GROUP 43 - Music Video 2008/9

Key Frames

2008-11-14T05:37:00.001-08:00

This was our last shot of the video. Because the song was quite soft, we thought a soft ending was much more appropriate.

This is the second to last shot, and we thought this would be necessary, as it provides an explanation to the video's narrative.

This shot is where Laura discovers the bears heads. It shows the bears aren't an imagination, to her, since she has no interaction with her through the whole video.

This shot is one of the transitions from one place to another. We think this shot has good framing.

This was one of the more memorable shots. Previously, Chris P in the back bear suit ran behind a bus, and appeared, as if from nowhere, and started dancing. Whilst we liked it, it is in direct contrast to the songs feel at this point.

This was one of the beginning shots from the video. This got a few laughs at the Arts Picturehouse.

2008-11-14T05:34:00.000-08:00

HERE IS OUR MUSIC VIDEO WHOOP WHOOP :D :D :D

Feedback from the Picturehouse

2008-11-14T04:40:00.000-08:00

Our video got quite good feedback from the audience at the Picturehouse. We got some laughs when they first saw the bears, and saw them in places around town. We then got a largish cheer and claps at the end of the video.

WICKED!!!!!

What we missed

2008-11-10T02:09:00.000-08:00

Group 44 used more technical stoof, for example the shot of Scott walking forwards and everyone walking backwards. They also related there video more with the lyrics, for example it mentions rain and its raining :O

Group 45
They used a lot of animation stoof, for example there are lots of drawings incorporated in the video. like group 44 they also referred lyrics to the video- stair shot.

Group 46
Used other peoples expressions and reactions for comedy effect.

Feed back

2008-11-10T02:08:00.000-08:00

Good,

Good shots + locations (big tree on Christs Piece)
The part where the door is opened straight to the forest.
Old time effect on the footage!
Lip syncing.
Well paced.

Bad,

Repetitive.
Should have more close ups.
Change of tone of colours.

someones back from holidayyyyy.

2008-11-09T13:05:00.001-08:00

damn straight

Ahem i would just like to comment that Mr Parnell loves the highly controversial pictures placed on our blog as he feels that it may get him that one step closer to blog of the week woohoo, go on, someone out there make his dream come true...however i would just like to point out the fact that you guys may think i talk like that, with ridiculous vocabulary such as 'fab'...i do not. i am way too cool for that. But i must admite it does make me chuckle a wee bit. ooo and another thing my last name is spelt DURRANT:) gawsh geet it reet.

see yoo 2mro dudes, bright and early.rawr.

xxxx

Explanation of the pictures through out the blog

2008-11-07T05:44:00.000-08:00

The highly controversial pictures placed throughout the blog by a certain Mr Parnell are his way of making the blog fun, playing on our childish theme.
"our blog is now more visually interesting.... sweets for the eyes" says Mr Parnell,
"its silly and rubbish" says Mr Dennis
"I am personally sitting on the fence because i do enjoy looking at the pictures.." said Mr Ould
"the pics r fab!!!!!!!" screamed Miss Durrent
"im not even going to look at the blog" was said by a certain Mr Hip-Hop-Potamitis
We found this deeply upsetting, but we can find it deep in our hearts to forgive him for all his wrong doings.. because we are nice like that.

Problems With The Final Editing

2008-11-07T04:40:00.000-08:00

When we uploaded the project to Duncan's laptop for the final edit, we discovered that we did it in the wrong settings, and the quality was terrible so we abandoned the idea.

Deadline Details

2008-11-06T04:12:00.000-08:00

We are now very close to our final deadline and still have not quite finished the edditing, to solve this problem we are going to take the footage home and try to finish it before the deadline day.

Our target audience

2008-11-01T04:53:00.000-07:00

Our target audience are generally older 17 and beyond... Lots of people have heard our song as it was featured in the Macbook Air advert.
The song has a kind of country style to it, this would appeal to an older audience.
The idea of our music video is to make the audience feel like a child again.

Working Overtime

2008-10-23T03:13:00.001-07:00

Last night, both Chris' worked from 4:10pm till 5:30pm. This gives us extra editing time, and they managed to get most of the structure of the video done. This means we just need to refine it, but it now resembles something of a rough cut.

Problems We Have Found During Editing.

2008-10-20T01:59:00.000-07:00

During editing we have discovered that we did not have all the shots that we wanted to have. To fix this we left two people editing and sent two people went out with the camera and filmed some more in the forests and more close up lip syncing. This will help our music video flow, so that you can properly see the lip syncing.

