Pre-production project outline

Project outline:

What is the type of production?

My group and I are making our own interpretation of an existing music video, using narrative to make it different.

What are your ideas for a media production?

Our ideas for this production are to create a gripping narrative with the inspiration from the analysis of the lyrics to the song with some snippets from the original video (the band playing) as filler within our own video.

The client?

Our client will be the band in this particular music video, Of Mice And Men, with one of their songs named bones exposed.

What copyright issues will need to be addressed?

In our own take of the music video we are going to be using clips of the band playing from the original music video, in order to combat the issues of copyright we will only use small clips of the band in order to not breech any copyright issues. We will source these clips from the music video from their original video off the media sit YouTube.

What clearances are required?

To have our music video cleared we will need consent to create a cover or to use some of their existing video, but as my group and I are an amateur group we do not wish to make any money from it, thus not being a threat to the original band, this intern will let us use the already existing video in our own.

What ‘talent’ do you require?

The talents we would require would be actors or others that wouldn’t mind being on camera or acting.

What crew do you require?

We require a camera man/woman, the actors for the video and director. We can source these from other students we know with experience or that are knowledgeable.

What post-production equipment do you require?

After research and testing we found tat a editing software called  ‘adobe premiere pro’  and we will buy a MAC computer:

Processor- 2.5 GHz Intel Core 15

Memory- 4 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Graphics- Intel HD graphics 4000 512 MB

Software- OS X 10.8.5 (12F4S)

What are your transport requirements?

The transport requirements we could use van hire to ensure the transportation of our equipment to other locations. We could source this van or care from hiring websites from the Internet.

What production equipment do you require?

The equipment we will need in order to go through with our remake music video will be a camera and tripod.

We can source these from already having these items or buying them online.

What facility hire is required?

The facilities that my group and I will use are all assessable without hiring, as we will use the outside sources and spaces.

What finances will you require and what’s your budget?

What other materials do you require?

	Budget	£10,000.00
	Equipment	price	Price requirements	Req for	Total price
	Camera	£360.00	NULL	3	£360.00
	Tripod	£19.97	NULL	3	£19.97
	Van hire	£43.00	Per day	3	£129.00
	Replacement actors	£10.00	per hour	24	£240.00
	Camera assistant	£280.00	per day	3	£840.00
	Driver	£120.00	per day	3	£360.00
	Mac (OP)	£1,049.00	Null		£1,049.00
	Premiere Pro	£42.79	Null		£42.79
	Overall price	£3,040.76
	Left over from budget	£6,959.24
	Props	Price
	Prop wedding rings X2	£9.00
	Photo frame	£4.50
	Suitcase	£59.00
	Food colouring	£1.09
	Red beer cups	£2.50
	Sugar glass (home made)	£32.40
	Overall price	£108.49
	Left over from budget	£6,850.75

Thursday, February 04, 2016 3:27 PM

Cast for the Video

 This list is the cast of people we have considered for the video as well as the locations we will be filming at. I believe these people are true representations of the characters and that the locations will help with conveying the message of the song.

·      Director: Jamie Carr

·      Executive Directors: Jacob Mitchell, Emily Gibbard

Lee Matthews: Jamie Carr

Alison Gray: Becky Utting

Group of Friends: Nathan Fisher, Callum Hope

Stacey: Strom Faulke-Hemsley

Sympathetic Friends: Charlotte Ridler, Olivia Wilkes 

Location Considerations

Lee and Alison’s Home: Jamie’s House

Underpass: Underpass in Glascote near Deltic Pitch

House Party Location: Jacob’s House

Alley: Alley’s in Glascote

Production Schedule

In terms of production, we will be recording the video over a 3-day period. Starting from the 8th February and going to the 10th February. In the first day we'll be recording the first verse up until the first chorus and on the second day we'll continue from the end of the 1st chorus up until the start of the 2nd chorus and on the last day of recording we will finish up the last bits that need to be recorded as well as redoing any scenes if we run out of times on the previous days.

