Film Blog

   Now where going into our filming process. It took us so long to find a song, and a agree on it. But it took us even longer to come up with the concept of our video. I for one am not to thrilled about the decisions that where made during the discussion. My partners and I are continually in conflict about what we should do and how we should film it. We decided to film at the beach. I know what your thinking, how cliche. Well I said the same, i’m desperate to see how the shooting of our music video turns out. In my opinion I didn’t think the beach was the best setting for the video. But it’s a group effort and majority rules.
 
       After choosing a place to film, we had to create a schedule that everyone could work around. We decided to shoot closer to school. This was so it was easier for us to get home afterwards. Especially considering since my mom works she couldn’t pick me up afterward. We planned to film for two days instead of one, so we could have more footage to work with while editing. I hope nothing interferes with our two days of filming. My group mate seem like pretty busy people. We picked the Monday and Tuesday we got back from Thanksgiving break to film. We where going to film this week, but there was no way for me and another group mate to get home. And we couldn’t film during Thanksgiving since another member and I weren’t going to be in town. So we figured the Monday and Tuesday we come back would work best.

      After school on the Monday we get back we’d go to the mattress store. If you’re wondering why were going there, it’s to film our male RnB singer in a house like kitchen. As I stated in an earlier blog, we’re going to use the furniture in the mattress store as props in our video. We have to ask permission from the manager. Which I hope does not cause difficulties in our filming process. If all goes right during our filming blog, we should be editing on Tuesday also. Our second day of filming, will be the day we’re at the beach. I look forward to see how this day of filming turns out. Hopefully it’s not to windy, or cold.


   

Storyboard Blog

Since our video is a love song we are going to start off at the beach with our male actor walking on the beach near the rocks so we can get the water crashing on the rocks. For this scene, we wanted to do a medium close up so we can show the beach but also see the actor's facial expression as he is singing. The scene at the beach is going to be approximately 15-20 seconds. In the next scene, we are going to move to the furniture store this scene our this scene because we need a bed and kitchen set up. In this scene, our male actor and female actor will be "sleeping" in the bed then our male actor will sneak out of the bed and go, cook in the kitchen for his girlfriend. After he is done cooking the meal he will bring it to the bedroom where he will wake up our female actor and give her breakfast. This scene is going to be over the shoulder shot to show the kitchen set up. during this scene, our female actor is going to pick up our male actors' phone and see something that is going to make them get in an argument. This scene is most likely going to be a point of view scene that will switch between both actors. The next scene is going to show our female actor storm away this is going to be an eye-level camera angle. The last scene is going to show our male actor grab our female actor and pull her in while singing. This is going to be a 2 person shot. The scene is going to fade out.

Planning Blog for Music Video

Location- Our male RnB actor will be on the beach walking around while having flashbacks of his lover. We also plan to shoot at the mattress store, in the kitchen area. We want a scene where our male actor is cooking for his lover. Additionally we plan to use the beds in the mattress store. We have a big idea for the use of the mattress store. Of course we will need the approval of the managers.

Health and Safety- We plan to make sure a lifeguard is on duty while we’re shooting at the beach, in case anything occurs. Also on the way to the beach and mattress store, we will be wearing our seat belts. We take safety very seriously. In addition to these safety precautions, we will have a buddy system. So if anyone needs to walk off during our filming process someone will be with them. You could never be too safe.

Props- In our music video we don’t really incorporate that many props. Since the traditional R&B videos doesn’t, but we will be using a bed from the mattress store. Also the kitchen appliances in the mattress store. We want the props to give the video a home feel. The mattress store props will make the R&b singer seem as if he’s home, in his own kitchen.

Costumes- Since traditionally R&b male singers wear tights shirts, to be seductive our male actress will to. We’re thinking a white tight tee. We aren’t  completely sure what color yet. The female most likely will be dressed girly, maybe wearing a dress or skirt.

