Music Video Storyboard

Our commercial will include:

1. Long Shots
2. Pans
3. Eye Level Shots
4. An Over the Shoulder Shot
5. Two-shots
6. Wide shots
7. An Establishing Shot
8. Tilts
9. A Low Angle
10. A High Angle
11. A Score with the song "My Girl"
12. A dog leash 
13. A Missing Dog Flyer
14. Tape
15. A Bench

Storyboard:

 

Music Video Planing Blog

   For our music video we will be filming at Harbour Islands Park. This is the ideal location because it has a dog-friendly atmosphere and is close to our houses. The close proximity is helpful so we can go back and forth to our houses to see the footage easily. Also if their is rain or too many people in the park it is easy to go back the next day to film more. When filming we will make sure to keep safety in mind. We are working with well trained dogs that are familiar with the person they are working with so there will be no issues with the dog harming the actors. We will also be cautious of the other people in the park and their dogs. We will wait until they pass to film so that the dogs don't run at each other. We also have many people helping us hold the dogs that are not being filmed so they do not get out of control.

     The props we will use are dog leashes, a missing dog flyer, tape and other things for dogs like toys and treats. The dog leashes are important because the plot of our story is that their is a missing dog. When the dog is found we show the dog's leash get put on to show that she is now found. The missing dog flyer and tape is important for setting up the video by telling the audience that the dog is missing. The costumes will be somewhat athletic. It will be what people wear to walk there dogs, shorts and a shirt. This is because there is running scenes so the actors aren't wearing jeans or something else hard to run in. Our costumes will not be any school apparel or obvious brand because this music video is not sponsored and must look professional.We will make sure we wear close-toed shoes so their is not safety issues while running. Overall, our props and costume are very minimal.

    

     Our schedule begins today, 11/18 we will plan our storyboard and create our planning blog today in class. Tomorrow, 11/19 is a white day so we will not work on our music video. 11/20 we will be in class and will create our story board and publish it in a blog. We have no class on 11/21 and have no plans for 11/22 yet. 11/23 is a Saturday, we will begin filming this day. If it was raining or we did not finish we will film more on 11/24. On 11/25 we will individually make our first filming blog, reflecting on the filming done over the weekend. On 11/26 we will work on our project in class. 11/27-12/1 we have thanksgiving break and will not be working on the project. 12/3 is our next class where we will edit. We will continue editing in class on 12/5 and on our last day 12/9 we will add finishing touches and submit the video. On 12/11 in class we will do our individual CCR PowerPoints and will turn them in.

Music Video Research

  Today we started our second project and its a music video, since we finished the Nike commercial. The new project is a music video, that is two times as long as the previous project being 1 minute and 15 seconds long. the project is also going to be film out side of school. the work will be harder because of what was previously stated before and because our group is half as small. The group is now just me and Paige, and Zeke and Eli are in their own group with Peter, so we will  have a lot more work between the two of us. For the project we have some room for creative expression. we could make our music video any genera, but it has to be school appropriate. The music video can be about someone lips siccing the words of the song or a story. We could film our project anywhere so we are probably going to film in a park. this project seems to be a new challenge, but we will overcome it.

     For our music video we chose the song, My Girl by The Temptations. For our music video we plan to use dogs as the subject. This will be a different way to represent the song because the song is not perceived as a song about dogs. The dogs will represent 'my girl'. We will use many different dogs so the video is not to repetitive. We will include different shots and angles to show the dogs and owners. For example, when we show running scenes of the dogs it will be either a pan, tilt or a tracking shot. We will also have high, low and eye-level angles so every shot looks different. We will show a shot of one dog every time the song says 'my girl'. This will give the video structure that follows along with the music.

  Our songs genre is 60's pop.this era is were pop over took rock as the most popular genre.
there is no real conventions in 60's pop camera angles, movements and types of shots because
Music videos were not invented yet. Although there is no music videos for 60's pop, we are going to break conventions by making the music video modern, while keeping the 60's pop ascetic in mind.

1.Costumes: The costumes that the actors are going to where are going to be casual park clothes, but not wearing any long sleeves or pants, just shorts, and tee-shirts.

2.Lighting: We will use natural lighting from the sun for our lighting. We preferably film at a time were you can not see the shadows of the camera man in the shots, like midday were the sun is directly above

3.Actors: The actors we will be using are going to be humans and dogs. We have a good selection of dogs for this project, that are all girls, which fit with the song

4.Music: There will be no music other than the actual song playing in our music video.

5.Props: The props we will be using are leaches, headphones, and other casual dog walking things.

6.Setting: The setting will be in a park. The park that we chose to film in is Harbor island, because it is very close to were we live

Edditing blog part 2

So today we actually started editing our film because we got laptops.  The school given laptops looked brand new, but did not act like they were. the laptops felt a little slow, but not as slow as the old desktop computers. When we filmed the shots, we filmed with the school provided camera and one of our group members phones. Transferring the film from our group members phone was a hassle though.  We had to transfer our group member's film by google docs because it was the only way. Google docs was acting wacky so it did not want to work. When it finally started to work, it was time to edit our film.