Regulation on music videos

Regulation on music videos is important to ensure younger, more innocent audiences don’t see adult content, another reason for censorship would be because some viewers could be offended by what is put into certain music videos.

Music videos now are becoming more subversive so the regulatory body has had to put age ratings on the music videos and content, this is to protect the viewers from potentially offensive or vulgar videos made, the Guardian article on regulations states  “The long-term aim is to warn consumers about the content they view online, and to give parents a degree of control over what their children are exposed to, by enabling filters to be set on home computers and mobile devices”

As the music videos get censored the artist will become a talking point, more popularity will come from certain parts or all the video being banned or age rated.

Our generation becomes more curious to things we’re not allowed and putting age ratings on songs will just make people want to watch them more.

Can we censor in the age or the Internet and virility?

“Driven on by a viral internet culture that requires constant one-upmanship and videos that are not only increasingly ridiculous”- The Guardian.

This statement would mean that the way the regulation body is censoring the videos more artists will do It and make their even more shocking than the last, this would mean that the popularity is increases for their music video and their persona.

Copyright in music videos

In our own take of the music video we are going to be using clips of the band playing from the original music video, in order to combat the issues of copyright we will only use small clips of the band in order to not breech any copyright issues.

We will source these clips from the music video from their original video off the media sit YouTube and in order to have our music video cleared we will need consent to create a cover or to use some of their existing video, but as my group and I are an amateur group we do not wish to make any money from it, thus not being a threat to the original band, this intern will let us use the already existing video in our own.

Semiotics.

Smashing of photo of couple à showing his anger towards arguments and fallouts between the two. Shows him not wanting to see her at that particular time. Not being happy in the relationship.

Throwing ring on the floor and leaving à this could mean he has had enough of the arguing and doesn’t want anymore. Throwing the ring on the floor could mean the braking of promises (their vows). Not feeling loved in the relationship anymore.

Getting drunk à trying to forget the situation. Drowning out his thoughts. Trying to get over it.

Getting taken advantage of à vulnerability in that specific situation. Friends may have set it up for him to try to get over his wife.

Wife appears and puts her hand on his shoulder à almost an apologetic gesture. Support? Wanting to piece everything back together. First step to sorting things out. Not wanting to lose him

Duration and Pace

The duration of the song is about 3 and half minutes and within that time we are hoping to deliver a message that even when times seem rough and if there’s no hope, there will always be light at the end of it all. At the beginning of the video, our credits play and it stats off with the protagonist going through troubles with his love life and he then leaves her and falls into a root of darkness and seeks salvation at the bottom of a bottle.

 Around the middle of the video, he is taken advantage of in his condition and the next we see him he is waking up in a random alley way where a couple of his friends find him and take him back home.

Finally the song concludes with his wife returning to him and then placing her hand on his shoulder and after which the video plays in reverse and it goes back to where it all began.

The video will be going at a somewhat fast pace as we have a lot ground to cover within the video itself. But it won’t be going too fast so that we can make sure that viewer isn’t confused about what’s happening. 

Style of the music video.

The style of the song we’re using is heavy metal as this is the style the band is most known for. Although the song itself isn’t too streamlined as the song does contain small amounts filler with the main vocalists screaming from a few seconds bridging into some verses.   

Narrative and Meanings

Annotated lyrics

 Risk assessment.

