Group: Location Reccie - Drama Studio and Brighton

Drama Studio
We used the drama studio in one of our lessons as there was a green screen set up available. We filmed Joe lip syncing to the song whislt steadily tracking backwards. We sped up the song to 200% using Audacity so that when slowed down he would be in slow motion. We then went and edited the footage together deleting the flat green background from around Joe and replacing with an urban setting.
This was a positive shoot as it allowed us to gain an idea of what needs to be altered when when we film for real.
Some problems that we encountered included a perspective difference between the background that was static and Joe who was slowly moving backward due to the track we did. This meant that we needed to scale the background out slowly in time with the track of Joe to create a seemless visual. Overall the effect worked well however when filming on the day it will be hard to organise timings and speed of tracks when taking into account slow motion aspects of induvidual shots.

Brighton
The Brighton trip gave us a great opportunity to carry out a location reccie as well as giving us a chance to test some camera techniques and visual ideas we have been thinking about. We can turn them into practical video and see wheather they work well. The saturated feel we gave had a very nice impression and a dull atmosphere that we are going to be aiming for. We carried out several landscape ES (establishing shots) - ideal for the 30 seconds of visual before the main audio track begins. These worked well in time-lapse or slow motion and we may use some of them for out actual video.

Feedback on Research and Planning

Some good analysis and attention to detail reflected in blog content. However a lot of tasks are unfinished and/or missing and as a result the blog is not showing adequate development and progression of ideas. You should be publishing concept development ideas each lesson and reflecting on skills and work completed. Currently the blog is a low level three (12/20) and is not demonstating the standard that you are both capable of.

HCT: Technical Analysis - Clocks - Coldplay, Leung (2003)

  From looking at the video of 'clocks' in more detail it is clear that over 90% of the shots are 'meat' shots - featuring the lead singer and band. Also, the cutting rate is very fast paced. This is quite conventional for this type of music that is of a relatively quick tempo.
The costumes they wear are very dark and dull, fitting in with thier surroundings of a dark studio. The flashing strobe lighting they use helps to portray the bass line. The rule of thirs is almost alwasys used to create equalibrium within the frame and looks aesthetically sound.
Sometimes the lead singer is centralised in the frame which creates a very refreshing and direct approach. This reaches out to the audience, breaking the fourth wall and allows us to feel the characters emotion. This is something that is most definetly worth regarding in the design of our video as we want to portray our boys message to the audience as best possible. 

Shot Number	Duration (seconds)	Camera	Mise en Scene
1	4	Low angle, medium close up, static, lens flair	Man walking past the camera, trousers, drum kit.
2	15	Worms eye view, zoom out, mid shot. Silhouette	Same man on piano. Dark clothes.
3	1	Low angle, medium close up, Silhouette	Backlit. Dark shadows
4	3	Mid Shot, Static.	Band playing, dark clothes, flashing lights
5	2	Mid shot, pan up.	Man playing guitar, pan up to blue lighting
6	3	Low angle, static, mid  shot	Band playing with guitarist central. Dark clothing and shadows. Blue lighting
7	5	Mid shot, slow motion, handicam	More lighting on the artists. Dark clothes, blue lighting.
8	2	Medium long shot, low angle. Slow motion	Blue lighting, dark jacket. More front lighting
9	3	Close up, handicam	Left side of singers face lit up. Shadow on right side.
10	5	Over the shoulder shot to long shot. Handicam	Band playing. Blue lighting. Dark feel and clothing.
11	7	Mid shot, static. On the left hand third	Dark backdrop, microphone with lead singer.
12	6	Handicam, medium close up. Right hand rule of thirds, pull focus at end of shot	Bright light on singers face, contrasts dark background
13	3	Medium long shot, smooth handicam.	Blue lighting casting shadows, guitarist
14	4	Zoom out, Mid shot	Blue lighting, strobe, drummer
15	4	Static Medium close up Singer on right third.	Blue/ yellow lighting shadowing the face. Microphone, band in backdrop
16	2	Medium close up, singer on right third swaying, slow motion. Handicam	Blue neon lights, microphone, dark clothing.
17	2	Handicam, Mid shot	White lighting casting shadow’s and silhouettes of heads.
18	1	Hadicam, Medium close up.	Silhouettes cast by blue lighting strobe.
19	3	Mid shot, Low angle, static, singer on left third of the frame.	Blue lighting, dark clothing, lip syncing
20	3	Static, Close up. Singers head central in frame. Shallow focus.	Yellow, blue and orange lighting cast over the face and backdrop.
21	2	Mid shot, steady Handicam	Band playing, dark clothes, yellow/ white lighting strobe.
22	3	Mid shot, Static	Drummer, wide angle, blue strobing
23	2	Medium long shot, bassist on right hand third.	Bassist playing, drummer in background.
24	1	Medium long shot. Guitarist on left third. Static	Blue lighting flash, blue/black feel.
25	1	Mid shot, Slow motion smooth handicam	Blue lighting microphone
26	1	Medium long shot, handicam. Slow motion	Blue/ white strobing. Singer dancing
27	2	Long shot, static. High angle. Wide angle	White/ blue strobe
28	3	Handicam, pan left/right	Singer dancing, microphone. Strobing white and blue lights. Microphone.
29	3	Medium long shot, low angle at feet.	White/blue lighting band playing. Only lower halves shown.
30	4	Over shoulder shot. Shallow focus. static	White/ blue strobing, band playing, slow motion.
31	3	Shallow focus, static. Slow motion Medium long shot/close up	Close up of silhouetted head with singer in background out of focus. Blue/ white lighting
32	2	Close up, slow motion, singer on left hand third.	White/red lighting casting shadow over face. microphone
33	3	Pan right, mid shot.  Handicam, slow motion.	Red strobing. Guitarists centred with drummer playing
34	1	Handicam, slow motion. Mid shot	Red/blue lighting in backdrop. Band playing singer central.
35	5	Track from right to left. Long shot. Slow motion	Red/ white strobing black clothing and shadows.
36	2	Smooth handicam, close up.	Red lighting cast over backdrop and face. Microphone seen.
37	2	Mid shot, low camera angle.	Very red, high contrast man playing bass guitar.
38	2	Smooth handicam, close up.	Red lighting cast over backdrop and face. Microphone seen.
39	3	Crane up. Mid close up.	Light yellow/red light.
40	1	Handicam, mid shot.  Slow motion, low angle	White light through flooring. Slow motion walking