Website Design Draft 1

This is a first website draft I've done for my project. I used the images I took during the photoshoot (edited ones, as well as original) and fitted them in a way they would be on the final product. I added a few pages, including home page, info page, gallery, promo (where our music video would be) and contact page.

For now I activated the link to my animatic on the page it says 'promo' just to give the rough idea of what it's going to look like whilst finished.

These are a couple of screenshots I took whilst editing the website: 

(you can click on the image to enlarge it)

First Shoot - Saturday, 18th of November.

My role on the first shoot was to set up the camera. I plugged in the battery, inserted the tape, attached the microphone and mounted the camera on the tripod, adjusting the heights and angles. I also adjusted the right white balance for the camera. After I set up the camera, I filmed few shots before we switched with my other group member. We made sure we filmed few shots each, so that the work was divided equally.

We kindly asked the actors (who are also media students) to get ready & do the make up themselves, following our specific instructions as we were setting the up the equipment to buy us more time. They were happy to help and we started shooting in no time!

Photoshoot -Edited photos.

I selected a few photos from the photoshoot & twitched with the effects & different levels of saturation, brightness, exposure, contrast and hue to make the photos look more professional. I am happy with the outcome. These few photos will definitely go on my website design which I am currently working on.

Photoshoot = "Pryce Oliver"

This is one of photos I already edited on photoshop.
This photo will go on my website draft which I am working on atm.








I took loads more shots:

 

 

Location Recce.

I've taken pictures of the room that we are going to use as our character John's bedroom. 

There is a lot of things that we need to clear from the bedroom to set it up for the music video

so in our production schedule we will need to include all the time for the set up until we can start shooting.

please note: make sure to 

click on the picture to enlarge! 

I also to took a picture of Air and Breathe in Dartford. This is the club we are going to use for our night club shots and perfomance shots in our music video.

Animatic

I've created the Animatic for our Storyboard. Animatic is a motion version of the storyboard to present your final idea & the concept for the video in more visual form. The animatic, just like the storyboard is going to be my guide to show me what shots do I need and how is it going to look like. It's very probable that my final video will be a lot different to my storyboard and animatic but the point is to learn new skills and improve throughout the work.

Digipack Design 1

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< back cover







I designed the first idea for my digipack for the music video, front and back cover. The front is a photo of the artist's face profile facing a massive speaker. The face would be distorted, as if it was quite literally "blown away" by the sound (the brilliance of it, or the volume). There would the title of the album & name of artist on the side of the speaker. The back is of the artist performing, standing with their back turned to camera, facing a massive audience in front of them, facing the lights brightening the stage.  On the top there would be song titles.

Props.

I gathered images of the most essential props we will need for the shoot including:

photoframes, 

alcohol bottles,

something to symbolise drugs

microphone

set of lights

sound system

DSLR camera

charger for camcorder and camera

Sony recording camera

set of keys

money

bed covers and pillows

make up set

costume

tripod

Costume Design -Actors,

 



I've search the internet to gather examples of the costume I am going to provide my actors with.
There is one costume design for the male actor as he will not have a costume change on set. There is two costume designs for the female actor as she will need a costume change for certain shots.
I decided to use symbolism in my music video such as the use of red & white.
Red usually symbolises aggression and passion, whereas white symbolises purity or innocence.

The female actor will be dressed in a red dress and wearing red lipstick with a red mask over her eyes for most of the point of view shots in my video to represent the way her boyfriend is portraying her in his head (seeing her as evil but still feeling passion for her & love). In rest of the shots, the female actor will be dressed in casual clothing such as shorts & a jumper. There will be still elements of passion and love and anger in her casual costume such as her red lipstick and ribbon in her hair.

The male character will be dressed in a white t-shirt, symbolising his purity and his innocence - showing he's the victim in the story, being cheated on by his girlfriend. He will also be dressed in blacks & greys to symbolise his feelings (depressed, sad, disappointed) and also to show the differences between the two personalities in the story.

Final Shot List.

I've created the final shot list for our film. After I've done my storyboard and the animatic 

I've noticed that I could improve my idea by removing some shots and replacing them with some better ones in terms of professionalism and advance level.

This shot list is going to be used during the shoot & this is going to be our guide for those two weeks.

Visual Style - Moodboard

^ This is our visual style for most of the video. 

The dim lighting effect & the dominating blue shades of the video give it that sort of old film effect as well the grotty, dirty feel to it, which I'm aiming to achieve with appropriate camera techniques & after-effects when editing in our video. There is a lot of reasons why I thought this visual style would be perfect for our video, some of them include:

* It symbolises the impurity of the girl (Sarah) 

in the video, impurity in their relationship & "dirty" lifestyle.

* It makes it look rough, just as our character's relationship is & lifestyle as well.

Initial Shot List!

I've created the initial shot list. It includes 64 shots. This is our detailed guide as to what we will film on the shoot. If we follow this list, we should have enough shots for the whole music video. HOWEVER,

both me and Adam, we need to go over the song & anitmatic again and agree on the shots. This is just a preview of what it might look like for now.