Set design

SET DESIGN  

The band set up 

For the band set up we pictured something very performance like with the camera moving around the band members.

> we would use colored lights that flash on and off to connote that idea of a concert occurring. Perhaps we could use smoke around the band as well.

> The background for the set up therefore  would be relatively plain- depending on costume I think we could easily have black or white walls as the positioning of the band and the lighting is what will give the shots its depht.

The Narrative set up                                                                                                                                    

For the narrative set up I thought that we could use the TV Studio to recreate a sense of vintage gym- this gym is abstract however and as this music video will be reminiscent of the 70s/80s, I think we could desaturate the Images and really highlight the primary colors to give it a more old fashioned look.

> Therefore I believe that a red brick wall would look traditional- It would give off a tough, street aestetic playing along with the irony of the actions.

> The set up would include gym equipment such as vintage punching bag, boxing gloves, barbells, dumbbells, a balance trainer and so on. We would subsequently show the lead actor tirelessly completting feats of physical exercise using this equipment

The final set up

We wanted to create a sense that the man is entering a children's competition.

We decided on a plain 'homemade' set up.

> A peeling, dirty plaster wall that has a banner and a poster of the competition name- 'Annual Games/ category; under 13's 

> small table with chairs that fit the young girl but when the man sits down he looks too big and out of place.

> A bench where the presented are parents are sitting- watching the competition 

 

Storyboarding

Storyboarding

Performance

Close up of drum sticks- drumming 

 

canted low angel of vocalist, looking into camera holding microphone 

Close up of guitar strings- guitarist strumming

high angel close up of guitar strings- pianist playing chords

eye level close up of bass guitarists face in sunglasses

wide shot of band

mid shot - vocalist- looking into camera

low angle behind the band- pull focus onto members 

Workout Montage

mid shot of hands on pull up bar- pull ups in frame. Shallow focus on bar and pull focus onto face

slow motion mid shot- pouring protein powder into mans mouth 

birds eye- lifting weights lying on his back 

OTS pan/track of hitting punching bag 

mid shot- punching bag and punching 

eye level view mid shot/ close up- push up and mans face 

full shot- slamming weight ball 

full shot- skipping with a rope 

close up- feet with the skipping rope

Competition

mid shot mother shaking her head in disappointment

slow motion close up - man's hand hitting the lever ( of the game )

mid two shot- man and girl sitting at the table 

   wide shot- competition set

Digipak Conventions

 Front Cover 

image of band on the front

name of the band 

name of the album

parental Advisory sticker if explicit

info about any bonus material included eg extra tracks, behind the scenes, music video etc.

Inside front cover 

Other Image/background 

possibly any of the following :

- Thanks

- Credits for crew involved 

- Message to fans 

- lyrics to a song

- Info about artists

Spine

name of singer 

Name of album 

Record label logo 

Inside back Cover 

Other image/background

Space for disc to be inserted 

Example DIGIPAK

This one above is not bad but also not the best one because there is only one picture of the band and the rest are just some pictures from the internet. 

they could have at least put a costume on because  all of them wear different jackets which does not fit to the hole thing at all. But they wrote a big Thank you part which does reach out to the audience.

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Development

After we realized that we couldn't get any further with our other music video idea we decided to choose a new song and create a new idea . we are going to make a 70-80s music video of a band, the cast is above this but the special thing about our music video is that there will be a story and the performance of the band. The story is of a ,,man'' working out which let people think that this will be  for a competition but in the end the competition is just a children hungry hippo competition. He takes it really serious which is meant to make  people laugh when they watch it. Also  the band and everyone else in the music video is meant to act like it is the best song ever and look very serious.

    set ups: 

Shot list:

Performance

• close up of drum sticks - drumming
• canted low angle of vocalist, looking into camera holding microphone 
• close up of guitar strings - guitarist strumming
• high angle close up of keys - pianist playing chords
• eye level close up of Keyes - pianist playing chords
• side close up of bass guitarists face in sunglasses 
• wide shot of band 
• mid shot - vocalist - looking into camera
• low angle behind the band - pull focus onto members

 

Workout Montage

• mid shot of hands on pull up bar - pull ups into frame. Shallow focus on bar and pull focus onto face 
• slow motion mid shot - pouring protein powder into mans mouth
• birds eye - lifting weights lying on his back
• OTS pan/track of hitting punching bag 
• mid shot - punching bag and punching
• eye level view mid shot/ close up - push up and mans face
• full shot - stretching
• close up - stretching with bands (CU on the bands)
• full shot - slamming weight ball
• close up - weight ball bouncing
• full shot - skipping with a rope 
• close up - feet with the skipping rope

 

Competition 

• mid shot - mother shaking her head in disappointment 
• slow motion close up - man's hand hitting the lever (of the game)
• mid two shot - man and girl sitting at the table, looking at each other ready to start the game (man looks out of place on the small table).
• POV (man) high angle - girl sitting down looking at man 
• POV (girl)  low angle - man towering over table looking at girl 
• wide shot - competition set (the table where the girl is sitting, mother and presenter on the bench, banner)
• tracking shot - from banner of competition to presenter and mother sitting on the bench 
• full two shot - presenter and mother sitting - looking horrified 
• slow motion low angle - man winning competition (stands up and throws the table)
• mid shot - man shouting and celebrating - looking into camera 
• mid two shot of man and presenter - handing man the trophy, shaking his head.
• high angle - girl sitting on chair with a broken table, arms crossed looking sad. 

 

 

developing idea + cast

Highschool by Sammy rush 

We realized that the song we used  was not ideal for our music video because it wasn't a band and we also got stuck in the hole idea because we could not get any further. It was really hard to promote the singer because we did not  get any ideas to make him unique plus the song is clearly American and it is hard to film an American music video in surrey in November.

thats why we decided to use the song   ,,Takin' it'' by  Breathless 

After listening to it a lot we choose people who could fit in the genre 80s-90s so this is what we came out with:

Casting

singer: Max Burton 

Lead guitar : Oscar boatswain (A1 Dayhouse)

bass:  tommy (A2 Dayhouse)

Drums : Charly (A1 Bwebb)

Keys: Monty Mclaren clark (A1 Bwebb)

working out guy :  Beau Gater (A2 Day house)

little girl : Millie Newman (Lodge A1 )

developing the idea week 3

 Developing the idea

even tho I couldn't attend to the lesson my group pitched our idea to Matt where we emphasized the focus on mental health the artist would be conveying.

The feedback was as follows:

> we should focus on a more abstract way of portraying the narrative rather than a very literal storyline.

>Mental health may be too broad of a subject to devote a music video to.

> Although the theme is broad, it is quite an intimate subject and therefore there isn't a lot of imagery that can be filmed or made for a studio shoot.

> We also need to depict the artist in a more perhaps positive, uplifting light with the music video being about improving mental health rather than simply discussing it.

Rough ideas for set up : 

> artist in a dark setting, on a therapy couch playing his guitar 

> plane withe background with artist sitting with his back again the wall - a graffiti type collage of musical notes bursting from his heat on the wall behind him. ( because of lyrics ,, if my brain gets any bigger ill be going out of my mind'')

> filming in an actual recording studio perhaps for the last chorus - showing behind the scenes

> artist lying on his back surrounded by multitude of papers - both music notes and marked exam papers 

idea developing week 4 part one

 The Cast 

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  Artist: Luke  Seymour  (A1 Bwebb)                       

 Sound  Engineer: Monty Mcclarenclark (A1 Bwebb)

 

 

  Manager: Doug Francis A1 (Cornhill)

  Therapist: Roy Bickenson

Set ups:

1.  therapist couch  artist sits on it and therapist sitting next him on a stool taking notes

2.  recording studio showing how they record his song

3.  artist sitting on the floor in front of a blank wall playing guitar and singing also he does  graffiti on blank wall ( not at the same time) all of this would show his thoughts and not the ,,real life''

Maby if it is to much with all set ups back up idea to just film in recording studio how they record  the song 

Maby animated ,,graffiti'' for the 3rd  set up instead of the artist doing actual graffiti  

Workshop 3 1/10/202

 

,,House lighting''  the normal lights are meant to be there to do house things like cleaning cooking... they aren't there to film anything like a music video

basically this is just the normal light which is everywhere in houses classrooms...

Red hat:

this light is called red hat because it normally is red 

In case the red hat blows there is a ,,net'' to  make sure no one gets hurt that's why we have to check the light first and look if there is a net.

to make good lighting with only one light (the red hat ) we have to put the light left next the camera and before turning the light on we have to say ,, eyes closed and sparking '' so the people infant of the camera need to close their eyes because the light is really bright.

 the  light travels in a straight line which means the object or  person right in from of the camera is full covered in bright light. To diffuse the light we use trace and put this over the red hat 

 ( trace)

The key light gives a few shadows on one side of the persons face who is sitting in front of the camera.

To get rid of these shadows we use a second red hat: Fill light

This is there To light the other side of her face. This needs to be a bit far away from the camera and also on the other side (right side)

Because it looks like the person in front of the camera and the background are kind of connected we use a 3rd light located in the back which is very bright ( if to light need to change the brightness)

This all is called an interview lighting it is mostly just used for interviews etc.

 Beauty Lighting

Only backlight and the polestar to reflect the backlight in the front 

  This creates a lot ,,dirty lighting''

to get rid of this dirty lighting turn the light down until her face is in focus also use the lens to focus  to hold this focus there is a thing called Matte box which sits on the lens and holds the focused picture( instead of holding it the hole time)

A  HH teacher came up with this idea  it gives the same amount of light through the hole thing but there are still shadows on the other side because it obviously just gives light to the side where it comes from.

Even when someone puts his hand next the persons face who sits in from of the camera the hand bounces light off onto her face ( on the shadow side)

the get light on the side where the shadow is we could use the polestar to mirror the lighting 

Fluorescent lights:

u can't make them less bright( if u have to then move the lights around ( far away or closer)

They are naturally all withe to make them colorful there are different colored gel ( when turned on, the light got the color of the gel)

Blue looks brighter than red because of the color 

Depending on how u hold the lights u can have a different amount of each colorourd light for example if the red light is farer away and the blue one closer the light in the camera is way more blue 

If both lights are right next to each other it makes a weird light lighting.

Kino Flow:

is a light  with many lights in it it is called highlight and the brand is called Photon beard which is a really good and often used brand

Make it to the maximum brightness and expose it by justice the shutter is good for rap metal... in general for things to make it seem brutal.

 

When the camera is closer to her face the eyes are sparking  because of the reflection of the light .