Wednesday, February 10, 2016 12:35 PM

Possible Risk	Impact	How to prevent
Corrupt video.	This will slow us down and will result in reshoots.	Multiple copies of the scenes will be saved onto different storage devices.
Broken equipment.	If a camera breaks we will have to use valuable recording time in order to repair or replace it.	Cameras will be stored correctly and with care so we can transport them with ease without risk of damage.
Run out of breakable props (scene requires photo frame to smash).	If we make only 1 sugar glass frame and the shoot doesn’t go as planned it will take time to create another.	As scenes will need to be reshot I will create many photo frames so we can clean up and reset as fast as possible.
Actor can’t make it to recording.	This will mean a whole day could go by where no progress has been made.	2 possible recording sessions will be planned as backup in the case that neither of the actors can make it I will save clips to edit for days like that.
Injury	Crewmember injured will have to sit out to recover.	All basic risk assessment procedures will take place such as moving sharp/ breakable object out of the actors way (cables, small objects ECT.) first aid box will be just aside of set

Storyboards

October feedback

You seem to have enjoyed the lessons and are interested in the subject.  You have produced an outline of the history of video editing with some images.

However, the tasks are much more demanding and more effort is needed in completing the assignments.

Deadline of Friday 16^th October to get two assignments completed, neither of which are pass standard as yet.

The principles of video editing can be explained by discussing your own short films.

Development of film editing

Development of editing timeline.

Thomas Edison was the first to invent the light bulb, this gave inspiration on the motion picture camera. Edison was also inspiration for the kinetoscope made in 1888 which is the earliest form of film making device, it was more commonly known as the 'peep-hole viewer' meaning that there was strips of film that you could see frame by frame as they rotated just below the 'peep-hole'. You could only have 24 seconds per frame in film.

In 1895 the Lumiere brothers (light brothers) created a business by making cinematographe cameras, these are motion picture cameras  ' in camera editing' also serving as a projector, this was a good thing to introduce as more than one person could view at one time, from this they made a business as all this was new and more people wanted to have this experience.

1896 brought George Melies, a french man who was an illusionist and filmmaker, he made the iconic early film called 'a trip to the moon' this film gave inspiration, this was because he was the first to use more techniques such as dissolves etc this was also inspirational as it was the first to 'tell a story' this was because it was a scripted piece and was narrative, this meant as an audience you could enjoy the story as well as the editing and film production within the film, such as the edits of the rocket hitting and flying up to the moon.

  

 


 Moving on to Edwin Porter and American who made the 'Great Train Robbery' another iconic early film, this film was an long take meaning that it was not edited and the camera was in one position while filming. this progressed into it being a continuity edit as all the shots would  make sense together this is also known as a 'graphic match'.

 Another film that was made also used may other techniques that were new to most people, the film was called 'Freak's' and it was a film based on the abnormal people you'd find in old traveling circuses and fairs.
Some of the techniques they used were having actors/actresses/sets/costumes, these this were normally not used so they were new and this interested people, making the films more exciting and intriguing for more people, special effects, using scripts and storyboards, filming on location, slapstick, and tracking shots, and to produce colour in the film they'd colour each frame to produce a coloured section.

DW Griffith 1915:

Griffith began to explore the techniques of editing and the skills of camerawork. He also had innovations to create the first narrative film/s, using montage and using actors also.
DW Griffith also used parallel editing also (cross cutting) is the technique of alternating two or more scenes that often happen simultaneously but in different locations. If the scenes are simultaneous, they occasionally culminate in a single place, where the relevant parties confront each other. Griffith originally set all rules for narrative film making and these were copied by others along the line.

An example of parallel editing would be the editing in the film 'The Silence Of The Lambs'.

Sergei Eisenstein:

A pioneer in montage and film directing. in 1925 he directed a short named 'strike' in this film Eisenstein makes many metaphors with the way he has edited, there is a section at the end of the film when cattle are being slaughtered, this is a metaphor for the men being slaughtered in the same ways.
the montage in the film has been made to give the idea of  how choppy the film is in reality, this is to represent also the brutality of the revolution that was happening at the time, in my opinion the way Eisenstein has used the montage in this short is a good way to show how it was in the time setting of the film.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLuxXd5lFZc

In this film we produced we used the edit of montage to make a short of a girl(me) that was studying really hard for a test but got an F in the final grade. we used montage to have the separate scenes as a whole that made sense when it was edited together as one short.

