14/10/14

Production Title: Pop State of Mind 2014 Director: Alex Elliot			Sequence/Scene Name: Sequence Designer:
Shot No	Length  of Shot (seconds/beats)	Visuals (including explanation of action, setting, shot type, angle camera movement, lighting, spec fx , transition)		Corresponding Music/Lyrics
1	0:06-0:07	Close of up face singing (Miley Cyrus, Wrecking Ball)		“We clawed”
2	0:14-0:16	Close of up face singing (Miley Cyrus, Wrecking Ball)		“We changed”
3	0:21-0:22	Macklemore, standing in the middle of shot, jumping up shaking large jacket		N/A
4	0:30-0:31	Close up on side shot – left hand side of face (Robin Thicke)		“Baby I’m going”
5	0:35-0:36	Low angle shot of Will.i.am		“rock, rock and roll”
6	0:37-0:37	Low angle shot of Will.i.am		“Beat so let’s hit the floor”
7	0:42-0:44	Shot of Miley Cyrus applying lip balm in the reflection of a mirror		N/A
8	0:47-0:48	Shot of Macklemore on the beach		N/A
9	0:52-0:54	Taylor swift in the desert		“Yeah”
10	0:58-0:59	Taylor swift shot in mirror		“Yeah
11	0:15-0:17	Robin Thicke standing in the bacground of Parrells shot (Liv)		N/A
12	0:17-0:18	Robin thicke, mid shot standing next to girl (Portia)		“I know you want it”
13	1:22-1:23	Miley Cyrus with doll		N/A
14	1:26-1:27	Shot of Alex & Liv singing		“I could lift you up”
15	1:32-1:34	Macklemore standing		N/A
16	1:26-1:37	Sitting on chair Miley Cyrus		“This is out house”
17	1:38-1:39	Sitting on chair Miley Cyrus		“this is our roof”
18	1:40-1:41	Taylor Swift smiling		N/A
19	1:44-1:55	Miley Cyrus walking with hammer		N/A
20	2:06-2:08	Taylor Swift Singing close up of camera		“Oh yeah”
21	2:22-2:23	Shot of Alex & Liv singing		“Don’t you worry, don’t you worry now”
22	2:30-2:32	Close up of side shot of Taylor Swift		“It’s a shame on me now”
23	2:38-2:39	Walking shot of taylor swift		N/A
24	2:43-2:44	Walking Shot of Taylor swift		N/A
25	2:55-2:56	Zooming shot – Maclemore lady		“Only got $20”
22	2:57-2:59	Close up of side shot of Taylor Swift		“22”
24	2:59-3:00	Walking Shot of Taylor swift		N/A

13/10/14

MUSIC VIDEO CLIP TREATMENT
Names of group members	Olivia, Tilly, Portia
Song selected	Pop State of Mind 2014
Type of clip (Highlight your choice/s) performance / narrative / collage Concept for clip Explain what narrative/images the clip will contain	We are making a performance video and in the video we will be mimicking music videos but also adding a visual message e.g. same dance moves or a something that is repetitive in all of the different music videos. The song that we have chosen is a mashup of 40 songs and we have all been assigned different characters which we will research and find exactly what shots we want to use from their different music videos.
Message What message will your clip contain or what is its purpose? Style What look and feel will your clip have?	The type of clip is performance and those type of music videos don’t always have a particular message but our message will be told visually. The clip is supposed to fun so it is supposed to be obvious that we are mimicking the videos but also look like a good video not just a joke.
Technical codes Explain the ideas you have about camera work, transition devices, lighting, special effects, framing and composition	We are going to be using the green screen for majority of our video so we will need to be using lighting a lot as well as photoshop, istop motion and animationish because we want to use all of the skills we have gathered over the past 2 years!
Audio codes What is the song about and how do the lyrics relate to the visuals you have selected? Will you be adding an additional sound?	The lyrics make sense but I wouldn’t say they’re a as crucial part in the video because they’re a mash up so there is no way they would be able to tell a clear message. We won’t be adding additional sound.
Pace What sort of pace does your song have and how will this be reflected and created in your clip? Written codes If you are using any written codes, what text will you use? What is its significance? Symbolic codes Will there be any symbols in your clip and what will they be? Will you repeat any images or use a motif? How will the symbolism you have used contribute to the message of your clip?	The song’s past is very fast and the video will be similar so we will be using a lot of fast shots. We will not be using any written codes. We will be using repetitive dance moves and certain angles throughout the film so they will repeat throughout the film and this will one of the visual messages. These will just help with the flow of the film.
Key elements of mise-en-scene to be used Explain the settings needed and outline key props and costumes needed	We will need to use lighting, a lot of costumes as there are so many different people we need to be throughout this video and we need to make it obvious who we are, this will also be shown through how well the acting is.
Appeal What things in your clip do you think will appeal to a youth audience?	I believe that the mashup and how things are always changing and you don’t know what’s coming because no one would know what song is coming next. I think that will keep everyone interested in the video!

