Camera Techniques- POV

During filming we discovered that we were lacking in shots of the couple together. Therefore in order to build the narrative of the song, this was vital, as it would give a personal feel to the video. Our inspiration came from Calvin Harris' music video for 'I Need Your Love'. In that video , the point of view camera technique is used which we felt would be suitable for our video.

Whilst filming, we experimented with this technique in everyday situation with the love interest included. For example, the male (Danny) filmed the two of them sipping coffee at a cafe which looks as though they are having a laugh and so brightens up the video. We then uploaded the POV clip to the Mac and inserted it into our video which we thought looked really good. Therefore we have decided that we should film some more similar clips for the narrative to run more smoothly. Locations could include, in bed, walking in the outdoors, a park. The POV shot is a brilliant way for us to bring the video to life as it really builds up the characters in the video. Developing the characters also allows us to enhance the narrative and so we end up making a video that can relate to our audience.

Storyboard... Part II

Here is the second part of our draft shot list for production:

Shot 23 - Girl found under the sheets by the male, playing around "contentment in these sheets".
Shot 24 - Aerial shot of the couple lying in bed.
Shot 25 - Master shot of male singing with guitar on bench.
Shot 26 - Medium shot of couple playing in the leaves.
Shot 27 - Aerial shot of male falling into the leaves.
Shot 28 - Fade in from a previous shot to show him falling onto the bed.
Shot 29 - Male lying on the bed, turns head to see the girl isn't there.
Shot 30 - Master shot of the male lip syncing with guitar, whilst walking down the path.
Shot 31 - Close up of male's face to see him singing to the camera, lip syncing.
Shot 32 - Male sitting by a tree with the photo of him and the girl, long shot.
Shot 33 - Master shot of male singing with guitar at the tree, long shot, photo beside him.
Shot 34 - Overlay technique used at the same tree, medium shot of singer lip syncing whilst showing the past of the couple walking in the background.
Shot 35 - Master shot of singer lip syncing next to the tree.
Shot 36 - Shot of sun gleaming through the trees.
Shot 37 - Male walking through meadow.
Shot 38 - Sun shining through the meadow.
Shot 39 - Master shot of singing, medium shot.
Shot 40 - Goes into a number of different split screens with various shots.

Storyboard... Part II

23. 1:28- 1:33   24. 1:33- 1:39   25. 1:39- 1:47   26. 1:47- 1:50   27. 1:50- (fade in)   28. -1:56   29. 1:56- 2:02   30. 2:02- 2:13   31. 2:13- 2:26   32. 2:26- 2:38   33. 2:38- 2:44   34. 2:44- 2:49   35. 2:44- 3:01
36. 3:01- 3:08   37. 3:08- 3:10   38. 3:10- 3:22. 3:22-- ends in various split screens.

Shotlist... Part I

Here is our draft shot list for our production:

Shot 1- Close up on hand placing CD in the disk tray of a music player.
Shot 2- Close up on a hand turning up the volume.
Shot 3- Mid shot of artist sitting on his bed, looking sad.
Shot 4- High angle, medium shot on artist retrieving a box.
Shot 5- Aerial shot of him searching the box for a photo.
Shot 6- Mid shot, of him lying on the bed looking at the photo.
Shot 7- Close up, Zoom in on the photo.
Shot 8- Cut to tracking of the couple walking down the street.
Shot 9- (master-shot) artist playing guitar.
Shot 10- Tracking of couple walking through a walk way to a bench.
Shot 11- Mid-shot of artist sitting on bench.
Shot 12- Mid-shot of couple sitting on bench. (potential for overlay).
Shot 13- Over the shoulder shot of artist looking at couple.
Shot 14- Train begins to drive by.
Shot 15- Cut to mid shot of artist sitting on the bench.
Shot 16- Over the shoulder shot, Cut to train station, couple have disappeared.
Shot 17- Master shot
Shot 18- Pan, of artist getting up and leaving location.
Shot 19- Close-up, on artist playing guitar.
Shot 20- Mid-shot of artist walking away.
Shot 21- Cuts back to shot 6.
Shot 22- Gets up and leaves bedroom.

Storyboard... Part I

This is the first part of my groups final idea for our  music video to Mike Dignams song, "I'll Lie Here". This is the released and planned storyboard to our song up to, 1:35; we have had to present the board in separate parts as the whiteboard could not fit the whole Music Video storyboard onto it, without being unclear.




















These are the number of sections in each shot-
1. 0-0.03   2. 0.03-0.05   3. 0.05-0.07    4. 0.07-0.09  5. 0.09-0.11  6. 0.11-0.13   7. 0.13-0.15
8. 0.15- 0.18    9. 0:18-0:26   10. 0.26-0.30   11. 0.30-0.36    12. 0.36- 0.42     13. 0.42- 0.48
14. 0.48- 0.54   15. 0.54- 1.00    16. 1.00- 1.03   17. 1.03-1.16  18. 1.16-1.19    19. 1.19-1.21
20. 1.21- 1.26     21. 1.26- 1.31    22. 1.31- 1.35

Digi Pack Font Research

Through research I can see that a lot of Indie and Indie/Acoustic album font consists of various amount of capital letters, or none at all, or have a very artistic approach to the font, or a very simple font. This just shows that Indie Artists vary from one extreme to another but are never in the middle. The importance of the right font for our Digi Pack is very high, so we need to think about the pro's and con's of each, if they match the Genre and if they represent the personality of the Artist. These fonts need to be simple to read, whilst still attracting the audience by being pleasing to the eye; below are some potential font, which I have found that I feel fit into those criteria's. 

Meeting 5/11/2013

Today we discussed the location, evaluation of our practice filming and updating our blogs with more gadgets/widgets to provide viewers with more satisfaction of our blogs.

Having already created a Twitter account for the media group, we were able to provide our blogs with a Twitter widget which updates and presents any tweets that have been made such as, about the progress of our music videos, and any inspirational tweets that we may re tweet or comments we have made. On Twitter we have followed some artists that we think can relate to our chosen singer/songwriter, various artists include; Jason Mraz, Ben Howard, Ed Sheeran, John Mayer. Another few accounts that we think were worth following were Radio 1's Twitter profile and various DJs that are involved in that area. This gives us updates on our Twitter Feed of any new and upcoming music that we may be interested in and relate to Mike Dignam. In relation to Mike, we have followed him on Twitter which allows us to become updated on tour dates and any comments, personal updates from him that could link to our music video narrative.

In the lesson today, we also talked about the final location dates as all members of the media group were in the lesson. Locations finalised included, a Train Station (perhaps situated in Newport, Essex), a photo booth (although this could be known as a prop), a calm and collected forest type scene (perhaps a Bluebell woods or something similar). I think all these locations would be great when filming as they will give us some fantastic shots, also filming in Cambridge would be a good idea as it will give some great shots of the Urban environment in comparison to the natural/rural scenes of a forest.