Risk Assessment

The risk assessment was carried out prior to undertaking the filming process, however due to technical difficulties uploading onto the blog it had to be uploaded at a later date than planned.

Reasons for the alterations to the storyboard from final video.

In regards to our animatic we made drastic variations to the order/scenes which we had collectively decided upon as a group. This was because we decided on more suitable alternatives for the video. Some have scenes we have originally storyboarded for e.g. the hairdressers which was not to a high enough standard of filming, this was due to the camera operator being present within the shot along with equipment e.g. tripods. This was because the mise-en scene of the establishment had lots of mirrors and as a result this proved hard when filming the scene. Therefore we as a group made the decision to cut the scene and replace it with another. Some other scenes we decided upon were also cut this was due to their being more suitable alternatives than originally planned for. This will result in there being a change from our storyboard to our final music video.

The reason the storyboard and animatic were uploaded later was due to experiencing technical difficulties. It had been completed before all other work e.g. digi-pak etc was created.

Animatic

Storyboard

Digipak Cover - Latest Draft

After creating a template that is to the correct scale of a digipak - we are able to work with actual sizes; letting us know what works and what doesnt.

We spent longer creating a front cover that would meet as many of the conventions that we wanted.

The lights in the background are supposed to connote dancing, discos and up-tempo music - perhaps the business of lots of people on a dancefloor. (as many people are shown in our music video)
The colours are bright, as we wanted, and again are used to represent the fast music. It was also supposed to give the cover a crazy, exciting look....

The bold font is used to make the artist name stand out. This anchors the close up of the 'singer' - allowing the audience to easily link the two.

The name of the album in this version of the digipak is ''footloose''. Suggesting that the song is the main or most popular song on the album tracklist - which is a typical convention often used by many artists.

Digipak Drafts and Ideas...

For our digipak, we wanted it to represent the song and its genre - pop. The track we are using (footloose) is a very up-beat song, and because our narrative involves dancing we thought the digipak cover should have connotations of dancing, discos etc.

We tried a few ideas - using bright colours.


As these are only drafts, (to see if the colours work), the album name has not been decided. We chose 'pulse' because it represents dancing, movement etc.

The colours we chose are very bold and bright, so that the cover works with the genre of music.

Digipak research 2

I have done some more research on digipaks, and discovered that we need to design a cover the size of 139.5mm x 6mmx 125.5mm.

There is more information here.

FINISHED FILMING = ]

Filming is finally over.

It took longer that we had expected because of time, and the amount of filming we needed to do!!!

I think everything went to plan, except for the hairdressers scene, which didnt go very well. Because of all the mirrors, the cameras seemed to be in every shot - (We used two cameras) After playing it back we found that the footage couldn't be used :(

Oh dear. We also had to re-arrange a few dates in December because of how busy everyone was. The edited filming schedule is posted below this post. Before that, we had arranged to get it all done before the new year!!

Nevermind, its done now!! And we can finally start editing!!!!! :D

Filming Schedule

Before we began filming we needed to arrange when each of us were free to be at the same place at the same time!! We also needed to ensure that the actors were available.

We made a filming schedule on Microsoft Works Spreadsheet - so that we would each have a copy.


As you can see, weekends were the best option - allowing us all to be together. December was also quite a busy time for everyone, so filming had to be finished off in the new year.

The locations for each character, except the Painter and Hairdressers, were at their own houses. This made it much easier arranging locations.

And we later found a room ideal for the painter :D

Characters - costumes and mise - en - scene

For our music video. The portrayal of each character is very important - costume and mise-en-scene will play a huge role in our final video.

Because our idea is to depict several different characters as they work and dance - we need them to contrast each other in terms of location etc.

We therefore, as a group, have constructed a list of what will be needed.


Costumes/Location/Props

Cleaner
House - dining room/bedroom/kitchen.
Pinny or apron. And a classy dress (the character is going to get carried a way and dress up)
Duster, hoover, cloth
iPod - playing as she cleans.

Hairdresser
Hairdressers - Whitchurch - Location has been arranged.
Trendy hairstyle
Typical, black hairdresser outfit.
Equipment needed - brush? etc.

Stable Girls
A stable.
Horse helmets and shoes.
Shovel / brush / mucking out tools.

Window Cleaner

A window!!!
Bucket, cloth
Wellies and a rubber glove (We want him to put one yellow glove on)

Painter
Empty room
Paint, Brush, Paint holder, Ladder
Old(ish) clothes - dirty.

