We began our new project which was to create a music video. We put a lot of thought into this from the song we were going to choose to the scenes we are going to take throughout the entire music video. Since it was our first time shooting a music video, it took quite a while to come up with different scenarios for each scene. We wanted the scenes to correlate with the song’s lyrics. To begin with, we had to decide a location we need to shoot in. We decided on two different locations that we will be shooting at. We didn’t want to shoot on school campus as almost everyone else is doing the exact same thing so we wanted to stand out, we decided to shoot the first half of the video at a nearby park and the rest at a beach. This will give us a beautiful background and creativity as well. Since a park is filled with objects like the slides and the monkey bars, we can utilize those as a prop for our scene. We chose the beach as it was relevant to our school about being free since the beach is associated with freedom and peacefulness. We then took quite some time to actually create a storyboard in our head and actually draw it out onto paper. At the end, it was quite successful and we were satisfied with our plan.
So far, we have plan out different scenarios for each scenes. For example, the beginning scene would be the actor grabbing a lot of snacks from a consignment store. The next scene would be all 3 actors driving in a car together and singing along to a song. The next scene would be a view out of the car window as we are driving past the beach. The next scene will be two actors playing volleyball on the beach and having a good time. The next scene will be actors trying on sunglasses at a beach store. The next scene would be coins of various dominations dropping on the ground. The following scene would be 2 actors sitting in the back of the car. The final scene would be two people walking down the beach at sunset. All of these scenes will go along with the music video as each of the scene correlates well with not only the rhythm of the music but the lyrics as well.
We didn’t begin filming today was because we had to secure our actors and locations. All 3 actors had very different schedules that took some strategic planning to work out. For example, I am not available Monday through Thursday before 6 pm, the second actor is not free on certain days of work, and the third actor couldn’t film Friday through Sunday. Under the special circumstances of the Thanksgiving Break, we were determined to film on Tuesday, November 26th after school. During this time, we planned on filming our 1st, 2nd, 4th, 10th, and 11th scenes at our local park. Another important part of the process is securing out locations. In the storyboard, we had not planned to use more than 4 locations, these included the beach, the local park, the consignment store, and the car. Out of all these locations, we had to directly ask the manager of the consignment store to film. Our intent is not to disrupt business or to go against their company policy, so we believe it is only respectful to ask.
Monday, November 25, 2019
Friday, November 22, 2019
Storyboard Blog
Scene 1:
During this scene 2-3 people will be sitting on the bleachers socializing with one another. A high angle will be used with a drone and the drone will slowly back up to establish the background. The sound used in the scene be Young Dumb and Broke, and the actors will be a diverse group of people wearing casual attire. Color grading might be used to add additional affect during the post production process.
Scene 2:
During this scene 2 people will be laying down on a football field at a local park. A birds eye view will be used with a drone and will will slowly come closer to the actors. Once again the actors will a diverse group of people wearing casual attire. Backpacks will be used as a prop, as a pillow, showing relaxation time from school. Color grading might be used to create a vivid effect.
Scene 3:
During this scene a person will be filling up a slushy at a slushy machine. A tilt will be used to position the camera from the ceiling to the slushy machine. The actors might be in a bathing suit and a shirt/tank top and the scene will be filmed at consignment store. We will ask the manager for their permission to film and we will purchase the slushy. Sound from the machine will be included in the scene and not very many post production affects will be added.
Scene 4:
During this scene an actor will be looking at snacks at a consignment store and grabbing a lot. A long shot will be used to show all of the actor and part of the background. Once again the manger will be asked if we can film there. The props used will be the bags of chips and not much post production affects will be added. Young Dumb and Broke will be playing the background.
Scene 5:
During this scene 3 people will be filmed driving in a car, singing along to the song. The camera will be placed on the dash and it’s a three-shot. Regarding the safety of the actors and public seatbelts will be worn, our speed will be very slow, and we won't be driving in a densely populated area. The actors will be wearing casual attire and the props used will he beach going items such as a towel and volleyball. The sound of the song will be heard and some special effects will be added in the post productions process.
Scene 6:
During the scene the beach will be filmed from the perspective of the car window. It will be an establishing shot, setting the background for scenes to follow. The car will be moving but safety will be of the most importance and actions will be taken as necessary. The lighting will be soft from the sun and the only prop used will be the car. Sound of the car moving might be heard and some color grading might be added to create a more vivid effect.
Scene 7:
During this scene we will be be using a wide shot. Two of the group members will be playing volleyball at lauderdale beach. We’re gonna use a wide shot to make sure that everyone is in the shot and we can get the beach in the background as well. We will be using normal costumes, makeup and actors will be in the ordinary. The lighting will be natural in this scene cause we will be outside and using the light provided by the sun. The sound will me the music from the song that we are doing.
