Final Video, Website and Digipak

FINAL VIDEO 

FINAL DIGIPAK 

FINAL WEBSITE 

https://10gmunro3.wixsite.com/birdsandthebees

4th Shoot Review 21/3/17

Our plan for shoot no. 4 didn't go as planned due to the actor (Finlay) being unavailable. We then planned to shoot on Tuesday the 21st at 3pm in Chiswick House Grounds however, we ran into some difficulty when my teachers would not let me out my lesson until 4:40. Although this was problematic for the time being, we got to Chiswick house grounds at around 5:30 and we had an hour to shoot the main actor, luckily it was the only day that was sunny so we had to film that day other wise the rest of the week was raining.

Changing our idea!

We then decided, last minute that we were going to change our idea completely with the boy. We changed it from the boy finding the monster/wolf and befriending it to the boy finding the wolf mask, after he awakes in the woods, and puts the mask on, becoming the wolf man.

Band shots 8/3/17

Band shoot

We had a successful band shoot and got lots of footage. We are still to do more lip syncing which we will to on Wednesday the 22nd march after our 4th shoot. We didn't come into any complications apart from the challenge of getting the instruments to and from the studio. 

Plan for shoot no. 4 11/3/15

Our plan for the 4th shoot is that we finish all the shots with the older boy in and start the day by filming the flashbacks of the younger boy.

3rd shoot review 4/3/17

Me and Grace went filming on Saturday 4th March in Richmond Park again. We filmed parts of the boy running through the woods and when he first encounters the monster in the first bridge.

Firstly, when we arrived there was an issue with the SD card saying it was full when there was nothing on it so we resolved this after half an hour of playing around trying to fix it. Next time, we will take a spare SD card. Also we didn't use the rig which made a few of our shots wobbly as well as forgetting to remove the tripod from the grass which meant we filmed the tripod instead of using it.

I thought that some of our shots were useful as we did a few close ups of the face which looked really good. The lighting and the focus was well used as well as the running shots of the boy.

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2nd shoot review 20/2/17

Today we went to Richmond Park, me, Grace and Jamie to do some more woodland filming. We first encountered a stag which distracted us for the first half and hour however, we got some good useful shots of the stag so it wasn't completely a waste of time. We also got some good shots of what we wanted which was close ups of trees and other woodland. 

One thing we could have done differently was perhaps find our specific location before we arrived, we found it hard to find somewhere that was very woody and not many people about. 

1st shoot review 4/2/17

Today we did our first shoot for the pre intro of our music video. We went to Richmond Park at about 3pm to shoot parts of the woodland. Unfortunately we ran out of data on the memory card and the camera was on low battery which was our first problem so now we know for our next shoot that we need to have a back up battery and memory card so we don't encounter that problem again. We did end up getting a few clips of the woods and close ups of trees and branches but if we had been more prepared then we could have had more.

Merchandise ideas

Using photoshop I played around with some ideas for our website and our bands merchandise in particular. I used the illustrations that we used for our digipak, the signature of our band and photoshopped it onto a plain white t-shirt. 

Digipak illustrations

These are the illustrations that I drew up for the digipak. Using a graphics tablet to draw the illustrations for our digipak made it a lot easier to get the cartoon feel and using photoshop, Jamie edited it and changed the colours etc for the digipak. 

Location Shots

On Wednesday the 25th of January, I went to Richmond Park to take some shots for our location. The weather loved to be difficult whilst trying to take the photos. It was very cloudy and beginning to get dark earless it was hard to focus on what I wanted to take pictures of, forest and trees etc but getting the colours in like the greens and oranges. 

I am planning on going to take some clearer photos however, from now (30th Jan) up until Wednesday the 8th of February, the weather says that its raining which means I will have to wait until there is some sun to go and take more photos. 

Storyboard

Here is the storyboard that I drew up to give visual understanding on how we wanted our music video to look, what shots to use and how to be creative with putting them together. 

Location shot and digipak photos

Plan for shooting location and digipak photos 

I have originally planned to go to Richmond Park tomorrow (Wednesday the 25th) to take location and digipak photos, we found that Richmond Park is good for the location as it is very green and surrounded by trees. As you can see, our plan was to fill the digipak with landscape shots of forests, we didn't think that the location photos would be good enough for the digipak so we decided that as I am going on a walking holiday in the Lake District around Windermere, Buttermere and Ennerdale in half term, that I could take the shots for our digipak and use them instead of our location shots. 

Plan for digipak photos

Digipak photos

As a group we have decided to use the location photos that we will take in Richmond for the panels of the Digipak so that we get two jobs done in one trip to make things easier. We have to make sure that the weather is good and the photos are good quality to be on the panels so we will take a DSLR Camera. 

Background of our Artists

For the background of our artists we were thinking to have 3 people in the band, 2 male and 1 female. The first man will play the guitar and sing with the female and the other man with play the drums in the back.

Ideas for our story:

- Icelandic or Norwegian members
- Best friends since primary school and play pretended bands and fake concerts with their parents
- They started becoming serious with music at the age of 13 when (girl) discovered she was talented with singing and (drummer boy) had been playing drums since he was 7 so he was talented and (guitar and singer boy) started playing guitar a year before when they were 12 but had never sung in his life until the idea of forming a band became an idea when they were half way through A levels
- They started by performing covers of songs in pubs in front of close fiends and families for 2 years until someone who attended one of the gigs asked them to perform at their wedding in 2007 in Finland. It was the first time (girl) and (drummer) had been out of Iceland/Norway, (guitarist)'s mother lived in Germany who he visited every other weekend.
- After performing at the wedding the band was discovered by (something) records who asked if the record label could sign them.
- They got their first album released in 2009 'Lost' with their record breaker Dirty Paws. After the album was released the record label sent them on a European tour. Tickets sold out in Glasgow, Manchester, Belgium, Lille, Florence, Madrid and Helsinki. They were so popular that they went on a world tour in 2012, they went to USA, Australia and New Zealand where tickets sold out in Vancouver, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco, Auckland, Queensland and Victoria. 

Casting for our band

These are the people we have decided to photograph to give an idea of what character we would like. For an indie band we looked for a friendly looking, quite scruffy man. Although some of the people photographed are unavailable to feature in our music video we will look for more people with these characteristics. We are searching for 3 people in total, 2 men, one who will play the drums and one who will play the guitar as well as sing with 1 female singer. For the female, who we haven't yet casted we will look for again, an indie looking girl who will be the main singer in the band.  

Music Video Inspiration

The Blaze - Virile 

The music video for Virile is all filmed in one location using a handheld camera. 

Throughout the video, the use of the handheld camera is consistent. We liked the idea of using a handheld camera in our video during both the flashback and the present. 

There is also a consistent use of 360 degree filming. We really liked this especially for the flashback as it gives a sense of the surroundings. The surroundings in the flashback of the small child we want to be quite derelict and eerie so instead of doing the 360 degree rotations with the beat we will do it slowly to really emphasise the derelict feeling.