Weekly Production Log 4

What have your contributed this week? 

We have not exactly been relaxed this week is, as we have filmed at the beginning of the week in southend as it was a long day. WE got back to school and uploaded two memory cards of footage onto the mac, we stared to edit it on Tuesday in lessons and continued to edit on Wednesday , and this i came in on Thursday morning 1 and 2 to edit then later the other member came in and stared to edit , then in my study period on Friday 1 and 2 I edited the footage of the music video and straight period 3 and 4 on Friday was the last lesson of the week of editing the music video that when the other member came in to help with the edit.

How does this fit in with the production schedule/ job roles/ overall of project?

As to our schedule we are slightly be hide in the edit as we were suppose to be around 60% complete we are ruffly about 35%, as this is no problem as we will edit on after school on particular days when the crew is free to work. I have been engaged a lot with the edit of this music video as we could make a bad looking footage into  good one, as they set our group and advantage.

Where there any problems?

We did experience some problems this week as one of our actress that was going to be in the music video dropped out and was unable to do it, as this meant that we could not film as we did not have the actress, as if we found a replacement it would be hard for them to get around the idea of how to act.

How did your resolve them?

How we resolve the problems of not have the actress is that we asked a close friend that has experience preforming and media that if she could fill in the spot and act in the music video, as this actress had experience of media understood the shooting script and were we wanted her and what we wanted her to do.

What are your plans for the following week?

What we plan to do in the following week is to complete a draft of the music video edit on final cut express, we have the end sections of the music video to do. what we will do is analysis what section that we have to re record or add to the edit. And would have to figure out what day that our actress and crew are available to film 

Weekly Production Log 3

Filming In Picadilliy

What have your contributed this week?

What we have done this week so far is filming in the location of London which was , Buckingham, green park, Piccadilly, Marble arch, south bank and south bank bridge.

What we filming in London is the whole performance scene and the lip sync.

How does this fit in with the production schedule/ job roles/ overall of project?

Southbank Bridge Actress

As we had planned to film in London on Monday and Wednesday as we were on plan at the beginning of the week. As may job roles was to hold and mange the equipment and to partly help with the camera operating. so far the shots that we need for the music video we have filming.

Where there any problems?

Director and actress in green park

The problem that we faced this week were multiples as the first problem that we faces this week was that the memory card that was placed in the camera run out of space while we were recorded our scene. Another problem that we faced is that the actress that was playing the artist was not available on the day of the shoot of the location of south end and Bens house due to the the actress situation. Another that was unexpected is that we were unable to film in st cathedral do to permission purposes as this was unexpected from the cast and crew.

How did your resolve them?

How we resolved that memory cards of getting full is that one of the cast has an extra memory card in there bag as what we dis is swap over the memory cards. when the day was finished we placed some of the footage in to a hard drive that would work on a mac so we can take it into school and edit it. How we have yet to resolve the actress absences is that we will record in the following week when the actress is available.

What we did as this was not available is that we filmed at Marble arch as this was an locations that was easy to film at.

What are your plans for the following week?

What i planned for the following week is to edit the footage that we have on the Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and to catch up and have time on Monday to add the scene that we was unable to film as this is also a duty to film in the upcoming week at south end and Ben s house.

Weekly Production Log 2

What have you contributed this week?

This week we had completed 117 shots for our music video.we had also completed the production planning such as the location reccies,  risk assessment,  location permission, call sheets, job roles, wavers and schedule. As all of the planning was split up into 3 section for the group to do equally.  What I did was the call sheets and the schedule. We also gave the lyrics to the actress that will be lip syncing in the music video as there have been told of how there should preform it.

How does this fit in with the production schedule/job roles / overall idea of the project?

So far the scheduled is on point as everything is were its want to be .What i have as my job roles now is a production manager as I will be holding equipment and managing around and keeping it in track of the filming equipment. What I had to complete for the planning was the call sheet and schedule as this was done on a Thursday and Friday.

Were there any problem?

So far this week I/we have had no issues or problem as everything is going to plan and is up to shedule. We all have agreed to each other work that we have done and agreed on the shooting scrip as well.

What are your plans for the following week?

What is plans are for next week is to completely film the whole shooting scrip as we want to do the performance and the narrative by next Sunday. What we are going to do.is go to London, Southend and Bens house to film on specific day as the filming starts on 14th of February

Shooting Script

Call sheets

Risk Assessment

Waiver for cast

Locations Reccies

1) The first location we will be using will be Southend Beach, this location will be used during the introduction of the music video, and will run throughout the flashback and the final scenes. The relevance to the beach was that it would be a good sunset location to film the break-up, by using it through a happy flashback scene it adds further relevance as it was the spot of happier times. As well as leaving it till the very ending scene which again will connote the ending of the relationship and how the character will always be left alone.In terms of practicality it is a public area so no permission is needed for filming, it is a case of finding a quite segment of the beach and one with a good clear background.






2) The next location we will use in Southend will be the town, this will only be used for a couple of scenes and will feature during a flashback. The relevance was just to portray a happy memory of the 2 characters in their relationship.
Filming this scene in Southend town was more for logistical reasons, we would be able to film during the day and still stay within a reasonable proximity as we needed various other settings within the same location.
Once again it was a public place which meant no permission was needed, the only problems that could potentially occur is the weather and the amount of people in the town.

3) Southend Pier would be the final location within Southend, this again would be used as another happy memory for a flashback scene. We felt we could still film a good scene in this location whilst still staying within Southend.
In this sense making the decision to film on the Pier was more about logistics and that it was easier to use the whole of  Southend as opposed to limiting ourselves to just one locations.



