Filming

I finished all of my outdoor filming today and only have a fue more shots left to film so I will be starting the editing at the start of this week.
Here are a few shots of us getting ready for filming, before going out to film in the selected location.

Halloween

Today is Halloween and I just thought I discuss the themes of Halloween,

The main themes of Halloween these days are ones of humour and fun, which is combined with the emotions of Fear and Happiness, two concepts that are rarely put together as they are almost complete opposites. But they seem atleast to work well on halloween a time of year for telling scary stories and trick or treating with younger members of family. These days though as with most things its about the parties and getting together with friends to watch scary movies, wich just goes to show that this is another season celebration that has fallen into the comercial hands of big businesses trying to sqeeze every drop of money out of the holidays.

Fire test

I decided that the my raft would need an accelerant to burn properly as the green wood the branch are made from don't burn well on their own.
So have decided that the best choice of accelerant to use for this task is lighter fuel, which is also used to light barbecues and start bonfires. But to assure the raft is unharmed in the making of the Draft of my video I will be using Methylated Spirits as this will allow me to control which parts of the raft burn and which parts don't burn.
Note to self add video of test below.

To do list

Below is a list of things I need to do over the next couple of weeks. I have starte the list with the most urgent as it seems like the way to start.

to do list

Fire

I decided that I would use methylated spirites for the fire on the raft during my draft filming and lighter fuel for the final video.
The reason for this is methylated spirites is a controlable flammable substance that will burn at a controlled rate rather then burning out of control.
And I am using the lighter fuel for the final cut as it will give the scene a more entertaining scene and will show case the dangerous and destruction nature of fire.
Here is an example of this destructive nature at work.

Film plan

I intend on doing most of my filming this weekend as it gives me the equvilent of three days to work on it and to setup the props I will need.

Prop list

Johnny Cash Tribute

Today I was looking through some work on scribd when I bumped into this tribute it has some detailed information and has some great photos hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did, Fred.

A-Tribute-to-Johnny-Cash

Risk assessment

Bellow is the risk assessment and prop list for my music video.
List of Props Used in the Video

Fonts

1st scenes

Today I filmed the first few scenes for my video, I had to start with the single character scenes first as they are the easiest to film. I was able to get my hands on a guitar after a long time searching, I decided to ask the music department but they don't allow you to take them out of school. Then I remembered the Art department had an old one and after asking to borrow it I was on my way.

Inspiration

This is a list of things that inspired me when I was planning my video.

Update

Was planning to film today, but due to unforeseen circumstances filming had to be put on hold. But while I was waiting I watched this video of Johnny Cash from around the same time period as he sang 'The Ring of Fire'

filming

I filmed a few more shots today, I also watched a few videos of the same genre, these videos are difficult to analyse as they are not following a story like most music videos as country music singer tend to do concerts instead of music videos. Kenny Roger for example has a great voice but he didn't do any music videos as far as I can tell after searching on YouTube to find one.

But I think I understand why country music stars preferred to do concerts over music video, its because they enjoy seeing the reaction of the audience to there songs and allowing them to join in like this video show you. which is something that they cannot do with a music video.

Weather Report 2

The weather next week looks good for filming so I will try and get it all done in time (before it rains) so I can have it edited and finished as soon as possible.

Characters

Before I start filming I need to pick the best candidate for each character in my video. Below are pictures of the candidates that I have chosen to play the rolls in my video. I may change this for the main video as the flash backs would make more scense with younger characters involed.
But for the draft these characters will work fine and hopefully the video will work with only them in it.
Character 1

Character 2

Film schedule

I have begun planning my filming and what shots I should start with.
the only problem is the time of day as I am loosing more light and my characters are busy people so it may be difficult to time the filming with good light.

Filming Preparations

I am getting ready to film some of the shots for my video, as I have not gotten My hand on a guitar yet I can only film the scenes that don't have a guitar. I hope the guitar problems I have been having will be solved soon as I have been exploring many different options.

Short list

I have narrowed down the number of names for my video production company to a select few, and I would really like some opinions so could you give a guy a hand.

The Short List

Construction Begins

Today I started consruction of the raft for my video, Hope it goes alright as I have the correct tools and good number of branches for material.

Materials 2

Here are the bits of my search for materials that I recorded, As I am doing the commentary and the filming please excuse the camera wobble and the random movement from side to side.

Materials

Today I went out and collected the materials for my raft, I went to all the locations I mentioned earlier. I got a good haul, enough for the two rafts. I also got some good photos and videos which are below.

Raft Blue Prints

I have created a blue print for the construction of my raft and I will use this to help me create it. It also includes a list of accelerants I might use to help set the raft ablaze.
Below is a list of tools I will use when I create my raft.
List of Tools

Company names

I have been considering names for the company and the logo I will include in my video. The reason for this is my video may need credits so I have started to consider the name of the company. To do this I researched tirelessly using a list of existing companies and the Oxford dictionary of words that allowed me to devise a name that linked to the video genre that I have chosen.

Raft building Rissk assessment

Before I make the raft for my video I will need to assess the risks involved, as I will be using sharp tools and instruments in its creation. e.g tripping with a knife or a pair of scissors.

Schedule

I am working on my film schedule at the moment, it going well I will put the finished product bellow.

