Photos for the Front Cover

 

On the day we were out filming we decided that we would take advantage of having Leah and would do a small photoshoot. These photos would then be used for out ancillary products and we took roughly 200 pictures meaning that we would have a great variaty of different pictures to pick from when making our CD cover. Here are 12 ideas that we came up with that could potentially look good for our single cover for the CD "what better place than here". The front cover is important for the selling of the CD and what the album is like. You can see that the photos we have chosen show leah quite upset and quite serious which reflects in the song we have used, and you can also see that she is positioned in the environment that the video was set meaning they would link quite well.
Now we had the 12 potential covers we had to chose which was our favourite.

Film First Draft

Here is the first draft we made of our music video. We were very happy with how the filming went and all the footage we managed to get. We managed to use our storyboard for some of our key shots we needed. Once we had loaded all the footage onto the computer we edited this draft in imovie 09.
Once the draft was finally done we were really happy with the product we had made and knew that we had a good first draft that we would be able to work on. We published our draft on youtube and then started looking for more imporvements, asking people within our group about any changes they would make so that we could make a better version for our second draft using this audience feedback.
Here is the first draft:

First Filming

The day soon came at the end of October on the 25th we went out hoping to catch all the footage we would need for our actual music promo video. The weather was nice and sunny, but fairly cold meaning that the scene was set nicely and we would be able to spend time gettin the shots that we wanted.
We managed to get a large amount of filming done meaning we would easily be able to throw together our first draft of the video. At 11oclock on the day when our model turned up we started shooting. We were in the woods until roughly half two just constantly filming our character doing the different shots that we needed within the woods.
Now that we had these shots we had to get on with our editing...

Key Shots

We decided that in the time we had we would plan several key shots that we could potentially use. This was to give us a guidance on the day of just a few ideas that we could use. We will be adding a lot more shots when we go out and it will depend on the weather and the different locations we could use that could depend on what shots we use!

Just a few key shots we could use:

INTRO

Duration/  13 seconds

Description/ Camera pans around, various camera angles and shots. Just before end, Model enters. Rougghly 5 different shots.

Slugline/ Woods- Day

Camera Movement/Pan, Track, CU, LA , MS, LS

Figure Movement/ Shuffles feet through leaves.

Edits/ Cut edits.

Soundtrack/

-No Music at intro

-Diegetic sound of birds and running water.

-No Dialogue.

Shot 2

Duration/ 7 seconds

Description/ Leah moves feet through dried Autumn Leaves.

Slugline/ Woods - Day

Camera Movement/ HA Track along side feet.

Figure Movement/ Walking gently through leaves.

Edits/ Cut

Soundtrack/ "What better place than here - Chris Barratt"

Key shot

Duration/ 4 seconds

Description/  Bare feet in Water

Slugline/  River - Day

Camera Movement/  Fixed HA MCU on feet in water.

Figure Movement/ No movement.

Edits/  Cut

Soundtrack/  "What better place than here - Chris Barratt"

Key shot “You go your way and I'll go min”

Duration/ 4 seconds

Description/ Holding hands and then release with the lyrics.

Slugline/  Woods - Day

Camera Movement/  CU using selective focusing on hand.

Figure Movement/ Release grip after 2 seconds.

Edits/  Cut

Soundtrack/  "What better place than here - Chris Barratt"

Key shot “And what better time than now”

Duration/ 4 seconds

Description/  Pocket watch swinging around neck-

Slugline/  Woods - Day

Camera Movement/  MCU on chest

Figure Movement/ Walking

Edits/  Cut

Soundtrack/  "What better place than here - Chris Barratt"

Key shot

Duration/ 4 seconds

Description/ sat on chair on the other side of the river, facing the other way (enigma) Acoustice guitar propped up next to the chair.

Slugline/  Riverside - Day

Camera Movement/  LS fixed

Figure Movement/ Sat still, looking at pocket watch.

Edits/  Cut

Soundtrack/  "What better place than here - Chris Barratt"

Key shot

Duration/ 4 seconds

Description/ Umbrella dropped open upside down in the river and begins to drift down it.

Slugline/ Riverside - Day

Camera Movement/ Pan as the umbrella passes it then MS to LS as the umbrella gets further away

Figure Movement/ No figure

Edits/  Cut

Soundtrack/  "What better place than here - Chris Barratt"

Key shot

Duration/ 4 seconds

Description/ silhouette of Leah’s head

Slugline/ Woods - Day

Camera Movement/  No movement, MCU LA.

Figure Movement/ No movement

Edits/  CUt

Soundtrack/  "What better place than here - Chris Barratt"

Here we sketched out some ideas of the shots and how we wanted them to look;

 

Location

 When we made our first video we filmed a video just with nature shots in it. We decided that having the nature setting looked really effective and would be a great place to shot our actual video.

We first visited several locations that we thought could be good for the shoot but found that we thought the best place for it would be the place where we shot our preliminary task in Carrwood Woods in Bramhall which is just round the corner from my house.

 As it is Autumn time the leaves are turning golden and are falling off the trees, the atmosphere is quite cold and the woods are always empty, so when we visited to woods we knew it was the place we wanted to shoot and this would be the perfect location for the video. 

Here are a few images of the sorts of location we would be using

Our Character

Here is our character leah. Leah has been a best mate for many many years and we decided that she would be the perfect role for the part we needed. when we mentioned that we might need her for a model for our music video she was excited to get involved. This was very good for us as leah has had past modeling experiences meaning that we knew we could trust her and we knew she wouldnt be shy to do anything and wouldnt mess around. As you can see from the photo, Leah is a very pretty and photogenic girl meaning we would be getting some extra photo's of her to use for out ancilary products. You can also see that Leah dresses quite indie and the outfit she has is fairly vintage. This is good because it shows that she has the right fashion sence to match what we want on the video. We decided that we would let her chose her own outfit for the shoot, knowing she would dress in a vintage fashion, and this is what she wore. She came wearing a pair of high waisted jeans, converse allstar shoes, a cream jumper and a white blouse/cardigan, with a big fur jack and scalf. This is the perfect image we were looking for.