The final video can be found on Vimeo, the link is shown below;
https://vimeo.com/63849731
Friday, 12 April 2013
Conclusion
The planning of the music video was very successful, by planning out the music video we were able to shoot all of the shots efficiently with relative ease, the storyboard was probably the most important part of the planning process as we were able to identify the narrative shot by shot. The shooting schedule helped me to ensure that all of the shots were filmed and also helped with timing the shoot. The lyric breakdown helped me and the band (including Cara) to sync up the beats/voices to the song. By making a lighting plan we were able to imagine how the lights would look before being on set, this saved time in setting-up.
Even though setting up in the warehouse took slightly longer than what we expected, the shoot in general went really well, the hardest shot we had to film was the shot of the camera tracking away from the projection on the wall and moving to Cara singing the song with the band, this shot involved a lot of timing because we had to time Cara on the projection to ensure she was synced when she was singing in the warehouse.The rest of the filming went without hitch, the only problem with the warehouse scene was sorting the projection out and the fact that we finished a couple of hours later than we thought we would.
We didn't encounter many problems while shooting the narrative, the only problem we did have was having to stop and wait for various dog walkers and people getting into the shots accidentally, this wasn't a major problem it just set us back a bit time wise but I had allowed time for this and we actually finished that shoot ahead of schedule.
Overall I am very pleased with the final outcome of the music video, I feel as if we did a good job at editing it to the beat and I feel that the pace of the video helps to keep the audience interested in it. We worked really well as a team which I feel shows in the finished product.
I feel as if I have learnt a lot from this assignment and have gained more experience about organization, syncing, color correcting and directing. The only real problem we had was with the different camera styles but I feel as if I helped to overcome the issues that arose from this complication.
Even though setting up in the warehouse took slightly longer than what we expected, the shoot in general went really well, the hardest shot we had to film was the shot of the camera tracking away from the projection on the wall and moving to Cara singing the song with the band, this shot involved a lot of timing because we had to time Cara on the projection to ensure she was synced when she was singing in the warehouse.The rest of the filming went without hitch, the only problem with the warehouse scene was sorting the projection out and the fact that we finished a couple of hours later than we thought we would.
We didn't encounter many problems while shooting the narrative, the only problem we did have was having to stop and wait for various dog walkers and people getting into the shots accidentally, this wasn't a major problem it just set us back a bit time wise but I had allowed time for this and we actually finished that shoot ahead of schedule.
Overall I am very pleased with the final outcome of the music video, I feel as if we did a good job at editing it to the beat and I feel that the pace of the video helps to keep the audience interested in it. We worked really well as a team which I feel shows in the finished product.
I feel as if I have learnt a lot from this assignment and have gained more experience about organization, syncing, color correcting and directing. The only real problem we had was with the different camera styles but I feel as if I helped to overcome the issues that arose from this complication.
My Role
I took up the part of the director and also a producer for the film, this means that I had to organize all of the shoots and insure that all of the shots were filmed and timed correctly.
In the production process of the film I contributed a lot to the story board by telling Luke what shots I wanted and giving my opinions on the shots that would take place, I also worked with Ryan on the timings of the shots and worked on pointing out what lines of the songs went with each shot, this helped us to plan out the music video more efficiently and helped with editing the music video.
I ensured that all of the required equipment was booked for the right time and that all the equipment was ready to go for each shoot. As Ryan was setting up the cameras I ensured that all of the other equipment such as the Jib and the tripods were all ready to go as well as letting the actors know what we were filming next and what they needed to do.
I created a Shooting schedule that would help me to plan out what time of the day each shot will be filmed, the shooting schedule ensured that all of the shots were filmed on time this helped us to make the shoot more efficient and get more filmed in a shorter amount of time, this also ensured that no shot was missed and everything we planned to film was included.
Ryan created a document that showed the timings of all of the lines highlighting at what time they started, what time they ended and the duration of each line, this was very helpful to me as I used it a lot to find the part of the song that Cara needed to sing. Playing the song from my laptop she could sync herself to the timings of the song, ensuring that syncing her voice to the song in post would be a lot easier.
While on set in the warehouse I was the one that was telling everyone what shot we were filming next, what they had to be doing and what part of the song it was. I was responsible for ensuring that all of the shots were filmed and synced correctly so that in post we could easily choose the shot we wanted and sync it up to the film. I came up with a lot of shots during the actual filming of the warehouse scene such as, a shot of Cara starting from her feet and rising up the length of her body, this shot was really effective a looked really good. Another shot I came up involved Cara moving from the mic stand to the lead guitarist and dancing back to back then moving over to the Bass player and start to sing at him, this shot also worked really well as it looks very natural and fun.
