Track and Permission

"She Said No" by Saint Raymond 

Instrumental

And I see the sight screen

And it’s covering up the things that you like to do

And I heard

That you’re sick and that you’re tired of waiting around

She said no, she said no

So we’ll never get the chance, never get the chance

She said no, she said no

So we’ll never get the dance, never get the dance

And I see the sight screen

And it’s covering up the things that you like to do

And I heard

That you’ve found her up on us now

And I heard that you’re sick and that you’re tired of waiting around

She said no, she said no

So we’ll never get the chance, never get the chance

She said no, she said no

So we’ll never get this dance, never get the dance

She said no, she said no

So we’ll never get the chance, never get the chance

She said no, she said no, no, no, no

But I’ll come back

But I’ll come back

But I’ll come back

But I’ll come back

She said no, she said no

So we’ll never get the chance, never get the chance

She said no, she said no

So we’ll never get the dance never get the dance

She said no, she said no

So we’ll never get the chance, never get the chance

She said no, she said no, no, no, no

Instrumental 

Here is a video of the track we are going to use (the track starts at 5:40)

We got permission of Saint raymond to use their track "She Said No" for our music video Above is a picture of the message recieved from Callum Burrows on behalf of Elliot Labbate stating that we have permission to use the song. They will also be in the video.

Mock up of digipak cover

This is my designs for Saint Raymond's digipack both inside and outside, I have tried to incorporate Saint Raymond's already designed logo whilst adding photography in which I will capture.

this first image will be the cover of the digipack 

this is the mock up of the inside of the digipack I have designed it with more photography included whilst added little elements of the logo design for example within the stems.

Mock up of magazine advert

This my design for Saint Raymond's magazine advert, researching magazine covers I noticed I like the simple but artistic ones which would have a simple layout but have a image perhaps edited and have a variety of colour for text. For my magazine I have gone down this route.

Shooting schedule

This shooting schedule is to allow myself and Daisy know exactly what we have to be doing on days of filming. We have decided to film on both weekdays and weekends as we wish to use locations inside of school which will need to be open and locations outside of school that are easy to use without supervision.

Monday 19^th September- on this filming session we wish to get the all of music studio shots as we will be filming after school for this we will be needing full access to the music studio. Myself and daisy will set up the studio before the band arrives which will make filming easier as we can start straight away. If we complete all the required shots we want for this will shall move to the outside locations such as the walls and the fields and shoot these.

Sunday 25^th September- on this filming session we will complete any shots we weren’t able to get around the outdoor locations in college. We will also walk down into Stapleford and get the required shots outside the factories. For this day we will have to ensure the camera is full charged as there will not be an easy way of recharging it without leaving the location.

Further dates will be confirmed if certain shots are not completed.

Camera angle positions for performance video

For my music video I want to use a variety of locations majority of these are outside in areas such as fields, in front of factories, interesting walls (textures, age, style, brick) and along stapleford high street. My other location is within a music studio at my college. For all these locations there are many ways in which my group can film we have discussed various camera angle and positions;

We are really interested creating a mirrored shot similar to one in Florence & the machine’s “what the water gave me” as there is a lengthy instrumental section at the beginning of the track I think this will make a very artist looking starting point to the beginning of our video which will make audiences want to watch it again.

We are always interested in overlays in which one artist has a close up of them singing with the guitar underneath the image. Both these types of shots will have to be edited to make, this will be done with Adobe when in the editing stage of the video.

Other more familiar shots we wish to include are;

• Long shots
• Two shot
• Close up and extreme close up
• Over the shoulder shots
• Jump cuts
• Mid shots
• High angled
• Low angled
• Panning

This is a plan for the layout of both angles we wish to shoot from in the music studio. The lighting with be artificial roof lights we will set the white blance before shooting to set the colour.

Not only do we wish to have a variety of shots and angles to make the piece interesting and individual we want to look at the possibility of changing the contrast and brightness scale on some scenes, we are also interested in looking at black and white to some sections.  

