Projected completion of the final piece

I am expecting to finish the video by the end of this week! We have a double period on friday where we will be doing editing so I will finalise it there and render it out in the afternoon after I've gone home. I will then use the power of the internet to ask people to comment on it after I have put it on to youtube and send it to the band via facebook and get their opinion on it

Movements Second Cut

So I have listened to the comments that people have said and here is what I have done as a result. The least interesting bits have been sped up and now that I can see what is going on all in one go I can refine it to make the speed changes a bit less sudden and try and do it smoother. The painting out in the background worked very well and you can hardly see it at all unless you were looking for it! There are a few bits which just need to match the music a little better though and I fear that the video is at some points straying a bit too far away from that so I'll have to be careful

Now you see kim....

In order to get the one cut video that we wanted to achieve there was always going to be a point when someone was caught in the video that we didn't really want/need to see. There are two points which were pretty much unavoidable and these are the ones that you can see below. This first one in Kim running towards her diversion sign. When reversed obviously it looks like she is running back so I decided to paint her out as we don't want our attention drawn to the wrong thing. Here is what I did:

Start with the base image /\/\

Use the clone tool to take a sample from another part of the image /\/\

Voila! /\/\

And I also did the same for Joe underneath who was packing up the map so that it didn't fly away. He was the only one not involved in the diversion / home sequence

The only annoying thing about this is that you literally have to do every frame separately in order to make it work. This does work fairly nicely and is not to hard to achieve though

Feedback

I let my class see the rough cut of the video today and it seems that they were impressed! They gave me lots of constructive criticism though which is good! What I can take from what they said is that the video does take a little bit of time to get going. I can now see that they are right about this and this is something that I have taken on board and am now correcting in the edit. I am speeding up the in between bits of where not much is going on so that things are happening so that things are happening all the time and we don't lose the audience in the first minute.

The other thing I am doing to keep the song at the right time it slow down the really interesting parts. My teacher mentioned that those parts almost went a bit too fast and because I shot the video at 60fps I could slow it down and it would still be very smooth when it was slowed down. I am glad I did this because it looks so much more amazing when the water is going back in the bucket in slow motion.

So this is what I am doing at the moment and I will work more on some of the criticism as I finish each other part

First Rough Cut of the video

Done in a couple of hours towards the end of the day

Here is the first cut of the video

My only concern from looking at the video is that people may find the end a bit weird in the way that they take hands.

Otherwise I'm very happy with the way it came out

It went well!

Second time lucky!

So we got all the video footage in the bag and now it's time to begin editing! I even got some behind the scenes stuff done too!

3rd of January! (Tomorrow!)

OK here we go second time lucky! I'm much more confident that we can do it tomorrow! I have at least 6 people coming and possibly more which is brilliant because it means that we can get this show on the road! I have everything sitting right where I left it and people know what they need to bring when they come tomorrow so we should be fine. This time it'll be from 10 - 2 so that people aren't looking too tired when they are in the video! Let's hope it all goes well!

New Date for Fiming

I have talked to the people who own the field and also to other people who I hope that will help me in my video. Both groups have said that the date I have pitched to them (3RD JANUARY) is available to most of them.

Because it is a bank holiday there is no school still and I am not working meaning that I can make the time a bit later for everyone. I'll therefore make the time 10.00 to 14.00(ish).

Let's hope the weather is good!

Saturday 18th

So I've had a very frustrating morning. Trying to find where the main character actually WAS was a big problem. He decided that he couldn't be bothered to turn up. In the end only two people actually did turn up. In the end we had to cancel. Very frustrating and annoying so we will have to re-organise it for another time...

Weather

So the weather is playing havoc once again and it may be that we may not be able to film tomorrow morning since the weather is due to be below freezing. I will make a decision about whether to go ahead with the filming tomorrow morning.

It also seems that the help that I have asked for may also not materialise. 4 people have already dropped out. I'm going to need to have at least 6 people (Including Dan - Main character) helping out with all the other stuff going on around the field.

We shall see how it goes...

Thanks Tesco

I have enough cardboard now!

Checklist for Saturday

EQUIPMENT

□ Signs

□ Diversion

□ Family, Work, School, Life, Friends

□ New, Coming through, Difference,

□ Home

□ Camera (Fully Charged)

□ Photo Camera (For Behind the Scenes)

□ Tripod (In Case)

□ Buckets

□ Map

□ Little Plastic Balls

□ Coat

□ Cardboard

□ Paddle (From Dan)

DOCUMENTATION:

□ Setting up Map

□ Script

□ This Page!

Other Design Ideas

Some more ideas for the digipak:

Reasoning for One Shot

I plan to do this video completely in one shot but why do I want to do this?

Well there are two reasons: It fits the mood of the song, and it is something unexpected

Mood:

The song flows nicely with the choral parts placed in the song and the way an acoustic guitar is used instead of an electric one. I think that with the way the song is set in it's mood would fit well with a one cut shot

Unexpected:

With the new technology that is available to me I can do so much more than just making a standard video with the cuts like I did last year. It is evident that with the music videos that are around today the good ones are the ones that push the boundaries and this is what I want to do in this case.

Date and Venue confirmed!

So I have spoken to the people from Ignite and the people who own the field and I can film in the field on the 18th of December at 8:00 in the morning. I will remind people at the next ignite meeting and then it will be time for me to do the filming!

Things left to organise:

Signs left to do: New, Coming through, Difference, change, and the diversion signs

Get buckets and small balls (From Andy Jones)

Get Map from in the study

I will create a checklist later so that when we get to the actual film day I can make sure that I bring everything with me and not have to keep going back and forth

Creating the signs

So with the placards that the people will be holding I got some scrap cardboard and ripped it up so it looked fairly raggedy. I then got some black poster paint and tried to not do it too carefully to again make it look like it is a bit like a homeless sign.

These will be used near the end for the parts of the man's life that are trying to grab his attention. This will also be used for the direction home signs within the video.

I still need to make the diversion signs and the new, coming through, difference and change.

Snow!

Update: (26/11/10)

Snow is set to be here for a predicted 2 weeks! So if the weather happens to be snowy on the day 0f the shoot a few things will need to be changed.

I will use snow balls to throw at the character instead of the little plastic ones that I have lined up. The man will possibly slip up instead of trip up and will be pushed over instead of tripped.

If there is snow and I can't get to the field because of the roads then I will consider another date for the filming

ACTION PLAN

HOPEFUL DATE FOR FILMING: 18TH DECEMBER

TIME: 8:00 - 12:00

Things to do before then:

ASK YOUTH GROUP FOR HELP (Facebook and in person)

Check if people can do this date

FOR FILM DAY

Equipment:

Cardboard (From Tesco)

Little Balls (From Hoppers)

Blow Up Boat

Buckets, Water Pistols

Map

Cardboard Wings

Signs:

Family, Friends, God, Work, Play, Life, Girlfriend, School

New, Coming through, Change, Difference

Home

Diversion signs

Setting Up The Field

(click on the picture to enlarge)

This is how I can imagine the field will be set up like. The bit with the crawling near the end may change if I can find a suitable hedge which could work in this video. This will essentially be the general set up though so it could be a useful document for me to have on me on the shoot.

Movements Final Scripting

MOVEMENTS FINAL SCRIPTING

this video will be in one shot

Man is walking backwards with small person and a 'God' placard in their hands

Zoom in on their hands and they part the camera moves around to look at the small person standing still.

Move to focus on the main character with several other people jumping around him shouting at him with girlfriend, friends, work, play, life, family, written on them. The crowd parts to let the camera through the crowd and we are now in the circle looking out at the people in and spinning around.

The camera pans around onto the man looking around looking concerned

The crowd starts moving backwards out of the way and the man starts walking backwards away from them. The camera pans around so he it is behind him. It moves all the way around.

He stands still and dodges the punches being thrown at him by someone. He then moves backwards some more and falls over but gets back again. The same thing then happens.

Loads of balls gets thrown at him but he moves backwards through them

Walks backwards through the wall of cardboard. Camera pans around the wall as he goes through.

He gets water thrown at him and water pistols shot at him from all sides

Gets thrown a paddle and starts moving in a different direction. Rowing BACKWARDS. Looks really confused as he does this. Camera is on the side of the boat

Buckets of water thrown at him.

Crawls out. Moves backwards for a sec. Camera is still by the side of him and then pans around to the front

Gets out a map and looks at it and then throws it in the air.

Sees someone with a sign pointing to home and follows it. THE SIGN FOR HOME MUST BE POINTING THE OTHER WAY

Moves his way through some people that are standing in his way. Camera following him from the front. He is moving backwards

Sees a man with a diversion sign. And another. And another. Must be pointing in different directions. These people are beckoning him and smiling. Moves on backwards

Gets signs saying 'new' 'coming through' 'people' and 'friends' written on them

The camera looks at the signs on the floor before moving onwards

The man then crawls under a bush and the camera follows him through. **THIS MAY INVOLVE A CHANGE OF CAMERAMAN**

He then runs moves on backwards

He flaps his hands as he moves on

He then throws these away and carry's on running away. The camera spins around him several times. We see another sign for home. THIS AGAIN MUST BE POINTING THE OTHER WAY

The camera then stays put. We see the man move backwards and fall over and lie flat on the ground

A group of people then shuffle on to screen and sing 'Ah!' like at the start of the music.

The video ends. With an abrupt cut to black