In editing I gave a lot of opinion towards how I would like it to look, obviously the music video had already been planned out which meant the editing would be easier and go faster, we all looked over it many times and gave our opinions on whether or not a certain shot worked or if we thought that a shot needed to be replaced etc.
I helped a lot with the color grading of the music video, this turned out to be a lot harder than we thought it would be myself and Luke worked on color grading the music video, we discovered that there were differences in the styles in which we filmed, meaning that a lot of the shots looked very different when it came to color. This made the color grading a lot more time consuming.
As well as color grading I also contributed to the making the small videos and the credits at the end of the video, these small videos were added as we thought that they would make the music video a bit more light-hearted and was a fun way to end the music video.
In the production process of the film I contributed a lot to the story board by telling Luke what shots I wanted and giving my opinions on the shots that would take place, I also worked with Ryan on the timings of the shots and worked on pointing out what lines of the songs went with each shot, this helped us to plan out the music video more efficiently and helped with editing the music video.
I ensured that all of the required equipment was booked for the right time and that all the equipment was ready to go for each shoot. As Ryan was setting up the cameras I ensured that all of the other equipment such as the Jib and the tripods were all ready to go as well as letting the actors know what we were filming next and what they needed to do.
I created a Shooting schedule that would help me to plan out what time of the day each shot will be filmed, the shooting schedule ensured that all of the shots were filmed on time this helped us to make the shoot more efficient and get more filmed in a shorter amount of time, this also ensured that no shot was missed and everything we planned to film was included.
Ryan created a document that showed the timings of all of the lines highlighting at what time they started, what time they ended and the duration of each line, this was very helpful to me as I used it a lot to find the part of the song that Cara needed to sing. Playing the song from my laptop she could sync herself to the timings of the song, ensuring that syncing her voice to the song in post would be a lot easier.
While on set in the warehouse I was the one that was telling everyone what shot we were filming next, what they had to be doing and what part of the song it was. I was responsible for ensuring that all of the shots were filmed and synced correctly so that in post we could easily choose the shot we wanted and sync it up to the film. I came up with a lot of shots during the actual filming of the warehouse scene such as, a shot of Cara starting from her feet and rising up the length of her body, this shot was really effective a looked really good. Another shot I came up involved Cara moving from the mic stand to the lead guitarist and dancing back to back then moving over to the Bass player and start to sing at him, this shot also worked really well as it looks very natural and fun.
In editing I gave a lot of opinion towards how I would like it to look, obviously the music video had already been planned out which meant the editing would be easier and go faster, we all looked over it many times and gave our opinions on whether or not a certain shot worked or if we thought that a shot needed to be replaced etc.
I helped a lot with the color grading of the music video, this turned out to be a lot harder than we thought it would be myself and Luke worked on color grading the music video, we discovered that there were differences in the styles in which we filmed, meaning that a lot of the shots looked very different when it came to color. This made the color grading a lot more time consuming.
As well as color grading I also contributed to the making the small videos and the credits at the end of the video, these small videos were added as we thought that they would make the music video a bit more light-hearted and was a fun way to end the music video.
Thursday, 11 April 2013
Color Grading
Myself and Luke worked on the Color grading of the Video, this turned out to be more difficult than we intended as we discovered that some of the shots were filmed with different settings on the cameras, predominately we filmed using cine style with one camera, however this camera was placed on a steady-cam and once it was on we couldn't take it off due to the time it would take to set it back up. This in mind we set-up two other Canon 550D cameras on different pieces of equipment (a Jib and a Tripod) although in the rush of setting up, these two cameras were not set to cine style, one was set to standard and the other was set to faithful, these three different styles all look very different which made our job a big problem.
The first problem we encountered was between two shots (which can be seen below), one of these shots had direct light hitting Cara's face and the other was filmed with a different camera style without so much direct light.
As you can see from the above images the one on the left hand side is more washed out which can be seen if you look at Cara's jumper, after adjusting the color with color correcting effects we still couldn't match the colors of the two shots, the skin tones wouldn't match which was a big problem as the two shots followed each other.
To solve the problem I researched into skin tone adjustments and color correction in Adobe premier, I managed to find an Adobe tutorial which helps someone to use a secondary color corrector, this tool helped us to change the saturation and the color of an individual color in the shot. The tutorial is seen below.
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/adobe-evangelists-jason-levine/basic-secondary-color-correctiongrading-in-premiere-pro-cs55/
By using this tutorial we could use masks, and color pickers to select certain aspects of the shots and adjust them while leaving the aspects that don't need changing as they are. This helped us a lot and from the tutorial we could change the colors so the two shots matched a lot better to each other (shown below).
