Test shoot

The test shoot didn’t go as planned as we didn’t have all out cast and most of the elements that will be presented in our video are not really makeable if not in the actual day.

We went to different departments in school to act for props to use for the test shoot and possibly during the actual shooting day.

Our main singer is getting a lot better at performing in comparison to the beginning, howver there is still margin of improvement that is why we are planning another test shooting with the full cast, that would be a lot more organised and we will pay attention to the details, starting from costumes, props, hairstyle, and extras.

It was good practise for us to see if the girls fitted together and easy to work with, also for them to be clear of what the music video would be about and the dynamic of the group.

The next test shoot because better planned should prove us if the idea actually work or not and will give us a detailed perspective of the overall group and action, this time we will make a list to make sure nothing would be missing.

The video was edited by Harvey.

Pray (Empty Gun) Test Shoot from Harvey Wright on Vimeo.

Costume Fitting

As a group activity we planned a test shoot, with our full cast and costumes and hairstyle.

On the actual day we had the overall costumes even though we missed out, mainly the details of each outfit like jewellery, make up, tights and shoes.

We still had enough costumes to playa round with and have a better understanding of the overall for each individual as well as in a wider perspective.

On the day we were missing two of our girls for further commitment, however we replace them with others, so fill in the gap and being be able to get something done and productive.

The costume fitting ending up taking a lot longer that we thought, however as a result it was a lot better than expected as we realised that we needed to meet up with the cast and see the actual clothes, instead of just a picture.

Me and Hannah we planned each individual costumes earlier on looking at what we owned and exchanging pictures between the two of us, creating overall outfit.

At first we wanted our main singer to get change at least three time in the actual music video,, to  add a fashionable sense to the video, so we tried different outfit and see which one was the better and we ended up choosing a single good outfit that fit perfectly Juli and with our idea, also the best as she is the protagonist.

To this final costume jellewery will be added to complete the look.

We also tried her hairstyle to see if we can do it by ourselves during the actual shooting day, and the result was roughly what we were looking for.

For Charlotte we were thinking about a look high neck jumper and a dress on top of it, even thought it fitted her outfit didn’t follow our idea of indie pop, so we changed it with a jumpsuit.

Louisa clothing style was going to be Juli’s original outfit, however we decide dot swap one of the outfit and give a more simplistic one, so silver skirt, black top and silver jacket.

Emma will end up wearing a transparent dress with a leather skirt.

Tori would be wearing a silver dress with fishnet tights.

Now the costumes are completed, al, the girls would be wearing black trainers, we will provide them the costumes and jellewery and further props.

Risk Assessment

Before we keep planning and adding new elements into our music video, as a group, discussing with our teachers and the house’s owner we need to complete a risk assessment, to ensure that the house is safely set to shoot our music video, without risking an possible injuries towards the complete cast.

This will require the whole group and the teacher to go to the actual location and look in details all the room that we want to use for our music, and double check that everything that we want to do its possible to make. For example smashing the kitchen, holed the wall and flood the bathroom.

We are organising a sort trip to visit the location, some time next week, this well help us to have nicely done the risk assessment as well as have a clearer idea of the location overall.

This assessment will be done following some rigid criteria, by checking that nothing of the electricity system will be damaged, that the items that will be smashed as safe for the characters to do.

Talking to the owner will also be a polite way to thanks them face to face about the location, make sure they are confortable enough for a whole day, supervised by several teachers

Updating the cast

We sen d an email to all our cast to update them with the changes and the future commitments they will need to attend in other to achieve the best result, the next step would be a full costume test shoot with the full cast and complete performance to clarify our intention and idea even more, before the actual date.

Animatic feedback

In today’s lesson we watched all the groups animatic video to give some audience feedbacks and as we are practising the same subject we can give advise, and pay attention to small details.

Overall the audience appreciated our animatic video as we had more positive reactions. They liked the small annotation we added in few frames to clarify the particular action that was happening, also the colour scheme was appreciated as it added a mood the whole work, emphasising even more the sort of vibes we want to deliver. As group we were worried that the video would have looked to repetitive but it ended up being the right length, with all our element and the edited version of the song.

Few people complained about particular element in our music video that they believe it would delivery the right feeling and fit with the track, for example roller skate, also the idea of a bath flooded was question as the final results may not look as imagines, ending up missing an element in or music video.

As a group we were pleased by the result achieved and impressed by the feedback given, however since the video we had discuss further more, changing few things, for example the colour scheme as we want to have style music video (green, blue, black, silver and gold).

Next we will rehearsal all our cast together the actual costumes, hair and make up wanted to have a close version of our actual project look.

Things to do until shooting day (21st November)

- Blue cards

- Sort out location/ visit

- Rehearsal

- Make up artist/ research

- Main singer practise

- Blog wise be more detailed and updated, documenting everything needed

- As our shooting day is quite late we will need to start thinking about the website and digipack

- We will also need to talk to Matt and get individual session for camera work, to be as confident as possible with it, during the shooting day.