story board prosses

email of the set designs

 Here is the email I sent through of all our set designs and our digital design, I sent this to my teacher who is then going to pass it on to our set designer so she knows what she has to get and also have a second look and check them over. I did this because it is crucial she gets these in time so that we are able to guarantee our full set. 

development and targets

 For my development target I looked at our locations we started of with 28 different locations around Guildford as a group we looked into them in a lot more detail and we covered things like distance accessibility, how we wanted it to look visually and also safety. we also talked about how many locations we would want and we did this by looking at our song choice and deciding the placement of were they would go. in the end we chose 5 different locations out of the 28. This will make the job on the day a lot more simple and less stress full and also give us more time. all these locations a relatively close together minimising our filming time and they all give off the right feel of the song.

here are our 5 locations:

feedback on set designs

 As a group we collected all our set design images and we went up to the midi suit to talk with our set designer. we talked over all of our designs and what we wanted them to look and feel like. This was crucial to our planing proses as it showed us what we would and what we wouldn’t be able to do, we also talked over some different ideas that would make our designs even better. for example our corridor design we originally had all the walls and the floor in black however when we talked over this prospect we realised having a white floor would have more dimension and also would be a safer filming environment.

 in terms of our cramped room idea we first came up with the idea of having a roof over the band members to create the claustrophobic atmosphere we as were were talking through this the set designer suggested that we created this feel with lighting instead of an actual roof this would still give us the same feel we wanted but it would also take less time to execute. These we all adjustments that we were willing to make and as a group we were very happy of the outcome of the meeting and we are confident everything will look how we want it to look and how it will feel.

finding shoot locations

 On the weekend I drove to Guildford to look and find some possible locations for our shoot. I started at the bottom of Guildford and I worked my way up looking for ally ways, long stair cases and any urban looking locations that would be suitable. the reason that I looked at Guildford was that is was the closes city that would have these urban locations and it wasn’t going to take us a huge time to get there. the reason I did this was to make sure we were prepared on the day and didn’t waste time looking for locations on the day. I also did this to make sure we had many options so we could fin the perfect locations. I also tried going a bit later in the eventing to try and get a feel of what it would look like. 

here are the images I took:

advanced lighting workshop

For our lighting workshop we used the black magic camera she looked through the lighting and we use a 50mm lens which was a mid shot type lens, the normal lights that come with the building are called the house lights and before you turn it off it's a good idea to give everyone a warning just in case somebody is relying on them too see what they're doing, the house lights are the bare minimum the most basic lighting that you can give. the first light that we looked at was called a redhead light a redhead light is a little bit more powerful than you normal light and often lights can blow especially ones that are very powerful and therefore this particular light as a metal netting guard to protect anyone or anything if it were to blow. For this redhead to work most efficiently it is common to place it as close to the camera as possible and to also habit facing the subject another point to add to when you're using any type of lighting and that is too what the person who you are about to light as the lights are very bright. Sometimes red headlights can be too strong and to help soften this you can frost the light With some tracing paper. the most standard lighting technique is called 3 point lighting and this is where the subject is led from three different places the main light is called the key light the next light you would use it's called the fill light and third light is the backlight, another type of lighting technique is called the beauty lighting. To change the colour of lighting you can use things called gels or sometimes they are called philtres add these are a plasticky sheet the place over the light and it will change the colour.


A different type of light that we also use are fluorescent lights or sometimes called “florrys” these lights are not dimmable inside these tubes that are the fluorescent bulbs and we can change the colour of them by putting different gels on the inside when it comes to lighting with these specific lights we use the same 3 point lighting technique that we would normally use which includes a key light a fill light and a backlight.


The next light that we talked about is called a FOTO-FLO, It is a very warm and soft light when it is teamed up with the red headlight it gives a very pretty effect, next lights ah from a brand called PHONTON BEARD These lights are extremely cold and they're almost white.

test shoot plan

Our test shoot plan:

things that we need to bring to the shoot: 

• small tighten tubes 
• instruments
• black paper (black out) 
• skateboard 
• DLSR camera (cannon)
• drum stick 
• ladder
• phones
• duck tape 

next week we are setting up a test shoot that will be a idea of what we will be doing for our real shoot, we are going to bring our cast together and rehearse our idea this will give us a good representation of the layout and look of our shoot. This is going to be critical to seeing how our ideas are going to work and we can work out what will look good and what will look bad this will be really important in making sure we don't wast any time and come out with the best video possible. how are we going to do the test shoot, we have made a group chat with all our band members in so that we can easily communicate with them we have given the a time and a place to meet and also what they need to bring with them, we have also booked a music room to film the band shots in and also we have talked to matt about using the studio. As a group we have decided who brings in what so that we are fully prepared and don't wast anytime.