Video locations and permissions

My video is going to have a variety of different locations both inside and outside i have chosen a combination of indoor and outdoor locations to make my video look varied which also connects with the track and artists genre (indie). The locations I am considering are:

• Stapleford high street 

• George Spencer college's large field 

• George Spencer school's music studio 

• Various walls within George Spencer school and sixth form 

• Bailey street, Stapleford has various factory buildings

Out of all these locations i will need to ask three for permission to be able to film on there premisses, these include Stapleford high street, Bailey street and the music studio at our school and sixth form. If we are unable to film in these three locations i have various other locations in which we will be able to film in. Such as if we are unable to film in the schools music studio the sixth form has it's radio station studio which is a lot smaller however it is a back up plan.

Risk assessment

There comes various risks when it comes to filming a music video and as a director I have to take these into consideration. The following table is showing the certain risks that are possible to accrue and how I intend to prevent them.

Risk	What may happen	How to prevent it
Breaking the camera	-    Dropping the camera we have borrowed from college is a possible risk. -    Tripping over any wires coming from the camera.	-    To prevent from dropping the camera I will take extra care when handling it and I will make sure I use the handle when carrying the camera from the bag to the tripod. -    To ensure no one trips over wires I will make sure people are aware of cables and keep them as visible yet secure as possible
Breaking the tripod	-    As well as the camera I am borrowing a tripod therefore I will need to take care of this. Ways in which this could be broken include one of its legs being snapped or dropping it.	-  I will prevent this from        happening by only        allowing myself and        daisy handle the        equipment with care as        we both know how to        use it.
Health and safety of cast and crew overall	-    As we are filming in various locations I need to check for hazards such as cars, roads and weather conditions.	-    I can’t prevent any of these hazards however I will make sure we check around our area in these sort of locations before we being to film also making sure they are looked after and comfortable with their surroundings
Health and safety of cast and crew in music studio	-    Cast or crew member may trip over wires that are within the music studio	-    To prevent this I will ensure all cables are as out of the way as possible, this will prevent the occurrence or a trip.
Weather	-    Dangerous weather conditions can harm both cast and crew as well as camera equipment.	-    I cannot prevent the weather, however if I can see it’s becoming dangerous to continue filming I will rescheduled for another day.

Props preparation

There will be a variety of props used within my music video these include;

The artist’s instruments, Saint Raymond only use guitars and I have decided to show this within the music video through different shots such as close ups of both Callum and Elliot playing them, long shots of them holding the instruments etc. Having the guitars in the video is highly important as they create authenticity within the video. They are what make the band appear like they are performing the song. 

A location I wish to use is a music studio therefore other props will include music studio equipment such as microphones, track table, amps, twitch controller, headphones and various other equipment you would tend to find in a recording studio. This will be easy to obtain as our college has a recording studio on the premises with various versions of the equipment listed above. 

Costume planning

There are going to be two males in our music video. We have taken into consideration the genre of music and as we are using the actual artists of the song in the video we have also though about there usual styles to come up with suitable costumes. 

For Callum We have decide to dress him in skinny jeans, a flat peak hat, checkered shirt, a coat and vans: 

elliot will be wearing skinny jeans with a band/ statement T-shirt, a hoddie and a pair of converse/ trainers: 

 

Actor/performer decisions

For our music video we have chosen to use the artists who have made the track we have decided to use. We have chosen to go down the performer route rather than an actor route as "Saint Raymond" (the band) have had experience in performing for and in front of people. It also seemed a suitable option as it will not only give us a video for our coursework but it will help the band promote some of it's music and get more well known by target audiences. 

This is Callum Burrows he is the lead singer within Saint Raymond he also plays the guitar.

This is Elliot Labbate he sings back ups in the band and also plays bass guitar.

 

Storyboard

This is our story for our music video

Treatment

Treatment on Prezi

Daisy completed this Prezi however I had imput into what was written down.

