I've kept a production diary in order to chronologically
track all of our planning for our final music video.
21st Sep: Today we got into our groups and each pitched 3
song ideas with a rough plan as to what we could do for the music video
attached. We discussed what we liked and disliked about some of the ideas but
we came to a final conclusion that we liked Buried Alive - Logic, and Children
Of The Wild - Steve Angello as our final 2 songs to pitch to the class for
their feedback.
22nd Sep: In this meeting we pitched our 2 song/ music video
ideas to the class, we just showed them the lyrics whilst the audio of the song
played so that we could see how they interpreted the song compared to us. They
came up with some good and bad points which made us rethink our song
suggestions. The biggest problem they thought we would face would be the speed
of the rap at certain points throughout the song but we decided that we could
work through this problem and solve it so we decided to use Logic's Buried
Alive as our final suggestion.
23rd Sep: Today I created an availability table so that we
could easily see when we had free's together where we could use this as group
meetings or filming. I also highlighted when we had media lessons so that we
are able to plan ahead and use our time productively. I also made a group chat
on Whatsapp so that we're able to communicate easily.
24th Sep: Today I looked at websites and CD covers from the
rap genre in order to gain an understanding of how we could design and display
ours. James also did some research on Kendrick Lamar's website as well as Logic
and I did some additional research on 50 Cent. Issak did a practice lip syncing
task for our music video so that we had an idea on the
difficulty of the speed. Here is his practice;
25th Sep: Today I decided to do some artist research on
Logic as I don't usually listen to any music in the Rap genre and I wanted to
know some more about him. I felt this would help as when we want to create an
identity/ personality for our artist I will be able to help and input ideas.
28th Sep: Today I did some research into rap parody videos
and found a few on YouTube. I watched them and thought how each parody mocked
different things, some mocked lyrics, costumes and even appearance of group
members. Issak worked on doing a steal-o-matic which works as a moving, visual
mood board to present our inspiration. James kept researching website and CD
covers from similar genres.
29th Sep: Today Issak carried on with the steal-o-matic as a
lot of detail needs to be put in for this. James continued to do some more
research for our website and digipak. Today I wrote a letter of permission to
our Artists record label requesting permission to use their song to create a
music video to. I have sent this off in the post to await a reply.
30th Sep: Today I did some font research as to which font we
want to have in order to feature on all of our merchandising, website and album
covers. Issak continued to work on the steal-o-matic and also continued with
the annotated timeline of lyrics.
1st Oct: Today I wrote a prop and location list so that we
know what props we need when we start to film. Issak finished the
steal-o-matic.
2nd Oct: Today we were unable to progress with our group
planning as we had a workshop with Pete Fraser and Jake Wynne which we all
attended.
5th Oct: Today we blogged about our Pete Fraser and Jake
Wynne workshop. We reflected on what we had learnt.
6th Oct: Today I did a shooting schedule to decide when we
could film our first shoot and what we would film. Issak and James decided to
do a photoshoot for Issak so that we could experiment with some album/ website
photos. Issak then edited some potential photos for the digipak.
7th Oct: Today James wasn't here so Issak and I decided to
do some more work on the timeline of annotated lyrics. I also did a risk
assessment for shooting and emailed the council for permission to film in
Chelmsford Crematorium.
9th Oct: Today I started the storyboard and decided on some
of the shot types for our music video. I tried to vary the shot types so that
they would be interesting and keep the audience captivated. Issak used some
different effects on photo shop and edited the album cover for our digipak with
input from myself and James as to which fonts, colours, styles and positioning
on the cover.
12th Oct: Today, I carried on creating our storyboard so
that we knew exactly what we needed to film and to which lyric they fit with.
James did some digipak research as to what other rap artists look like and what
to include on it. Issak came up with a name for himself and quickly drew up
some examples on photoshop to show the rest of our group and to get some quick
feedback.
13th Oct: Today I did some extra website research as I was
still a little unsure of how our website should look and the layout of it.
James looked at different videos and found some inspiration as to what ideas we
could include in our video. This then helped Issak to continue completing some
ideas onto our annotated lyrics post.
15th Oct: Today I filled out a shooting schedule so that we
could organise our shooting and make sure that we knew what we wanted to shoot
and when we wanted to shoot.
16th Oct: Today we started to film some of the green screen
shots as we decided this would be easy to film first so that we had some
footage to play around. We then decided to film outside so that we could get
some long shots of Issak as we found this challenging in the green screen room.
We shot a few shots for several lines of the first verse.
19th Oct: Today we sat as a group and brainstormed ideas
that we could include into our timeline of annotated lyrics for verse 2.