I worked a lot more on the color correction of the warehouse scenes, for these shots I made the blacks a lot harsher, and I increased the saturation on the shots, also the warehouse shots looked very cold, so I made the shots look warmer by giving them an orange tint. This made the color look a lot more powerful, which can be seen in the comparison of the glitter, the right hand image looks a lot more vibrant where as the left hand image looks very washed out. The two images on the bottom are very different, the left side image looks very blue and washed out, the image on the right has been adjusted so that the blacks are harsher and the color has been made warmer. The two images on the right hand side have a slight difference between them but the images are still very similarly matched.
The first problem we encountered was between two shots (which can be seen below), one of these shots had direct light hitting Cara's face and the other was filmed with a different camera style without so much direct light.
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| Comparison of two shots with different styles |
To solve the problem I researched into skin tone adjustments and color correction in Adobe premier, I managed to find an Adobe tutorial which helps someone to use a secondary color corrector, this tool helped us to change the saturation and the color of an individual color in the shot. The tutorial is seen below.
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/adobe-evangelists-jason-levine/basic-secondary-color-correctiongrading-in-premiere-pro-cs55/
By using this tutorial we could use masks, and color pickers to select certain aspects of the shots and adjust them while leaving the aspects that don't need changing as they are. This helped us a lot and from the tutorial we could change the colors so the two shots matched a lot better to each other (shown below).
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| Images after color correction |
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| Comparison of two different shots before and after color correction |
The Warehouse
The warehouse location took a lot more time to set-up than we had anticipated, we had a lot of equipment and we needed it to be set-up in a specific way, this was hindered by the lack of power supplies in the warehouse which meant a lot maneuvering wires around and re-positioning lights. We also had to position the band and all of there equipment until we were satisfied with it.
The lighting played a big part of the warehouse scene. Luke created a lighting plan to put the light set-up in a diagram form so that we could follow it when setting up the lights (below).
This set-up worked very well although it had to be adapted on-set as the two lights at the front of the set up were lighting the background too much and we wanted it to be as dark as possible, we decided to move these lights more to the side of the band, this way all of the lights were set up in a semi-circle formation. This set-up looked really good on the camera and when color graded the shot works really well (see below).
The original idea was to project two shots on to the band, the back wall and onto the band's equipment. Unfortunately the lights prevented us from doing this as they were too powerful for the light of the projector, this resulted in the light from the projection being diffused, this was a big problem as we really liked the idea of projecting the narrative into the warehouse scene, after playing around with different positions we found that there was a small section of the wall that we could project onto, we positioned the projector behind the band and aimed it so it would shine between two of the lights, this would give us a projection that can be seen, even though the projection isn't the best quality you can make out what is happening in the shot.
My idea of the glitter worked really well in the video as it reflected in the light and the overall impression was very effective, I was very satisfied at the outcome of the glitter shots as they didn't look too 'cheesy', instead they looked quite stylized.
Cara's idea of adding smoke to the scene worked really well as it added a little mist to the shots and gave a finishing touch to them.
We also filmed one of the final shots in the warehouse, this involved filming Cara and Nathan against a white background, this shot was filmed once all of the bands hot were completed, for this shot we needed to shine a lot of light on the white background.
Even though the warehouse went on for longer than we expected we all worked extremely hard and worked really well together, this is probably one of the most difficult set-ups we have ever attempted but we managed to pull it off.
The warehouse set with the team working
The lighting played a big part of the warehouse scene. Luke created a lighting plan to put the light set-up in a diagram form so that we could follow it when setting up the lights (below).
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| Lighting plan |
This set-up worked very well although it had to be adapted on-set as the two lights at the front of the set up were lighting the background too much and we wanted it to be as dark as possible, we decided to move these lights more to the side of the band, this way all of the lights were set up in a semi-circle formation. This set-up looked really good on the camera and when color graded the shot works really well (see below).
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| Example of lighting set-up |
The original idea was to project two shots on to the band, the back wall and onto the band's equipment. Unfortunately the lights prevented us from doing this as they were too powerful for the light of the projector, this resulted in the light from the projection being diffused, this was a big problem as we really liked the idea of projecting the narrative into the warehouse scene, after playing around with different positions we found that there was a small section of the wall that we could project onto, we positioned the projector behind the band and aimed it so it would shine between two of the lights, this would give us a projection that can be seen, even though the projection isn't the best quality you can make out what is happening in the shot.
My idea of the glitter worked really well in the video as it reflected in the light and the overall impression was very effective, I was very satisfied at the outcome of the glitter shots as they didn't look too 'cheesy', instead they looked quite stylized.
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| Example of Glitter shots |
Cara's idea of adding smoke to the scene worked really well as it added a little mist to the shots and gave a finishing touch to them.
We also filmed one of the final shots in the warehouse, this involved filming Cara and Nathan against a white background, this shot was filmed once all of the bands hot were completed, for this shot we needed to shine a lot of light on the white background.
