
- iPod (make sure it's charged)
- iPod dock
- Costume! (heels and RED flower for hair)
- Stage (this is portable, not using the main stage as it's too big)
- Mic stand + Mic (I'll get this from music dept.)


Shots to be filmed:
- Close up
- Medium shot
- Wide shot
- Singing to camera
- Singing to audience
- Pan shot
- Shot of 'rocking out'
- Shots of walking around stage whilst singing
- Extra shots incase extra footage is needed

Filming Postponed

We were supposed to film today, however, the main guy couldn't make it so we couldn't film. We know we have a deadline coming up soon so we are going to try to find the next available date to film when we have got all our props, the actors and the location booked.
Instead, in this lesson time, we made the black strips to put in the background for our 2nd narration for the line up as they went missing from when we previously made them.

However, an idea that I came up with is that we could use the black strips across Jack as a postmodern version of Lady GaGa's dress:

This fits in with the interrogation theme we are going for and could be used at the end for our montage of quick fast shots. This dress is iconic so the postmodernism of the bars should be obvious. We could film it and see if it works or not?

Update:

I have just bought some black paper in order to make sure that the setting for the shoot in the afternoon today is ready. At the moment, i am beginning to cut the paper into strips with about an inch and a half; which will then be situated on the white wall that we will use in the drama studios, for our line up of the  different boys in the shoot

Filming List for Narrative #2

Date to film: Wednesday 16th March 2011 (POSTPONED TO THURSDAY 24TH MARCH)
Time: 3:25pm - 6pm
People needed: ALL OF GROUP plus Jack, and 3 other boys
Location: Line up in drama room


Props/Items we need to take:
- Video Camera
- Tape for camera
- iPod (make sure it's charged)
- iPod dock
- Costume! (biker boots and PINK flower for hair)
- Black paper into strips

Shots to be filmed:
- Close up
- Medium shot
- Wide shot
- Singing to camera
- Acting, but not singing
- Pan shot
- POV shot in front of each boy
- Shot of spinning chair
- Extra shots incase extra footage is needed

Pictures

I've just printed the pictures of the 'guy' and the girl he cheats on the artist with. I got these from his Facebook account and he has given us permission to use them. So we have definitely got these. I am currently getting everything ready for our filming in a bit.

Filming List for Verse 1

Date to film: Friday 11th March 2011
Time: 09:50am - 11:10am
People needed: ALL OF GROUP plus Jack
Location: Under the stairs (interrogation room)


Props/Items we need to take:
- Video Camera
- Tape for camera
- iPod (make sure it's charged)
- iPod dock
- Costume! (biker boots and PINK flower for hair)
- Table

- Lamp- Fan + extension cord

- Pictures of Jack with other girl

Shots to be filmed:
- Close up
- Medium shot
- Wide shot
- Singing to camera
- Acting, but not singing
- Pan shot
- Shot of back of hair walking down stairs
- Shot of spinning chair
- Shots of throwing pictures on table
- Low angle shot of artist (Jack's POV)
- Extra shots incase extra footage is needed

Filming List for Chorus

Date to film: Monday 7th February
Time: 3:25pm onwards...
People needed: ALL OF GROUP
Location: Should be drama room but I have found that it will be busy but we need to get on with filming so I've found that the hall is open for us and just as good.


Props/Items we need to take:
- Video Camera
- Tape for camera
- iPod (make sure it's charged)
- iPod dock
- Costume! (heels and RED flower for hair)
- Stage (this is portable, not using the main stage as it's too big)
- Mic stand + Mic (I'll get this from music dept.)
- Fan + extension cord


Shots to be filmed:
- Close up
- Medium shot
- Wide shot
- Singing to camera
- Singing to audience
- Pan shot
- Shot of 'rocking out'
- Shot of laying on floor singing
- Shots of walking around stage whilst singing
- Shots of coming out of the curtain
- Extra shots incase extra footage is needed

Filming:

Yesterday, the group decided to film the bridge of the song "Kiss N Tell". We decided to change location from the drama studios to the school hall in order to move our filming date closer. This section of the song is solely focused on the artist, therefore, the camera work was made to be intimate with the artist with low angle shots, close up shots etc.

Also, there was the need for lots of equipment that we had to carry around everywhere:

 - A Large Fan
 - Ipod speakers/Ipod
 - Tripod/Camera
 - Lots of electric cables

We are now currently uploading the footage that we have taken so far such as the bridge and the very beginning of our song. We are doing this because of the problems that we faced with uploading our preliminary footage a few weeks ago, where we thought we lost our footage because we did not upload our footage as soon as we filmed.

Filming List for Bridge

Date to film: Thursday 3rd February
Time: 2:25pm onwards...
People needed: ALL OF GROUP
Location: I found that drama rooms were busy so I've booked the hall so we can use the back stage which is similar to our old location.

Props/Items we need to take:

- Costume (rock n roll shirt)

- Fan + extension cord

- Video camera

- Tripod

- iPod (make sure it's charged!)

- iPod dock

- Tape for camera

Shots to be filmed:
- Intimate close ups with the camera
- Semi-circle dolly
- Medium shot of singing to camera
- Shot of spinning (to insert in bits of the video)
- Close up from the right
- Singing whilst half dancing
- Extra shots incase extra footage is needed