13/10/14

My whole group has found all the props that we need to make our video,hopefully we can start soon because editing is a large part of our music video so i think we should be aiming to be finishing by the end of week 3 and spending a whole weekend editing our own scenes that we are in and then add them all together because if one person just does it we will waste a lot of time and not have enough time to finish.

Lady Gaga - Liv

We had a practice with the lady gaga paint on liv as she will be playing Lady Gaga is the music video so we tested this out so we know what to do when we film her part so we will probably do this in a lesson that we have media after morning tea so that we can paint in then so we don't waste lesson time. This was just a practice so the real one will look much better!

Storyboards

These are the shots I will be doing but these are just rough storyboards as there will be several more and in more detail!

10/10/14

In today's lesson we decided on exactly what song we were going to do and we decided to go with pop state of mind: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvxuh-olcz0, which is a mashup of 40 different songs! We are going to mimic the music videos of the songs, this is a hard task but we really want to try and do it. We need to visually link each shot together which could potentially be an challenge but we will be able to do it probably through dance moves, actions or panning of the camera. In the video I am Miley Cyrus, Macklemore, Robin Thicke, Will.i.am, Taylor Swift, Capital Cities and a lady out of the thrift shop music video. We have all organised what props we will need to bring for next week so I will need to bring the following:

-     - red lipstick, blush

-       white singlet

-       white pants

-       earings

-       eyeliner (top lid)

-       boots

necklace x 2

-black singlet

-black pants

-white shirt

-long jacket

-black shirt

-black shoes

-stripped jacket

-leather jacket

-large glasses

-grey shirt

-tye

-blue shirt

-blazer

-dress

-ring

I'm worried that we will not have enough time to complete the task but we will just have to use all of class time we are provided with and really use after school times!! I hope the music video looks great at the end.

Evaluation

My film noir film that I made named The Mystery Letter is about a letter that a man name Bill receives that states “I know you’re cheating on your wife”, essentially his wife finds the letter and attempts to kill him but this fails. He later finds another letter that has identical handwriting and he discovers that the letter is actually sent from his administrator and before he writes to his friend his wife kills him with a clock. I am happy with the final result of the film even though there was several struggles along the way, I am happy with how it has turned out but I believe I could have done much better. The editing took less time than I expected because I have used final cut pro before so I didn’t need to learn how to use it so this saved me time and also I have the program on my own laptop so this gave me more time to edit my film compared to other girls in the class who had to use as much class time as they could and also hire laptops, this helped as I wasn’t stressed about finishing my editing on time and I could go at a steady pace. The only thing I would like to change out my film is the ending scene as I believe that we could have taken one more possible shot to make it more realistic but I don’t mind the two fast shots that were used to make the clock look as if it was hitting the man’s head. If I could start the project again I probably would have changed the story line as I feel our storyline is only the way it is because of the troubles we experienced along the way. This film wasn’t done to the best of my ability so that’s disappointing so I just hope this doesn’t dramatically affect my grade. This film was nothing like the original plan, our first plan was a lot better than this one but it has turned out the way I pictured it when we started our second film. I feel that the film is film noir and there are elements such as the flashback and the harsh shadows that depict this but this could have been done more so. I had majority of the shots to complete my film but again the last shot of the clock could’ve been done better with another shot from the man’s perspective of the clock coming in just to make it more realistic but other than that I am happy with the shots as there is a variety. We reshot a few shots that’s why our rough edit is a lot different to my completed film because we had to take more shots to make the storyline more visible and more interesting otherwise it would have been a quite boring 4 minutes. The group was initially going to work effectively but due Ellythea going on exchange with no notice and Mikayla and Serena being sick at different times made the project extremely hard as we missed out on a lot of lessons so this meant that a few afternoons were needed to make sure we didn’t fall behind even though we did a little bit. I used Final Cut Pro well as I sorted all the shots into different folders by scenes and this helped as it made the process a lot quicker instead of searching through the entire library for each shot. I didn’t experience many technical difficulties; the only difficulties I experienced were with group members, which was frustrating, as I had no control over that. I used storyboards and shot lists in the postproduction and this helped, as we knew exactly what we had to do when filming so that we didn’t waste any more time than we already did. The rough edit helped me a lot because I knew were I could improve the film and make it more interesting and this also told me where I needed to re shoot shots because you could see that they just didn’t work or didn’t look right. I could’ve have used the EDL and sound template a lot better but I found that my soundtrack and film was fine without it, I would rather make the film without the plan just because if one shot didn’t work I could change it or delete it. The only time management skills we struggled with were members being away sick, which wasted valuable time, but we eventually caught up so in the end this wasn’t a major issue. My blog was updated after every lesson in the last couple of weeks so this means I had 3 blog posts a week but they could’ve been more detailed and I could've done more posts earlier on in the task and that is what I will do next time but hopefully they are good enough for a good grade! I did enjoy this task but I am extremely excited for next terms work on music videos!