Final Cut Filter

2008-10-18T07:04:00.000-07:00

After looking at the Noah and the Whale video, we decided that making some footage look really old would be more suited to our video style. Because we couldn't do this effectively with what Final Cut Express provides us as standard. Because Duncan has a MacBook with Final Cut installed, we found a plug-in called "CGM Aged Film LE" which allows us to add a tone, a grain, lines, scratches and trapped hairs to make the footage look as aged as possible.

This was an idea we liked from another group. They are in our class, and they didn't use it in their music video. This effect was achieved my lip syncing the mouth at 66% speed, and then speeding the video up to 150%, so his mouth is at normal speed, but everything else is at 1.5 speed.

Whilst simple, the Aged Film make this clip look better, especially if we want it to look like a memory.

This was one of our first ideas, to clone the bears onscreen. Because there was a short time difference when taking the shots, the brightness changed. Annoyingly, there is a small box around one of the bears which I cannot get rid of.

Rough Cut Feedback

2008-10-13T02:05:00.000-07:00

Positives

- Good camera angles
- The feeling /mood of the video matches the song well. Sped up shot of bears looks very professional, as does the shot in the mirror
- Bear suits are really effective, house is really fairytale like with the banister etc.
- setting is good
- simplicity works well with the narrative and the song itself
- What you have is good

Areas for Improvement

- Camera is a bit shaky towards the end. Lighting in bedroom makes shot look amateur
- Lighting out of bedroom is rather dark. More lip syncing is needed as its not very clear
- lighting is a bit dark
- get rid of sound from camera
- some camera noise

Prime idea we wish to use.

2008-10-12T05:30:00.000-07:00

This is a video from virus syndicate - slowdown it uses techniques we plan to use, for example swapping between 2 locations every other line. Along with slowing down the speeding up footage to create a cool looking effect!

Rough Cut

2008-10-11T05:27:00.000-07:00

EDITING IDEAS

2008-10-10T04:58:00.000-07:00

We intend in making our video look older by applying a grain to the footage, we are also thinking about making parts of the video look almost "home video" style!
Here is the kind of grain we would like to apply to our video.

Problems With Filming

2008-10-09T03:26:00.000-07:00

When filming we occurred 2 problems, 1 of which was the weather which meant we were unable to get any kind of shot by the river as the bear outfits would have been damaged.
We were also unable to get permission to film within the bed shop.

NEW FRIENDS WE MADE!!!!!!

2008-10-09T03:21:00.000-07:00

During filming we made many new friends, including Japanese tourists who wanted photos with us, people in need of a hug and many many many waves and a guy who sat on a bench with us and wanted a chat!!!!!!!!
It was reallllllllyyyyyyy good fun :D

We got a job offer!!!

2008-10-09T03:13:00.000-07:00

Whilst filming on Thursday, we got approached by a random lady. She was the organizer for the Mill Road Winter Fair, and she offered a job for walking around in the bear suits on the day of the fair. However, she had assumed the bear costumes were privately owned by us, rather than us renting them, so we had to turn her down.

Editing Ideas

2008-10-06T07:53:00.000-07:00

This video is by Noah and the Whale, for the song, 5 Years Time. We had problems miming the last verse, so instead, by having a video quality like this (can be achieved by lowering frame rate and ading a grain) as a filler.

Its just an idea

Filming

2008-10-06T07:44:00.000-07:00

This really should have been done earlier.

On Thursday, we went ahead with filming as planned. We forgot our storyboard though, so we had to improvise. we also finished filming quite a bit before our planned end, because Laura was getting very cold quickly. The middle of Cambridge was also very busy, so we struggled to get good backwards walking shots.

On Friday, Duncan was away, so Chris O, Chris P and Laura went ahead with filming. They did all the indoor shots in Lauras house, and some of the exterior shots. They couldn't film by the reservoir and woods, because it had rained and there was a lot of slippery mud.

Saturday was planned to be for any more shots that we might need from Cambridge city centre. however, Laura had to cancel last minute, so this was put off.

Monday was used as our last shooting day. We started at Parkers Piece, doing some more shots, and potentially some "cloning". We also did most of our lip-syncing shots. We were in a good mood, so these takes were a lot more comical.

We have returned the costumes, so if we need to do any more shots, we will have to pay for them.

anamatic

2008-10-01T04:55:00.000-07:00

Genre and conventions

2008-09-29T02:17:00.000-07:00

The genre of our video is going to be fairytale/fantasy. The existing genre of the artist is fantasy. we can see this through the video of New Soul that we previously posted, where the paintings came to life. We are carry on the theme and making the video very fairytale oriented.