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| Cara and Nathan arguing |
Even though the warehouse went on for longer than we expected we all worked extremely hard and worked really well together, this is probably one of the most difficult set-ups we have ever attempted but we managed to pull it off.
The warehouse set with the team working
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| Me directing Cara |
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| Me and Ryan discussing the shot |
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| Luke and me waiting for the smoke machine |
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| Me making sure Ryan doesn't trip as he walks backwards |
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| The team discussing a shot |
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| The team talking with Nathan about the shot |
The Projection Edit
Because we needed to have footage to project onto the band, we had to edit and export different parts of the footage that we had already filmed that day.
We had to edit the projection on the move so that we didn't waste time and keep people waiting, overall there were two shots that needed to be edited but we had to decide on which take was the best as we could only project one take on the band and we had to make sure that this was the right length and that Cara was singing in sync so that the sync would be right when we moved from a shot of the projection to a shot of the band.
We had to edit the projection on the move so that we didn't waste time and keep people waiting, overall there were two shots that needed to be edited but we had to decide on which take was the best as we could only project one take on the band and we had to make sure that this was the right length and that Cara was singing in sync so that the sync would be right when we moved from a shot of the projection to a shot of the band.
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| Examples of how the projections looked |
Lyric Breakdown
Ryan created a page that identifies the timings of each line of the song.
The breakdown includes what the line number is, this helped when using the storyboard as we had noted down what number line is playing during certain shots.
The breakdown also includes the time in the song that each line starts, ends, duration of each line and what the lyrics are on that line. I used this document a lot while filming the music video as it helped me tremendously to find the part of the song that we wanted to play so that Cara could sync to it, this stopped everyone waiting around for the music to play through.
The lyric breakdown was most useful during the warehouse scenes as myself and Luke were able to find the part of the song we needed very fast and we could concentrate on filming shots without worrying about what part of the song we needed to play.
The breakdown includes what the line number is, this helped when using the storyboard as we had noted down what number line is playing during certain shots.
The breakdown also includes the time in the song that each line starts, ends, duration of each line and what the lyrics are on that line. I used this document a lot while filming the music video as it helped me tremendously to find the part of the song that we wanted to play so that Cara could sync to it, this stopped everyone waiting around for the music to play through.
The lyric breakdown was most useful during the warehouse scenes as myself and Luke were able to find the part of the song we needed very fast and we could concentrate on filming shots without worrying about what part of the song we needed to play.
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| Lyric breakdown |
Wednesday, 10 April 2013
Shooting schedule
I created this shooting schedule to help me with directing the music video, it helps to break up the different locations/shoots into single shots of the film this means that the filming is more organized and it makes life easier for myself.
The filming process will be completed over a day and will be split into two different shoots, one will start in the morning and the second will begin in the afternoon. Filming in one day makes the shoot more stressful and harder to organize but is very practical in the sense that it wont be as time consuming and when we have the actors for one day, we don't have to worry about there availability for another day.
The first shoot will consist of filming all of the narrative shots, in the shooting schedule below I have labelled the location, the approximate time that the shoot will begin and approximated how long each shot will take to film. This helped me to understand what I should be filming and when.
Some other information that I put on the shooting schedule was the action of the shot which will help to remind me what the actors are doing at which point in the music video. to ensure that all of the music video was covered the Lines for each shot have been noted too, this will help with syncing the artist to the song for filming and also will make the editing faster and easier.
Once the Narrative shots are filmed we will be moving on to an empty warehouse to film Cara singing while a band plays. For the band scenes I created a simple structure of shots which we could film for each chorus of the song (the parts in which the Warehouse shots will be filmed), for example the first shots we will be filming would be filming different swooping shots for each of the choruses, this would take 40 minutes to film.
For some of the choruses we wanted certain shots that would only be used for that individual chorus such as Cara moving with the camera for chorus 3, this shot wouldn't take as long to film.
Below is the simple structure that I have created which lists the different types of shots that we want to film and how long it will take to film them, as you can see I allowed an hour for setting up as we are using a lot of lights and the set-up could be complicated and time consuming.
On this part of the schedule certain shot types need specialist equipment such as a Jib or Steady-Cam, this bit of information has been included to help me tell Ryan (the camera operator) what he has to film next, what equipment he will be using and how I would like the shot to look.
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| Narrative shooting schedule |
Once the Narrative shots are filmed we will be moving on to an empty warehouse to film Cara singing while a band plays. For the band scenes I created a simple structure of shots which we could film for each chorus of the song (the parts in which the Warehouse shots will be filmed), for example the first shots we will be filming would be filming different swooping shots for each of the choruses, this would take 40 minutes to film.
For some of the choruses we wanted certain shots that would only be used for that individual chorus such as Cara moving with the camera for chorus 3, this shot wouldn't take as long to film.