Scene 8:
In this shot two group members will be playing in the sand or building a sand castle. For this we will be using a two-shot. We will also be in normal costumes like shorts or bathing suit tops just to wear the proper attire when at the beach. Lighting will again be natural because there’s no need for more light then what is already provided. The sound will be the music from the song. We will add effects in the post production process like transitions.
Scene 9:
For this scene we decided to walk around the beach and go up to stands that are in the walkway. So we’re going to be trying on glasses at one ot these stands. Then we will be showing them on all of our faces so we will use a medium close up for this. Lighting will be natural because we will still be outside. We will still be using the same costumes that we used for the previous scenes. We won’t be using any new actors as well, it will just be the three people in the group. Sound will be the music from the song. There will be transitions between scenes so the video looks smoother.
Scene 10:
Coins will be dropped on the ground for this scene. One of the group members will have coins in their hands nd will just drop them as the shot starts. We chose to do this scene because in the song the artist sings “young, dumb and broke”. We wanted to include every aspect of the song in the video so we had to include the “broke” part. The lighting will be the natural lighting because we’re going to film this in a parking lot. Sound again will just be the music from the song. We will edit transitions in between scenes and color grading.
Scene 11:
For this scene there will be two group members siting in the back of my car. We will be parked in a parking lot. For this we will use a two shot as well as a wide shot to make sure we get the setting in the shot as well. We’ll be wearing casual everyday attire. It will be the same two people in our group that will be in this scene while the third person films. We might use a prop or two like the slushee that we got in the previous scene. The sound will be the music from the song “young, dumb and broke”. We will add transitions in between scenes as well as some color grading to give the scene texture.
Scene 12:
The last scene will show two people walking down the beach. This will two actors from our group. We will be trying to film this scene at the beach during sundown to provide a happy ending
To the music video. This will be a tracking shot as we follow the actors walking down the beach. We will be in normal attire. No props will be used during this scene because there isn’t a need for any. The sound will be the music from the song and we will add transitions to make it more smooth.
Planning of Music Video
During last class we had been introduced to our new project, a music video. I was really excited about the project because I worked really well with my group last time and thought this project would be more enjoyable. The previous project, the commercial, we had been confined to filming on campus and picking from certain topics. This project is different because we are allowed to film off campus and choose our own song. The song we are going to recreate in our music video is Young Dumb and Broke by Khalid. However, before we can film we have to plan out every aspect of the music video. This includes the location, health and safety concerns, props, costumes, and the schedule. This had been very helpful during the commercial, and I believe we will find it very useful again while filing the music video. Oh
Location:
Throughout the commercial we want to use locations that a high school viewer or teenager can relate to. For that reason, we choose places such as our high school, a park, the beach, a parking lot, the car, and fast food restaurants. High school is a place everyone can relate to as we are there for a large portion of our day to day lives. It is one large social atmosphere where we can grow together, feel to each other, and build relationships. The idea of a large social atmosphere was something we wanted to include in our music video. Locations such as the park and the beach are also some of a high school student’s favorite pastime. The ability to relax and take a break from our stressful lives is something everyone needs. Finally we choose to include the car as another location. High school students can range on average from 14-18 years old, and will be exposed to driving without their parents potentially. We wanted to recreate this experience in our video, and exaggerate the reckless behavior that a teenager may have when they are driving.
Health/Safety Concerns:
Safety is of the uttermost importance during the filming of the commercial. There will be some reckless scenes but we will minimize the potential risks and concerns each of these scenes will have. For example, during the filming of the scene in the car we will be wearing a seatbelt at all times the car is moving. The driver will concentrate on driving and we will be far away from crowded areas, where the public could potentially be at risk. Furthermore, throughout the filming of every scene we will have a first aid kit with us Incase someone is cut or hurt. Finally, we will have our phones on us at all times in case of an emergency. In this unlikely event, 911 will be dialed to get medical treatment as soon as possible.
Props:
Props are another important part of the commercial, and we want to make sure they are related to our topic and audience. So, to recreate the life of a reckless high schooler, we will use props such as a car, food(likely fast food), beach going things, pennies(or other forms of change), and other regular day to day items. These props together will work to create this sense of being a high schooler and will add depth to our music video.
Costumes:
Costumes are another important part of the commercial, however it will be easy to replicate. We plan on using day to day attire for a student or teenager. Furthermore, our school does not have uniforms so we be able to control what appearance we have in the music video. However, we will make sure to have the costume politically neutral and not depicting things such as substance abuse or discrimination.
