Animation Sequence

Here is a pitcure of our animation sequence, each character can be freely moved around, this is so we can take many picture of the them moving their arms and ones mouth to produce the animation.

27/01/11 Production Plan- Re-filming Childrens Television Sequence

Today we intended to finish all filming by re-shooting our failed kids tv show scene and lost scene during our college lesson, while later on in the day Will and Jack would film the remaining slot of a babestation replacement and film the intro and outro to this music video ( a young boy turning the TV on and off).

However,due to extreme restraints on the ability to film the lost section(extremely difficult weather conditions,causing the filming to look to amateur and all round feeling that this section would be way too difficult to produce correctly) We decided this section would be replaced with a stop motion animation style sequence. We also decided that the replacement for the babestation section (this was cancelled as the member willing to do this scene quit mid filming),would be a top gear style driving show.

9:00am- Due to a change in band member, we have decided to re-film the Children's Television Sequence. We have chosen to use a plain background as the previous one was too noisy and drew attention away from the actors. We also used a puppet to ensure that it was clear it was a children's television programme.

9:30am- we had completed the kids scene section and decided to move onto the animation section we have decided to use instead of our proposed 'lost' sequence.

10:00am- We began to prepare our cutouts and backdrop for our animation.

1:00pm- We started filming our animation. This took some time as we needed to make it look semi-fluent so it will be easier to sync in editing.

3:00pm- We had captured all the images we needed for the animation. We then edited them into our final sequence.

4:00pm- After college,we went to wills house and with the use of his car were able to film a short 'top gear' style short as a quick replacement to babe station, this sequence was very simple to do as in terms of costume,only smart casual clothes were required and the only prop was simply the car.

4:30pm- We then used Will's brother and living room for the shooting of the intro and outro scenes,these were shot fairly quickly also due to the simplicity in the nature of each shot.

(Single angle continuous shot of both the boy sitting down and turning the TV on and then turning the TV off and walking out the room) The outro was adapted last minute to include the boy to say 'Mum i want good shoes new single! Mum' this speech was used at the end as a pun on promotion and the usage of music video in terms of music sales.

(These last two sections were then edited into our final cut the next day,leaving only minor adjustments needed such as the channel logos in the top of the screen and small parts of lip syncing to be edited to create the final cut in the next week)

Scene Change.

Due to time constraints, and members of our group being unavailable, we have to decided to change our "Lost scene", which will most likely be the hardest to film, into a "South Park-esque" animation, with stop motion and cut-outs. This will be easier and quicker to make, and possibly more effective in our music video.

Rough Cut Feedback

(Additional Notes:Upon uploading the video to this post we noticed that our video now includes

'Contains content from PIAS' and an itunes link to Good Shoes' 'ice age'

This is positive as it shows their distribution has allowed our video online,and are using it as promotion for the song.)

We shown our unfinished rough cut to other groups to get feedback on the current status of our video.

The overall reaction was positive but we received a lot of criticism around the theme,as many people didn't understand some of the ideas of the channels being changed. But this is due to the fact it is unfinished without the Tv static cuts and Logos/Graphics on each page.

This is a scanned version of all of our feedback from the lesson.

INSERT SCAN

We will also ask people to comment on our youtube video for extra feedback and post when complete.

Rough Cut

Production plan 20th January

Today we intend on shooting our black and white vintage cinema piece, which has now turned into a chaplin esque slapstick silent film due to filming restraints.

10:00- We began the day by changing into our costumes to look more appropriate for the silent 1930s film style.

10:30- We then chose a close location to college due to wanting to shoot this quickly to finish editing our final piece.

11:00- We shot our sequence close by,taking various takes of each shot to ensure we get a perfect scene. We used two bananas as props,one as the eating banana,one as the throwing banana. We also used a financial times as a prop as we needed to use a paper that will look more 1930's than something like the sun or daily star.

11:15- We ended this section with shooting various running away scenes,this is as we had multiples ideas on how to end this scene,but were unsure,so we shot them all and intend to pick the final one as we begin editing.

TV channel to channel cutting research.

Through simply watching music television i came across this video for Eminem's 'My name is'

this video holds a very similar structure to how our video is intending to end up like (with the TV turning on and various channel switching) we used this video as an influence for learning how to cut each section of the video appropriately with the old style TV white noise style.

Through watching this we were also influenced to involve the whole image cutting to a line then darkness technique used in this video (and also used in Natural Born Killers frequently) as a way to create a transitional point from the boy turning the TV on and going from the TV being turned off back to the boy.

Tuesday January 18th production plan.

Today we all intend to top up and finish all existing incomplete blog posts and begin to edit in our footage filmed last thursday into our final cut,ready to film the final three scenes next week.

Thursday 13th January Production Plan

On Thursday we plan to film a considerable portion of our music video. The scenes we intend to film are:

• QVC scene
• Babe station scene
• Big Brother scene
• Music Channel scene
• Introduction scene

10:30- We arrived at our location and set up the first scene we intended to film.

We chose to film the big brother diary room scenes in jacks house as opposed to holly's due tofilming restraints.

We filmed Jack,Kane and Joe's scene shorty after.

(jack and will stayed in normal clothes so GIFs are not required)

10:45- We came across a major problem in our filming as Sam our second guitarist sadly had to quit filming due to other commitments. We decided to replace him with out group member Will,and shot his scene in the big brother diary room. We will now how to re film the Children's show due to the fact this was the only scene Sam had been in so far.

This has also put us in a predicament in terms of the Babe station scene as Sam was the only one who was willing to do this scene,so we have decided to cut this and replace it with a short Superhero film style shot.

11:15- We decided to shoot our lost practise shots by strapping a video camera to the front of a bike and do various speeds of running practises.

(BIKE PHOTOS)

11:25- Following this we used this technique to film a short Superhero scene with Jack and Joestarring. Only a small amount of this will be used in the final sequence.

(Joe used the same outfit to this as the big brother scene,hence the same GIF)

11:45- We have now began to prepare for our ending pastiche metal scene,we have a pile of various 'metal' and 'punk' pieces of clothing to get into costume and will be using thick make up to go for a style similar to 80s glam rock and death metal.

14.00- We decided the final piece of filming we would do today would be the QVC introduction and the band playing at the start of the video. this was filmed reletively quickly with Will acting as the presenter and a member of the band. We attempted the final scene of each member playing the final chord but this didn't really work out,so the end of our video will now consist of the end of the 'metal' music programme going into a tv fuzz and cutting out.

(INSERT WILL GIF)

(INSERT BAND PHOTO)

16.00- Will will film the introduction and outro with his brother at home at a later date this week as we didn't have a good cast type to portray this character.

Our final scenes (vintage cinema and lost) will be filmed next week on tuesday or thursday.

Final filming plans