Below is the simple structure that I have created which lists the different types of shots that we want to film and how long it will take to film them, as you can see I allowed an hour for setting up as we are using a lot of lights and the set-up could be complicated and time consuming.
On this part of the schedule certain shot types need specialist equipment such as a Jib or Steady-Cam, this bit of information has been included to help me tell Ryan (the camera operator) what he has to film next, what equipment he will be using and how I would like the shot to look.
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| Warehouse Shot list |
Production meeting
We held a production meeting before the shoot, we used this time to fill Cara in on what we would be filming and how we were going to go about it.
It was at this point that we created all of the documents that we needed such as; the lyric breakdown, the shooting schedule and the lighting plan. During this time we discussed some other ideas that we had. Cara thought that it would be a good idea to use a smoke machine to add more of a mist affect to the shots, I agreed with Cara that using the smoke machine would be a good idea
We also decided at this time to change one of the locations, the location we changed was Cara sitting on the wall, originally Cara was to be sitting on a wall while the boy walked past, however we couldn't find a location that would be practical for using a Jib and look nice visually, so myself and Luke decided that we would change the location from her sitting on a wall to her sitting on a bench that has a lake behind her, we found this location to be very visually appealing.
The production meeting also gave us a chance to talk with Cara and finalize all of the actors and the band members making sure that they were available to film at the time we wanted them.
It was at this point that we created all of the documents that we needed such as; the lyric breakdown, the shooting schedule and the lighting plan. During this time we discussed some other ideas that we had. Cara thought that it would be a good idea to use a smoke machine to add more of a mist affect to the shots, I agreed with Cara that using the smoke machine would be a good idea
We also decided at this time to change one of the locations, the location we changed was Cara sitting on the wall, originally Cara was to be sitting on a wall while the boy walked past, however we couldn't find a location that would be practical for using a Jib and look nice visually, so myself and Luke decided that we would change the location from her sitting on a wall to her sitting on a bench that has a lake behind her, we found this location to be very visually appealing.
The production meeting also gave us a chance to talk with Cara and finalize all of the actors and the band members making sure that they were available to film at the time we wanted them.
Storyboard
One of the first things that we created was the storyboard, this was one of the main parts of planning for the music video, it allowed us to plan out the structure of the music video and it allowed us to design how we wanted the shots to be filmed. The story boarding of the Music video was how the final idea was established.
Luke was the main artist for the storyboard and he would draw the shots that me and Ryan came up with, we all contributed to the whole structure of the video and to the narrative of the storyline.
We decided to have an introduction to the narrative of the music video, this introduction would make the situation a little clearer for the audience, hinting towards the two of them being lovers and then showing the audience that they are just friends.
Page 1 (Below) of the storyboard involved the two friends sitting Cara's bed watching a film, this intimate setting will suggest to the audience that the two are lovers, Cara will look into the boys eyes and smile showing that she is in love with him (as seen in shot two), the boy will receive a text message from an unknown person and then will tell Cara he needs to leave (shot 3 & 4). The boy will then give Cara a friendly hug (shot 5), Cara will then be seen playing her guitar and the music for the song will start.
Page 2 starts off showing a hidden transition in the video, it will be initiated with the boy walking past Cara, he will be very close to the camera making the shot turn black (shot 7), he will then move out of the way of the shot revealing Cara singing on a wall (shot 8). Shots 9 and 10 show Cara sitting on a wall playing the guitar, as the boy walks off Cara follows behind him. The next two shots show Cara following behind the boy as he walks towards his friends that he meets on a pathway, these shots will be shown as the pre-chorus plays (see the lyrics post).
Page 4 starts with shot 19 as Cara kicks the boy off the swings, we thought this would make the video a bit more light hearted and fun for the audience. The girl who is on the swings with the boy will jump off and go to help him (shot 20), this shot will be another that is projected on the band but this time it will be for the second Chorus.
Again we will go back to the warehouse for the second chorus.
Shot 21 shows what we will be filming for the slight instrumental in the music video in this shot the boy will be standing in the middle of a rock formation (resembling stone henge hence the name), Cara will then walk anti-clockwise around the boy as she sings at him, as Cara is walking around the boy, the camera will be moving clockwise around Cara. I thought that this concept would look nice on camera as it is a bit different and could look visually nice.
For shot 22 see the Coda Page (after the picture below).
We also decided that we would change from Cara sitting on a wall in shot 8 to her sitting
on the back of a bench as we could get a much nicer looking background. On the bench we would be able to see a lake, which we agreed would look better than having her on a wall with cars behind which is what we would have seen originally.
Luke was the main artist for the storyboard and he would draw the shots that me and Ryan came up with, we all contributed to the whole structure of the video and to the narrative of the storyline.