4) We had numerous locations around London, one of which being southbank. We are actually planning on filming 2 separate locations within Southbank, the first being a bench next to the Themes (as seen in the picture.) This was at the start of the first verse, and it was really to start the journey that the artist will go through over the whole night. The next location within Southbank was a bridge (in the picture.) The relevance to this location, was because it was only a needed to shoot a handful of shots and really adds this effect of the character looking out into her city and trying to see past her own little world that she has wrapped her self in.











5) London, Piccadilly circus was the next location for our second verse, we illustrate only a couple of shots, the relevance of this location, was the fact that it is a very busy location. With some editing we would be able to continue this sense of the character being all alone in the world, even thought there are many people around her she is immersed in her own failed relationship.in retrospect the group feels that the location is a good idea, because our scene we plan to film there does carry much relevance to the story, and we didn't particularly feel that the audience will think its just a filler shot. We hope that the audience will understand what we tried to achieve by using this location.




6) london, Green park, (looking at the picture), we felt that this was a perfect spot to add in our performance element to our music video, it was a location that we instantly knew we can add a lot of camera movement too, and really make perhaps one of the most disinterested aspects more enjoyable.We feel that some of our shots, using this location will be a bold move, as a park doesnt really fit in with any other locations, but we felt that it was very close to our others and it was a smart move in terms of practicality.

7) We then decided to also use Trafalgar Square, this was the plan to use for the final verse, as we really wanted to illustrate the characters raw emotions and pain to the audience, and we felt it was still an iconic location, but we could really film her to be in great distress.
Technically we felt that this location was a good idea, whilst being able to reveal where she was, and film such intense scenes, the location really enables us to do many different things, with this final verse.

8) Another location in London we decided to use was Buckingham palace, through the second verse, we decided to use this location to add our first peace of performance in to the video.

Whilst we wanted the scene in this location to just feature the artist and no one else, we do understand that this location is very busy. So on the technicality side of things, this location will really test our camera language and our knowledge of how we can use certain angles to get the right shot an eliminate the public. 

9) Bens house, this location would be used, for the flashback scenes, its primary function was to stage the fight scenes that happen between the 2 characters to show the struggles that they continuously had and the strain of the relationship. 

The house, isn't particularly far from any of the cast or crew so it was a good location to film and there won't be any problems filming.  Whilst it may be the most simplest location of all, it is needed as it just adds continuity to the whole video, which i stop illustrate the fight scenes to the audience to show that there was some really hard, frustrating times for both characters. 

10)  St Pauls Cathedral, this location in london, was to be used to add another performance element to our music video, we felt that we had a lot of narrative in our original idea. As a group we came to the decision that we should be adding in more locations and more performance. We felt that this location (in the picture) on the stairs as the artists cries and shows her raw emotions, we can still edit and cut to certain shots where she can also be performing some of the verse. 

In terms of practicality it is not that far away from the Southbank locations we will be using, so in terms of logistics we won't have to constantly travel by train to go to locations that are very far apart. instead all of ours are close together which makes it much easier to film. 

Permission to Film

Our entire music video is completely filmed in public places, and requires no permission for any filming. Here is a list of all the places we will be filming. 

• Southend Beach
• Southend Pier
• Southend town
• London Southbank 
• London Southbank bridge 
• London Piccadilly Circus
• London Trafalgar Square 
• London Buckingham Palace (in the area)
• London Green Park
• Ben's house

As listed we are planning to film in 10 different locations. As the idea basis itself on the themes of walking, being alone in the world, and in a depressive state, it felt that using iconic locations around london, was a good way to express, that whilst there are so many people around the character she is still alone in her own world. Which is the main reason for keeping all locations public. 

From a logistical point of view, having all the locations in public areas means that we can turn up, point and shoot with no problems affecting our schedule.

Whilst perhaps some may perceive all of these locations as being to simple as they are all public, The very essence was to keep the video simple and solely focus on the persona, the video is a journey of her emotional state through one night. So it only made sense for her to be walking in public areas. 

Job Roles & Responsibilities

Editor:

All three, Ben, Franki and Usama will have the roll of being the editors of the music video, and will do the editing, when everyone in the group is present to do the editing, they will all work
together to make the video, edited as imagined. The reason why all members are doing the editing, is that they all have experience with editing our previous media projects, so they all know what to do.

they will have to do:

• add music and sync with video
• edit the whole music video
• render the video when done

Camera Operator

Usama and Franki are both doing this roll, of being the camera operator, as they will both be doing the actual filming, and will have to make sure that they get all the shots in the music video done perfectly. The reason why these two were chosen for this roll, is because they both are very good with cameras, from experience on other media projects.

they will have to do:

• make sure that the camera is safe at all time
• get all camera shots done perfectly

Director

Ben will be doing the roll of being the director and will control everything that is happening in the filming process. The reason is that the music video idea was his, so he knows how everything is supposed to be, in case something is not filmed like it was planned, he will know how it should be, since he was the one that planned it.

they will have to do:

• observe over the filming process to make sure that all camera angles are as planned
• make sure all shots in the video are as imagined 
• go over everything that is filmed after it is filmed, to make sure if it needs to me re filmed or not

Production Manager

Franki will be doing this roll, he will be making sure everything everything goes well, and
nothing will be damaged.The reason why he is chosen to do this roll is because he is very organised, and will make sure, that nothing goes wrong in the filming process.

they will have to do:

• Take care of all equipment, and make sure none of it gets harmed
• make sure all filming goes smoothly throughout 
• organize the schedules for the filming
• organize budget