Mise-en-scene

Costume
When looking into the actor's costumes we wanted a very average look with no outstanding or very different clothing. We asked the lead actor to wear a hooded jacket and jeans. The female actor was asked to wear their normal everyday clothing. As part of the group she knew exactly what was needed and the criteria. We then approved the outfit and the filming began. Then for the second outfit we ask for similar clothing with the addition of some accessories for example a cap and headphones. We did this to show the change in time and the change in the individual in the story. The clothing for both characters was chosen in a way to allow the audience to connect with the characters and to remove any barriers that could be causing the audience to not focusing on the story.

Setting
We choose a fairly open natural place so that we could get wide shots and it would also be less likely for people to walk into our shots. We chose to film outside in and area like this to also get a high contrast in colour so when we used the colour correction of black and white effects it was more noticeable and this would reflect the characters drastic change in emotion.

Lighting
As we have planned to adjust the colour of the video anyway so lighting wasn't a issue. We did hope that the days we filmed on would be fairly bright though so any colour correction that could be avoided could be.

Props
We didn't want to have many props as we didn't want to take any focus away from the scene and characters. Instead we opted to have no props with the exception of a sketch pad which is only in a couple of shots as well as the male leads hat which is costume but we also used as a prop to finish up the story.

Song Permission

Before we Planned to shoot it was necessary for us to obtain permissions to use the song by the representatives of the band. We emailed 'Bridge Nine Records' is regards to using their song with the following "
Hello,
We are doing an A2 Media Project for a music video, and we have decided to use the song 'I Don't Mind' by Defeater. We are inquiring as to whether we have permission to use the song. No profit will be made from the video, it is for academic purposes only. If we receive no reply, due to the educational usage of the music, we will assume you give your permission.
Thanks.
Dom Waldron (Ken Stimpson Community School)

We then received back an email confirming that we have permission to use the song, with the condition that credit must be given to them.

Colour Correction Research

Over the last few day i have been looking into how to colour correct video in Premiere Pro, as well as how the tools to do this work. I have learnt to navigate the effects used for colour correction and have learn the very basics of doing this. I will continue to learn how to improve my skills in the following weeks untill we are finished editing.

I have also looked into depth of field editing, motion blur and slow motion effects. All of the editing ideas that have been put forward are achievable but i am lacking in the skills to do most of them and so i will have to spend a lot more time researching and learning the skills than i would have wanted to for the project.

To the left is the editing panel for some of the colour correction needed to edit the video to the warmth that we need for some of our scenes.

Storyboard

Presentation

After creating a presentation to show to our class and teacher we published the power point to SlideShare. The slideshow was to show our final idea and how the video should hopefully look. The presentation to our class was very straight forward, my team members explained the background of the band and the usual conventions for the music genre. They also mentioned how the song itself challenges their music conventions.

After my team members had finished i ran though the working draft story for the video and how it kept to the lyrics as much as possible with a acoustic section where the lead actor would strum along to the music.

Above are a few choice pictures of us presenting our Final idea and listening to some of the feedback we got.

Video Idea's draft/brainstorm

We think that the best way to make this music video is to follow the narrative. The song has a strong narrative which would seem pointless to ignore. The basic idea will be to have a guy and a girl following the lines of the song (which can be found in the last post) and going to different locations to do this, E.g A beach or the seaside.

We want the video to match the pace of the music, so it will be fairly slow and also peaceful to fit in with the feel of the song. Another possible idea that we have at this time is to keep the people in the video anonymous and to not show their faces throughout the video, to create an element of mystery. This will also inspire us to have to use a lot more creative camera angels, and possibly have to film at lot of it using low angels showing the bottom half of the bodies only.

We feel that in this type of video its not particularly important to "have a lot going on" but more about how the video is made. Slow motion shots are another thing that we are considering to use, and also changing the contrast to make the whole video brighter, as we will be filming in the winter and we want the video to have a warmer feel.

When we finalise the ideas I will post again to show what we have decided to do and how we intend to make it happen.
Source-Curtis's blog(link to be added)