I have done a draft magazine tour poster and a draft album poster for one of the ancillary tasks.
We will be taking the ancillary task photos when we film the band shots and we will also try and do some location shots as well. Because we have done draft work for our posters and for the digi pack we know what type of shots to get and how to place the band to when it comes to putting the writing on we can do it easily.
To get some extra evaluation from people outside of our group and school peers, we decided to put up our video on YouTube to get some advice about our video from people all over the web!
We managed to get the instruments need to do some band shots so we booked out the drama studio at our school and tried some out. We then put the videos onto PremierPro and synced them up with the music.
We thought this would be a good idea to do because it showed us what types of locations will and will not fit in with the mise en scene of our music video genre. It also allowed us to see what the selection of shots we collected looked like when put to the music so when we film our real band shots we knew which ones would work and which ones wouldn't.
We are now going to film our band shots in our schools gym which goes pitch black when all the lights are turned off, we will then use the photography lights to light up the band and in theory the rest of the room will still be pitch black. We got this idea from looking on YouTube at other A2 music video's and thought it was a good idea to try.
We have created another video blog, which is showing the different range of video shots we are planning on using in our music video. This helped our group to become knowledgeable with the camera equipment. Also it let us find out how long it would take to set up all the equiptment so we can plan our days effectivley.
These are the shots we talk about in our vlog in order.
Mid Shot
High-AngleTwo Shot using a Handheld-Jib
High-Angle Shot with Reverse Zoom using a Handheld-Jib
High-Angle Shot withTilt upwards using a Handheld-Jib
Full-Shot with Tilt upwards using a Handheld-Jib; an example of Gaze Theory
Track and Pan using a Dolly
Track and Pan using a Dolly
Tracking Shot with Zoom using a Dolly
Over-The-Shoulder Shot using Steadi-Cam
Pan into an Extreme Close-Up using Steadi-Cam
Two-Shot with Reverse Zoom using Steadi-Cam
Two-Shot with Reverse Zoom using Steadi-Cam
Mid Shot; an example of using the 'Rule of Thirds' using Steadi-Cam
We decided to create a video blog talking through some of the things we had achieved so far. By doing this it gave us the opportunity to use the video camera and then edit the footage on Premier Pro which is the software we will be using for our music video.
Here are some shots of the real band Paramore.
We were looking at these to give us some inspiration towards the band photos we will be taking.
In these shots of Paramore they always have Hayley Williams (lead singer) in front of the rest of the band.
The photos could also be seen as quite quirky as they are never just plainly smiling in the shots.
I also looked at some other band shots from within the genre and found that they also took their pictures with the lead singer based in the front of the shot. Also none of them are particularly serious.
