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

Digipak Layout

From this I can see exactly what I need. The top layer would be folded over so it would be upside down. Once it's all folded up it should look a bit like this:

So this means I need 6 things on the digipak:

CD print

Front Cover - Main image, title, artist

Back Cover - Track details, Barcode, price

Fold in Panel - Another picture

Inside panels - Pictures, information, lyrics? credits,

Digipak Idea

This is the kind of thing that I maybe want to produce. I created this picture using several different photos so it does look a bit weird but I will actually try and set up this picture while we are filming and then take a general picture maybe using a slow shutter speed so that there is a bit of a blur on the person running.

Actors?

So next monday when I go to my youth group, called Ignite, I'll ask the people there if they could get involved with the video for me. I will ask my friend called Dan, who is my age, if he can be the main character in the music video. I think he should be fine with doing that. I will also ask some of the younger people in the group if they can take care of the throwing the water and setting up the boxes etc.
I'm hoping that these guys will be available on the date that I choose to film the music video. I'm yet to decide on a date but I know that it will need to be soon as the nights are drawing in very quickly.