The conventions; happy ending. romance. bright colours. mystical creatures. unexpected twists- far fetched story.

In order for our music video to fit with the song we also need to incorporate fairytale locations and props, such as a cute little cottage, and teddy bears!

Performance / Lip syncing

2008-09-29T02:13:00.000-07:00

Our performance/Lip syncing will be done by Laura mostly, because as Chris P Chris O and Duncan will be ether camera man or in a bear costume although we will try to feature ourselves in the video and maybe will be singing as well. this will mean that Laura will need to learn the words for the song and practice lip syncing.

Da Funk

2008-09-29T01:52:00.000-07:00

This is an image from Daft Punk's Da Funk and it follows a man in a dog mask and it is like our idea but it focus's on a different animal

The Science of sleep

2008-09-29T01:43:00.000-07:00

This is still from the film science of sleep and it shows an idea that we had to use bears playing instruments this is a fantasy type of film and shows what it might look like.

Lip sync take three

2008-09-26T05:45:00.000-07:00

Here is a change of scenery. chris busting some moves. Duncan doing some lalalas.

Lip sync take two

2008-09-26T05:40:00.000-07:00

Here is a group go at the ol' lip syncing

Lip sync take one

2008-09-26T05:35:00.000-07:00

This is our first try at lip syncing

Tactical camera substitute!

2008-09-25T04:12:00.000-07:00

Seeing as we have the bear costumes for 4 days we have decided we shall be filming for all 4 of those days.
We can only use the college cameras for a maximum of 2 days, for this reason we will be using Chris O's camera and tripod as there is no limit as to the amount of time we can use them for.
Chris's camera also produces better quality videos and colours as well as a longer battery life.
We also don't have to worry about breaking the news of damaging college equipment to nick as he would be sad :( and that is not very good.

Timeline

2008-09-25T04:07:00.000-07:00

Filming Dates

2008-09-25T03:42:00.000-07:00

We have decided on our filming dates:

Thursday 2nd October: Duncan picking up costumes as early as possible. Filming from 10:50am to . Start of media lesson. Everyone can attend

Friday 3rd October: Filming from 1:50pm to as late as needs be. Start of lunch. No Duncan for filming.

Saturday 4th October: Filming from 11am to 4pm. Duncan and Chris O meeting Chris P in Cambridge then going to Lauras house. Everyone available for filming

Sunday 5th October: No filming.

Monday 6th October: Filming from 1:05pm to 4:30pm. Everyone available, but Laura has driving lesson. Return bear costumes before 6:00pm.

We are using Chris Ould's camera, as we will need the camera longer than we can get the college camera for.

Bear Costumes

2008-09-22T11:39:00.000-07:00

Today, I went to Wardrobe on Sedgwick Street. Firstly, it's damn hard to find.

But more importantly, I have booked our bear costumes. I went along to have a look at them. I only had time to try on one of the suits on. I took some pictures.

This is the daddy bear costume. This is £30 to rent. There is also a "baby bear" costume. This is the same height, but the face is more cartoony. So unless they have another daddy bear head, they will be odd. The baby bear is £22 to rent.

Tomorrow I am going back to book them. I shall be doing them for the 2th of October, but this may be changed depending on our timetables.

If they are booked on a Thursday, then they need to go back for the next Monday. All the filming will have to be done very quickly.

Bear Costume Problem

2008-09-22T01:54:00.000-07:00

We have been looking all over Cambridge for a while now but we have had very little luck. Until now, we have recently called up wardrobe in Cambridge and they have two bear costumes in stock so Duncan is going to find out more information and take a picture for us. if this goes to plan and we can book the costumes then we will have two bear suits between the four of us for £17.50 each which is reasonable.

2008-09-18T03:18:00.000-07:00

Here are a few possible locations for laura's house in the video.

Bear Costumes

2008-09-15T06:32:00.000-07:00

I stopped by two costume shops in Cambridge today. At Wardrobe, they did not have any bear suits.

Shot List

2008-09-15T01:40:00.000-07:00

Shot 1: Medium shot of Laura's bedroom door. Laura walks through door. Music opens up. 4 second shot.

Shot 2: Medium shot of stairs in Laura's house. Laura walks own the stairs, exit to the left of the shot. 3 second shot.

Shot 3: Medium shot of Laura's kitchen. Laura walks in, knocks a chair. 2 second shot.

Shot 4: Closeup shot of chair. Clearly see a shorter leg, causing the chair to be wobbly.