Editing, sounded easier than it actually was today, we had to use the worst software of any kind i had ever used, and it was pinnacle studios. Pinnacle studios is a free software given by the school, i think.
The software was the slowest thing ever. Even slower than my humongous turtle. Pinnacle studio takes so long to load up and do anything. having to use this software has been a pain and were are going to use it again sadly next project. Pinnacle studios problems made our editing process so much harder to deal with. We transferred the film to Pinnacle studios and all of the film from the phone didn't work so we had to transfer it again. after we transferred the film. After everything was on Pinnacle Studios.

When we actually started editing it wasn't that bad. Me being the biggest dummy and having 2 hours of sleep i didn't understand anything at all with the editing software. The members that actually were smart and having more than 2 hours of sleep Thought it wasn't that bad, besides the load time. We had cut the footage and it was edited good. next thing was that we had to make the ending slide look good. we had the nike logo and the slogan , but we kept arguing about the color. Half of our group thought that nike was orange, and the the other half thought it was red, guess what it was orange and i was wrong. the last part was to add the sound and that was easy. we use the razor tool to cut the audio off and removed the actual film part.

Editing blog

   Today was the day to finish and edit our film, but it didn't go that way. On Friday was the day that we filmed most of our film and today we finished the filming. Between the four people of our group, none of us knew what we wanted to do. some people wanted to redo most of the shots, others wanted to keep the footage we already have. I thought that all of the footage we have so far on the track field was perfect, and ready to be edited into the commercial. One member of our group wanted to go and redo the stair case shot, which i agreed. So my group spent most of their time arguing about what we needed to do until , we all agreed on my idea. then having our idea, we went to filming. I was finally an actor and i didn't enjoy it.

   When we started filming we had three people of our group taking being actors with all of us wearing Nike. we only needed one shot for that scene because the first shot was perfect. then two of our group did the last shot was the comfort short and the others helped peter. the two people who did the comfort shot were Eli and Paige who had it easy. they got to be indoors with A.C. and only needed 1 scene to be shot. While Paige and Eli had it easy, me and Zeke had it hard. Me and Zeke had to help peter do the rest of his shots and i was the camera man. peters tripod was not good so i had to do all of the shots holding it with my shaky hand.m Surprisingly i got most of the shots done with a steady hand but it was still annoying. the track field was very annoying and the sun was very bright so it created a big shadow that you could see in some shots.

    When Eli and paige finished their job they decided to dump without me and zeke. although they were early, paige and eli couldn't  dump their film. they couldn't dump their  film because i had the old film that they were supposed to dump together. When zeke and I came back it was finally time to dump the footage. dumping the footage was a pain because the school computer is so slow. We decided to dump our footage on google docs because it was easy to share with others and can be used not on the school computers. We tried to dump our film on google docs but it was to slow, and we didn't have enough time. We finally decided to use paige's flash drive that saved our project. After dumping we were supposed to edit but pinnacle studios did not want to work for the whole class so we did not do it today

Filming blog

   Today we started to film our Nike commercial. I am not photogenic at all and i don't like to be in film so i was lucky enough to be a actor. My job was to capture shots with the camera. I actually like working with the camera. The camera was a nice quality for a school bought supply, and same with the tripod. the camera had a zooming in and out feature that could zoom in so far and keep a nice resolution. managing the camera was the easy part compared to the other job that had to do with, which was managing the actors. I felt at time being a shepherd to these "sheep", but it wasn't that bad. i was just directing one of our group members on how to aim their foot to be in front of the camera for like 10 minutes, whitch was the only bad part.

   To continue on shepherding the sheep, i had to keep on redirecting the rest of the group to stand in the right area because of lighting. When we filmed on the track it was a lighting nightmare. the florida sun was very very bright, rendering most of the track unfilmable. we had to film in this little corner of the track that was not being taken up by other students and was in the shade. when we filmed in the shade it was a pain because it was so dark. The only thing that saved our troubles was the lighting settings on the camera that fixed our problem. when we filmed on the staircase, there was no problem with lighting was good.

   I am surprised that the school given ssd card's storage was not filled to the brim with with random shots. We have these random shots because i am kind of a perfectionist in art and same with this film. some scenes we totally redid with another actor but exactly the same. usually the first shot was way better than the rest, but we still continued until we think that it was the ultimate shot. making these ultimate shots the tripod came in handy. I was the only one in our group that could work the connection between camera and the tripod. Using that tripod was my first time using a tripod and it was simple to use. I was the only one that preferred to use the tripod in my group because my hands are so shaky.

story board

Our commercial will include:

• Long Shots
• Close-ups
• A two-shot
• A three-shot
• A Pan
• A zoom
• Ambient sound
• A score
• A fade in
• A fade out
• A low angle
• A wide shot
• Voice overs
• Text box