JI: Finished Animatic

I finished editing our animatic last Thursday and now are just waiting for it to be uploaded on to the blog. Finishing this before our shoot was crucial especially when planning our shoot for the day, and gaining a feel for what our footage was going to look like.



We now have to start cutting and chopping the footage we gained from Saturday's shoot in London which went really well, and begin our editing process!

GROUP:Recce Reflection

On saturday all of us went down to London for our first main recce, where we planned to shoot most of our footage for our video. As a whole the day was very successful, we shot all the footage we planned to film there and also got some excellent stills for James's print work.
First we started at Charing Cross train station, where we filmed some band perfomance on the platform. We also filmed quite alot of filler shots for the beginning of our video, for example, we managed to film the train journey in and also the band getting off the train.

Next, we went to Somerset house to do some filming within the house grounds. We originally planned to use the fountains in our video however, the fountains had been covered by an ice rink. Despite this inconvenience we still managed to film some footage within the grounds.
After the location shooting at Somerset house we travelled to Southbank to film the rest of our shots. We filmed shots at the Southbank fountains and in the tree area behind them, the fallen leaves gave the footage a real autumn feel and also gave a coloured look suited the end of the song.

Individually, I spent the day doing camera work and helping direct the different scenes.

This Weeks Targets

- Upload our finished Animatic

- Edit some footage from our Recce (for a screening on thursday)

- Upload draft versions of our print work ( Advertising within magazines and a Poster)

- Reflection on Saturdays recce (5/11/11) to London

LF - 3/11/11 - Update

Today we have finished filming and editing our animatic as we had to add some new shots to the end. We decided too include a window shot  at the very end of the video to draw everything in a give the viewer a lasting image of JLT. Furthermore we also went into the drama studio again and took some pictures that give us a rough idea of what our posters and digipak will look like. After looking at the weather forecast on Saturday heavy rain is forecast nonetheless we are still going to film and try and use the rain to our advantage, as other stars have filmed in the rain to create a original effect.

JI: Digipak Prototype

Here are my ideas for my digipak production.

I am producing a 4 pane digipak to go with our music video. Here is a shot of my outer cover with the 'JLT' logo on to promote the band.



These are some sketches of the ideas for the panes, however these are going to be photographs which I am going to edit on photoshop.




Front Pane



Back Pane



2nd Pane



3rd Pane

Expanding On Location: Drama Studio

Aswell as the location for my print work photograph we have some ideas about using the drama studio to film some close ups of members of the band. We plan to position the band in front of a black screen with lighting infront of them to highlight their face. Light in this instance will be used for increasing clarity and showing the emotion on each band members face. The studio also gives us a range of different lighting effects and is not subject to weather conditions. This diverse alteration in light allows us to play around with the mood of the shot, for example, we dont want to end up cutting to a dim and cloudy shot in London followed by a very brightly lit studio indoors.


The photo above is the most similar actual album cover I can find that is roughly the same as what I want to photograph. Obviously I plan to take a photo of the band in a studio but the darkness in the background and the concentration on the star is perfect in terms of what I am aiming for. Our clothing will differ since we are conforming to a different genre but the posture is also similar to the positions we want to achieve.

Technically, to achieve the picture I desire, I will have a slow shutter speed to allow sufficient light to be captured on the image. The light is important as it gives the image good shadow and increases the effect of highlighting certain features of the band. The light behind them also signifies stardom and is synonymous with stage performances (spotlights).

JI: Process

Due to pre commitments our group were not available to do any shooting in the half term period, which is evident through the lack of posts on our blog. However planning was still involved, with the storyboarding now finished a vision of our video is now evident to us. This will now allow us to produce a animatic which will progress our production even further meaning a full shoot date will be planned in period 5 today.