Schedule:
Location:
Throughout the commercial we want to use locations that a high school viewer or teenager can relate to. For that reason, we choose places such as our high school, a park, the beach, a parking lot, the car, and fast food restaurants. High school is a place everyone can relate to as we are there for a large portion of our day to day lives. It is one large social atmosphere where we can grow together, feel to each other, and build relationships. The idea of a large social atmosphere was something we wanted to include in our music video. Locations such as the park and the beach are also some of a high school student’s favorite pastime. The ability to relax and take a break from our stressful lives is something everyone needs. Finally we choose to include the car as another location. High school students can range on average from 14-18 years old, and will be exposed to driving without their parents potentially. We wanted to recreate this experience in our video, and exaggerate the reckless behavior that a teenager may have when they are driving.
Health/Safety Concerns:
Safety is of the uttermost importance during the filming of the commercial. There will be some reckless scenes but we will minimize the potential risks and concerns each of these scenes will have. For example, during the filming of the scene in the car we will be wearing a seatbelt at all times the car is moving. The driver will concentrate on driving and we will be far away from crowded areas, where the public could potentially be at risk. Furthermore, throughout the filming of every scene we will have a first aid kit with us Incase someone is cut or hurt. Finally, we will have our phones on us at all times in case of an emergency. In this unlikely event, 911 will be dialed to get medical treatment as soon as possible.
Props:
Props are another important part of the commercial, and we want to make sure they are related to our topic and audience. So, to recreate the life of a reckless high schooler, we will use props such as a car, food(likely fast food), beach going things, pennies(or other forms of change), and other regular day to day items. These props together will work to create this sense of being a high schooler and will add depth to our music video.
Costumes:
Costumes are another important part of the commercial, however it will be easy to replicate. We plan on using day to day attire for a student or teenager. Furthermore, our school does not have uniforms so we be able to control what appearance we have in the music video. However, we will make sure to have the costume politically neutral and not depicting things such as substance abuse or discrimination.
Schedule:
Thursday, November 14, 2019
New Project: Music Video
After a week of shooting our commercial and editing the entire commercial, we were finally done with our commercial. Although, the commercial was not the best, however, it was quite amazing as we had limited time and it was all of our first time creating such commercial. From, using the camera to take scenes from the best desired angles of each scene, we took many takes as we wanted to use the best shots. With only a hour time limit for filming, we had to act quickly and we were successful for the filming at the end. Now back into the classroom, we had difficulties editing the video as the computer was very slow and sometimes not opening the raw footages. After multiple attempts, we were finally able to start editing properly and we cut out any scenes we didn’t want to include. We also added transitions between scenes and background music to make the commercial more professional. Overall, my entire group did a great job working together and creating a amazing commercial even though we encountered many difficulties especially in the editing process. I am definitely looking forward to working with them again in this new music video project because as a whole, we are able to efficiently create a great product under certain circumstances
Today my group is figuring out a song to do. We have contemplated a few different ones and I think we’re just going to stick with a song from the early 2000s to the recent years. We don’t wanna do an older song from the 80s and below because I feel like it would be too hard to replicate clothing that was worn in that era. The song we’re using is called “Young, dumb and broke”. This is sung be someone named Khalid Robinson. He was born on February 11th, 1998. His debut album ‘American Teen’ was released on March 3,2017. It ended up to number 9 on the U.S. charts. We chose this song because were all in high school so we can relate to the song 100%. We’re all young cause we’re only 16 or 17. We’re dumb because kids always make mistakes and we’re broke because well, I don’t think I need to explain that one.
1. The costumes we will be using are just normal everyday attire for the average teen. We want to try and make the clothing as related to the song as possible. So wearing fancy clothing would contradict the whole video. Average clothing consists on hoodies, redshirts, shorts & jeans.
2. We will be using natural light from wherever we film. We don’t be bringing in any special lighting because the music video is supposed to be fairly average.
3. Our actors will be the three people in thw group. We might add some extra people depending on what the scene is. We want to create that sense of socialization in the video.
4. Makeup will not be anything crazy whatsoever. Whoever wears makeup if any will be natural because we want the audience to be able to relate to it.
5. Some props that we will be using is for sure a car and money. We’re not sure what other props we will be using right now but we know it won’t be any that doesn’t relate to the song or high school students. We might use food as well just to show that we’re having a good time.
6. We’re going to have various settings in the music video because we don’t want to keep filming at the same place due to the worry that it will get boring. We wanna show that teens are always on the move and having fun.
For sound we will be using the music video and Pinnacle Studios for the entire editing process.
