Filming Diary

First Day of Filming, Sunday 10th October
I will display the pictures and comments of our process of our first day of filming on fickr.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/55668688@N06/

Monday 25th October
In our original storyboards (shots 22-25) we would fulfill our "guy gets the girl" concept with a twist by him winning her over with a space hopper, however this particular prop was not accessible to us so we had to think of an alternative to complete our concept.
We came up with the idea of using candles spelling out some of the lyrics as this would continue our theme of lyrics being incorporated into the music video. However we didn't have enough candles to spell words so we settled on a question mark which provokes the audience to engage more with what he could be asking, in turn thinking about the lyrics without actually reading them.
The idea we had was the guy would ring the doorbell at night and the girl would look open the door to find him waiting with a question mark displayed on the floor. We liked the idea of the light of the candles standing out against the darkness. However when we came to film this, it was raining outside and we couldn't think how we could compromise by making the scene inside, as it wouldn't make sense. We decided to re-film this scene another day when it was dryer outside, therefore leaving us with a more successful image.

Thursday 28th October
Today was alot more successful in terms of the weather and the overall mise-en-scene. The rain had subsided and we were able to get more effective light positioning. We decided these shots fit in well with our concept and will therefore replace shots 22-24, which will change on our final storyboard.

Last day of filming, Sunday 31st October
Today we managed to get all of our performance shots filmed for our music video. These shots will appear as an introduction to the music video and willl also be cut to back and forth in the chorus and between scenes.

Shooting Schedule

Sunday 10th October - Majority of filming completed

• 12pm-3pm - all scenes of girl rejecting guy
• 3pm-6pm - all scenes of happiness between girl and guy
• 6pm - 7pm - general shots, eg lyrics written on posters, shots of clown etc
• 7pm - sunset shot

Sunday 25th October - Performance shots and other night-time scenes

• 8pm-9pm - performance shots
  
• 9pm-10pm - "guy gets the girl" shots
  

Final Storyboards

Audience Feedback from Film Pitches

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Positive feedback from our audience:



Even better if...



These words clouds were created using wordle.com

We recieved a huge amount of positive feedback from our target audience, which made us confident our ideas would be well recieved by other members of our target audience and would fit well with our chosen artists music. However, the ideas on how we could improve our production from our target audience were also very helpful, for example many mentioned colouristaion to help reflect the mood of the characters in our music video. One person suggested over exposing the final shots to emphasize that sunny, happy feeling. Another suggested a more diverse range of camera shots, and upon examining our draft storyboards we've seen that more diversity in this area would greatly benefit our music video.

Music Video Pitch

In this video me and my friend are pitching our ideas for our music video to our teacher and other students in our class. After the pitch we recieved feedback from everyone that i will upload onto my blog, where they comment on what they liked and what they thought could be improved.

Lyrics Annotated With Ideas

Two Door Cinema Club – Something Good Can Work

• Our interpretation of the song is that it's being sung in a motivational way towards a girl as she wants to make something of herself
• We are going to create a twist on this interpretation so a guy is trying to to motivate the girl to make something of herself with him.

Our ideas that match the lyrica are written in bold.

Mostly narrative idea, some performance shots incorporated to enhance visual excitement for the viewer.
There's a spanner in the works you know,
you gotta step up your game to make to the top.
So go!
Gotta little competition now, - idea: 2 guys in 2 different cars (one better) main girl gets in other guys car (not main character) medium shot from back of the car ans girl gets in the better car and main guy behind reverses away
you're going to find it hard to cope with living on your own now.
Uh oh! – Split screen – one of girl and one of guy – fades into chorus
Uh oh!

Let's make this happen, girl you gonna show the world that something good can work and it can work for you. – General idea of the guy trying to make the girl happy
And you know that it will.
Let's get this started girl, we're moving up we're moving up It's been a lot to change but you will always get what you want.
Took a little time to make it a little better,
it's only going out, just one thing and another,
you know! – Webcam shots of guy singing lyrics to girl, split screen of rejection?
You know!

Took a little time to make it a little better, it's only going out, just one thing and another,
you know!
You know!

Let's make this happen, girl you gonna show the world that something good can work and it can work for you. – Rapid costume change, pace of cuts follow music
And you know that it will.
Let's get this started girl, we're moving up we're moving up but It's been a lot to change but you will always get what you want.

Instrumental – guy gets cake in face, stop frame animation of his reaction shot happening.

Let's make this happen, girl you gonna show the world that something good can work and it can work for you.
And you know that it will. – Close-up of guy’s face winking
Let's get this started girl, we're moving up we're moving up but It's been a lot to change but you will always get what you want.