We decided to have an introduction to the narrative of the music video, this introduction would make the situation a little clearer for the audience, hinting towards the two of them being lovers and then showing the audience that they are just friends.
Page 1 (Below) of the storyboard involved the two friends sitting Cara's bed watching a film, this intimate setting will suggest to the audience that the two are lovers, Cara will look into the boys eyes and smile showing that she is in love with him (as seen in shot two), the boy will receive a text message from an unknown person and then will tell Cara he needs to leave (shot 3 & 4). The boy will then give Cara a friendly hug (shot 5), Cara will then be seen playing her guitar and the music for the song will start.
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| Storyboard page 1 |
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| Storyboard page 2 |
Page 3 starts with a shot of Cara circling the boy and his friends, this shot will be projected behind the band for the warehouse shots (shot 13).
Between shots 13 and 14 there will be lots of shots in the warehouse of Cara and the band playing the song. This hasn't been story boarded as a lot of the shots will be the same and we decided it would be too time consuming to draw each individual angle for all of the band shots. These shots will last for all of the first chorus.
Shot 13 marks the start of the second verse, the shot shows Cara and the boy walking on a path and pushing each other in a teasing way, a girl will then come into shot waving towards the boy who will start walking toward this new girl. Cara will carry on walking without realizing the boy has left her side, she will then turn back and look for him (shot 15). There will be a shot of the couple hugging who will move out of frame to reveal Cara playing her guitar behind them (shot 16 & 17). Shot 17 will end with Cara nodding her head to her left which will initiate the whip pan that will end with Cara playing behind the couple who are on the swings (shot 18).
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| Storyboard page 3 |
Again we will go back to the warehouse for the second chorus.
Shot 21 shows what we will be filming for the slight instrumental in the music video in this shot the boy will be standing in the middle of a rock formation (resembling stone henge hence the name), Cara will then walk anti-clockwise around the boy as she sings at him, as Cara is walking around the boy, the camera will be moving clockwise around Cara. I thought that this concept would look nice on camera as it is a bit different and could look visually nice.
For shot 22 see the Coda Page (after the picture below).
Shot 26 will consist of Cara telling the boy off as she sings at him, this will be filmed against a white background to make it look as if it isn't real and to make it look a bit dreamy.
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| Storyboard page 5 |
A coda in music is a part of the song that repeats itself, this coda consists of 4 repeated lines. For the coda we thought it would look good to have Cara singing a single line in each of the locations of the music video ending with her in the warehouse.
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| Storyboard Coda page |
Changes to the storyboard
Before filming the introduction, Myself and Ryan decided to make a few changes so we added another page to the storyboard, this page contains 3 more shots that will be added/replace other shots to the intro, the first shot we added was to have Cara already playing the guitar while the boy was behind her on the phone.
Ryan thought that it would be nice to have an extreme close-up of the guitar while Cara played it, as this would be a better way of starting the music.
The third shot that we added to the storyboard was of the boy on the phone as we thought that this would make him look rude and insensitive towards Cara's feelings because he is on the phone to another girl while he is supposed to be 'hanging out' with Cara.
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| Storyboard changes |
I thought that it would be a good idea to have the text that the boy receives to come up on the screen, rather than having a shot of the boy with his phone out, this would be easier to read and would look nicer on the screen, this would be similar to how the television series Sherlock does it (see video below).
on the back of a bench as we could get a much nicer looking background. On the bench we would be able to see a lake, which we agreed would look better than having her on a wall with cars behind which is what we would have seen originally.
Speaking With Cara
Speaking with Cara was a very good way of developing the idea for the music video, we were able to tell her the ideas we had and she could tells us if she liked them or not. It was also good to discuss her own ideas about the film as this gave us an understanding of what she wanted form us and of what she wanted the music video to be like.
We used Skype to keep in contact with Cara and to discuss developments with her, this also gave her an opportunity to tell us any more ideas that she had.
These Skype sessions were extremely useful as it was a chance to interact with the artist and be given feedback on all of our plans, at first we had misinterpreted the song and took a whole different meaning from it, which meant that the idea that we had created was completely wrong for the song and it was in one of these Skype sessions that Cara explained to us what she wrote the song about and what the themes of the song were.
From this we were able to re-think and re-vamp our idea into something that was right for the song, something Cara likes and something that would appeal to the audience.
We used Skype to keep in contact with Cara and to discuss developments with her, this also gave her an opportunity to tell us any more ideas that she had.
These Skype sessions were extremely useful as it was a chance to interact with the artist and be given feedback on all of our plans, at first we had misinterpreted the song and took a whole different meaning from it, which meant that the idea that we had created was completely wrong for the song and it was in one of these Skype sessions that Cara explained to us what she wrote the song about and what the themes of the song were.
From this we were able to re-think and re-vamp our idea into something that was right for the song, something Cara likes and something that would appeal to the audience.
