Prop list

• 
• 

PrevNext

After our meeting with the art director we are now starting to think about sourcing some of the props we need. This is a prop list that Honor created that allowed us to fill in the sources. For the office setting we are lucky since we have most...

Read More

Posted by : Anne Braatz Media

Share:

Audience feedback

• 
• 

PrevNext

We selected a group of students that fit into our target audience:  -Haydon  -Jon  -Kenneth  We also  showed our animatic to India and  Jess to see how another audience (teenage girls) reacts to our music video concept. We were presently surprised.  Target audience:  How well did they understand our concept? ...

Read More

Posted by : Anne Braatz Media

Share:

Bird cage building progress

• 
• 

PrevNext

We went to talk to Paul (the media technician)  multiple times, since he is starting to build the birdcage. One of the things we discussed with him is if we could have the top of the cage as a round dome, he said that he would try since...

Read More

Posted by : Anne Braatz Media

Share:

Confirming the shoot day

We have emailed our cast to inform them about the shooting details. We will also have to create blue cards for our two lead artists (Beteeva & Ashen) to avoid complications with the students teachers. We have emailed our cast to inform them about the shooting details. We...

Read More

Posted by : Anne Braatz Media

Share:

Animatic

An animatic is an animated storyboard, that is created to help visualize the idea. The shots are transferred into an editing program and aligned in the right spot and order with the music.  The band shots work very well, since they adhere to the music.and the proxemics around the cage is...

Read More

Posted by : Anne Braatz Media

Share:

Casting extras

We did it! Today we confirmed our cast! This is a picture of our extras and band members. After a short meting this Monday at 1:50 we gave them a brief of the music video concept and their roles with in it. They all liked it and were...

Read More

Posted by : Anne Braatz Media

Share:

Set design

• 
• 

PrevNext

In yesterdays lesson the set designer came in to talk to us and discuss our plans. We showed her our two drawn images to give her an idea of what we wanted.  Sadly I couldn't make it to todays lesson, but my reliable team took control and updated...

Read More

Posted by : Anne Braatz Media

Share:

Request for copyright permission

• 
• 
• 

PrevNext

We needed to seek permission weather we may work with the song due to it's copyright. Therefore I did some research into the copyright owner.  Wikipedia told me that the who usually own the copyright were 'Go! Dics records' and 'London records'. While I couldn't find any email adress...

Read More

Posted by : Anne Braatz Media

Share:

Lighting design

• 
• 
• 

PrevNext

Today we were visited by the lighting designer, George. We explained our music video concept to him and told him about our lighting suggestions that we picked up on during his introduction talk about lighting. During our introduction about lighting, I noted a few facts and questions down...

Read More

Posted by : Anne Braatz Media

Share:

Looking into alternative Jobs for narrative

We did some online research on boring jobs, that we could potentially use as alternatives to the plain office setting. One article that we found very helpful listed the Top 10 Most Boring Jobs. These were: Security Guard Bank Brancher Data Entry Accountant Nanny Dishwasher Truck Driver  Cleaning and...

Read More

Posted by : Anne Braatz Media

Share:

Sourcing costumes - starting point

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

PrevNext

Now that we started sourcing props and costumes, I decided to contact Hurtwood's theatre department since they have a wide variety of costumes stored in the stock.  This is the Email I sent to the Wardrobe Mistress, Elizabeth. Due to previous work with her I knew of one...

Read More

Posted by : Anne Braatz Media

Share:

Talking to Luke

In today's lesson we had another catch-up session with the creative director, Luke. We told him about our new concept, including the narrative and second set, and updated him on the bird cage building progress. He was happy to see our progress but also gave us a few...

Read More

Posted by : Anne Braatz Media

Share:

Cast List

• 
• 
• 
• 

PrevNext

This is an update of our current cast list, we have nearly confirmed all of them except for our Base player. This cast list helps us keep an overview and visualise the final product by referring back to the actors looks. We are currently working on finding an...

Read More

Posted by : Anne Braatz Media

Share:

Contacting the cast

Now that we have a basic idea of the music video in our heads we are starting to source materials and actors. Over a longer period of time we kept our eyes open looking for potential actors around school. We all had our individual favourites that we sugested,...

Read More

Posted by : Anne Braatz Media

Share:

Planning Music Video

...

Read More

Posted by : Anne Braatz Media

Share:

Audience feedback

As we have now settled on our video concept we wanted to have some feedback of our target  audience. There for Honor and Thomas had a short interview with Ben, Anjuli and Rory who all suit our target audience profile. We had 5 questions that we wanted to...

Read More

Posted by : Anne Braatz Media

Share:

Visit from executive producer

Today Olli Allgrove came to talk to us about the company 'The Mill' and his work as an executive producer. These are my notes:  ...

Read More

Posted by : Anne Braatz Media

Share:

Updated Time Line

...

Read More

Posted by : Anne Braatz Media

Share:

Narrative development

 In this voice recording I am explaining the updated and developed music video concept, after our feedback from Luke. We decided to reintroduce a narrative to add more variety to the music video, preventing it from becoming boring. These are the notes I referred to during the voice...

Read More

Posted by : Anne Braatz Media

Share:

Time line #1

• 
• 

PrevNext

We needed to cut the song since its original length of 3 minutes 35, was too long. We selected to cut the guitar solo of 32 second. Therefor we are know working with a cut version of 2:99.  We then created this basic timeline of our song. We...

Read More

Posted by : Anne Braatz Media

Share:

Group discussion

In todays lesson, we have brainstormed what we want the girl to be doing while she is in the cage. The questions that rose when we were discussing the artists role: Who is it? Is she going to be strong enough? What is she doing? So as a...

Read More

Posted by : Anne Braatz Media

Share:

Cage design

...

Read More

Posted by : Anne Braatz Media

Share: