Planning Production: Prop List

Before the filming day I made a checklist of all the equipment and materials needed. Some of my notes are also from the morning before setting off to location. 

Production Planning: Clothing/Costume

Location: Detailed Warehouse

Map of Location: Click here to visit previous post

Production Planning: Evaluation of Cast

My music video idea is performance dominated. The use for actors wasn't really necessary, because there was no need for them, because there was no story being told in the video. Originally, we were going to get them to have a powder paint fight with their friends, but it changed to just them, due to the location being hard to get to. This made filming easier and we could have just the band messing around. This then allowed the band to create a identity for themselves. They could establish their identity as a group as well as displaying their personalities visually. 

The Band:

Enigma Editing Feedback

After a couple of weeks editing the band asked to see what I had produced so far despite it being far from finished. This is their feedback about the video. 

The feedback is positive with some comments, mostly agreeing with me. They did say about the B&W effect, which I plan to do after finalizing all the shot cuts, because there is still work to be done. 

I had previously sent them my critic along with the draft stating, 

"The build up to the guitar solo and powder paint is too slow. I have to still cut the shots and make them sharper and tighter, as it doesn't go with the tempo/beat. There is one shot out of sync, which is really irrtating, because I didn't notice it until yesterday. I still haven't decided where I am going to put the powder paint shots as that part is far from finished. They will be moved around and I plan to bring it forward. There are a couple of rogue shots which I've decided look rubbish to where I have put them. It's only rough, however, I love the ending effect..."

We see Children as Pestilent

In a article (The Guardian) written by Tanya Byron, she discusses how children are now represented. We are currently living in a increasingly risk-averse culture, where children's behaviour is constrained. It is described to us that our community lives in fear of youth known as ephebiphobia. Byron argues that children are now becoming victims of our ephebiphobic culture even labelled as nursery hooligans. The young people are feared because if the actions of the minority population. 

Children in response are made to feel worthless and so they become destructive and therefore become incredibly vulnerable. Byron blames the education system for narrowing the definition of achievement, because it is built around targets and testing. She goes on further stating, by a society that discriminates against youth and so reduces the participation of upcoming generation in the development of social cultural landscape. Schools need to support and resources to individualise teaching again. Children labelled as failures in primary and secondary education have no hope of further education given the limited way we assess their abilities.

She publicises her University about their fast-track and fast-forward programmes enable 500 learners a year, of all ages, who do not have A-levels to realise their potential  without incurring any financial cost.

     
This BBC article backs up Byron, by blaming the media for the youths portrayal in the media. Stating the publicity of crime committed by young people is mostly talked about than positive things that youth have done and given back to the community.

The independent took the point of view of teenagers and their opinions of their coverage in the media. It mainly focuses on teenage boys, but the point of view is still relevant to Byrons article. They said that they felt they were been positively represented in popular reality TV shows such as X-factor and Britian's got talent, and that the main cause of this from the media. Surprisingly some teens are now afraid of other teens, because of what is said about them. Teenagers would change their appearance, friends groups and social activities to not be feared. The are trying to reverse the effect the media stories have had on them, so they feel more comfortable as who they are, but because of this fear they can't be themselves. They have to change!

Engima: Digipak Ideas

Research: Counting Cuts in Editing Muse Comparison

I looked at Muse's song Uprising as it sounds similar to Enigma's song in the same genre and style. I listened to the first 40 seconds without looking at the video and counted where I thought cuts would be. I counted 25, but when watching the video back there was only 16 cuts. The shots were longer than I had previously thought, these shots had action within them or were a pan/track. The first 5 seconds has a repetitive beat, like it was on a loop. It looped three times, so I assumed there were three cuts. However, in the video it was one long shot and once the regular pattern had changed it had cut. For the next 8 seconds it focused on a piece of action, but from different angles. The cuts followed smoothly with the lead guitar and it built up to the first verse. All the shots are fairly long and follow more of the video's narrative/concept. The timings of cut is more or less determined by the lead guitar. 

Enigma: Film Shoot and Importing

From the filming day we managed to shoot roughly two hours worth of footage to work with. The downside is that the program we use to import the footage is difficult meaning we need to play it from start to finish and let all the footage play through naturally. So it will has taken 2 hours to import the footage onto imovie, which will then be put onto final cut express for us to create our music video.  

Extract taken of the second tape. Drummer Jordan and Guitarist Jack 

While I was waiting for it to import I talked about how the filming day went a small evaluation of how it went. 

I talked about:

- My role

- Progress
- The filming day breakdown

- Successes & Failures