Aob 1 Production Plan & Schedule

Working title: Example: last man standing.

 We are going to recreate the video of last man standing but with our own ideas which is typical to this genre of the music. This product will be a free running base video. They will be jumping off walls climbing and sprinting, there will be fight scenes since the song is about the last man standing so  these are some of the general characteristics of this type of genre, and these characteristics will attract and appeal to the  target audience. A big characteristic we need to include in this type if video is the make sure the cuts in the scenes are exactly to the beat or the target audience will notice this and wont be as intrigued  as if it did have the correct cuts.

Roles assigned:

Tom Oswell- Main Actor/ Main Editing The main role in the video was assigned to Tom because he can do some free running and he was willing to do it for our music video. He can also edit so this role was assigned to him becase he has done editing before and as the general idea of how to edit for our music video.

James Edwards- Actor/Editing Jim has a role as a actor because he was capable of doing what was need for the music video. Jims second role was to help tom edit the music video and do some editing by himself.

Harry Lawton-Jones- Actor /Main CameraMan The role of Camera man is assigned to harry because he wanted to be the camera man and he was able to different type of shots if necessary. Harry is also an actor because he was need for a apart in the video and did what he had to do for the video. 

Tom Hyman- Director/ Actor The role of the director was assigned to Tom because he told the camera man which type of shots were need, got some of the actors to do what was necessary for the video, Tom was also and actor because he was part of the video.

The estimated time for our production and editing process will be around about 3 weeks.

The production cost would be £600 but this would include the cost of all the camera equipment and software which we already have.

The locations we have chosen to be in our video are around wem is the park, back of the white lion, different ally ways around wem. The editing computer sites will be in final cut.

Schedule:

Date: 28^th February till the 11^th March.

Time. Meetings 4^th February, 7^th March, 18^th March

AOB3 Deadline 17^th February

AOB4 Deadline 28^th February-25^th March

AOB5 Deadline 31^st April

Our equipment required will be a camera and tripod. We won’t need sound recording equipment. Our video will be shot it day so we wont need lighting equipment. We will need editing equipment on the computer such as final cut.

Contingency plans: we will be working on Harry’s blog so we will all have his password for when he isn’t hear.  If a piece of the equipment broke we would all provide funds to replace the equipment. If the weather is wrong and not sunny for when we are filming our video we will adapt and tweak things so we can sort out a different method of how we are going to film. Because people could get injured form the free running in our video from the weather. E.g. icy conditions. 

Aob2 Production Dairy

Treatment for ‘last one standing’ by 'Example' (Dr P remix)

The song is a dubstep remix that constantly build to a climax and then dips back into relativev calm.  The theme of the song to us fighting and action takes place in urban setting.

When the song begins and he first shot has a close up a Tom wrapping his knuckles up with athletic tape. We then see a series of C/U of toms preparation for what we believe Is a fight. When the music starts he sets off running out of his house and down the street, This will include a series of povs, tracking shots and mid shots of tom running toward the camera and a C/U cuts of feet hitting the floor and a passerby  getting bumped out of the way. He then makes his way to fight. He will be going down different alleyways to get to his fight. When tom gets to the train station he’ll be jumping up and down slightly as if he would be pumped up towards the fight. When his enemy comes off the train he will see tom and look scared, after he will run off the  platform of the train and run down a street. Tom will catch him up and the first fight will begin. The cuts and drops will be the different  camera angles changing and  punches and kicks will be also included in the drops.

Once this fight has finished and the beat slows down it will show starting to run to his next fight at the wreck.  This will consist of tracking shots, povs and tom running towards the camera jus like when he was running to his first fight. . Also when he running to the fight it is where the free running will start. Tom will be free running over benches fences and walls. Will be doing the jumps at east four or five times hanging the different angle shots such like, a mid shot of jumping over, just a sot of him in mid air jumping over, and jus a low angled shot of his feet lading.  We have locations around wem such as the wreck, back of black lion park and college/school do more junps. The second fight will then begin as the same as the first with the cuts and drops with camera angle and fighting.  

The theme of free running and the fight and will then continue for another  sequence.

Aob3 Recce & risk Assessment

Recce shots

Risk assessment

Aob4 Production

this is a screen shot of my music video

Homework For Thursday Plan and Production

Aob5 Evaluation

My ability to work in a team has improved a lot since I have started to work in a group, as a group it is a lot easier because certain people have different abilities and different skills so it was a not a problem to do and complete the work. For the group I could act, I could help direct the video. For the first fight scene I came up with the idea for the higher angle camera angle so it would look like the fight was caught on CCTV. My weakness would be camera work and editing. I did some of the camera work because I wasn’t needed in the particular scene. I had to do some of the camera work because  there was no one else to film and it was a opportunity to improve on my camera work skills. All the independent work will like helping and giving ideas for the music video,  doing the booking form and the recce shots.
The ability to meet the deadlines wasn’t too bad we could of done  a lot more work for the deadline. We worked well once e got started and did try to keep all the deadline up to date. We could of managed our time a lot better so we could of got a lot more filming and editing done and we did not really organise what we wanted to do as much as we should of because at times some of us would be ill or just not in for us to film or to plan the music video. Once we started to work together we got a lot more organized and a lot more communication cause we knew what we were doing and knew what needed to be done so there was not a problem in organizing what we needed to do to finish the music video.

Our Final product of the music was not  too bad we did well considering we didn’t have all our actors to work with. If we were to compare it to a professional’s music video some parts of our music video was done really well, but to professional standard our music video could do with a lot more work/ editing. I think we got all the clients needs in the production of our music video. We covered most of the genre characteristic in our video and we were able to use all we needed to use for the video such as free running/ parkour, fighting as cutting scenes to the beat and giving the music video narrative characteristics. In some was our music video was quite original because there are not many music video for this genre and since we adding fight scenes made it a bit less original but more unique, unique in the sence that we keep the narrative part of the video to the name of the song last one standing. I personally believe  we used the appropriate techniques in the making of our music video to the best of our ability  but if we work as well as we did at the end we could of done it a lot better. We have a few missing items from the final product due to lack of time we had to complete our entire idea for the music video and we didn’t have enough people who wanted to act in our music video so there isn’t every thing we wanted to include in the video, Such as there was suppose to be a bigger fight at the train station but due to lack of planning we couldn’t get enough people to do that scene with us. The overall quality of the material is good because for we had to show and what we had planned. Good that we were able to complete it but bad cause couldn’t include everything we wanted to add.