Shot 5: Medium/Close-up shot of porridge. Laura finds porridge. The porridge is too hot, so she leaves it. (Show heat through masses of steam.

Shot 6: Medium shot of Laura. She walks up to a window, and looks out.

Shot 7: POV shot of Laura. Camera zooms through window, and into a wood. Edit shot of a wood to be through the window. either use Final Cut or Photoshop.

Shot 8: Medium Shot. We are now in the forest. Laura now comes out from behind a tree.

Shot 9: Medium/long shot. Laura walking through the forest. Bears start popping out from behind trees. 2 BEARS.

Shot 10: Long shot. Laura is walking along a river/reservoir. 2 bears are by the side, sun-bathing. Oblivious to Laura.

Shot 11: Medium shot. Laura checks watch/phone, walks towards large tree.

Shot 12: Transition to middle of Cambridge. Laura walks behind tree, and vanishes

Shot 13: Transition to middle of Cambridge, Laura appears from behind Parkers Piece lamppost.

Shot 14: Long shot. Laura continues walking across Parkers Piece, bears are having a picnic on the grass.

Shot 15: Medium shot. Laura in the middle of town. Walking down Sidney Street, past Boots/Debenhams. Bear walks past, brushes Lauras shoulder, and another is sitting on a bench, reading a newspaper/magazine.

Shot 16: Medium shot. Laura enters bed store..

Shot 17: Medium shot. Continuous footage of Laura walking around bed store, sitting and jumping onto several beds.

Shot 18: Medium shot. Laura finds comfortable bed (single). Bear approaches her. Try to make bear look annoyed.

Shot 19: Long Shot. Laura runs out of the bed shop. Transition to field.

Shot 20: Medium shot. Screen flips from Parkers Piece to field. Transition to field.

Shot 21: Long shot. Laura walks from edge of shot to middle of the field. Looks around, looking bloody lost.

Shot 22: Medium shot. Laura in the foreground. Cottage in the distance. Laura walks towards cottage.

Shot 23: Long shot. Outside of cottage. Laura walks up to front door, and proceeds inside.

Shot 24: Low medium/close up shot. Laura walks past living room door. Bear feet can be seemed propped up on table.

Shot 25: Medium shot. Laura making cup of tea.

Shot 26: Medium shot. Laura returns to lounge. Sits down on between both bears. Music dies as Laura looks at both bears. Starts laughing. Fade out

This is an extremely rough shot guide. We might include other clips, or even take some of these out, depending on weather and time

Whittlesford.. (possible location)

2008-09-12T10:06:00.000-07:00

Here are a few pics i took earlier, just to show the amount of fields etc. Sadly it was a little too wet to go into the woods and get some pics.

Feedback from class

2008-09-12T05:36:00.000-07:00

Lauren loved it...
People seemed interested in our idea.

Use cornflakes/weatabix instead of porridge?

Set it in the county but use technology to make it up to date

Further Ideas (First Draft Of Shot List/Locations)

2008-09-11T04:08:00.000-07:00

Laura bedroom (waking up)
Bear walks past (dark figure)
Exit bedroom
Laura's kitchen
Wobbly chair
Porridge
Exits to middle of Cambridge
Walking about town
Bears busking
Bed shop
Trip to the park
Bears are having a picnic (in the background)
Going home (travelling shots)
Laura going through front door
Shot of bears in living room: Feet up
Chair breaks when sat on
Laura walks into living room. See bears
Everyone is happy

What We Will Be doing In The Video!!!!!!

2008-09-11T03:21:00.000-07:00

Rough idea....

Laura listening to ipod singing the song. In various locations, this is a boring idea... so we are going to include bears in the shots, sometimes subtle and sometimes obvious.
we are also subtly change Laura's hat.

Extra little ideas

Fairy tail land!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Eats porridge for breakfast too hot, goes out etc etc, playing on Goldilocks and the three bears.
Bed shop??
Mistakes?? chair breaks? clumsy allways getting things wrong? does not get the happy ending.

Our original plans

2008-09-11T03:08:00.000-07:00

When we first heard the song "New Soul", Laura immediately came up with he thought of punting along the Cam, with a mix of interesting and wild hats.
However, this was dropped after we watched the video released by the artist, which seems fairly similar to our thoughts.

Our second collective thoughts were to go ice skating. It would be easier and more appropriate for this time of the year. We then added to this by having a girl (at the moment Laura) listening to the song, and weird and wild happenings going on around her, though she acts oblivious to her. So we expanded on this, by possibly having people in bar costumes being around her sub-consciously.