Mother and Daughter
Kitchen
Making Sandwich, Cups of tea, coffee?
Normal clothes.

Bathroom Dude
Bathroom
Toothbrush, Toothpaste, Toilet
Normal clothes, comfortable clothes.

Teenager
Mirror - Bedroom?
Mirror, Make up, Hairdrye, brush etc.
Dressed up. High heels. etc.

Characters and Cast Listing 2

This was our final list of characters that we decided on - before filming began.

Cleaner (Age - 50's/60's) Female
Teacher (Age - 30's) Female/Male
Workman (Young - 20's?) Male
Barman (Age - 20's) Male
Hairdresser (Age - 20's) Female
Horse Stable Girls (Age - 10- 15) Female
Window Cleaner (Age - 40's) Male
Mother and Daughter (Age - ?) Female

We wanted a range of age and genders - to be sure our music would appeal to a wide audience.

Our next step was to cast people for these characters.

Cleaner (Age - 50's/60's) Female - Sue Daniels.
Hairdresser (Age - 20's) Female - Becky Wood.
Horse Stable Girls (Age - 10- 15) Female - Megan and Jessica Jones.
Window Cleaner (Age - 40's) Male - Nick English.
Mother and Daughter (Age - ?) Female - Sue and Livi Gregory.

We struggled to get a workshop or a bar for the relevant characters - and because of time we decided to cut them. Instead we added 2 more characters.

Teenager (Getting ready to go out) - Zoe Whitfield
Painter (Young - 20's?) Male - Andy Brady.

We chose these characters as we already had the locations that would fit their mise-en-scene.

Because of time commitment, the actress that was going to play our teacher was unable to be part of it. It was slightly disappointing, as we were losing some of the best locations - i.e. Classroom, Workshop, Bar - these would have been good as contrasting mise-en-scenes relevant to each character.

To keep the number of characters up, we had to add a new male character who we decided would be in a bathroom. We also needed to balance the genders - so adding a new male was probably a good idea.

Filming Next = ]

Cast listing

These are some of the initial ideas for characters we've had. We want to try and incorporate as many different characters as possible, all doing different jobs but all dancing to Footloose.

Decorator-

Dressed in scruffy clothing with paint on them. Painting wall with roller while dancing to song. Maybe dancing on a stepladder to include different levels and a

dd a bit of variety?

Horsey girls-

Dressed in horsey outfits (Boots, riding hats etc). Cleaning out a stable. One finds the other once dancing.

Window cleaner-

Dressed in overalls, with bucket of water and a cloth. Cleaning window. Shot from other side of the window, perhaps?

Hairdressers-

Young women dressed smartly working in hair salon. Styling customers' hair.

Old lady-

Dressed in casual clothing. Cleaning house. Hoover?

Barman-

Middle-aged man working behind bar, pulling pints. Dressed quite smartly- maybe shirt and black trousers?

Teenager-

Teenage girl doing makeup getting ready to go out. Shot from the mirror? Over the shoulder shot?

Target Audience Research 4

Here are the results of our questionnaire.

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45% of people asked had heard of the song, but only 15% had seen the video. This means that it's a popular song, however it would be worthwhile doing a new version of the video as not many people had seen the original.

There might be a slight bias to our questionnaire, as 90% of people asked were aged 16-25. If we were to do the questionnaire again, we'd try to ask a wider variety of ages.

The Kenny Loggins forum were very useful in helping us with target audience research. They told us that the majority of users were female, and they'd all be interested in a remake of the Footloose video.

Other music videos

Just Jack's Glory Days is a pop song, similar to Footloose by Kenny Loggins. The video is similar to how ours will be, as it involves everyday people singing and dancing to the song. I like the use of technology to add effects in the video, for example the changing of the t-shirts. This makes the video quite abstract. I would like to include similar effects in our video.

Like Glory Days, 5 Years Time involves people in different situations. Ours will be similar to this, as it will have lots of different shots in different places, however unlike 5 Years Time it will be members of the public, not band members. I like the dancing in this, so we will be incorporating dancing into ours. It helps create an upbeat feel to the video, which we want. Technology is used to split the screen up, and I hope we might be able to use this idea in ours.

Where we belong is of a different genre to ours. It's a rock song, rather than a pop song, so the video has very different effects to the ones we'll use. For example, there are a lot of different colour effects in this, such as black and white and sepia, however we want to use a lot of colour in ours.