Update

Hey guys,

I've been researching music labels and have come up with quite a few good ideas.
Will show you in the meeting tomorrow

Screening

I just talked to Harry on Facebook and he has uni lectures the week we plan to do our screening but he is free on Wednesday. So we should definitely have our screening on that day if we want him to come.

Patricia

Editing Photos

Here is another example of editing our photos and different colour effects.

Here is the original image:

Here are some edits:

black and white

just airbrushed

 blue tint

colour burn

sepia

Editing Photos

For our album cover and website, we are going to need to airbrush our photos and edit them to make them look more professional.

Here is a practice version i tried to get our desired effect

                                                                        BEFORE

AFTER

Costume List

Hey guys, I've created a costume list for the shooting day. Oh, it's so soon. Can't wait.
Bianca, make sure you have all of the below, and i've already contacted Knyt and he's got everything.
Costume List for Knyt

Update

Hey Bianca

We really need/want to see that video of you dancing. Is there a way you could send it to us?

:)

Location Reccy

Today, we went to the studio to look around it and confirm our video shoot day.

We felt that it was extremely important for us to visit the studio before the day of the shoot as we could see what exactly would be possible and also get some more inspiration.

The studio isn't exactly what we were expecting as the pictures on the website did make it look a lot bigger. But we are happy with the variety of lights they have as well as all the different colour backdrops.

The picture of me above did hint out one problem we may have. I was actually wearing a PURPLE cardigan that day but in the picture, it definately looks BLUE.
This is a major issue as the camera we used to take that picture is the camera we are going to use to take the promotional shots and in those shots...we want the artist to be wearing PURPLE.

Hopefully, better lighting will improve the colour quality but if not, we'll have to do some serious editing in photoshop.

Call Sheet and Shot List

In order to prepare for the shoot and make sure we use our time efficiently, we have created a shot list and a call sheet.

Each person involved in the shoot has a copy of the call sheet so that in case of any situation, they know who to contact. We also have a shot list so that we can make sure we film every shot we need. The shot list is also the shooting schedule as it contains times so we know when each shot should be done by.
Shot List/Shooting Schedule



Call Sheet - Group 3

Update

Hey,

just got an email from asos. it says the order has been dispatched today and it should be delivered within 4 working days :S hopefully it comes in time !

Patricia

Final Costume

We have decided on the costume and mask for the dancer in our music video. We are really excited with the look we are going to create for the dancer and feel that she will look brilliant.

We decided on this costume because of the modern straps on the back so we can include shots of the dancers back which are usually found in R&B videos. The silver mask with the black feathers fits into our colour scheme and our almost "fairytale" theme.

Dancers and Runners

We tried but we haven't been able to find a dancer to feature in our music video so we have decided that Bianca will be the dancer. It will work out much better because she is already dedicated to the project, she has dance experience and is a really good performer.

In order to help us out on the day, we have got some trustworthy people to help us set up equipment and do various other jobs on the day and have got them to sign a contract:

Barnet Location Update

The owner of the studio in Barnet that we went to see on Saturday has emailed me and attached some up-to-date photos of the studio that were not previously on the website.

If we are using this as a back-up plan, we need to make some decisions quickly as it seems other people want to use this location during the week we would want to shoot it.

Location Update

As we are still looking for a studio location, I emailed Gap Studios West to inquire about their rates and whether any discounts were available. Below is the reply, I received:

Although the rate is quite high, they had said they would help us. I then rang them back to find out how they could help us and the owner said that they do not charge by the hour, the daily rate is fixed at £350 and they could not offer us any student discount.

Group Meeting

We have decided to make the music video more preformance and include little/ no storyline at all. This will make production slightly easier as we will only need to find a photographic studio and not a dance studio.

We are trying to finalise how the music video will look and play out and what studio we are actually going to use.

Fifth Group Meeting

Last week's targets (bold = done)

• Shots for each lyric.
• Location reccy.
• Confirmation of dancers.
• Contact Knyt and update him
• Find runners for music video.

This week's targets 

• Finalise lyric breakdown
• FIND DANCERS!!!
• FIND STUDIO!!!
• Based on the studio we get, go through our initial music video and see if it's suitable for the location
• Start organising costumes and props for the video
• Have a meeting with the runners
• Meet up with Knyt 

Studios

Here is a list of the possible studios we looked at and the prices for a full day.

Holborn Studios – Full day - £350

Gap Studios – Full day - £350

Denmark Studios – Full day - £670

Waterloo Film studios – Full day - £520

Mind studio – full day - £260

Adrian pini studios – full day – 10 hours - £220

The light studios - full day - £220

Studio time – full day - £225

Update

Hey guys,

The studio person just emailed me back. they said it's fine to take pictures and they'll be expecting us.
so tomorrow lets sort out exactly what we need to do.

AND won't we have to take promotional shots for the website and album cover on the filming day ? or will we just do it in the seward studio after half term ?

Patricia

So far..

So far, we've discussed our shot ideas for the beginning and end of the song and have gone through the lyrics line by line and have noted down what we think the visual should be.
This has been very useful and we plan to have a group meeting tomorrow to try finish this off.

We have emailed the studio to go and visit it on Saturday at midday. We plan to take photos of the location and see if it is suitable and matches with our shot ideas.

Fourth Group Meeting

We've presented our treatment so right now it's time to crack on and start planning for the production of the music video. Our main priority is to assign rough shots to each lyric of the song. It's going to take quite a while, but in the end, it'll be worth it because it'll make it easier to storyboard the video. So here goes!

Targets for this week

• Shots for each lyric.
• Location reccy.
• Confirmation of dancers.
• Contact Knyt and update him
• Find runners for music video.

Peace & Light Photographic and Film Studio

It has come to our attention that the Seward studio will most likely be unavailable during the half term.

We feel that this studio in Barnet, North London would be a perfect location to film a lot of the music video in.

http://www.londonstudiohire.com/index.html

http://www.londonstudiohire.com/gallery.html - This is a link to the gallery which shows images of the location.

We would like to visit the location this Saturday (9/10/10) to see if it will really be suitable for the video.

I emailed the owner of the studio to see if it would be alright for us to visit :

I received this reply within 20 minutes :