Raft construction

As you can see from my props list I will make the small raft for my film myself, using materials from these locations and more if necessary. I would like to make two rafts so I can see how well one burns and make a decision on whether or not I will need to use some kind of accelerant.

Character Costume

These are the sort of things I will need to make my character look like he is part of the genre of country Music.

The other objects on this page items that I will include in my video including a raft and a ring. The cowboy hat isn't completely neccessary for the filming of the video.

Shooting Schedule

Below is the shooting schedule for my video I hope to stick to this schedule as closely as possible.

• Arrive at destination
• set up tripod and camera
• Final rehearsal of lyrics
• Begin filming

Due to issues that occurred later in filming the film schedule had to be rearranged and some scenes were done twice.

Prop list

To make my video a success I will need to collect the following equipment:

1. Tape Camera
2. Tripod
3. Tape player
4. Storyboard
5. Watch

I will also need the following props:

1. 2 Pairs of Blue Jeans
2. Dark Shirt
3. 1 Pair of Black Shoes
4. 1 Pair of White Shoes
5. Cowboy Hat ( optional)
6. Acoustic Guitar
7. Raft (home made)
8. Engagement Ring

Permission

I will need to ask permission to film in some of the areas I intend to film in, underneath this is my permission slips that allow me to film in these locations.
While waiting to get permission I watched this video by Kenny Rogers.

and this video of Johnny cash, he's older in this video but don't judge him on his appearance he's still got great vocals in this song.

Narrative theory

This is the son Coward of the county by Kenny Rogers.

I have analysed this video using the media theories and the result is bellow.

Kenny rogers

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This is a photo taken of me working on the analysis at home.

Animatic

I am going to create an animatic using my finished storyboard,An animatic is a filmed version of my storyboard that has been edited to make it shorter and run smoothly. Here is a draft copy,that I did before editing.

New shot list

0-8 Character playing guitar while sat on a fence

9-14 Character mets girl for first time/ then him by himself

15-21 Characters hold hands/ him in the centre of field

22-27 Characters kissing/ him admiring the view walking with her

28-31 Charater playing the guitar/ him propsing

32-40 Character rejected/ Holding the ring and placing it onto the raft.

41-47 Characters arguing/putting raft into stream

48-1.04 Character sets raft on fire and watches it float away/single tear

1.05-1.32 Character playing guitar/close up of burning ring

storyboard 1.0

The story board for my video has changed to match the length of the song that I have chosen, this is because the original storyboard did not fit perfectly to the song so I have tweaked the story board to match almost perfectly to the music. sorry this post is late but my computer troubles never seem to end. As my computer has now locked me out. I am sending this post using the family computer.

These are photographs taken by my teacher to show that I have been working on my StoryBoard.

Hear is my finished storyboard below.

Location

I have picked the locations for my filming because they match with the themes of the genre, as the song is a country song it makes sense to locate my video in the countryside. Aswell as the fact the locations are all easily accessible for filming at any time and are close to school meaning I will be able to get from my lesson to the areas for filming without wasting alot of time.

Storyboard Narrative

The narrative for my video contains two characters one male and one female.
Male:
Female:
The video starts with the man alone in a field looking at the view clutching a box.
Then there is a flash back to him with the girl on the day they first met.
Then we go back to him alone in the middle of the field.

StoryBoard

Started to decide on the narrative of my music video I looked at other examples in the genre and decided to use a story revolving around a single character who has been rejected by love and tries to come to terms with his feelings. So I started to draw up a storyboard. Finished the storyboard on Tuesday.
I created two storyboards as the narrative of the video includes a present day event littered with flash backs so I seperated them out and made a storyboard for both the main story and flashbacks.

Lightning

This song has a similar story as 'The Ring of Fire' but it is more obvious, it is also about something natural in this case a Lightning Storm instead of Fire.

The importance of the weather is emphasized in this video by its constant presence in the background of the video, and the odd quick cut to the lightning in the window in the video make it seem like there is actually a lightning storm in out side. The single candle in the video makes the darkness more pronounced and sets the mood of the video, it also connotes that the character lonely in this video as the candle is his only companion during the storm.

Garth brooks the thunder rolls

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Weather

The weather for the next week is going to be rather miserable, the temperature will be not to bad but the rain will be annoying for people planning on filming. Mondays looks good though.

This may effect my filming schedule as I can't film in the rain but I will film as soon as possible.

Blog Design Questions

I've been planning on changing the design for my Blog and would like your oppinions, so please give me some suggestions on the topic, but remember that my theme is the Ring of Fire and Johnny Cash. Hope to get some feed back soon, your sincerely Fred.

Character and more

I started on Wednesday to create a character for my video, I have been ill but that never stopped me before so I have been working on it, unfortunately my room has limited internet and I have only just been able to send this.
Character:

• Grey shirt
• Dark Blue Jeans
• Black Jacket
• Black shoes/Boots
• Brown or Black hair

Emotions: Depressed/in Pain,Sad, Happy, Cherrful.

Location: By a stream, on a fench, in a field, on a stage

Weather:Dark sky, Sun shines through, In doors.

The last point maybe difficult to pull off as autumn to winter the sun pretty much fades away,

but I think we can pull it off.