Journal 12/12/11

Unfortunately the day we picked for the powder paint fight turned out to be not a very good one. It was the only day it really rained and so we couldn't take the cameras out in that kind of weather. Also, most people dropped out last minute and so we cancelled it as there would only have been a couple people actually attending in the fight which wouldn't have been very effective. So we filmed a different line of the song "I said pretend you've got no money, She just laughed and said 'Oh you're so funny', I said 'yeah'?" We are rescheduling the powder paint fight for wednesday (14th) after school and hopefully on the school field if we're given permission. Otherwise I think it may end up being filmed during the christmas holidays or even afterwards which we really don't want to happen. 

Progress...

This is the progress of my Digipack so far. Whilst we were filming the band I took the advantage of taking pictures of them so that I could use it for the Digipack. I just now need to take pictures of the powder paint fight which will complete it.

Journal 06/12/11

We filmed the band and took some screenshots of the footage. Watching it back, I am slightly concerned that we may have to film it again or possibly change what we film because the 'lead singer' didn't say the words enough (opening his mouth wide enough to show what he was singing) despite our constant directions. 

We also filmed a line that we had to re-do as it wasn't quick enough in time with the song and so this has changed the concept.

Journal 02/12/11

Today we filmed our Trolley scene in Morissons car park. Overall, we thought it was successful and are pleased with what we got filmed. The words came out clear and the actual filming isn't blurry even though we didn't use a tripod.

Journal 01/12/11

On Monday we filmed part of the band performing the song. The 'singer' found it quite hard to do as he didn't know the words very well, and got frustrated. He now is refusing to continue filming the rest, so we have found someone else that will do it for us, but it has caused us some problems as a lot of what we filmed has to be done again but with someone different. While we were filming on monday I also did a photo-shoot of the band for my Digipack which I can't use and have to do again as we are using a different lead singer. There are some shots that we can use still.

Some Screenshots from filming:

Some shots have been cut when taking a screenshot because of the pause/play bar that we didn't want in the screenshots.

Work in Progress... Digipack

This is my Digipack so far as the rest of the images are coming from photo-shoots when we film. For example, the band which we plan to film next monday so I should be able to get those images on here after then and the powder paint fight which isn't planned to take place for a couple of weeks.

25/11/11 CHANGE OF PLAN

In today's lesson we went to go and film the band but unfortunately, they were very busy with their own work, so we rearranged the date to film to monday 28/11/11. 


New plan:


Friday 25th November Period 1 & 2:
Keep blogging, add some more things to Digipack.


Monday 28th November Period 5:
Film the band in the Recording Studio in the Music Department, this could run after school as well if it takes longer than planned. Also, take some pictures of the band to use for my Digipack and Poster.


Friday 2nd December Period 1 & 2:
Depending on whether we get a reply from Morrissons in time, we plan to film in their store for the trolley sequence. However, if we can't then I will be able to use my images from the photo-shoot to help nearly finish my Digipack design and Poster design.

PLAN 25/11/11

Friday 25th November Period 1 & 2:
Film the band performing in the recording studio in the music department. We have already asked for permission and they said we can do it whenever we want.


Monday 28th November Period 5:
Whilst we're filming on the 25th I will ask if I would be able to do a photo-shoot of the band for my digipack for today. 


Friday 2nd December Period 1 & 2:
Depending on whether we get a reply from Morrissons in time, we plan to film in their store for the trolley sequence. However, if we can't then I will be able to use my images from the photo-shoot to help nearly finish my Digipack design and Poster design. 

Journal 23/11/11

We took some screenshots of what we filmed last friday:

All we managed to get done were the lines 'She told me that her Dad was loaded, I said in that case I'll have a rum and coca-cola, She said fine.' We filmed it continuously which was quite hard because we had to make sure that we got it right and perfect straight away otherwise we would have to keep filming till we got it right, which could have taken a long time. Although we were only filming 3 people doing 3 lines so it wasn't that hard to control. 

We have spoken to the music department and the band and we plan on filming this friday (25/11/11). Also, we've spoken to our teachers about getting 'insurance' so we can send off a letter to 'Morrissons' so that we can film in there for the scene where we make an intertextual reference to Pulp's actual music video. 

Journal 18/11/11

We have decided to change the date of the powder paint fight to the day after (11/12/11). This is because we were starting to worry about the amount of people that actually work on saturdays as they're all during the daytime when we would want to film, so a lot of people might not actually turn up. 

Journal 16/11/11

Today we created an event on facebook for our friends to see whether they can make it to the powder paint fight or not.

We did invite a lot of people but this was just to ensure that enough people turned up. It is planned to happen on the 10th December. We've also been in contact with supermarkets to see whether we would be allowed to film in their store. Morrisons have said that we need to write them a letter and inform them of our insurance. We would either like to film this scene on either friday 18th november or friday 25th. It will most likely be friday 25th because it may be too late by the time we get a reply about filming. 

Journal 15/11/11

Screenshots from filming:

We filmed from many different angles so that we would be able to have a decision which one to put in. We ended up only filming the narrative of 'playing some pool' because after the feedback from our pitch we decided that we wanted to have more people that were from the two 'gangs' singing more lines of the song before they got to the powder fight. So we are cutting some parts of the narrative out, for example, 'rent a flat above a shop, cut your hair and get a job' and the lines about the cockroaches. 

So we want to have more of a continuous video, for example, someone sings a line then opens a door to go into a building and someone walks out of it to sing the next line. 

Pitch Feedback

This is feedback from our pitch:

2x "Well on the way to Box Office success"

2x "It definitely has potential" 

These are the comments from 'the elements that work are':
Concept
Visuals
Ideology + all fitting together
The powder fight (make sure you get lots of footage of it)
The powder fight sounds amazing will be tough to pull it off
Lots of visuals and lyric relationships
Different idea
Good paint/colour fight at the end
Clear & good intertextual references
Works well

These are the comments from 'things that need developing are':
Get permission from ASDA for trolley sequence
Health & safety check (paint in eye etc.)
Perhaps have 2 'gangs' moving together earlier in video
The trolley part is in the original video , try to put a spin on it?
Trolley idea
Just make sure the powder scene works

These are the comments from 'things that don't work are':
A little too much of the visual relationships with the lyrics








I am really pleased with with the positive feedback and criticisms that we got from our pitch. It seemed that everyone enjoyed it and were positive about our idea. We will be looking into the gangs being in it more as that was our initial idea but it just didn't come through in our storyboard. I think now we will be removing some of the scenes where it is pure narrative and maybe some shots of the band that are in the middle of the song.

Fonts for my Digipack album title

These are for the title of the album that will appear on the front cover of the Digipack.

I wanted one that was in capitals and like someone hand wrote it, but this was all I could find and now I don't like as I don't think it fits in with the rest of my Digipack. 

I liked this one because the letters were rounded which meant that it would relate to the font of the band title and the rest of the Digipack. 

I also really liked this one for the rounded letters but also because of the letter 's' in it as it carried on and reminded me of 'Blur' and their font so it would be like an intertextual reference.

These are the fonts that I need to choose from that will appear as a quote on the actual CD in the Digipack.

I like this one but it seems almost a bit too neat and fancy which isn't what the band is about at all.

I really like this one because it does look like the band could have written it on the disc themselves.

09/11/11 - Our Pitch

This is our pitch that we will be presenting on friday (11/11/11), we kept it fun and colourful so that it reflected the band's ideologies and personalities.