Monday, 28 January 2019

Sample scene 3: Narrative

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What went well:
  • We were quick and efficient with shooting 

Things to improve:
  • Directing the cast to be more natural 
  • Cinematography needs to be less shaky 
  • Shoot for longer periods to avoid awkward cuts 
  • Have a less linear narrative
  • Look for natural shapes for potential layering 
  • Look at shots with a more critical eye 

Reflection:

  • We will probably change narrative to be less linear 
  • Learnt from mistakes and hopefully prepare better for the next shoot
  • Need to have camera rolling to get the more natural shots 

Monday, 21 January 2019

Tuesday Shoot notes


  • Car headlights to light up from behind
  • quirky costume for new location
    • formal on top
    • casual on bottom (shorts plus waste coat)
    • Hugo
      • Metal shirt
      • eyeliner
      • tattoo sleeve 
      • black fake nails
      • red braces
      • tight black jeans
      • same as before
    • Simon
      • top hat 
      • white buttoned shirt 
      • bow tie (untied)
      • suit trousers
      • dress shoes
      • facepaint 
  • split screen slow-mo Interpol slow hands
  • raining on simon slow mo 
  • Jump cut hugo while simon is singing normally 
    • Static camera and film separate then layer over
  • Paint on wall by abandoned building

Wednesday, 16 January 2019

INDUSTRY: Welshly Arms Record Label

Position Music

Website
Based in LA in 1999.  "We are an independent publisher, record label and management firm, redefining what it means to be a music company." This means that they not only produce the music they also publish and distribute their artists' music. They have many licensed songs. One of their more popular songs for TV is 2WEI's cover of Britney Spears' Toxic which has been used for numerous instances eg. Dancing with the Stars, America's got Talent and a Trailer for the second season of Riviera.
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On their website you can see when any of their songs have been used in TV, Film, Video Games and adverts.

In their contact page they link their social media and Spotify, Youtube and Soundcloud
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This is their Instagram, as you can see they only have 1,230 followers so they are quite obscure
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This is their Facebook, here they have a slightly larger audience with 7,739 likes on their page.
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This is their twitter. 4,066 followers and a total of 1,486 likes

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Here is their youtube channel, they only really post audio's of songs. Then all music videos are on the Artists' channel.
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As you can see in total no more than 10,000 people like or follow this record label. If we compare this to one of the big 3 we can just see how obscure this record company really is. Next you'll see screenshots from Universal, one of the big 3

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We can see here that Universal have 215k more followers than Position Music
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Their twitter has 525k followers.

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Facebook has 552k likes

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And their YouTube is similar to the Position Music's in the way that they don't upload a lot but promote their artists videos.

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In conclusion by comparing this "Big 3" conglomerate with the smaller indie label you can see not only the difference in size but also marketing possibilities. Being signed to a big label gives you many advantages such as: simple connections to other artists working within the same label or a subsidiary of the label, increased benefits and funding (aka payments) and an increased amount of opportunities for exposure from a larger audience. Currently, social media carry almost all power when it comes to advertisement for target audiences and having a large audience on social media is such an advantage, and right now Position Music is at a very large disadvantage by having so few followers/likes/subscribers.

Tuesday, 15 January 2019

PODCAST 7: Improvements to music video

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Film larger range of takes on performance re shoot

  • 30-40 shots per person
  • 2 shots, close ups, dutch angles , low angle, etc
Put variety on where the band is located
  • Put singer up against pillar
  • Have shots with band spread out around area
  • Abstract framing
Make 5 piece
  • Put a new cast member on guitar
  • Maybe change the cast on drums
  • Guitar player will move around 
  • Bass player will also walk around to rhythm
  • Singer and guitarist interact at times 

PODCAST 6: Narrative reflection 2

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What we did and what to improve:
  • We did house an Christmas market scene
  • Filmed the couple in past and present time
  • Need more shot variety to work with
  • The acting needs to be more naturalistic 
  • We need to have a less linear idea

Idea update due to Audience feedback
  • Have a funeral of some sorts
    • Brings in more dark and sinister tone to fit music
  • Have less linear scenes 
  • More use of narrative enigma 
  • Have band come into scene or busking 

PODCAST 5: Narrative shoot reflection

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Shooting this weekend – Sunday 9th: 
Baking Cuddling Bedroom Eating Coverage 

How we have planned for it: 
  • Call sheets 
  • Shot lists 
  • Storyboard
Props we need:
  • Ingredients for baking: 
    • Egg  
    • Milk 
    • Sugar 
    • Etc. 
Costumes 
  • 2 sets of costumes for each actor

Monday, 7 January 2019

CS, JC Directing the singer

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Above is a video clip showing the progression of directing and how it is reflected in the performance of the singer.

Podcast 5: Reflecting on shoots

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What we did and what to improve:

  • We did house an Christmas market scene
  • Filmed the couple in past and present time
  • Need more shot variety to work with
  • The acting needs to be more naturalistic 
  • We need to have a less linear idea

Idea update due to Audience feedback

  • Have a funeral of some sorts
    • Brings in more dark and sinister tone to fit music
  • Have less linear scenes 
  • More use of narrative enigma 
  • Have band come into scene or busking 

Audience Questionnaire

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Above is the video we created for the questionnaire and below is the online form we created alongside the video
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https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeIGl64m213dhGc6sJH7kMZK5rzvFHByMsEBr4Huh5dqZ6nsg/viewform