Account and Evaluation - Video Diary

Hypothetical Artist Profile

Our hypothetical band is called SMAK and is an electronic and drum and bass band consisting of a singer, DJ, bassist and drummer, all of which are included in our track ‘Let you go’. SMAK is a young, urban band raised in a metropolitan, gritty area within London; their back story being that they grew up knowing each other in a poor urban area within London and all were largely anti-authoritarian and rebellious however their music gave them a chance to get out of their lifestyle. The star image of the band is that they are still the rebellious youths that they were, coming from an urban grime area promoting drum and bass culture and epitomising ‘cool’. They would have many stories associated with anti-social behaviour, drink and drugs problems and be constantly on the wrong side of the law which would feed in with their star image. Our star image would be similar to that of the Sex Pistols as an example; SMAK would be known for being rebellious, anti-authoritarian and their controversy as a star image would be just as important as their music. SMAK are a new cool band associated with rebellion and youth and would be heavily connected with the up and coming drum and bass scene.

Incident Room

Below are some images of how we plan to turn Bwebb House Study Room into a false Incident Room. These pictures can help inspire us to build and collect information and props to make this seem more realistic.

Information and Preparation sent to Actors

To Youths 


Heres some of the things you need to know, to be ready for our shoot.

Firstly - Track attached is the the song 'Let You Go' by Chase & Status.

Secondly - File attatched is the lyrics. Learn them please.

Thirdly - Below is the costume list. If you do not have any of the things you are supposed to be wearing, email/text/bbm/Facebook (all at the bottom of the page) me back quickly so I can get them, along with your size.

Fourthly - A2 Students (Will and Megan) I will be handing you Blue Cards today or tomorrow.

COSTUME - BOYS

Top/Bottom - Dark/ Black, Zip up hoody, full hoody, with plain t - shirt underneath.
Shoes - Nike Air/Reebok
Hats/ Caps - Burberry/ Nike

Please just bring whatever you have which is like this, and we can decide. 
Think Chav / Pikey.
COSTUME - GIRLS


Any coloured full tracksuits
Hooped Earrings
Bright trainers.


Thank You
Patch, Holly, Oscar and Charlie.

Hello James, Stephen, Ted and Jason, (SUITS)

This is just a quick email regarding the costume for the music video you are involved in for the track 'Let You Go' by Chase & Status.

Please come dressed in a suit wearing a tie and shirt and smart shoes/trousers.

Attached are the lyrics and a copy of the song, so you are able to get an idea of what you will be working on.

Please feel free to look at my blog for inspiration or costume ideas.

https://bac.hurtwood.net/owa/redir.aspx?C=eab9f655ba6545579458db6a4b2318a0&URL=http%3a%2f%2fhurtwoodmediahollyfinlay.blogspot.com%2f

If you have any problems please email me or speak to James Baker (my media teacher).

Thank You

Patch, Holly, Oscar and Charlie.

Cast List

Feedback

You have covered most of the relevant planning material here and the blog as a whole offers a clear sense of progression from the initial idea through to the 'final' concept.  There is a good sense of context and links with real media products.  The evaluation of the animatic should be an individual piece of work and therefore it is not appropriate to use the same one as Holly.  Please redo this as soon as possible.  Your shooting schedule also needs more detail - the shots that you are aiming to cover in each set up.

James

Guildford Council Letter Requiring Video Shoot Permission

Millmead House

Millmead
Guildford
Surrey
GU2 4BB
United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 01483 505050
Email: customerservices@guildford.gov.uk


To whom It may concern,

We are a group of A level media students from Hurtwood House School.
We are writing to you for permission to film in Guildford town center and other surrounding areas for our coursework. The video would consist of people wandering the streets. There are two different groups within our video, this is made up youths and a group of the older generation. The youths will be leading the older generation by a guitar lead as bait to capture them. All of the capturing will be filmed in our studios at school.

The video will not be defamating the image of your town what so ever, there will also be no reference to  the name of the town or any street names. Any mess will be automatically cleared up. We will be supervised by our teachers under strict instructions. We also are writing to possibly get permission to shoot a wide shot of Guildfords Skatepark? again any mess will be cleared. The video has currently been set in date for Wednesday the 9th of November. We are planning to film at around about 4:00pm In Guildford after spending the morning filming at school.

We would appreciate a response and hope to hear from you soon.

Many thanks
Patch Wadsworth, Holly Finlay, Oscar Jackson, Charlie Lindsay


Hurtwood House School
Holmbury St Mary
Dorking
Surrey
RH5 6NU

Shooting Schedule

Shooting Schedule

Date:- Unknown

9am - Start

9.15am – Set up commences.

10.45am – Filming in the Studio starts.

1pm – Lunch Break.

1.30pm – Start to pack.

1.50pm – Leave for Bwebb House.

2pm – Arrive at Bwebb House, set up to film.

(Shots 1 – 32)

5pm – Pack up Set.

5.30pm – Leave Bwebb House for Guildford Station.

6.15pm – Arrive at Guildford, set up to film.

