Risk Assessment

This is the risk assessment of the locations we shot in, it explains the risks and hazards that we had and how we plan to overcome them. It is very useful as it has made us aware of the health and safety points that we have to take into account.

Digipak planning

Influences ideas

This video is the ideal situation we want for our video, the argueing scene looks really realistic.
We used certain elements in our videos to add realism to our video - the camera angles and the mise - en - scene in particular.

Filming Two

Yesterday we had our Second day of filming, the first day when Hanna and Jon would be acting together. We shot the scene of them in bed together, when they have an argument scene and also the scene where they reminisce.

Although we filmed a lot of footage, we are not able to use much of it because it was more experimenting with the camera and the different affects for our footage.

We will need to re film a lot of it because it is not the correct angle or we did not film the right thing.

Digipak Research

Another aspect of our courswork is to design a Digipak.

Firstly we researched to discover what a Digipak is and existing examples.

What is a Digipak?

Digipak is a patented style of compact disc or DVD packaging, typically consisting of a gatefold, (book-style) paperboard or card stock outer binding, with one or more plastic trays capable of holding a CD or DVD attached to the inside.

Filming

First day of filming was planned to be at my house, having been given the deadlines as very soon we were aware we had to have some sort of material to be-able to work with and get our footage done.

Although we used this as an opportunity to see what elements worked and which did not.

The lighting in many of the shots was awful, the suit that Jon used appeared green despite it being grey. Many of the outside shots, the angle of the camera was extremely wonky or you were able to see a reflection in windows and glass making it look amateur filming which is definitely not what we want.

Some of the shots are too close up or don't include Jon, focusing on more insignificant objects.

It gave us all experience with filming and also skills of directing the actors around.

We know we still have a lot of work to do, but we can use the material we have obtained.

Animatic Storyboard

Now we have drawn the storyboard we have composed an animation of the pictures.

This is very useful, as it gives a very vague idea of how the music video will eventually turn out.

It provokes aspects that we had not considered before until we had made the animated video including timing, continuity and the reference to the lyrics.

We had huge gaps where we realized we needed more scenes but still had to make sense to the whole story.

The animatic overall looks very affective, although it is only a very rough cut of how the overall video should appear and how we plan for it to be eventually.

It gives opportunities to plan improvements.