3rd November 2009 - First Production Meeting - Media Room:
Production Team:
Courtenay Argyle
Sophie Boyce
Will Smith
Owen Livett
Production Roles:
Courtenay Argyle – Cinematographer, actor, article creator
Sophie Boyce - Director, Editor, actor, article creator
Will Smith - Sound Supervisor, actor, album cover designer
Owen Livett - Costume Supervisor, actor, feedback organiser
During this production meeting, we have briefly discussed each of our stories, and we have decided on each of our roles for this production, as shown above. At the moment, we are considering doing a music video of “I Am The Walrus” by The Beatles.if this is possible
5th November 2009 - Second Production Meeting - Media Room:
In this production meeting, we finalised our decisions on what we were going to choose to film and use for our coursework production. In the end we all decided to do a music video of The Beatles song “I Am The Walrus”, as we were all in agreement that this would be a very interesting choice seeing as it would allow us a lot of abstract and experimental shots and a music video would be both new and very interesting.
With this underway, we could now decide on actors, locations for shooting and were able to discuss our own thoughts on how the end product should look. We all put our own inputs on to paper to improve and change the film. In this production meeting, we clarified and finalised our choices for this production.
Music Video title:
“I Am The Walrus
Actors for production:
Sophie Boyce
Courtenay Argyle
William Smith
Owen Livett
(and other any others featuring as background actors)
Place(s) of shooting:
We will shoot in various places as we are going to use a variety of random and mixed shots. We will be shooting in London for external shots, Henley (within the college premises) and at our own houses for internal shots.
12th November 2009 - Fifth Production Meeting - Media Room:
As we are doing a music video, the sound is obviously a very important part of our production. As we have to create an album cover and a magazine article, we have decided to create this music video as a debut single of our band “The Walrus’”. This allows us to write a magazine article about “the band” and make an album cover also for “The Walrus’”.
In today’s production meeting, we are going to analyse the shots, camera angles and describe the meanings we want to convey, we will then set it out on our shooting script
In today’s production meeting we agreed on the band name and the concept in general.
13th November 2009 - Sixth Production Meeting - Media Room:
In today’s meeting, we discussed how we used research as inspiration in this project. Below are the ideas we came up with which we can use later to show what research we used. We talked about some questions we could use in order to do a group audience survey, to get a response from the people who are watching our production. This will help gage their reactions to our product.
RESEARCH:
Narrative - We have researched and looked at various narrative ideas and structures from various people. E.g. Todorov, Levi
Sound - How it helps create meaning, Francis Ford Coppola: "Sound is at least 50% of a movie... and maybe more."
How to Create Meaning through Shots - Sound, variety of shots and mise-en-scene
Album poster research – By other artists
Magazine review’s –
• Rolling Stone
• Mojo
• Kerrang!
• NME
Audience Survey - Ten People, Ten Questions
- We are thinking of making a music video for a Beatles song, do you think this would be the sort of film people your age would watch?
- Have you watched the original “I Am The Walrus” music video before?
- If so, what was your reaction?
- If not, why not, was there a particular reason?
- What do you think about music videos that lack a linear narrative?
- Do you prefer music videos that are plot driven or character driven?
17th November 2009 - Seventh Production Meeting - Media Room:
Today the three of us discussed when we are going to film. We are hoping to film on the 2nd to then begin editing on the 4th. We then went on to shoot some rushes in the woods to practise various shots, such as running in the fields with masks on.
19th November 2009 – Eighth Production Meeting – Media Room:
In today’s production meeting, we discussed our plan for the 2nd, deciding on various shot angles and choices we could use for music on editing that evening. We also began thinking of questions for our pre and post production surveys Owen is going to produce to help us gage the response from our audiences.
20th November 2009 – Ninth Production Meeting – Media Room:
We have organised to shoot the film this afternoon, and to bring it in fully edited tomorrow for this week dedicated to editing. As we had organised to do it later, we decided to practise shooting during this editing session and we practised various shots and ideas so we were in agreement for that evening.
26th November 2009 – Tenth Production Meeting – Media Room:
Today we all contributed to editing the work we have done so far; yesterday we managed to film lots of footage of us in the field which we edited together in this meeting.
1st – 17th December 2009:
During these production meetings, we used the time to film the majority of our shots such as:
• Scenes in the snow – external – Henley college
• Various odd shots – internal and external – Henley College and our own houses
• London shots – mainly external, some internal – London Westminster, London Underground etc.
The shots we filmed were done both during college lessons, such as the ones filmed on the college grounds in the snow, and also during our Christmas holidays at our homes.
We will still need to shoot some more footage in London before our deadline.
5th January 2010 – Twentieth Production Meeting – Media Room:
All attended and we began editing the footage we shot in December over our holidays. Today we discussed what we were aiming for with the snow scene footage and began editing it, preparing to finish it tomorrow.
12th January 2010 – Twenty-second Production Meeting- Media Room:
Today we finished editing the snow footage together, making sure we were all happy with the finished product. In our next meeting we plan to edit some of the odd shots we took over the Christmas holidays.
21st January 2010 Twenty-sixth Production Meeting – Media Room:
Today we uploaded any other work that we had not already put onto our blogs. Our Media teacher, Zoe scanned in our storyboard so were able to also show this on our blogsites.
22nd January 2010 – Twenty-seventh Production Meeting – Media Room:
All attended. We created a list of work that we had to include and began ticking off the checklist to see how much we had left to do before handing in our work on the 28th.
26th January 2010 – Twenty-eighth Production Meeting – Media Room:
Due to groups struggling to meet the deadline, our media teacher has given us a two week extension. Our new deadline is 12th February, the last day of term before half term begins. This allows our group to make sure all work is uploaded and correctly formatted and edited while also giving us time to perfect our music video and continue any last minute touch-up editing that we wish to do.
28th January 2010 – Original Deadline
(My birthday)
Thursday, 11 February 2010
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