Today my group is figuring out a song to do. We have contemplated a few different ones and I think we’re just going to stick with a song from the early 2000s to the recent years. We don’t wanna do an older song from the 80s and below because I feel like it would be too hard to replicate clothing that was worn in that era. The song we’re using is called “Young, dumb and broke”. This is sung be someone named Khalid Robinson. He was born on February 11th, 1998. His debut album ‘American Teen’ was released on March 3,2017. It ended up to number 9 on the U.S. charts. We chose this song because were all in high school so we can relate to the song 100%. We’re all young cause we’re only 16 or 17. We’re dumb because kids always make mistakes and we’re broke because well, I don’t think I need to explain that one.
1. The costumes we will be using are just normal everyday attire for the average teen. We want to try and make the clothing as related to the song as possible. So wearing fancy clothing would contradict the whole video. Average clothing consists on hoodies, redshirts, shorts & jeans.
2. We will be using natural light from wherever we film. We don’t be bringing in any special lighting because the music video is supposed to be fairly average.
3. Our actors will be the three people in thw group. We might add some extra people depending on what the scene is. We want to create that sense of socialization in the video.
4. Makeup will not be anything crazy whatsoever. Whoever wears makeup if any will be natural because we want the audience to be able to relate to it.
5. Some props that we will be using is for sure a car and money. We’re not sure what other props we will be using right now but we know it won’t be any that doesn’t relate to the song or high school students. We might use food as well just to show that we’re having a good time.
6. We’re going to have various settings in the music video because we don’t want to keep filming at the same place due to the worry that it will get boring. We wanna show that teens are always on the move and having fun.
For sound we will be using the music video and Pinnacle Studios for the entire editing process.
Thursday, November 7, 2019
Final Editing Blog
My group started editing our video on Tuesday. However, we were having some major technical difficulties as the computer we were using was very not starting up as first. Our editing software, Pinnacle Studios was not opening in the beginning. After multiple tries and restarts, we were finally able to open up the editing software. Even though, Pinnacle Studios finally opened, it was extremely slow to oven operate. Every click and editing took a while to respond. So while we were waiting for the computer to respond, my group decided to look through all the different takes and pick out the best scenes so we can use for our commercial. It took a while looking through our raw footages as we took many different tales of the same scene as we wanted to provide the best angle and lightning. We were having different disagreements on some scenes as each of us thought another scene was better than others. We finally came to the conclusion of the right scenes we will use to complete our commercial.
As we already chose all our wanted scenes, we were still having some technical difficulties with finishing the commercial as the computer was very slow. The editing software was very slow as well. Slowly by slowly, we added transitions to each scene. We also went online to choose a background song for the commercial as in our commercial, we had no dialogue so we needed a right song that would go along with our commercial. We decided to settle on a perfect music video that we thought would go very well with our commercial. Next, we played with the different transitions and cut out any unwanted scenes. It took a while for us to choose different transitions for even scenes as that is quite important for our commercial. At the end, we were all happy with the transitions.
We continued to edit our video on Thursday. Again, we were having technical difficulties opening Pinnacle Studios so we wasted a lot of time in the beginning of class just starting up the editing software. After multiple tries, we were able to get back into where we left off last Tuesday. As we already chosen our transition for each of our sequence, we needed to cut out some scenes that wouldn’t fit right into our commercial. So we look through each scene and cut out some scenes as this commercial must be under a set amount of time. With so many different scenes, we had to be smart with what scenes to cut out and what scenes are important. As Thursday was a PSD Day, we only such little time to do some editing as not only was our computer had a hard time opening Pinnacle Studios, but it was acting extremely slow so we ended up not finishing the whole commercial. We will be continuing our editing next class.
As we already chose all our wanted scenes, we were still having some technical difficulties with finishing the commercial as the computer was very slow. The editing software was very slow as well. Slowly by slowly, we added transitions to each scene. We also went online to choose a background song for the commercial as in our commercial, we had no dialogue so we needed a right song that would go along with our commercial. We decided to settle on a perfect music video that we thought would go very well with our commercial. Next, we played with the different transitions and cut out any unwanted scenes. It took a while for us to choose different transitions for even scenes as that is quite important for our commercial. At the end, we were all happy with the transitions.
We continued to edit our video on Thursday. Again, we were having technical difficulties opening Pinnacle Studios so we wasted a lot of time in the beginning of class just starting up the editing software. After multiple tries, we were able to get back into where we left off last Tuesday. As we already chosen our transition for each of our sequence, we needed to cut out some scenes that wouldn’t fit right into our commercial. So we look through each scene and cut out some scenes as this commercial must be under a set amount of time. With so many different scenes, we had to be smart with what scenes to cut out and what scenes are important. As Thursday was a PSD Day, we only such little time to do some editing as not only was our computer had a hard time opening Pinnacle Studios, but it was acting extremely slow so we ended up not finishing the whole commercial. We will be continuing our editing next class.
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