Matt's Character Catwalk Photos

Just a few photos we took of ourselves when filming 'Matt's Character Catwalk'. they include the tripod, the layout of where we shot and the limited space we had to do it all in.

Matt's Character Catwalk :')

This is Matt's Character Catwalk, which displays all the characters he will play in the music video :) i love it! Enjoy :)

First Day Filming . . . Fun :D

Yesterday was the day that me and Matt began filming. We're trying to film all of the detective parts first as it involves us going out into the local community. This needs to be done soon as this time of year doesn't link with good weather forecasts. With deteriorating weather comes less chances and less time to film outside in the local areas where we have planned to film. Luckily, we're ahead of schedule and are making good progress , even adding some shots we didn't plan on that should link in well with the music video.

Yesterday we filmed on the steps of our local council building (effectively Dagenham town hall) and got stared at . . . . a lot. Being in costume around hometime on the steps of the centre of town probably didn't help. We had a good laugh with it and got some great shots, so I'm pleased and all is looking bright :D

We also filmed in central park for the golfing scene. This was good, it wasn't busy, was nice weather and we got plenty of shots from plenty of angles.

Was a great day to start filming and we had a real laugh, today we plan to go the local library and get some shots between the book-stacks. This should be a riot!

Organisation and Schedule

Next week, me and Matt plan to film all, if not most of the parts of the detective character in the video. So as we know what we're doing on each day, and so as we can gain the materials within enough time to be comfortable with filming, we've created a make-shift schedule. The schedule goes as follows:

Monday 18th

Location(s): Civic Centre (steps and pavement)

Wants Library (bookshelves)

Central Park (with golf clubs/balls and Matt in golfers costume)

Filming: Driving Range section

Rope trip section

Library section

Sound: No extra sound needed as well as no lip-sync.

Tuesday 19th

Location: Robert Clack Drama Room

Filming: Girl Changing Scene (bring to bring his prettiest skirt and the wig)

Matt's Costume Parade :D

Sound: No extra sound needed and no lip-sync required.

Wednesday 20th

Location: Any random old street - hopefully in a location not very well known to local

audiences and other people in the class (maybe Ilford or Romford somewhere?)

Filming: Dog Chase Section

Sound: Perhaps Dog Bark Noise?

Thursday 21st

Location: Classroom with over-head projector

Filming: Cinema Sequence

Audience spread (Matt . . . again :D)

Sound: Audience boo-ing perhaps?

Friday 22nd

Location: Zebra Crossing . . . somewhere.

Empty-ish street

Filming: Abbey Road Beatles Shot.

Run Over Shot (need of bike)

Its a packed schedule but its gonna be fun :D looking forward to it!

Animatic

elow is the animatic that me and Matt created. It is just the pictures from the storyboard in movie format, cutting from one picture to another. This shows quickly, in order, the shots we are going to use and gives a better idea of how the finished product will look. Enjoy!:

StoryBoard

Below are the pictures from the storyboard me and Matt have drawn up. Everything is shown here as it is our basic plan of action. Everything from shot number and shot duration to costume and character is noted here. Here are the pictures:

Preliminary Lip-Sync Exercise - Process

This process took place over the space of about two weeks, which is ALOT longer than we thought! Turns out that editing a music video is a lot more difficult than editing a thriller opening, and we haven't even added all the stereotypical effects and motions for the preliminary. The Process went as follows:

1) Find the track on the internet in video format - Luckily for us, someone else has previously used the same song from the same band before, for their own media coursework. Typing "1984 - Green Eyed Monster" into YouTube was sufficient enough to get this done :)

2) Extracting the song from the video - There are several websites that allow you to do this, and soon enough we had the song in itunes ready to be sent or used in any way we so pleased.

3) Song Portability - We put the song onto my blackberry, which has available MP3 usage. We did this by using the IMac bluetooth function and simply bluetoothed the song over. As well as this, we put the song onto my memory stick in order to make sure we had a good copy. We put it on the memory stick in QuickTime format as this is compatible with all computers within in the school, IMac or otherwise.

4) Rock-Paper-Scissors - This helped us to decide the singer. Me and Matt did rock-paper-scissors in order to decide who was the person to lip sync as we were equally familiar with the lyrics and song. I won, so Matt had to lip-sync, neither of us minded doing it, but this was just a bit of fun. Matt did very well with the lip-sync, so I'm sure he was the better choice. Maybe it was fate, if you believe in that?

5) Finding a Room - Finding a place to film within the school was hard as we did initially find a place, only for the bell to ring and a class spill in through the doors, meaning we had to quickly change room. We found another room and set-up the tripod and used the white board as a clean background, focusing mainly on Matt 'singing'. Luckily, the second room had a computer in, so we could plug in the memory stick, up the volume and Matt could lip-sync more easily. This also made it easier later on as we could match the song on the computer with the song in our footage when editing. Simples!

6) Edit Edit Edit - This turned out to be the longest part of the process, taking about a week to maintain the song and add external images and effects. Getting to grips with the new final-cut express tech was also challenging, but its turned out good and I'm not too shabby with it now. Its looking promising for the actual video. Luckily, Matt annunciates well, so the song was easy to fit with him mouthing the words. GOOD BOY!

7) Finished Product - Don't you love it when a plan comes together? Both me and Matt were happy with the final piece, especially after the effort it took to perform the above tasks. Despite this, we're both looking forward to shooting the actual video, should be a laugh and we plan on A grades!