Schedule

On 11/18-11/20 we will be doing our storyboard and planning . On 11/22 we would like to start filming. We want a couple of days to film.  So that during Thanksgiving break we’re stress free. The week of Thanksgiving break we want to film that Tuesday 11/26.

Music Video Intro Conventions

                          We’re finally finished with our commercial videos. I’m so happy we’re moving on to something new. The making of the commercial was fun while it lasted. I look forward to using the new skills I learned from the previous project. I feel I grew stronger as a aice media student. Also, now I know the areas I need to improve on. I look forward to displaying a more professional approach with our Music Video.

                          Today, where going to start making our Music videos. My group and I discussed songs to choose from. We chose the song “Love Don’t Change” By Jeremih It s a song in the RnB/ Soul genre. The song conveys a message of a love that lasts forever. We chose this song, because we had a vision about what our music video would look like. As soon as we heard the song it clicked. The other songs we looked at did not give us that feeling. This song is considered a throw back , it’s full of emotions which you can hear in the singers voice. When I hear this song it warms my heart, and beings happiness over me. I think the use of this song will be great when it comes to making out commercial.

C- R&B male singers usually wear tight shirts and jeans. They try to appeal to the female fans, and they often want to be seen as seductive. Tight shirts usually bring out they’re muscle fatigue, which most of them have.

L-In R&B videos they usually use dim lights inside of a small room, where they usually look through a window. This helps the audience feel the emotions he’s going through and it creates a sense of sadness. Sometimes they use natural lights to make the send me seem more realistic.

A- The actors in the RnB categories mostly consist of a lead male and female roles. In most of the RnB videos I seen the actors are usually in a relationship, getting out of one, or coming together.

M- In RnB videos the females wear make-up. I noticed that in the videos when the camera zooms in on the female you could see her make-up. So the use of make-up is to make the female more appealing in the video.

P- RnB music videos usually barely incorporate props. Due to the fact that most of the video focuses on the actors unless the Prop is what causes conflict between the actors.

S- In most RnB videos the setting takes place in a room with a back ground, or in a house. Some videos take place outside which will most likely be in the rain.

Shots- for the shots we want to use a extreme close up, to show the actors expression and his emotions. We’re also going to use a two-shot because we realized in lots of love song music videos it shows the boy and the girl. Lastly, we’re going to use a point of view shot because it symbolizes what the main character sees; usually they show how the guy sees the girl walking or laughing in slow motion.

Angles- We want to use the eye level angle because in a lot of music videos the actor is looking up while singing. We’re also going to use a Dutch because we want to make the sense more cool.

Editing Blog pt.2

                                                                 After the frustration from the computers not working last class today we began to edit. Today my group finally got to edit our commercial. Last week we where having technical difficulties with pinnacle studios. So of course we had a delay in editing. Our teachers informed us about our new editing schedule. So that

day we could come in class ready to edit. Thrilled again to finally start the editing process. I really hoped that we didn’t have any technical difficulties on Tuesday. So we came in class that Tuesday ready to edit. My parter grabbed a computer and logged into her single sign on. 

                      We waited patiently for her computer to log in. After the computer logged in I took the flash drive, and put it in the computer. This was where all our footage was. Then we opened up pinnacle studios. This took a LONG time to load. When it loaded up I deleted the sample footage that was there. My parter clicked the import button, and we saw another tab pop up. I clicked on the folder with our flash drive name on it. I imported the stuff from my flash drive onto pinnacle studios. When the files finished copying, the film was ready to be edited. 

                My group and i decided to watch all the footage to see the parts we wanted to keep. I dragged the scenes we needed on the editing strip and trimmed time off a few of them. Whenever we tried to see how the footage looked all together the computer would lag. This was frustrating, because it was going so slow and we had limited time. We waited a few minutes to see if it would go a the normal pace. When pinnacle studios stopped lagging we watch the footage. After we watched we deliberated on whether or not to cut or add more footage. My team members decided they wanted transitions and music. So i passed the computer and watched as one member added transitions that went with our commercial. Then we added music to the background of the beginning of our commercial.