Problem Solving

I came across a number of problems when designing and filming my music video. I then had to think fast and find a way to continue by solving the problems I had. in my design stage after creating my storyboard I realised that when I created my animatic I was short of shots and frames by around 20 seconds. I had to create new frames and add them in, also I re used some shots again that were possible to use again and make sense. By adapting to the problem I had, I was now able to create the right length of of frames to fit my animatic story board.

When I started to film my video I realised that there were some shots that I thought of that might not work. For example when I tried to film the shot of a table being inside to panning upwards towards the sky and falling back down to the table being outside, I found that there was no way for me to do this as the shot would have to take precise movement of the camera when panning upwards, this collided with the fact that I would also have to be acting, therefore this shot was unable to be used and I had to re-adapt the story but still keep the meaning of this scene.

There was also a problem with my actress Jessica Norris, as she is part of her own group designing her music video, I had to create a schedule around her work. As her priority's lied with her group I worked out a solution to my problem, I filmed as much as I could without her and left the parts to be done with her until she was comfortable and available with my given times.

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Locations:

Actors/Acting:

Lists

Lists of props:

- Bracelet- given to me by girlfriend in which I then through away.

- Pictures- of boyfriend and girlfriend then burnt at the end of the narrative.

- Incinerator- for the burning of the pictures scene.

- Stop Motion Equipment- the house and stick people cut outs, pencils and camera.

- Office Equipment- for the scene when the man is working.

- Matches- for the setting of the fire

- Box- for me to lie on the the floating effect scene.

List of actors:

- Jessica Norris- playing the part of the girlfriend

- Leo Sene- playing the part of the boyfriend

- Tom Bates - these actors appear in the sped up scene of the living room.

- Amy Dean

- Rory Kemp

- Charlie Smith

List of Locations:

- My garden- with the two branch tree, the area where the burning of the pictures happen

- Sixth form Common Room- where the working living room action happens

- Classroom- the working scene, and the love scene flashbacks of the two lovers.

- Farmers Field- There action of the walking and bracelet throwing.

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Stop Motion

A key aspect of my video is the stop motion sequences. Stop Motion the term used for live action picture movement. It consists of talking a picture moving the object taking another picture and continuing this until you can then run the pictures in order of preference to create moving clip. Stop motion is a great technique because there are no limits to what can be achieved, whatever you can draw is possible to be made into stop motion clips. although it is a good technique to use because of the detail it is time consuming and i will have to plan my times to achieve it carefully.

I will be using stop motion to tell the story of the house sequences. From the time a new couple enter there new home in love, to when she leaves and the house goes up for sale. Therefore the stop motion image explain the main narrative when the rest of the video being live action will show the aftermath of the break down of love. here are some images I have taken and I will be using in my video.

Animatic Video

Starting on my animatic

Before i started to film i had to make an animatic, this being a film of my running story board in time to the music in a designed clip. after designing and drawing my storyboard, i used the camera taking pictures of each frame until I had my narrative in a running clip. so i used final cut HD and uploaded my pictures of the frames onto the video track then I added the Shooting Stars music file to the audio track and rendered them together. I now therefore had a basic line of my music video in pictures. I then became more precise with the timings of when to change the picture framing, depending on when I wanted certain clips to be in time with a certain point in the music.

After I placed all this together i realised that i was short of around 5 frames, which was around 20 seconds long, at this I took more pictures of new frames and re used some others to fill the spaces. I have to be quick thinking in my problem solving when this mishap happened. after this I realised that my animatic clips were still quiet long so i will have make the action more apparent when filming the real music video.