Problems

We have faced many problems and set back while trying to film the music video

First of all is organising ourself where we can meet up to film, plan and complete planning & research, this we difficult as all three of us have different times where we were free. However we eventually found a happy medium where we could all work together at the same time.

The weather has also had an affect on our filming because days when we wanted to meet up and film, buses weren't running and for some of us we were snowed in! The weather also stopped us filming in our original location for the band as it was first too wet and boggy to set up the equipment and then it was too icy & snowy. This however lead us to filming in the college studio which we now feel works and looks better then we planned.

Another set back we faced was organising the original band, H-Eyes, as again they all had busy schedules as well as attended different college. This eventually got worse when the band told us they'd split up and two of the band completely gave up on being part of our music video. We did manage to resolve this as a very good friend of ours, Ryan Townsend, was a member of the band and agreed to play all three roles of the band.

One big problem was finding a suitable time to film the music video as we found quite a few times Ryan was free to film and we weren't free or we were all free and able to film but the studio was booked out by other A level students who were also filming their music videos.

The latest set back we have faced has been equipment. We had planned on borrowing drums from the music department in college, however, due to lose of equipment by another pupil in college no one was allowed to borrow any musical instruments. This was now caused a major problem as getting Ryan's drums into college will prove extremely difficult as he lives over 10miles away. Although we are hoping organising my brother to collect the equipment before college for us the film during college. The date we want to finish off all the filming and get the stills we need is 16-12-10. This means we will have to put extra effort in Thursday night and work extremely hard on Friday in order to meet the deadline.

Digipak so far.

We are now in the process creating our Digipak. We all came up with rough sketches and layouts of the pack and then came together and made a collaborative decision on how it would look. The digipak background is going to all be black. This is because it fits with the colour scheme as it is mainly dark. For the front cover we have decided we are going to have the group logo/name and also a photo of ryan. For the back cover of the digipack with the track list etc we thought a picture of a discoloured eye would work well, it fit well with the colour scheme and also the type of the singer, as well as this the artist is called H-Eyes so this shows reference to that. For the inside sections of the digipak there will be multiple photos of ryan playing different instruments these will be still image photos that we have taken ourselves, we are going to be taking these and making them black and white as this would fit best with the black background. Our digipak is going to consist of six sides.

This is the template of how it will be.

The eye will look slightly similar to the picture below although we are not going to simply transfer this photo onto our digipack we are going to create it ourselves using brushes in photoshop and the colouring on the outside of the eye would be darker and black to blend in with the background.

Update of production

In our original plans we did want to film the band - now solo artist, in a field. However, we have now decided against this as we believe the lighting will not be as effective as in the studio with a green screen behind. It would also be extremely hard to get the equipment up to the location we had planned due to the weather over the last few days.

Today we began the filming of the band/solo artist in front of the green screen.We filmed Ryan playing the base guitar first using mainly extreme close ups of the guitar and some medium shots where appropriate. We also filmed the whole song with a close up on Ryan's face where he sang it all. In addition to this we got medium shots and long shots of him singing as well as playing the guitar.

New Plans...

As we are only going to have one person in our music video we have been thinking how we could keep the same concept of a band but with only one artist. We have decided to use the one musician to play the role of lead singer, base guitarist and the drummer. We will use final cut express to edit it and assemble the music video as we planned. In order to make this work and look affective we will be filming our musician in front of the green screen which will allow us to put a background behind him. We are also going to try and experiment and have all three three (drummer, base guitarist and lead guitarist/vocals) in one shot. In order to do this we will either reposition each shot so that it will fit together by layers the shots we have taken. Another was to have all three roles in one shot would be to use split screen with each one. The narrative is going to appear as planned with it linking to the lyrics of the song.

Beginning of production

Today we filmed all of the narritve for the music video in the location we wanted to use (Padiham public toilets). However, we did face a problem while filming in the public toilets as we were kicked out of the toilets because they were being closed. Although we still managed to get the shots we needed for our music video. Next we will bring the footage into college, upload what we managed to capture and then begin the start of our editing.

Change of plans....

 Due to the band 'H-Eyes' splitting up we have had to change our plans as its become near impossible to organise the three lads as each one of them have busy schedules. Therefore we have now decided that we will produce a solo artist. This has lead to us having to change some of the shots and the digipak. However, we don't feel this will change much as we can still create the same video just now with one person rather then three.

Storyboard

*During shots 4 & 5 there will be more then just them two shots. For example we will have some extreme longs shots of the band, side angle shots and low angle shots etc...

** During the narrative we will use lots of POV shots and Canted angle shots to try and create the effect of the character being high off heroin.