Let's make this happen, girl you gonna show the world that something good can work and it can work for you.
And you know that it will.
High angle shot of couple hugging with stop motion heart being drawn around them
Let's get this started girl, we're moving up we're moving up but It’s been a lot to change but you will always get what you want

Location Ideas

These are a few pictures we took as locations for some of our shots. We chose the general location of our local village in particular as it's easily accessible to us and fits in well with our production idea. When taking these pictures we had trouble with lighting and the overall mise-en-scene as it was raining and the ground was wet, but we plan to film on a brighter, more cheerful day to reflect our idea for the music video. The link directs you to a photostream on flickr with comments i made of the location selections.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/57920293@N02/?saved=1

First Draft of Storyboards

Draft of Storyboard Ideas

We have written a plan for every shot of our music video and what we plan to use in each shot.

Shot 1: Close up shot of guy playing guitar during very first notes of intro with artist name, title of the song, record label and directors and producers.
Shot 2: Close up shot of drums as they enter the track.
Shot 3:Shot of main character's face as he changes reaction, cut using stop motion in time to the beat.
Shot 4: Idea of point of view shot of from the girl as she walks to location.
Shot 5: over the shoulder shot from behind guy as he walks behind her "something good can work" written on the floor in the gap between them.
Shot 6: Medium shot of girl with friends at a park location.
Shot 7: Idea of two guys driving up to her
Shot 8: Her view of the guy, possible over the shoulder shot?
Shot 9: He thinks she's looking at him - reaction shot
Shot 10: She gets in the other guy's car
Shot 11: Close-up of his sad reaction
Shot 12: Medium shot of couple in car, see guy reversing away from the rear window.
Roughly 40 second intro goes into verse
Shot 13: Medium shot from behind couple in car showing them talking and happy
Shot 14: Medium shot from behind main character in bathroom, lip syncing the lyrics, checking armpits.
Shot 15: extreme close up of flowers. zooms out to see his face as he's holding them.
Shot 16: Girl comes up receives flowers and smiles
Shot 17: Side angle medium shot of guy walking looking happy, then sees flowers in bin
Shot 18: Close up shot of him looking sad, sad clown comes up next to him through a panning shot, gives guy a balloon with a heart on it as panning shot continues to follow balloon as he lets it go.
Shot 19: Webcam view of guy singing lyrics ( voyeurism)
Shot 20; Split screen of her rejecting him on the computer and him reacting
More performance shots?
Shot 21; Stop motion of him in 4 different shots in 4 outfits, then fast cut montage of all 4.
Shot 22: medium close-up, she sees his outfit and likes it.
Shot 23: he has a cake in his hand with lyrics on it, camera follows cake as he walks
Shot 24; Shot of her accepting cake and then pushing in his face, stop motion as cake gets closer to his face and his reaction changes.
Shot 25: close up of guy sad with cake on his face, pan out and clown comforts him
Shot 26: medium shot of guy walking then noticing space hopper sign in shop window
Shot 27: wide shot, he brings her space hopper and she's happy
Shot 28: close up of his face as he winks
Shot 29: shot of girl in trolley as guy spins her and camera follows.
General sense of movie happiness - using intertextuality of black and white shots
Shot 30: establishing shot of couple in the tree and nice objects in tree
More general shots of girl and guy happy together
Shot 31: Overhead shot of them hugging as stop motion heart gets drawn around them.
Shot 32: Medium shot of them looking at each other - zoom out to see them on space hoppers.
Shot 33: Shot from behind as they bounce off into sunset and fades to black.

Target Audience Research

To create a successful music video for my artist i need to know who im aiming the music video at, so they will enjoy what they see thus wanting to watch it more. Two Door Cinema Club falls under the indie genre for music, meaning the target audience for this genre will be mainly teenagers and young adults, both male and female. This would also mean most people of the target audience would be in education of some sort or just entering employment, and falling under this audience myself i feel i have a good idea as to what others in the target audience would want from a music video.
Being a young target audience, i feel they would look for something fun and exciting in a music video, with an element of humour so not to take things too seriously within the content. I also believe, as this target audience is on the brink of adulthood, they would enjoy watching a music video with things like wild parties and crazy romances, things that intertwine adulthood with teenage life.

Why We Chose Our Artist

Two Door cinema Club performing at Reading Festival 2010

For our music video production task we chose Two Door Cinema Club as our artist. After scouring the "unsigned artists" pages on websites like Myspace, we didn't find anything that appealed to us. We then thought back to our times at music festivals we'd attended previously in the year and admired the vibe the artists created and the excitement it generated within the audience. One of our favourite bands from Reading Festival 2010 were Two Door Cinema Club; the eclectic atmosphere they created really got the crowd going and we thought we could mimick their enthusiasm into a music video of our own creation.

Song Use Confirmation

Ive print screened the e-mail we sent the management of Two Door Cinema club asking permission for the use of the song "something good can work" for our music video and the reply they sent us back.
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