Walter murch:
 An American film editor who edited in the form of montage which is
Walter also worked on the Godfather and the Godfather part 2. he also minipulated diajectic time and space.
1979 he won an Oscar for the sound mix in 'apocalypse now'.
Apocalypse now:
the starting of the clip we have sound before vision, this is to target the audience and get them questioning the noise they hear, moving on we start to see a helicopter start to fly past a tropical forest lifting a orange haze with it, as we see more of the helicopter we see that it is a war helicopter, in the forest we see we'd know that it would be the war in Vietnam.
The next shot we see the helicopter bombing the forest we see, this shows the horrors of the war and how bad the destruction was from how the forest was so easily destructed.
Murch used a 'dream sequence' or some would describe it as flash back, this meant he'd lay sections of film upon one another creating the illusion of them overlapping and being as one, this meant you as the audience could see the bits of film on top of each other but having the illusion of the dream the protagonist is having.
 We made our own short adjusting diajectic time and space which is how the film was made(city of god) it is a example of how we interpreted the film and creative work of city of god.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiXl_MfU6So 

City of god analysis:
 This film is an edit of MTV style editing, this would mean that continuity editing is present with an array of effects that are set to confuse the viewer.
In this film you can clearly see the break in story line at the end of the clip and how there are two stories within, this is the close frantic shots of the chicken and its point of view being at risk of death and being cooked. Also having the slower paced, wider shots of the young teenage boy at the end when there are the 360 shots of him and the environment around him.

One of the early shots we see are of a knife blade being sharpened and while the shot is focused on we also hear the noise of the sharpening, this is to signify the danger and how close you could be to injury in the poverty stricken favelas of Rio De Janerio.

 We also see many shots of the chicken itself, sometimes seeing other chickens getting cooked so we see the panic on its face, this would mean we see the story partly from the chickens point of view... giving a sense if how the chicken in this situation would feel and how it would be treated and it's actions due to this.

These 4 shots

are to show the chickens point of view in the film, this is impacting as it gives us a narrative to the short and this end shot is edited with continuity editing with another shot that turns to a 360 shot of two peoples point of view.

This 360 shot gives the audience the shots of two people/scenes at on particular time, this shows us that the narrative short itself has two different meanings or stories within the short.

 

we made our own MTV style edit in a short, this was called the chase based on the film 'city of god', this was to edit of montage edits and parallel edits, this all together made sense in the whole short, this one in particular that we made was about a student that hadn't done any of the homework that the teacher had sent so the teacher hunts her down, in the last scene we edited in a 360 shot showing both the teacher and student.

Research log (bibliography)

Secondary source.	Relevance to my project.
Www.cybercollege.com/tup050.htm	On this website I found out from one of the paragraphs that in continuity edits you can use few as 3 shots pieced together to make one narrative, this is by having them all make sense in a story like form so when having them put all together the audience can make sense of the narrative being shown.
Teach yourself media studies.	This book gave me information on the ways that continuity editing works and that the audience can guess a persons actions in a film by the previous scenes as in the edits the scenes in the film would all have to link and make sense in the final product.
Teach yourself font studies.	In this book it had information I used on the editing work of montage, as montage is the art of  juxtaposition in scenes to create symbolic messages.
Www.britannica.com/biography/Lumiere-brothers	This website gave me information on the lumiere brother and how they created what has made the building blocks to making cameras now.
Www.biography.com/people/thomas-edison-9284349	This website gave me information on Edison such as the inventions he created that have influenced all the modern cameras we see around today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._W._Griffith	Gaining more information on the filmmaker DW Griffith.

I skimmed and scanned the three secondary sources to find out more about continuity editing and montage.

I annotated these articles and found out that continuity editing you can use as few as 3 stages to create a story line, this is because they get arranged together as they all make sense in the end revealing a narrative. In montage I learnt that there are scenes that get juxtaposed in order to create symbolic meanings (juxtaposition is comparing opposites for effect)

The purpose of my research is to understand more about the work and editing continuity editing and montage in film producing.