Brainstorming

Preliminary Task- Britney Spears

Research and planning

Task outline and real video

For our prelim task we had to perform a short 1 minute 19 seconds sequence of the Britney Spears music video “hit me baby one more time” each pupil in the class had to impersonate Britney and carry out some miming, dancing, directing and editing. The task involved us to work as group to create a final product that looked professional and resembled the real “hit me baby one more time” video. The real video consisted of Britney dancing within a school environment (classrooms and hallways), there were a number of extras within the part of the sequence we were filming this worked well for us as we have a large class. The first 1minute and 19seconds held around 62 different shots all from close ups, mid shots, long shots, high angle and low angle.

Planning

To plan for our prelim task we started of by looking at the video and thinking about and mind mapping locations we could us within the school grounds, specific areas that we definitely wanted to us was a classroom with windows as this was one of the first shots in the video. Another location we definitely needed was a long and spacious corridor to allow us to dance and move around. We also thought it was a good requirement to find a corridor with lockers. Once we looked at this we discussed and wrote down what costume we needed to create the right effect, for girls black skirt, shirt, and black knee high socks and for boy’s only trousers and a shirt was required. After this the class split up in two, one group went and looked at the video and copied all of the shots down to allow us to distribute certain shots to people and to know the amount of shot we need and what types. The other half of the group watched the video on a big screen and learnt the dance moves within certain shots to be able to teach it back to the rest of the class.

Filming

Filming our prelim task consisted over several days mounting up to 4 ½ hours we started of slow with creating the correcting lighting and ambience, however once we started filming a couple of shots we soon got into it. We decide to go through the shots logically as well as we could due to the fact there were a lot of cuts. On the first day we filmed the classroom shots and a couple of the corridor shots, this was easy and looked really professional. On the second day we moved to a new location for the start of the dancing shots, on the third day however we continued to shoot some of dancing pieces but not everyone was prepared for this as some people didn’t have costume which cause some parts of the piece look unprofessional. For half of the fourth day we filmed small shots such as the clock and the bell, some close up against the lockers and shot of the boys “dancing” and “spinning” out of the doors. After this we had finished all the filming we need to, we were now able to proceed onto editing.

Editing

For the editing process we split the sequence into four sections we all paired up and took charge of a 20 second section and edited that to match the real Britney spears video. I was paired with zoran and we were given the 21-40 piece section, this consisted of mainly dancing and a couple of locker shots. The editing process was hard at first because we didn’t delete shots that weren’t good on the camera before we uploaded them; this meant we had to go through all the shots we had collected to find the correct pieces for our segment.

Final product

This is our final product.

 

My contribution

Hours of contribution

I contributed during the whole process of planning and filming giving opinions on what would be the best options to choose and looking at the angles from which the real video takes and applying them to our project.

Which sections you filmed (upload)

I filmed parts of the close up towards the end of the sequence in which Sophie appears in.

Which sections you lip-synched (upload)

I contributed with lip-synching towards the end of the sequence which started from 1:13 and ended at 1:17 not only did I contribute with singing I also did a section of dancing.

Which sections you edited (upload)

I edited from 21 up 30 to this took a while due to the amount of shots we had on different dates; I had to go through all of them to find the correct shots for my section. When I had finished my part of the editing zoran took over the last 10 seconds to finish our whole 20seconds piece. 

Evaluation
            

Our prelim wasn’t very professional looking due to the dancers and llip-synching, we didn’t have enough time to get dance moves completely perfect and the group members were very self-conscious of singing in front of others. Another factor of why our prelim task wasn’t as professional as it could have been was due to some members not wearing the correct costume this made particular past of the video look very unprofessional and “tacky”. As a group we didn’t have very good time management skills, this was a problem as we were working to a tight time schedule as we only had the camera and lighting for a certain amount of time. We shot the main shots with the lighting man  and started editing them together but we some members had to shoot some small singular shots which put the prelim task down further. I have learnt that there is a lot more planning to a music video then I originally expected, you have to know each shot keep organized when creating a video otherwise it becomes very stressful, when it comes to creating my own music video I will make sure I am organized and know types of shots I aim to film this will make it easier for me and less stressful. I did find the task very useful to do before starting straight away with our own music video, as know I am aware of certain aspects that make a music video unprofessional and the requirements that are needed to create a professional looking music video.