Our music video

James Morrison - This Boy - music video

This is the finished piece

Further Ideas

After 2 shoots and a few sessions of editing, we have reached problems with our narative and trying to get a sense of time change. I have thought of the idea of filming the actor with a greenscreen and then seperately film on location and add the two layers together. The advantage with this is that we will then be able to have different colour filters on the backgorund to show a change in time. Eg having a black and white background showing that the actor is in the past.

Second Shoot

After our first shoot we gathered alot of footage to use for editing, however we still needed to get more narrative shots. The majority of our location for the video is in a house. A problem we discovered after seeing the footage was that we had not used the rule of thirds, which we remembered during the second shoot. The difficulties we have faced with that is that it is sometimes difficult filming in a confined area. We also had difficulties in filming panning shots as the ground is not completely flat to get a smooth pan.

During our second shoot we experimented more with POV shots. This were mainly from the alcoholic mothers perspective. The major problem with filming in someone elses house is the mise-en-scene. We had problems in re-arranging furniture to suit us but we got the desired look in the end.

Idea following first editting

Following our start to the editting process we have decided that there needs to be a clear difference between the shots of 'James Morrison' (Neil) in the present and the shots of the boy and girl when they were younger. We will use a black and white effect for this to make it clear.

Also we have decided to do a ruff cut of the whole video first, putting the right shots in order and to the music before we add the small details like adding effects and framing the shots. We decided this becuase it will allow us time to go and shoot some more footage if its needed and will we have a clearer idea of how the video will look from start to finish.

Chris

First filming attempt

On Saturday (26th january) we went to 2 of our locations and started our filming. The initial shots we filmed was the main performance shot at Dunorlan park which we found took a considerable amount of time to set up the cameras and set up the shot at various angles. We filmed a medium long shot of Neil and close ups of both his face whilst singing and of the guitar to reinforce the authenticity necessary to adhere t0 the conventions.

We recorded various shots in the house for the start of the video where the boy and girl wake up and we also recored the other main performance shot of Neil in the house whilst sitting on a sofa. We managed to add some movement to this shot by resting the camera on a skateboard and slowly moving the skateboard from right to left to create a panning shot and we also made a pedding shot by moving the camera up and down.

We will be continuing filming this saturday in an attempt to record the remaining shots and visit our final location, a graveyard, for the shots towards the end of the video.

Animatic

We produced an animatic in order to see how the shots we storyboarded flowed with the track and how quickly we needed to cut the shots from different angles to keep the audience interested. When watching the animatic its clear that we will need to have a lot of movement within the shots as there are a variety of shots that are reasonably long, mainly performance shots, which felt too long with the static picture in the animatic.

Planning review #4

You have completed your animatic, however you have not met the deadline to post on the blog. You must use the blog to record reccies, practice shots, comments on costumes, key shots you want to use, issues with locations etc.. it should be a busy, working document.

Post up your animatic, reflect on how you made it and what you have learnt from doing it ASAP.