20th Oct: Today we filmed a few more lines of our music
video. The locations we filmed in were the crematorium and near to a block of
flats. We wanted to film with 2 cameras so that we could get some different
angles of one shot but as James couldn't make the shoot, we were unable to do
this.
21st Oct: Issak continued to edit today whilst James and I
did some more planning for our music video. James continued to work on the
website and tried to experiment with different layouts and contents. Today, I
updated our production diary as we were a few days behind and then I carried on
updating the storyboard as we had added to the annotated lyrics.
23rd Oct: Today Issak and I filmed all morning as James was
absent. We went back to he block of flats to re-shoot some of our previous
shots as the footage wasn't good enough to put into our video. Once we got back
we uploaded the footage and Issak started to edit some of this footage. We all
filled out a questionnaire based around the level of input and general
evaluation of each team member. We then went to a different location to film on
some stairs as we thought we could get some different angles to the shots here.
2nd Nov: Today we had a class meeting and discussed the
website research that we needed to do in order to make our website match
similar websites within this genre.
3rd Nov: Today, Issak continued to edit some of the footage
we have previously shot. James added to our halfway evaluation presentation as
he wanted to add some more information and explanation to it. I reflected on
some of our filming shoots so far so that we could learn from our mistakes and
in order to help us save time when filming.
4th Nov: Today, none of my group were in the lesson due to
other commitments, so I watched the other group present their halfway
evaluation and gave them some feedback on their digipak, website and their
music video concept idea.
5th Nov: Today we had a brief meeting and decided not to do
any filming so that we could each individually catch up with any bits of
paperwork that we needed to finish or add to. Issak carried on editing the
footage we had already shot.
6th Nov: Today we presented our halfway evaluation to the
group, we received some feedback on this and will continue to look into this
and improve based on the feedback.
9th Nov: Today we filmed Issak at some different locations
so that we had some more footage to edit. We tried to use a variety of urban
locations to use similar locations to the stereotypical rap genre videos.
10th Nov: Today, Issak wasn't here, so James and I decided
to make sure all our work was up to date and we planned for everything else we
needed to get done and by which deadlines they needed to be finished by. James
also continued to work on the website and I did some more research.
11th Nov: Today, Issak wasn't here again so James and I were
unable to film so we carried on with paperwork tasks.
13th Nov: Today, Issak wasn't here so I filmed another time
lapse of the sky so that we could add that to our music video. James added some
more to the website and I did some further research to support our digipak.
15th Nov: Today, we filmed for a large proportion of our
music video. We had 2 cameras and managed to capture lots of different shots.
16th Nov: Today, James carried on with the website. we uploaded our footage onto the computer so that Issak could start editing.
17th Nov: Today I updated the shooting schedule so that we can keep track of when and what we've filmed. James carried on with the website and Issak continued editing.
18th Nov: Today, Issak continued to edit. James did some sketches as what he wanted the final website to look like and I looked at some previous student videos which achieved high marks for some inspiration and I also tried to give them a mark, picking out what worked well and what didn't.
19th Nov: Today, Issak carried on editing whilst James continued to update the website. I filmed the storyboard and explained the shots and what would happen in each shot. I edited it and uploaded it to the blog.
23rd Nov: Today, Issak created the tour poster on photoshop so that we could include it on our website which James continued to work on. I did some research on some magazine articles of rap artists for some inspiration as to what we could use and include on ours, including the layout.
24th Nov: Today, James added products on the website to our store so that its available for our fans to select items branded by iSO. Issak edited some more of our footage and I edited the storyboard on premier as well as planning the interview to film.
25th Nov: Today, we filmed Issak for the interview and then we uploaded the footage and Issak edited it together.
27th Nov: Today, Issak wasn't in so James finalised the last details for the website and I finished the magazine article.
1st Dec: Today, we watched each others first draft of our music videos and gave constructive feedback as to what they could do to make it better and what did or didn't go well.
2nd Dec: Today, I looked at everyone's websites and gave feedback on what I thought was good and what could have been better.
3rd Dec: Today, I looked at everyone's digipaks and gave them feedback as group as to what went well and even better if.
4th Dec: Today, we looked at our video feedback and decided which shots within our music video that we should re-shoot and which shots worked well.
7th Dec: Today, I edited the rest of the storyboard together so that we could export it and upload it to our blogs. James looked at the feedback we got from the website and changed parts of it to make the website better from this feedback. Issak finished adding some extra details on to the digipak after looking at the feedback.
8th Dec: Today, I decided what we could add to the website and the digipak based on the feedback as neither James nor Issak was in the lesson.
9th Dec: Today, I went through my blog with my teacher to decide on posts that I need to add in order to support my research. Issak continued to edit the digipak as the deadline is today.