What we have done so far

Walls in brick lane

Advantages of using Brick Lane as a location

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The advantages of using Brick Lane as a location are as seen in these photos. When we visited Brick Lane we hadn't before seen what it was like we had only heard stories about the detailed walls and strange scenery’s around. It came to a surprise to us of how much we could use to film and it gave us many possibilities and ideas which we later will develop here, One being the use of the walls. We are using Kieran to walk by the walls as if times have changed yet he hasn't moved from the same area. This would be a good shot as there are easily weird walls to film on and can be done quickly if affective. We have also made a plan video of it so we already know it can be done. All of these photos were taken in Brick Lane and gives you as a viewer a glimpse of what is expected here.

Walls in Bricklane shot

When we went up to london we began to look at different ways we could get the shot we wanted. This was only a practice shot so it isn't 100% how we want it to look in the final edit however we liked the idea of the changes between the 3 seperate walls as it looked like the character was going somewhere and creates an urban background life style. We made this shot through the use of the video on Instagram as it allows you to pause the video and then carry on shooting wherever is intended. You can also add effects such an colour change to black and white, sepia, and more contrast within seconds so this is a easy yet creative way to film. As this is only a rough copy it allowed us as a group to be able to diccuss what we thought went well and what we won't use for the final idea. By already analying shots its helping us make our final product perfect and how we want it to look at the end. When we re-shoot this shot we have decided that we will use a tripod as it will hold the camera still with no 'hand wobbling' as it does in this, This is because it looks more professional if the camera is still and it will get the same angle as the wall we want to use before not just an estimate, Also we migt use more than 3 walls in the final copy as it will come across more effective as if he's travelling a further distance the editing will need to be made alot quicker will around 2-3 second cuts to each wall.

Demographics and Phychographics

Save The World Lyrics

Swedish House Mafia Lyrics

Development in our choice

Shooting schedule

Diary of Filming

Audience Questionnaire

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Reckless Records website

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 This is the front page of our website. It includes pictures of London town as that's where we will be shooting the video. Also as the song is by Swedish House Mafia there is a picture of their album cover there too. The front page needed to attract the audience so the use of bright colours and 'fun' looking pictures makes it more appealing. 'About' this page just tells our audience who we are and what we're about.

'Portfolio' This is a selection of pictures of where we will be filming and what we feel would be good shots for the final video.

                                                              









'Contact' This page includes all the groups emails so we can all be contacted personally and also a google maps of where we are located.

Location Finding

Locations

Location ideas

 

We went to London to location hunt and found lots of urban art walls. Such as cartoon figures, bubble writing and random abstract. We found these walls in Bricklane and thought they would be the perfect location for one of our chosen shots of a cut between each wall so it looks like the main character is walking through different locations.

We found that bricklane is the best location for the 'wall shot' as it has a variety of these walls everywhere, down basically every street you go down, When we was in Bricklane we realised that it isn't that busy so it would be quite easy to shoot here so there wouldnt be any random by passers or people we didn't want in our shot.

In the last picture Emma is standing by the wall (although you can't really see her) becuase of all the artwork it takes the attension away from Emma and makes her look really small even though we only took the shot from across the road. This might be a difficulty in shooting as you can't see the character too well so to overcome this Emma could be holding the camera herself up close or we would need to dress her in vibrant/wacky clothing so she stands out.

Response from Universal Music

Response From Universal

Swedish House Mafia Moodboard

Swedish House Mafia Mood Board

I have made a mood board on Swedish House Mafia to get an idea of who they are and what they are about. This also meant I could research them and find out more about their music and what they have in their music videos for us to base ideas around when making our video.
What I have learned is that they are very up beat and live a party life, dj'ing, having many fans come to their concerts. They use alot of bright lights for affect when the beat drops.

Planning the video

Lip Syncing 2

This video includes a few different songs which were combined into one video, this allowed us to have more practice of lip syncing to get us more prepared for the final video.

Lip Syncing

This video shows kieran lip syncing part of the original song we are hoping to do by swedish house mafia. We thought this would be a good idea as it allowed Kieran do have a taster of what he is going to have to do for the final video. As Kieran is the only boy in our group we decided that he would be the best part for the main singer as its a male vocal. From looking at this short clip of lip syncing we have already realised we will need to do more practice and make sure that Kieran moves more along with the song and doesn't just stand still to make it more believable.

Influence 1

Asking permission from Univeral Music

Here is proof of us asking permission to use 'Save the World' by Swedish House Mafia as our chosen music video. We thought by emailing Univeral Music for their permission was a good idea because of the copy right issues we could face if we were to publish our changed video to an audience. As you can see in the email the only people who would be able to see our video would be the examiner, our class and our teacher so with or with not their constent we would still be able to use it but it would be a good idea to have permission in the first place.

Instagram

This shows the set up on the instagram page we have started, we will be uploading weekly pictures showing our planning, development and whatever is going on with the music video. By setting up an instagram account it allows the audience to feel important and know whats going on, Instragram is one of the most popular social networking sights with Billions of users by our account not being on private this means anyone all over the world can view our work and take an interest.

Evaluating the AS blog short video

This video shows kieran talking about our AS thriller blog, and some of the positives and negatives we felt came up throughout. Because this video wasn't particulary long we have produced some screen shots of the old blog also which we will evaluate in more detail.

 This is one of our posts on the blog which consisted of a detailed plan of when we was going to shoot certain parts of our thriller. It includes where, when, and what time we will be shooting. By sticking to this schedule it allowed us to keep organised with what we was doing and not waste time at locations. This was one of the positive posts we decided when looking through because it really helped us out when shooting and everyone in the group knew what was going on. We will be making another one of these this year for our music video.

On our blog we had quite a few videos; this included us in the group 'chatting' about planning, locations, music etc but we also filmed audience feedback from teachers and students. This was a quick and effective way to store the information at the time yet I feel now looking back and watching each video that we would definitely need to plan out what was going to be said before it was filmed to avoid fillers and awkwardness with not knowing what to say as this made the videos look unplanned and unprofessional. Using videos to keep information would still be a good idea for the blog this year on our music video as it is media rich and spontaneous speech however we will need to take the negatives we found from last year into consideration before doing this.

 

This shows a screen grab from the short trailer that was made for our opening to the thriller, we felt that this was one of our stronger posts on the blog as it really fitted in with the whole blog and acted as a 'teaser' to the official Thriller opening we was planning throughtout. This short trailer was made on an Ipad app called iMovie ans allowed us to use different effects, cut ins and words. We will probably be using this again this year in our prelim or if we again use a teaser of the real video.