Shot lists

Production roles

Camera man -  The camera man is the main person behind the camera who is control of the shots and chooses what will look better in each different set. Eliza will be our main camera man for the shoot because she has had the most experience using cameras, for example she shot her whole thriller last year therefore she knows exactly what shots will fit each set. Although we will all have turns to be behind the camera she is the best and knowing what shots go where and being able to direct us to create the best looking video. She can also communicate well through the director and the artistic director to produce the exact look that she wants.

Artistic director - The artist director is someone who directs and chooses the visual look of the video. For example if part of the costume or the set doesn't look right she can change it to make it look how she has pictured. She can also draw sketches of how she wants something to look to be able to communicate to other members of the crew such as the lighting designer if something isn't going to plan. Rosie will suit this role the best as she is a brilliant artist who has many creative ideas and knows exactly what kind of look she is going for so she can adapt and change things according to the images she has already pictured. She also communicates her ideas well to everyone else on set e.g. the camera man.

Director - The director acts as a supervisor to the whole shoot making sure everyone else on set knows what there doing and is on the same page as everyone else. They also control what is happening on set. I will play the part as director because i have had experience in dance and choreography so communicating my ideas to the actors will be a lot easier for me. I also feel within my group i can communicate everyone's ideas to each other to make sure we are working towards the same goal.

Production schedule

The purpose of a production schedule is a list/ plan of all the things each actor needs for example costumes and props and at which times, as well as how long the actors are needed for so we can have a plan to stick to on the shoot day.So we know exactly what we are doing/ when /what time etc. We heave allowed two hours for both studio sets as all we have to change in-between these are the make up and lighting therefore it will not take anytime at all to build a new set, we will then break for lunch and then make our way to the woods for our final set, and even if we run over it doesn't matter because the light we are looking for is slightly darker anyway. 

Call Sheet

This is our call sheet for our music video. The purpose of a call sheet is so all of our group as well as the actors to be in contact through email/ mobile phone,so if something is changed or we need to communicate with them about something urgently we all have each others details. It also means we are all on the same page about each detail so the shoot day can run smoothly.

Set designer meeting

We had a meeting with the set designer and artistic director so we could talk through our ideas and she could help us improve certain things and give us suggestions on what would look best in linking our themes for our  music video.
water element - She said she really liked the idea of the dress filling the space like our artist is underwater and the colour theme of peacock (blues and greens) with the lighting will look really good.
Woods- she said she understood the link between water and woods ,a very natural and earthy theme and she thinks the materials entwined in the trees for the performance element is creative and original.
UV/contrast theme - She said she understood where we were coming from trying to make it a littlto the more interesting by completely contrasting the video but she said it contrasted a little to mch as the other two worked well together but this one was very random and it could look out of place and a bit tacky.
Instead she suggested seeing as our dress was so important in our video why not make the 3rd elemnt all about the dress. We agreed and took her feedback.
She showed us a video that we we have based our inspirations on, Its a hologram of Kate Moss wearing one of Alexander Mcqueen's dresses.

It is a hologram of revealing the master piece:the dress. I like how it is so simple yet effective. We have decided to do something simple in the studio for this 3rd element. As the video is a sort of journey of how the dress starts off in the water element pure and white and then to the woods where it is used as part of the nature scene we think, so the audience don't loose interest we should make this the final stage of the journey and use darker fabric and lighting to reveal the final image of the dress. As it starts with lots of different pieces of material hanging of the dress in natural shades of white and beiege and then ends up as one fabric but much darker like the lighting. We could do it in slow motion in a hologram style like this video. The material that would flow in the same way the best is organza which is what the dress is made of especially if we used fans it would create the same billowing effect.

Lighting designer meeting

We had a meeting with the lighting designer who will be working with us in the studio on our shoot day. He gave us some ideas about what we could do with different lights to make our video work and look more interesting and most importantly how they will work and what different effects they will create. We talked through each section of our video.

WATER 
For the water element he said using lots of different types of lights is important to create the underwater effect but if it works he think ill will look really good. He said we need lots of different shades of blues to make it look realistic ,the darkest at the bottom to create the sense of depth and the lightest at the top with hints of white to look like there is an opening in the water where the light is streaming through. He also suggested  a gobo which will project blue shadowed images on the water which is exactly the look we are going for to make it look natural and realistic. Here are some pictures of the types of light we want but hints of each one as we don't want the blues to be to bright:

Here is the projected gobo image that will be another layer of light.


WOODS 

Because we are filming outside and not in the studio the lighting designer said we wouldn't need that much lighting because first of all as we are filming outside there will not be much power so it would be unnecessary to take things we can't use and also we can use the natural light outside to make t more natural and less like a studio which is the look we are going for. We will need a few lights to take to light up hr face and dress but they are very easy to transport and to use and we already have them in the studio. We also hope there is natural sunlight on the day that will be streaming through the trees which is the look we love as we had it in our rehearsal and it looked great.


UV THEME 
As we will be filming outside in the woods on the same set as before  we will need UV lights to make the uv paint work and some smoke canons for added colour.
However from speaking to the lighting designer and Luke who is organising our shoot day they both said that filming outside with uv paint and lights on the dress and make up etc wouldn't work because we are filming in daylight therefore without the darkness of the studio the lights and the make up wouldn't react creating the right theme that we want.
So instead we will tone the theme down slightly so it is not completely random but keep the peacock colours a theme through our video (blues in the water, greens in the woods ) and use them in the studio lighting up parts of her face and the dress.

These UV photos are much more subtle and its more of a glow then very bold which is what we want otherwise it is to much of a contrast with the other two sets.

Actors confirmation

FEMALE ARTIST:

ESME CHAPMAN:

Our first choice female artist has agreed and confirmed that she will be able to commit to our shoot day and she has no commitments. She will get a blue card to ensure she is able to miss the Friday 20TH November. I am very happy that we got our first choice female role as she is the main focus of our video and has the exact look we want.

MALE ARTIST: ANGEL SANDELSON

We got our second choice male artist as our first choice was unavailable which is annoying because our first choice had the exact right look but we will work around it to make Angel look the best we can with hair and make up. Angel aswell as esme has confirmed he can do the shoot day Friday 20th November aswell.