Animatic

We have done an animated version of our music video by uploading pictures of our story board, and editing them to the beat of the song on Final Cut Pro. The order of the pictures is based on our shotlist which is also on blogger. It's good practice for the editing of our real product, and also gave us an idea of what our video would look like.

We ended up with 40 seconds of extra time after editing, this would be useful if we decide to add or extend scenes when filming.

The idea of switching between the alarm clock and the character's face to the beat of the music was inspired by Ferris Bueller's Day Off. There was a scene in the museum where Cameron stares at a painting, the camera just simply switched still shots between the character and the painting, and with each switch the shots get closer focus on the character and the painting till the painting becomes difficult to identify. It was extremely intense. We thought this would make an interesting start to our video, plus it would fit in well with the beat of our music. However due to technology limitations we avoided using the extreme close up effect.

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SHOT LIST

1. Camera spinning around room-mid shot

2. Close-up of alarm clock going off

3.Close-up of protagonist's face he is asleep

4.close-up of alarm repeated

5.close up of face repeated

6.close up of alarm repeated

7.Mid shot from side waking up

8. close up of face-sat up awake

9.Long shot from side-running down stairs

10.Close up of hands. putting toast in toaster

11.Mid-shot. Brushing teeth. see reflection in mirror.
12.mid shot. Getting dressed
13.Close-up of hands grabbing toast
14.Mid shot. Opens door closes door. Turns around and closes door at work
15. Over shoulder shot-turned around looking into work
16.Close-up. Camera circles from behind him to the front. Facial expression
17.(DREAM SEQUENCE)Getting angry with work on hsi desk-throwing things around
18.Camera by desk area. Walks into scene
19.Midshot. At desk working. over shoulder shot
20.Midshot.looks over to clock
21. Extreme close up of clock. clock moves forward a few hours.
22.Mid-shot of him on phone
23. Boss walks in. Camera moves up boss slwoly from feet to head
24. Low angle shot. Boss shouting at him
25. Close up of protagonist's dream face
26. (DREAM SEQUENCE)Two shot. Gets angry with boss and hits him in the head.
27. Flicks back to reality. Boss still shouting at him
28. Goes through piles of work. Done pile and to-do pile- fast forwards through him working mid shot

29. Boss walks in and gives more work just as he finishes midshot.
30. Something indicates lunch
31. Long shot pan from his socialising workmates to him isolated
32. Over the shoulder of him opening his lunch box and he has a potato
33. Upset face, close up-switches to dream face
34.(DREAM SEQUENCE)Lunch box is full of muffins etc
35. Cuts back to eating a potato
36. soemone spills a drink on him mid shot
37. Walks back to office long shot sits down
38. Accidently staples tye to desk left diagonal midshot.
39. Computer freezes over the shoulder shot
40. Pencil snaps-ferris bueler repeat shot with incresing zoom
41. Snaps pencil close up
42. Throws paper on floor long shot
43. Pushes chair over long shot
44. Pulls tye off close up
45. Messes hair up close up switches to him seeing boss
46.Pulls potato from pocket follows hand to his face close up-throws potato
47. Boss reaction close-up

Filming and editing test

This is our test filming and editing footage for the day dream sequence in the video. Unfortunately we had difficulties exporting the video to Quick Time Movie format, there are a few jumps in this video and not all footages were presented at the end.

We tried 3 different ways of showing the character slipping in and out of a day dream. The first one was items appearing out of thin air when he dreams of it, then disappearing when he snaps out of his dream. This was done by pausing his action to place the water bottle in his hands and take it away again. This was difficult because it required perfect match on action and continuity. We were later told that it seemed more like real life actions than a day dream sequence.

Our second idea was inspired by the American series Scrubs, where day dreams and reality is heavily mixed up. Their characters often go straight from the reality to a day dream without any indication of such process, then snaps back to reality in a white flash. However their day dream sequences are normally made to be very unrealistic to avoid confusion. We tried this with a scene from our story board where our character was yelled at by his boss. It went well however it was difficult to tell which was the day dream, which was reality.

Our final idea was used commonly by many media products, an example of such was from Dumb and Dumber. The character is experiencing reality, then through a white flash he day dreams about the situation, then goes back to reality in a second white flash. We used the workplace scenario again, it worked very well to separate reality from his day dream. It also had positive feedback from our tutor.

Location shots 3

These are photos of my (Coco) house, so far we've decided this is the most suitable filming location due to the professional outlook of the office attached to the house. This would be helpful in making the scenes of his workplace look realistic.

As for the rest of the house, although it looks a little too big for the conventional bachelor flat, we could improvise this with close ups, different camera angles and mise on scene to produce an ideal presentation of our character in the video.

Such as the scenes in the kitchen, instead of having long shots of the whole view of the kitchen, we could use close up camera shots of typical kitchenware such as a toaster or a kettle. This would clearly establish being in the kitchen without having to show the whole view.

Location shots-part two

Location Shots

After deciding the shot locations needed to achieve the scenes in our music video: A bedroom, bathroom, a music room, hall, stairs, kitchen.. we agreed to all take photographs of these locations in our own homes to find out which house would work best for filming.

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