(Running/ Hiding Shots 36 – 80)

9pm – Leave location, drive to skate park.

9.15pm – Arrive at Skate Park. Set up to film.

9.35pm – Take several Wide Shots of Skate Park.

10pm – Finish Filming. Drive back to House

Costume Ideas

YOUTHS

Main Inspiration for our male youths. Chav, pikey and threatening image.



Top/Bottom - Dark/ Black, Zip up hoody, full hoody, with plain t - shirt underneath.
Shoes - Nike Air
Hats/ Caps -




FEMALE YOUTHS
Inspiration -


Costume - Any coloured full tracksuits, hooped earrings and bright trainers.





SUITS COSTUME INSPIRATION




Costume smart suits, with leather shoes.

Prop List

• White Board on wheels

• Wanted Posters

• Large Speakers

• Micro Korg Synth

• Decks + Mixer

• Bass Guitar

• Drumset (Oscar)

    • Antique/old pistol

    • Axe

    • Rifle

    • Sword

    • Crossbow


    • Red wine


    • Glasses for wine


    • Candles on table

•     BMX Bike

• Wax Fruit in Bowel

    • Smashable window



Cans of Drink




Hooped Earrings

Animatic Storyboard And Evaluation

I haven't made an animatic storyboard before, but seeing as this was my first attempt I thought it went pretty well. After completing our storyboards we filmed the single still shots together as a group, recording each still for 10 seconds each. Then we uploaded the stills and cut them together to build the animatic by using Final Cut Pro. At the start a few editing things went wrong, due to timings being wrong. Later I went over it and sorted it out and finished the job. It was different editing this compared to my thriller because I had to edit to a up beat dance track which had lots of different cuts, where as my thriller had pretty basic cuts that weren't fast changing. This editing exercise was of course fun but in some parts very difficult. Matching the cuts to the beat was easy but in some parts there wasn't any drums so I had to try and time the cuts in precisely to the words or a chord pattern change, this is what I had difficulty with. If I was to edit the storyboard again I feel I would of tried to edit some cuts a lot better and I would of spent more time on this. However this time I didn't have much time and I was under a lot of pressure to turn over the edited storyboard quickly. The demand of it being done quickly gave me an insight into what Professional Editors have to deal with in the industry which was very useful. Hopefully after experience with using Final Cut Pro I will be better and quicker at editing in such a short space of time. Overall, I was very happy with our animatic, as its a very good first idea for our video. Despite our ideas having changed slightly, it helps to give a good picture of our idea well. I surprisingly enjoyed editing the stills together and this exercise gave me extra experience with Final Cut Pro. I look forward to editing the real footage. When editing the footage I will make sure that the cut transitions are precise and on beat to the track and cut smoothly and work well and make sense to our narrative behind our music video. 

COPYRIGHT PERMISSION

To Unviersal Publishing and Ram Records


We are a group of A Level students working on an A Level project for a qualification in Media Studies. We are writing to request permission to use the following track as part of this project:



Name of track and artist: LET YOU GO - CHASE AND STATUS



With your permission the track would be used as the accompaniment to a short form video that is made purely for assessment purposes and will have no commercial usage. The video will be viewed only by members of the school community and the assessor of the examination board.



The artist and the copyright holder will of course be fully recognised in the pre-production and evaluation material that accompanies the project. We can also include a full copyright notice if required both in the planning material and on the video itself.



Yours sincerely


Patch Wadsworth, Holly Finlay, Oscar Jackson, Charlie Lindsay

Hurtwood House School

Feedback

Your timeline is very good and will work as the basis of a good storyboard.  However, you need to make sure that you keep up to date with each week's postings; although you have the institutional context, the research into album artwork by other artists hasn't yet made it on to your blog.  I know you've done it, but it needs to available as part of the research and planning portfolio.

James

"Let You Go" - SMAK Timeline

Our Chosen Track - Chase & Status - Let You Go

Research Into Artists of a Similar Type to our Hypothetical Band

Nero

Nero are an electronic music act from England consisting of DJ's Daniel Stephens and Joe Ray. Nero are electronic music artists, best known for producing house, dubstep and drum and bass. Nero's debut dubstep release was "This Way" in 2008. Nero recently released their first album, named "Welcome Reality", signed to MTA Records, owned by Chase & Status. http://www.thisisnero.com/




Magnetic Man

Magnetic Man is an electronic music project consisting of popular dubstep producers and DJ's, Benga, Skream and Artwork. The genre of Magnetic Man's songs are Dubstep and are aimed at a similar audience to Chase and Status and our hypothetical band, 'SMAK'. http://www.magneticman.net/gb/home/



Modestep

Modestep are a four-piece band from London . Their sound clearly takes influence from progressive electro and dubstep as one of their fans stated they like to make music which “makes your brains wobble with low pass filth. The formed in 2010. The band consists of Josh Friend, Tony Friend
Matthew Curtis,Nick Tsang. Modestep creates predominately Drum and bass songs and targets a similar audience to our group SMAK.