The Initial Idea
We always knew that we would like to work with Cara Hammond because she is related to the other two members of the group and I personally like her songs. we would have good access to Cara meaning that we could film whenever we wanted and throw ideas at her which she could instantly tell us if she liked them or not making the idea process a whole lot faster and easier.
The first part of creating the video was to decide on which song we would be making the video for, Cara had told us three songs that she would like a music video for these included, 'Mad', 'Shine' and 'You were supposed to like me'. These are the song that Cara would like to do because they are three of her newer songs.
Example of 'Shine'
Shine is a sad song about the low points in a relationship, although this song is very good, we decided that we wanted more of an uplifting song that has a lot of changing pace through out as this would give us something to pace to in the edit.
Unfortunately there is not an example of Mad, but Mad is also very depressing song, and the tone of the music is the same throughout the song. We had an idea for Mad that revolved around a war theme although we thought against it as we didn't feel it was viable.
The song 'You were supposed to like me' is the most uplifting song out of the three and the only song that features a band. This song also has a lot of narrative which means that it was easier to come up with ideas for it, in the end this song was the obvious choice.
The first idea we had for this song was to have the main singer Cara to have a boyfriend who she was in love with, this boy would then have an affair with another girl. After discussing the idea with Cara we learned that we had misinterpreted the song and that the song was not about a bad relationship at all. Cara told us that the song wasn't about a bad boyfriend and that she didn't want to come across as being a 'nagging girlfriend' or to come across as being a victim. She then told us that the song was more about a friendship in which the girl liked the boy without the boy knowing this meant a complete change of idea.
Cara gave us some of her own ideas which Luke gave suggestions to these included;
The main narrative changed from a relationship to a friendship with one of the friends (the girl) want to be more then friends, we wanted to use the same concept as used in the Robbie Williams music video 'Candy' (Below)
In this video Robbie Williams acts as a Guardian angel for the girl in the video and follows her stopping her from getting into trouble, we came up with the idea of of Cara following the boy she likes as he meets up with his friends and another girl.
These shots which we called the 'Narrative shots' would be inter-cut with shots of Cara and a band playing the song.
First I had come up with the idea of filming the band shots on a Pier as this would be a location that would look visually appealing to the audience. The only problem was that the practicality of this wasn't viable as we would have to get ourselves, Cara, the band, the bands Equipment and our equipment tot eh nearest pier (if that looked good enough). In the end we decided to use an empty warehouse for the Band scene.
The warehouse would be lit in the same way in which the Mcfly 'That's the truth' Video (Below) was lit.
This means that the Band would be lit from behind which will darken the surroundings behind them.
I also wanted the video to contain some hidden transitions that would make the video more fun and more entertaining this would be done in the same manner in which the video 'Never ever' by Taylor swift uses. (Below)
We later developed the idea further, for instance we changed the warehouse scene to just having Cara and the band playing the song instead of having a large crowd, I also thought that a good way to link the narrative with the band playing in the Warehouse would be to project some of the narrative on the wall behind the band and although this may be difficult will be visually worth it. I also suggested that we should use glitter in the warehouse scene as this would make these shots more entertaining and would be a bit different.
With the narrative I thought that it would be a good idea to have the main boy meet his friends and to have Cara go behind them and pull faces behind them this would add a little more fun to the video. There is also a part of the video in which we wanted Cara to be revealed to the audience as the boy and his girlfriend part after hugging, she would then sing a line from the song and I thought it would be a good idea for Cara to interact with the camera and she would nod to the left which would initiate a whip pan which would end at Cara being between the two lovers as they sat on swings.
The first part of creating the video was to decide on which song we would be making the video for, Cara had told us three songs that she would like a music video for these included, 'Mad', 'Shine' and 'You were supposed to like me'. These are the song that Cara would like to do because they are three of her newer songs.
Example of 'Shine'
Shine is a sad song about the low points in a relationship, although this song is very good, we decided that we wanted more of an uplifting song that has a lot of changing pace through out as this would give us something to pace to in the edit.
Unfortunately there is not an example of Mad, but Mad is also very depressing song, and the tone of the music is the same throughout the song. We had an idea for Mad that revolved around a war theme although we thought against it as we didn't feel it was viable.
The song 'You were supposed to like me' is the most uplifting song out of the three and the only song that features a band. This song also has a lot of narrative which means that it was easier to come up with ideas for it, in the end this song was the obvious choice.
The first idea we had for this song was to have the main singer Cara to have a boyfriend who she was in love with, this boy would then have an affair with another girl. After discussing the idea with Cara we learned that we had misinterpreted the song and that the song was not about a bad relationship at all. Cara told us that the song wasn't about a bad boyfriend and that she didn't want to come across as being a 'nagging girlfriend' or to come across as being a victim. She then told us that the song was more about a friendship in which the girl liked the boy without the boy knowing this meant a complete change of idea.
