Ancillary- Edited Photos.

 After filming on the weekend and taking photographs of the abandoned objects I have edited them to create a darker effect. To do this I used photoshop and converted each image into black and white. I then used the burn tool which darkens area. with this tool I darkened then background and some areas to create a dark frame around the object.

Research and Planning- Importing

Today in class we imported the footage that we filmed on the weekend. However after importing we have realised that some of the footage has gone. The footage that is missing is a clip where our actors run onto a picture frame and smash the glass. To over come this problem we will buy a new frame and re-shoot this clip again when we film the performance part on Thursday as there is a wooded area at the location.

Research and Planning- Filmining Log.

Date:- Saturday 1st December
Location- Holiday Woods Windsor.

Today we filmed more footage for our narrative aspect of our music video. This went really well and we shall upload the footage on Monday and put it into place.

The lighting today was much better than it had been in the previous shoot as there was a lot more sun. This meant the camera could pick up more detail. The brighter lighting will not affect the mood of our video as in the editing stage we are darkening all shots to create a much darker mood. This also means that when we darken the clips they won’t be out of focus and grainy.  This also creates a problem as this lighting from our new clips will not match the lighting of our old clips. To fix this we have thought about the possibility of converting all the wood scene into either black and white or sepia. This would help mask the differences in lighting and can also link to the overall narrative of the past or an apocalypse theme.

We have changed an element of our narrative by adding objects that hint to a past life, keeping in context to our apocalypse feel. These objects include a child's teddy bear, and photograph and a pocket watch. We filmed these objects in the location with our actors running past them. I have also taken photographs of these objects and am going to edit them and try to incorporate them into our ancillary piece.
Here are some of the un-edited photos:-

Research and Planning- Audience Research.

To see how we should market our chosen song and band Ravenface, This is Annihilation. I have looked at a website that shows me similar bands to Ravenface. This is helpful because I can look at the different methods of marketing and branding that these bands have used, as well as concepts and interesting camera techniques that they have used in music videos.The images of the bands are useful because it gives me ideas for how we should represent our actors.

Here is a link to the website:-
http://www.last.fm/music/Ravenface.

The bands that the source listed are as followed:-

• The Defiled.

 

• Across the Sun.

 

• Skiller.

 

• Vanisher.

 

• The Artifact.

 

• Sarea.

 

• Tasters.

 

• Dawn Under Eclipse. 

 

• Invisius.

 

• The Unguided.

 

• The Blinded.

 

• Zero System.

 

• Hell Within.

 

• Figure of Six.

 

• Rise To Remain. 

Research and Planning:- Shot List.

We will be re filming this week and after using footage from our previous filming we have made a shot list of all the gaps and footage that needs to be re filmed. We have also added some aspects to our narrative. As we are taking an apocalypse approach to our narrative, we were told that that isn't very clear. So we are going to interject hints to old lives using objects shown in the woodland. These objects will be precious objects, like a pocket watch, child's toy and family photo that will be old and obviously left outside for a very long time. We can then use this for our ancillary as we will take photographs of these objects and use hem in our digipak.

Here is our Shot List. I have colour coded the shots. Green will be filmed in the woods and Blue will be filmed in the Car Park.

• Re-shoot shot of tilt up from woodland floor or replace with an abandoned object.
• Shoot medium shot of guitarist playing solitary note at the start of the song.
• Re-shoot bird's eye angle of drummer playing the beat. Visual match audio.
• Long shot of band playing together.
• Low angle shot of drums.
• Side shot of band preforming- Tilted angle.
• Medium shot of guitarist playing note.
• Wide angle shot of band playing, camera tilts down to car park floor.
• Camera tilts up from woodland floor to woods.
• Re-shoot low angle shot of vocalist jumping over the camera.
• Re-shoot bird's eye angle of the band running through the woods- create more enigma.
• Re-shoot close- up of vocalist.
• Re-shoot close-up of vocalist, head moving down.
• Re-shoot close-up of vocalist pointing at the camera.
• Re-shoot medium long shot of guitarist playing.
• Re-shoot shot of band running through woods- side angle.
• Re-shoot low angle close-up of drummer hitting the base drum.
• Re-shoot close-up of vocalist head banging.
• Re-shoot medium close-up of guitarist playing.
• Re-shoot close-up of guitarist 2 playing.
• Re-shoot vocalist acting out actions.
• Get rid of band helping up guitarist and replace with shot of object next to the guitarist on the ground. (or something else)
• Film more close-ups and shots of band preforming.
• Re-shoot close-up in the car park.
• Quick cuts to the objects.
• Re-film close-up of guitar.
• Re-place the siking up shots.

Ancillary- Designs.

I have designed our second idea for our ancillary cover. This design would be a photograph of a flaming R. We haven't decided whether it would be in black and white or colour so with he drawing of the design I have looked at both. We would also like to experiment with having a water mark of feathers behind the design.

Coloured Design.

Black and White Design.

Research and Planning:- Continuity and Costume.

As we plan on filming again next week we have made a list of the costumes our actors where wearing so that there is no continuity errors.

Performance based filming:-
Jake:- Storm Trooper T-shrit/ quarter lengths.
Dean:- Ripped black jeans/ black top/ sylosis hoodie.
Stephen:- Sylosis hoodie/ blue jeans/ red converses.
Perrin:- Black jeans/ Suicide silence hoodie/ black gloves/ T-shirt.

Narrative based filming:-
Jake:- Ed Hardy blue jeans/ Grey hoodie/ Leather jacket/ Black t-shirt.
Dean:-Chelsea Grin t-shirt/ sylosis hoodie/ black jeans.
Stephen:- Sylosis t-shirt/ Sylosis hoodie/ grey jeans.
Perrin:- Black jeans/ leather jacket/ black hoodie/ black t-shirt.