List of shots/scenes I need to film:

• surrounding shots for opening: e.g. showing the location. female character walking. different angles and POV. 23 seconds worth of awesome needed.
• alone shots for the first verse. female walking around, showing her isolation.when lyric 'thinking of you' have some close ups of face and eyes looking around.
• "i'll be there or you'll be here"... her walking towards, him walking away shot. to go next to one another.
• "talking with you..." doing similar things, different locations (like in 'Bad Day')
• chorus 1 shots: in car (if possible). can see streetlights from car. hopefully some shots of car from outside (looking in). male characters eyes in the mirror at 'i can't forget your eyes'. if possible "2 hours 'til sunrise" try and get some shots of them in still car as sun is coming up? (maybe at river...)
• musical bit inbetween chrous and verse 2: female in house, alone. looks dark and melancholy. 
• verse 2: around house, her walking and memories coming back. e.g. shot down a hallway... you see her walk down hall and out of camera shot and then it fades into them in the room down the hallway together (maybe warmer hue to image). also maybe POV shot of him in bed smiling (totally innocent shot may i just add) at 'i just want to see you smile'. lots of them as a couple... maybe her running downstairs, them both running back up. just showing a contrast and an emptiness. probably will not do images as originally planned as it's pretty time consuming.
• seconds chorus: probably same as above until the final instrumentally bit comes on... and then i'd like to do a close up of female person laying and smiling and then falling asleep and then waking alone and going downstairs... look out of front window and a car pulls up. this instigates hope and possible happiness.

Location, location, location.

So, slight change of plan... after talking to the two characters we have arranged to film tonight as it's more suitable for them. So, here are the locations I hope to be filming at...

There is a local road which is always reasonably quiet and has quite a few fields alongside it so I plan to film the alone shots of the female character here whilst it is still light. Here is a photo I recently took at this location with a different friend of mine who won't be in the video. I feel this gives it a little more context though...

The second location is a main road which in the evening won't be very busy but has a lot of streetlights. This will achieve the desired effect and hopefully I will be able to convince my boyfriend to lend his car for us to borrow for the car scenes... the male character is able to drive so safety shouldn't be an issue and I will make sure it is done on very quiet roads to ensure everything goes as planned.


I have spoken to both of the people in the video about costume and they have agreed to try and fit my description as closely as they can. There won't be any props being used really... apart from a car I guess? I think it's going to be very much down to what can be achieved in the time remaining. I will be using a Song HDR HC9 camera:

I decided this would be the best camera to use as before hand the other ones had been quite difficult to control and keep steady. Also, on the previous camera we had to use nightmode for the picture to be visible and it didn't turn out too well so hopefully without this image I won't be tempted to use this to compensate. 

So, the plan for this evening is:

3:15 - Meet actors at their house and walk to first destination. Film female actor alone shots and also some of them together. (Walking away and towards). Do this until dark.

4:45 - Expected sunset time according to 'timeanddate.com'. Hopefully will be able to film for a little longer and then once close to dark will move onto streetlight shots. 

6.00 - If car is available it will be at this time. I may re-meet with actors after they have had time to have food. Hopefully will get some shots of car from inside and outside (like in Lana Del Rey video). If one car is not available another might be so will have to see tonight. 

Plans for this weekend...

So, the plan for this weekend is to re-film everything. It has no longer become convenient to use the same two people in the music video so I shall be re-filming as much as I can before February half term. I have chosen the new couple.

I have chosen these two because one of them lives in my local area and the other is a good friend of mine who has transport to get to my local area. The fact they are an actual couple will ensure the chemistry between the pair is genuine. I will post photographs of the location shortly, here is an artistic reputation of what I would ideally like the pair to wear:

This is actually meant to represent the female wearing winter clothes (as she's walking around) and the male wearing jeans and a checked shirt. I understand this is a bit of a dodgy representation but yeah...

Footage so far...

This is the footage Katherine & I have captured so far and feel is going to work:





We feel we will need to shoot more footage, especially of Molly, and also some of inside shots so we can create the memory scenes we were hoping to.
We found that when we filmed last time it got dark a lot sooner than we had expected so we found ourselves using night-vision just so we could see what was happening. We found the footage was very green so then had to correct the colour of a lot of footage.
We've made quite a promising start though.

Tuesday 6th December.

So, here are mine and Katherine's plans for our filming which is being done today! We wanted to use a whiteboard so we could doodle and plan our ideas and add and erase as we needed to.

So for our opening musical into (which last aprox 23 seconds) we are hoping to get quite a few different shots of our main person (Molly) walking around a countryside location and then make various split screens that will change in time to the music.


"Well I can't help but wonder why you can't help but cross my mind..."

Showing Molly walking alone, different angles, POV's e.t.c. Really zoning in on the fact she's alone and wondering... searching/lost.


(To be completed v soon)

Discussing Ideas

Me & Katherine discussing our wonderful ideas for our video. Well, mainly me but that wasn't intentional... I just talk too much, and play with my hair too much. ENJOY!

My storyboard...

So, this is my storyboard. I will now go on to explain in more depth. The number key is as follows...

1  2  3

4  5  6

1. POV shot (during musical intro) of country area, walking, sun setting, getting darker.

2. As soon as lyrics start... "I can't help but wonder why..." shows female lead character walking around in country landscape you have previously seen. Possible split screen of her walking from two different angles. Front and back? Two different sides?

3. "And I'm thinking of you". Zoom in closer of female. Her eyes look up, look around as if she feels a presence there of something missing. Looking around, hope?