Cara gave us some of her own ideas which Luke gave suggestions to these included;
- She wanted it to start in the bedroom with her in bed
- Cara then wanted to wake up singing
- Luke suggested top her that we could use a hidden transition with the covers which would take her to another location
- Cara also told us that she wanted a choreographed dance in a park which would lead to a city location.
- She then wanted a flash mob in chester.
- Luke also thought it would be a nice idea to have her guitar change throughout the music video.
The main narrative changed from a relationship to a friendship with one of the friends (the girl) want to be more then friends, we wanted to use the same concept as used in the Robbie Williams music video 'Candy' (Below)
In this video Robbie Williams acts as a Guardian angel for the girl in the video and follows her stopping her from getting into trouble, we came up with the idea of of Cara following the boy she likes as he meets up with his friends and another girl.
These shots which we called the 'Narrative shots' would be inter-cut with shots of Cara and a band playing the song.
First I had come up with the idea of filming the band shots on a Pier as this would be a location that would look visually appealing to the audience. The only problem was that the practicality of this wasn't viable as we would have to get ourselves, Cara, the band, the bands Equipment and our equipment tot eh nearest pier (if that looked good enough). In the end we decided to use an empty warehouse for the Band scene.
The warehouse would be lit in the same way in which the Mcfly 'That's the truth' Video (Below) was lit.
This means that the Band would be lit from behind which will darken the surroundings behind them.
I also wanted the video to contain some hidden transitions that would make the video more fun and more entertaining this would be done in the same manner in which the video 'Never ever' by Taylor swift uses. (Below)
We later developed the idea further, for instance we changed the warehouse scene to just having Cara and the band playing the song instead of having a large crowd, I also thought that a good way to link the narrative with the band playing in the Warehouse would be to project some of the narrative on the wall behind the band and although this may be difficult will be visually worth it. I also suggested that we should use glitter in the warehouse scene as this would make these shots more entertaining and would be a bit different.
With the narrative I thought that it would be a good idea to have the main boy meet his friends and to have Cara go behind them and pull faces behind them this would add a little more fun to the video. There is also a part of the video in which we wanted Cara to be revealed to the audience as the boy and his girlfriend part after hugging, she would then sing a line from the song and I thought it would be a good idea for Cara to interact with the camera and she would nod to the left which would initiate a whip pan which would end at Cara being between the two lovers as they sat on swings.
Wednesday, 3 April 2013
Lyrics
You Were Supposed To Like Me.
Verse:
C G
D Em C G D Em
Every day is a disappointment when it comes
down to you,
C G D Em
C G D Em
It seems like I’m
your entertainment, like I was something to do.
Pre-chorus:
C
G
D Em
And every nice guy you find messes it up somehow
C G D Em
We got so close you let me go and I’m stuck wondering why
Chorus:
C G
D Em
‘Cause I thought you were supposed to like me
C G
D Em
‘Cause you were acting flirty
C G
Bm Em
I must have miss-read the signs, you’re kind of hard to
understand
C G Bm Em
And I’m sorry I wasn’t right for you, that’s just who I am
C
Bm Em
And so you didn’t get with me but I am not that easy
C
G D Em C
Still, you were supposed to like me.
Verse:
C G D Em
I saw you the other
day,
C G D Em
Acting like you were
before,
C G D Em
You asked me if I
was ok,
C G D Em
‘Cause I looked
moody and bored
Pre chorus:
C G D Em
Well I’m pretty sure you got with a girl, who wasn’t me,
C G D Em
Yet I’m supposed to talk like I am happy about it.
Chorus:
C G
D Em
‘Cause I thought you were supposed to like me
C
G D Em
‘Cause you were acting flirty
C G
Bm Em
I must have miss-read the signs, you’re kind of hard to
understand
C G Bm Em
And I’m sorry I wasn’t right for you, that’s just who I am
C
Bm Em
And so you didn’t get with me but I am not that easy
C
G D Em C
Still, you were supposed to like me.
Coda: X2
C G D Em
You were supposed to like me,
C
G D Em
Yeah you were.
Chorus:
C G
D Em
‘Cause I thought you were supposed to like me
C
G D Em
‘Cause you were acting flirty
C G
Bm Em
I must have miss-read the signs, you’re kind of hard to
understand
C G Bm Em
And I’m sorry I wasn’t right for you, that’s just who I am
C
Bm Em
And so you didn’t get with me but I am not that easy
C G D
Em C
Still, you were supposed to like me.
Coda: X2
C G D Em
You were supposed to like me,
C
G D Em
Yeah you were.
C G
D Em C
You were supposed to like me.
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