We would like to keep with the bear thing, but we might move from skating to being in more locations. This could be around Cambridge, but maybe also around London, and on the trains in between. However, some of the problems that may arise with this plan is our money flow. Ticket to London are £25 each. Then there is hiring the costumes, which we don't yet know how much.

We are trying to come up with a few more ideas.

We hope to be able to cut out parts of places, and clone bears through post-filming editing.

LYRICS

2008-09-08T02:27:00.000-07:00

I'm a new soul
I came to this strange world
Hoping I could learn a bit bout how to give and take.
But since I came here,
Felt the joy and the fear
Finding myself making every possible mistake

la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la...

I'm a young soul
In this very strange world
Hoping I could learn a bit bout what is true and fake
But why all this hate?
Try to communicate
Finding trust and love is not always easy to make

la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la...

This is a happy end
'Cause you don't understand
Everything you have done
Why's everything so wrong?
This is a happy end
Come and give me your hand
I'll take you far away

I'm a new soul
I came to this strange world
Hoping I could learn a bit bout how to give and take.
But since I came here,
Felt the joy and the fear
Finding myself making every possible mistake

I'm a new soul... (la, la, la, la,...)
In this very strange world...
Every possible mistake
Possible mistake
Every possible mistake
Mistakes, mistakes, mistakes...
Take take take take take... take a mistake
Take, take a mistake
Take, take a mistake
(oh oh oh oh...)
[fade out]
(oh oh oh oh...)

Possible Locations

2008-09-08T02:23:00.000-07:00

Train to London?
Oxford Street
Outside train station
Outside the London Eye
Regents Park?
Hyde Park?
Big Ben
General streets

Camrbidge -
Parkers Piece
Kings College
Streets
Grand Arcade
Apple shop
River

LAURA'S HOUSE!
Woods
Fields

Email to Yael Naim

2008-09-08T02:13:00.001-07:00

To Ms Naim,

We are students at Long Road Sixth Form College. We have been given a project to produce a music video. We have chosen your song- New Soul.

We are contacting you to ask if you could add any information about your song and tell us what your thoughts were when you were writing the song.
If there are any links or special lyrics that you want to be shown to stand out then please let us know.

Any ideas would be very helpful.

Yours sincerely,

Chris Parnell
Chris Ould
Duncan Dennis
Laura Durrant

Idea

2008-09-08T02:12:00.000-07:00

Bear outfit!

We plan to get 2/3 of these for people to wear in the background because its a happy, cuddly song and bears are happy and cuddly!

For Laura's costume we are going to get a blue dress.

Current music video for New Soul

2008-09-08T01:48:00.000-07:00

This is the video that already exists for this song.

Our original ideas were pretty similar to the current video, so we have changed them to make a more exciting video!

THE START

2008-09-08T01:41:00.000-07:00

THE PEOPLE
Chris Parnell
Duncan Dennis
Chris Ould
Laura Durrant

THE ROLES
Laura Durrant- Leader/Singer/ Storyboard Artist
Chris Parnell-Director/Bear
Duncan Dennis- Editor/Bear/
Chris Ould- Producer/ Cameraman/Bear

However we will all be involved in all the elements.

THE SONG
Yael Naim- New Soul

THE REASON
As a group, we all found that we could come up with inventive and unusual ideas in our head whilst listening to this song. We also all preferred it.

Welcome to GROUP 43

2008-09-01T01:59:00.001-07:00

GROUP 43 - Music Video 2008/9

Key Frames

Feedback from the Picturehouse

What we missed

Feed back

someones back from holidayyyyy.

Explanation of the pictures through out the blog

Problems With The Final Editing

Deadline Details

Our target audience

Working Overtime

Problems We Have Found During Editing.

Final Cut Filter

Rough Cut Feedback

Prime idea we wish to use.

Rough Cut

EDITING IDEAS

Problems With Filming

NEW FRIENDS WE MADE!!!!!!

We got a job offer!!!

Editing Ideas

Filming

anamatic

Genre and conventions

Performance / Lip syncing

Da Funk

The Science of sleep

Lip sync take three

Lip sync take two

Lip sync take one

Tactical camera substitute!

Timeline

Filming Dates

Bear Costumes

Similar Music Videos

Bear Costume Problem

Bear Costumes

Shot List

Whittlesford.. (possible location)

Feedback from class

Further Ideas (First Draft Of Shot List/Locations)

What We Will Be doing In The Video!!!!!!

Our original plans

LYRICS

Possible Locations

Email to Yael Naim

Idea

Current music video for New Soul

THE START

Welcome to GROUP 43