Update: Group Change

During this week, Kristian decided to join our group, so that we now work as a trio. As he is mentioning in our podcast 1, he thought that our ideas for our final music video was good. 

Bronwen and I are sure that it will be an advantage for us when having to film the music video that we can possibly set up 3 cameras and a GoPro, which means that we can get a huge shot variety for our music video. 

Furthermore, Kristian told us that he has experience with filming with the use of a drone, which we can use to film as well. This could also come in handy, when filming different scenes in the music video. 

BV: STORYBOARD 1: Follow You

This is the storyboard i have created for our music video. I did quick sketches with short descriptions and no timings or lyrics. This is because the call sheets have a more in depth description and the storyboard is more to give an idea of what kind of visuals there will be and a general sense of how the music video will look. The drawings i did are not very artistically advanced as the point is not the quality of the art, but more to just get an idea of how the video will look when filmed.  

Auditions for female protagonist

UPDATE: WE WENT FOR A DIFFERENT FEMALE PROTAGONIST THAT WE HADN'T AUDITIONED. SIMILAR SLIM TYPE WITH LONG BROWN HAIR AS THE OTHER GIRLS. FINAL FEMALE PROTAGONIST.

These are the auditions we held for the female protagonist on Wednesday the 5th of October.

Production Schedule 1

This is the first Production Schedule that we created in our group of 3 for our final music video for Follow You by Bring Me The Horizon. From now on I will always update the production schedule and call the next one Production Schedule UPDATE 1 and then the next after that UPDATE 2 etc.

Media: Production schedule from Sophie2401

Group Pitch 1: Q&A session

This is the video of the Q & A session we had after our group pitch was screened in class. We talk a lot about casting, costume, female protagonist and the narrative of the music video.

Judith Butler Gender Theory

Judith Butler (born February 24, 1956) is an American philosopher and gender theorist whose work has influenced political philosophy, ethics and the fields of feminist, queer and literary theory.

Butler is best known for her books Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity and Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex, in which she challenges conventional notions of gender and develops her theory of gender performativity.

Judith Butler questions the belief that certain gendered behaviors are natural, illustrating the ways that one's learned performance of gendered behavior (what we commonly associate with femininity and masculinity) is an act of sorts, a performance, one that is imposed upon us by normative heterosexuality.Indeed, Butler goes far as to argue that gender, as an objective natural thing, does not exist. Butler states that: "Gender reality is performative which means, quite simply, that it is real only to the extent that it is performed. Gender, according to Butler, is by no means tied to material bodily facts but is solely and completely a social construction, a fiction, one that, therefore, is open to change and contestation.

Practice Video 1 - Evaluation

This is the evaluation that we did in class of our video and the process in making it:

• Production schedule not held - Take care of that for the final project, make sure that everyone, crew and cast, is available at the time you note down on the production schedule. Change cast if the cast if never available.

• Shaky camera footage - 2 cameras set up 1 with a tri-pod and one hand-held. There needs to be fluid hand-held camera if any.

• Framing - don't crop of any of the head.

• Shooting - Shoot the same scene from several angles, so that you have a good variaty and choice to take from when editing.

• Pre-filming - so that the cast knows exactly what to do on the day of the actual filming. Advantage, because it saves you a lot of time.

• Props - organise them well in advance, order them it advance, e.g. color powder.

• Color Correction  

• A good practice video, considering the amount of time we had 

• Good shot variety 

• Costume: Bronwen was wearing the same, she needs to change costume to signifie that it wasn't all filmed in one day. 

• Lip-syncing - Some parts of the lip-syncing were off 

• Actor shouldn't have worn glasses, would have looked better without

• Watch out for automatic focus pulls while filming.  

• Gender Countertype of girl holding the boy instead of the boy holding the girl.

Group Pitch 1

The song Bronwen and I have decided to create a music video for is called Follow You by the band Bring Me The Horizon. Below you will find the embedded music video of Follow You and this is the link for the lyrics of the song.

The following video contains explicit violence.



This is the Pitch that Bronwen and I created for our final idea of our music video. In this pitch we talk about:

• Our choice of song
• The general conventions of metal core
• Our general idea
• The location 
• The mise-en-scène
• The bands/music videos we were inspired from 
• Casting 

Practice Video 1: Evidence of Directing

WHAT I LEARNED: IMPORTANCE OF DIRECTING SO THAT YOU GET THE DESIRED BEHAVIOUR FROM THE ACTORS

For our practice video and first project, we all did a little bit of directing to practice for our final music video. Since Bronwen was in the music video as an actor, she didn't do any directing, but will however do for our final production, where she then also intends to post it on our blog. 

This is my evidence of directing:

Practice Video 1: We Don't Talk Anymore

WHAT I LEARNED: PRACTICE OF LIP-SYCING VERISIMILITUDE 

This is the project and practice video that we created in a group of 4 consisting of Bronwen, Adel, Riona and me. We did a music video for Charlie Puth's song "We Don't Talk Anymore". Bronwen edited the scene, where she is screened in her room singing the female voice, whereas I edited the studio scene and the narrative. A post on evaluation points will follow.