4. "Hope one day it'll all be clear, I'll be there or you'll be here" looking out a window, dark outside, fire inside? Cosy house... waiting for someone. Longing for someone.

5. "Under streetlights, on long car rides" through the front window of a car, showing a journey... POV of someone but it's not made clear. Could be a memory. Shows streetlights, person(s) in car passing them. Then goes back to female character and similar stuff to before but she is in urban surroundings, multi-story car park. Retracing journeys?

6. "And be happy with you" shows guy but he is never fully revealed. You see parts of him, small memories. Possibly him laying down in a bed but only his mouth/hand or sections of him. At the end you may possibly see a car pull up but you never see who gets out, things may be hinted at but nothing is ever fully confirmed. Leaves a sense of mystery. 

I really like my storyboard and ideas and am interested to see Katherine's storyboard and her ideas. I think both of our ideas will combine to make something really interesting and using our skills we have acquired so far this year I'm really, really excited to start filming, editing and sharing our ideas with people and Brooke! :) 

Our song...

So, the song we've decided to use and have gotten permission to use is...


"Under Streetlights by Brooke Annibale. We both really like this song and seeing as Breanne never got back to us we figured it would make sense to use this song as we also really like this song and Brooke seems like someone we'll be able to work with more.


:)

Locations :)

Me & Katherine went out on a cruise around Norfolk and here are some of the locations we discovered and liked (minus the fog). We'll try and get un-foggy images at some stage but we are having to contend with the lovely British weather right now so yeah...

Elsing - field location that (minus the fog) has really nice views. Could be used for our hoped shot of a sunrise. 

 Street near field in Elsing. Could be cool to see car go past?

 Also a nice wall and wooded area by the above photo.

 Katherine in her car :) demonstrates that car going down here could be nice shot....

 Massive rain shower. We faced problems with the weather. We quite like this shot though, could split screen it with car going down road. To go with lyrics "long car rides". 

 Streetlights with a nice scenic tree.

 Under a streetlight. Interesting vantage point?

 River very close to many streetlights. Reflections in water? Tranquil, place to think.

 Bridge, river, streetlights. In Lenwade.

 Posh house in lenwade, with bridge, river e.t.c.

Bawdswell, another possible field.






























So yes, location possibilities :) we feel we'll have to research this more once the weather improves. (Hopefully it will soon!).

Due to Katherine being absent :( I took it upon myself to contact a couple more artists me and Katherine had said we had liked just in case Breanne says no (yay back up plans).


I've contacted Brooke Annibale and asked for her permission to use her song 'Under Streetlights'...





I've also contacted Grant Woell and asked to use his song 'Rewrite My Heart'...




So, we're kind of just tagging along for the ride currently and seeing what happens. All ace songs though so fingers crossed :)

New song, plan.

So, here is a brief outline of some ideas I've had initially about what we could include in the video for our new song (hopefully!) 'Catapult' by Breanne Duren.


 


Lyrics:
Let's go outside
forget everything for just one night } need to escape?
Nothing to hide
I wanna see you beneath the bright moonlight } want to see beneath the surface? see you shine
Let's do this right let's go explore } need for perfection within the exploring
Try something we've never tried before

This catapult will send us into the sky, into the sky } fly to the sky, towards fame?
No I won't let you fall
'Cause you were born, born to fly
Born to fly, born to fly } born to do this

They'll climb to the rooftops } everyone wants to see them
And just to see us come brushing by } fans?
Over the streets and the sidewalks
Well they'll come running out tonight
Something's bound to happen here
It's been bottled up, bottled up for years } secrets coming out, excitement and talent coming out

This catapult will send us into the sky, into the sky
No I won't let you fall
'Cause you were born to fly, born to fly
Through starry trails } aim for the stars
Tonight across the blue we'll sail } the ocean, crossing oceans, challenges
This catapult will send us into the sky
'Cause you were born to fly, born to fly, born to fly

We'll be like satellites and never touch the ground } once we get there we won't come down
Lost in northern lights we'll never come back, } lost in beauty and light
Never come back down!

This catapult will send us into the sky, into the sky
No I won't let you fall,
'Cause you were born to fly, born to fly
Through starry trails
Tonight across the blue we'll sail
This catapult will send us into the sky
'Cause you were born to fly, born to fly, born to flyYou were born to fly, born to fly, born to fly!

Ideas:

Multi-story car park? Top level, rooftop? Couple on there, looking over town... possibly at night? Reminds me slightly of the opening chapters of 'Paper Towns' by John Green where Margo and Q are going around getting revenge on people and go exploring their 'paper town' and are on the highest floor of a building looking down and discussing life. Everything takes place at night and it's their last adventure together before Margo leaves and Q goes to find her. Q loves Margo and Margo does this to try and help Q gain confidence and to give him an experience to motivate him to leave too. They're both high on life and take risks and have fun. It reminds me a lot of this and it could be interesting to include some situations from the book in the video?

Videos that I feel are relevant to my ideas, may have influenced some of my ideas...

Night, lights and breaking out and showing who you really are. Taking risks, upbeat and fun song.



Friends, lovers having fun and enjoying being young. Break out and enjoy summer.


Possible locations?
Multi-story car park
Park locations?
Fields...


MORE TO COME :)

Update from Katherine & I :)

So, here's out latest update: UPDATE


It basically outlines our plans to change song and has the song that we're hoping to change it to :)


Also here is a small clip of some more split screen trials... (using the new song we're hopefully going to be able to use)