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)

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.

7/12/10 Children's Television Show Production Plan

2.00pm- We are preparing our children's television show scene today. We need a set that we can turn into our studio for filming.

2.05pm- We have decided to use a spare computer room within the college to film. We will use the images that we created in a previous lesson as the back drop.

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2.30pm- The backdrop has now been put up and we are ready to get our actor's into costume and begin filming.

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3.10pm- We have now successfully captured the footage we need, we had to shoot the particular scene as there was a choreographed dance routine that needed a few attempts to get right.

3.30pm- The footage has now been logged and captured onto the computer and added to our master template ready for final editing.

25/11/10 Wildlife Scene Production Plan

9:00am- Today we are working on the Wildlife documentary scene. We shall do a few practice shots and the final sequence. We are still filming this in Will's back garden , this is no different to what we originally planned.

10:00am- We got our actor into costume ready to be our documentary presenter:

10.30- We arrived at our location ready to film when disaster struck! The camera we were using was not charged up so we had roughly 5 minutes to film. We shot the establishing shot for this scene, however, as it was rushed we may considering re shooting this. We came back inside so we can charge the battery. In the meantime we posted this and we are going to prepare the rest of today's events after this set back.

11.00- After discussions, we decided that the battery was charged up enough to capture the footage we needed. We went out and followed our storyboard roughly but had to make a few minor changes as we weren't able to keep the chickens under control or in one place for too long.

12.00- We have now finished capturing our footage and we are happy with how it looks on the camera. We will not be editing the footage today, however we will add it to the master template.

16/11/10 Newsroom Scene Production Plan

14:00pm- We decided to utilise the fact that the green screen was up in college,so after doing our 'green screen practice test' we decided we will shoot our first part to the music video, 'the news room' section. We did this as it is the only scene in which we needed the use of a green screen and is only 9-10 seconds long,so would be quick and productive towards the project.

14:15pm- Green screen was set up for our use, we set up a bench to turn into a makeshift TV desk and changed into costume and set up props:

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14:25pm- We then took a variety of practice shots to prepare ourselves and adapt to the green screen environment.

14:35pm- We did around 5 different takes of the actual shot for the music video,we did this to get to grips with lip syncing. We chose our third shot to be used as the final one to be edited in to our video.

Lipsync Practice

Costume List.

Lost: Ripped clothes and messy hair.

fake blood,sand and mud on the actors so they look as if they are actually in the correct scene.

Big Brother: Dressed in normal clothes,but must be different to those worn in QVC scene,each person will have potential stereotypes that are typical to big brother.

News: Suits and slick back hair and glasses to give a presentable and smart look.

Kids: bright over the top colourful clothing and non branded to give a comfortable children's show theme. Non stop smiling.

Wildlife: Hiker boots,blue shirt,cargo trousers,bodywarmer.

QVC: The band will be wearing normal 'indie' clothing as they are portraying themselves and the female presenter will have to dress smart casual with tv make up to fit the role.

Babestation: Thong, tacky tarty make up.

Old black and white style film: Suits, pencil thin moustache, glamourous female outfit,pearles,vintage make up,slick hair,smart shoes.

Prop List.

Lost Scene: Black cotton wool to create a makeshift 'smoke monster',suitcases and fake guns.

Big Brother Scene: A large interesting looking chair for use as the big brother chair,homemade shirt microphones,Instruments of band members.

Newsroom Scene: Coffee mugs,Papers and laptop for newsreaders to read from.

Kids Show Scene: Homemade child drawings for backdrop,stuffed toys on table (all colourful,non branded)

Wildlife Scene: Some kind of live animal/s.

QVC Scene: Instruments of each band member,microphone.

Babestation Scene: Fluffy pillows and satin sheets.

Old Film Scene: Cigarette holder,cigarettes,an extra to play potential love interest.

Test: Depth of Field Test

When storyboarding our Lost section we wanted to incorporate the idea of scale using the smoke monster, as it is a defining feature of Lost. The smoke monster is very big so we decided to experiment with creating it using the limited resources we have.

As avid watchers of Power Rangers as children we remembered the technique that made the mosters appear large by simply positioning them nearer the camera. The video above shows this.

We created a small study to see if it was possible to achieve this effect.

Continuity exercise.

Because we have not filmed for a while we decided hat we would do a few preliminary exercises to get used to angles and the editing process again to create fluent and effective filming.

T.V static effect.

We will be using this t.v static effect for the beginning of the video,and at small sections between each different t.v theme.


EDIT: we may use this effect instead as the sound it comes with is alot more clear.

Actor Screen Test

After the success of the poster we created, we wanted to do an "audition". I used the word audition loosely as it was more to see if they looked right on camera and suited the band's music style and genre.

(this video never surfaced unfortunately)