BFI Trip Notes

Further Notes 

Print and TV regulation

Lee Rigby Murder- the news highlighted his murder, and Facebook, blogs long before the news got the video. Highlights social media influence

Regulatory bodies regulate traditional forms of media. - social media has it in hardcore format before its dimmed down on the news.

Digital media challenged traditional regulation.

Exam Topics 

Will there be regulatory bodies in 20 years time?

Explore ASA or Ipso?

Explore OFCOM

Discuss David Gauntlet

May be asked a question on industry regulation

Passive consumption 

Most young people have a better understanding than us of how society is - Gauntlets opinion 

Interactive digital media insures we are saturated to shocking media. We've become used to it unlike 15 years ago

French film censors are more relaxed/liberal in terms of their regulation

Pluralism- more diverse attempt at regulation 

We media- public film or report the latest news on social media (lee Rigby)

Web 2.0- interactive media, interactive media blogging culture

Julian Blanc, anti feminist conducted himself over YouTube and got himself extra hype from the worldwide internet 

Jonathan Ross and Russel Brand, radio comments skyrocketed their careers further

Letter To Record Company

The below image shows our initial contact with The 1975's record label; Dirty Hit Records where we have tried to gain access to 3 of their songs for use in our Music Video.

Although I personally have send this scanned letter over email to the record company, I am still yet to receive a reply from Dirty Hit Records.

My Audience

Risk Assesment

Risk Assessment (Composed By James Ellis)

Langley hill, as addressed in the name, is positioned on a large hill as a result suitable footwear would be needed at all time to reduce the chance of any slips or injuries occurring whilst on set which could potentially harm our chances of creating a production which is to our full capability.

Kings Langley Common includes a woods which is a vital part to our production. There are many risks which can occur whilst in a woods, most notably, the large amount of tree debris situated around the environment so carefulness is vital to the production. To reduce the chance or any injuries we will produce a clear path, which will be easily used by the actors without the risk of injury.

One risk that we will be encountering is that of pedestrians and others in the local community. To ensue that everyone involve stays safe and can conduct the production successfully, we shall be filming when there are no pedestrians present. There may be others in the background that may appear to be people in the local community, but we can ensure that these are highly trained actors which are positioned for nothing but effect in the production.

Another risk for our production the instruments which could pose some distress with the weight of them, if carried for a long period of time at once. It is important that the instruments are used correctly and appropriately to ensure that there is no damage done to both the instruments but more importantly the individuals in the production.

As we are using amps for the production, there will be some wire hazards that could cause some concern. It is possible for anyone in the production process to trip over these wires and cause harm. Furthermore, to eliminate this hazard, we will be taping down the wires to the floor, with luminous tape therefore, they will be very clearly visible.

Equipment List

Equipment List (Composed by Stefano Towell)

As part of our pre production, me and my group have to write up 10 blogs that explain our forgoing production that will take place including where it will be shot, equipment, shot lists and more. For this post I will be discussing the equipment we will be using for our filming.

Our min piece of equipment that will be needed at all times is the Canon 700D camera that shoots very high quality video s well as being able to take very high resolution images. The camera will be used in a variety of different ways, be used in many different shot angles as well as capturing our entire music video. An important piece of equipment to go with the camera is the tripod as for the music video to get it to look as professional and well shot as possible, the camera needs to be stable with no shaking present and that is something the tripod can do very well. We are trying to get hold of a dolly as well which are a set of wheels to go underneath the tripod however if there isn't one available that i fully working, we will have to do without it. The dolly can help us do tracking shots which would be very helpful in our music video as part of it involves us as a group walking with the camera tracking us and the dolly would be able to capture the footage with no shaking or resistance.

The SD memory card is somewhat a very important piece of equipment as it stores all of the footage we take with the camera and then is transferable to the computer for editing. Without this card, there wouldn't be any footage to upload making the project significantly more difficult.

Items such as the computer are very important pieces of equipment that are not really considered front line' however it is extremely important as all of the editing, trimming and effects are used on the footage to create our final production to upload onto our blogs. Adobe Premiere Pro is the editing software we use as it is very good for what is needed in this project with multiple effects to choose from ,the ability to trim and merge videos and much more to create a top quality production.

Other forms of equipment include the lighting and umbrella which will be used to enhance our production, particularly inside however much of the filming will take place outside where natural lighting will be good enough for shooting. Inside shots such as the perfomance video.

Overall we do use a wide variety of equipment to make our production reach its full potential. Equipment such as the high quality camera and the editing software are the main two pieces which will benefit us the most with making our music video.

Prop and Costume List

Prop and Costume List (Composed By Connor Crosby)

Prop and Costume List

Shooting Schedule

Shooting Schedule (Composed By Stefano Towell)

For our music video me and the rest of my group have to come up with a schedule before hand to keep up with deadlines and to make everything easier when organising. We plan on starting filming the performance part of the video on the week begging the 17th November as we believe that this stage is an important one to do first due to it being the base of the video as we will show us playing the instruments on the choruses of the songs we include as well as clips during the verses. We have all decided what we will be wearing as well as the lighting which can be seen in our other Pre-Production blogs. It will be filmed in the drama studio of our school.

The performance stage of filming should take no longer than a week as we have already learnt our lines as well as being able to keep in time with the song on the instruments we will be playing including guitars and drums. The next stage will be the start of the song that will be filmed in the Kings Langley woods as the lighting within it will be very beneficial and will give a good effect to the video. This part of filming should commence the week following on the 24th November. We plan to finish filming as well as the lions share of the editing by Christmas as we do not have much time after to complete it as well the blogs to go with it. It is a tight deadline however with a fixed schedule, it should make the process easier as well as smoothly run which is something needed for this production if we want an impressive outcome.

Pre Production Schedule

Storyboard

Storyboard (Created By James Ellis)

Storyboard 

Summary of Star

Summary of Star (Post composed by Connor Crosby)

Location Recce

Locaiton Recce

Shot List

Shot List A2 Media Music Video

Additional Research From Ryan Mackfall Interview

Here is my A2 Media Groups interview with Ryan Mackfall

My A2 Media Studies class we were lucky enough to speak with a real industry music video director who happens to own his own company named CrashBurn Media. I hosted the main part of the Skype call incorporating all of my class member’s questions. I also personally stayed behind to ask Ryan some extra questions on various weak spots that I felt he could help me strengthen within my A2 Music Video Production.

The main points that I felt Ryan really helped me personally with was the way that he felt my group should present certain emotions within our Music Video. I informed him of our bands overall image and theme with him able to read a draft treatment of our music video that I will be directing. Ryan mentioned that when we use a black and white filter on our music video we should aim to make it clear to our audience that facial emotions still remained visible and that the storyline of the video was not effected by the visual effects added in the editing of the video. He also helped me with the clarification of the transitional elements of our video, with myself and Ryan bouncing ideas around about possible ways to show an effective transition between three songs without any narrative being lost in the process.

I personally really enjoyed being able to talk to someone in the real music video industry and I felt that he had a lot of advice to give to an amateur group in regards of lighting and camera angles that can turn a boring and uninformative piece in to a fantastic visual representation of emotions, something that I personally was really keen on doing within my music video.

Videos that Ryan recommended as excellent examples of how a music video should be shot and constructed to create an impact on an audience.

Ryan also provided fantastic feedback regarding our draft treatment for our Music Video as seen below.

My Music Video's Institution

Music Institutions