Contact with actors:

Wednesday 21st September 2012-

 

Following the recent set back of our 2nd band bailing on us!!!!! I have learnt that it is incredibly important to keep in regular contact with our actors so that we and they know exactly what's going on.
As you know from last weeks video diary, we could not film because our band could not act in the video any more. We are now 3/7 weeks into our deadline and we music start filming something by the end of this week.
So I sent and e-mail to all of our actors (Magdalena, Alyssa, Adam) asking them if they are free-

I also sent an e-mail to our new band stating the information they will need before the shoot and to ask them when they're free-

 

- By Connie Ball.

 

 

 Monday 19th November-
Today we decided to take action and find the actors we are missing. I found out yesterday that our the actor playing our ghost (Tasha) cannot act for us anymore. So I asked my close friend Mag to act instead and she agreed.
Mag-

Mag will be casted as the ghost as she has soft and pale features which will be emphasised when edited. She also has previous acting experience and is very reliable.

-By Connie Ball

 

Saturday 3rd November 2012-

While at a local fireworks display Kieran and I met up with our friends Tasha Chapman and Sean Middleton. Tasha said that she would like to have some more acting experience to put on her show reel inorder to ensure her place on a Theatre course at university next year. I thought that she would be perfect to play the ghost in our music video as she has pale face, with big almost scary eyes and has tons of acting experience. She thankfully said yes.

Tasha-

 

-By Connie Ball.

 

Tuesday 23rd October-

We needed somebody we could rely on for the main character Alice. We also needed someone we knew could act. That is why I decided to cast my close friend ironically called Alice too. I called her up and asked her and she said yes. It is important that our actors have experience as it is time consuming to work with people who do not know how to act well. That is why Alice is perfect as she has lots of experience. She also has a look that is exactly what we want, rough but pretty, rebelious teen.

Alice-

   

 

- By Connie Ball

 

 

 

 

 

 

References and Inspiration Prezi

Marketing Strategy - Question 1 on Prezi

Production Schedule 25/11/12

Production Schedule for 24/11/12

Risk Assessment for our Locations

Planning for my Digipak Idea - Kieran

Anamatic:

We used our storyboard to create an anamatic to get an idea of how many shots we need and what times they come in. follow this link:

http://conniemediaa2production.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/anamatic.html

Shot List:

Here is the shot list I have created using Excel inorder to organise our video shoot. We will use it on the day as a rough guide to all the shot types we are using. This is benifical as it is important that we follow the "Rule of Thirds" and clearly use shot types and angles inorder for our video to look high quality.

Here is our shot list:

Call Sheet:

This is our Call Sheet which I created on Excel, we will use this to log all the numbers of the people invoulved in production so that they are easily contacted. We also have the numbers of every members next of kin incase anything happens to them during the video shoot. This is an important saftey precaution and we will be sure to provide every member of the production team with a call sheet on each day of filming.

 

Here is the call sheet:

Costume Design:

Alice-

For Alice's costume we want her to wear the typical clothes for the rock subculture...

Here is Alice's costume 

We chose a short skirt to show that Alice's is off the rails and rebellious, that she is not afraid to get her skin out and that she is sexualised. We chose a denim skirt with rips in them as they are of the grunge/rock look. 

 

We choose a black corseted to as corsets are of the rock genre (goths) black is also a comon colour within rock and represents her dark, rebellious personality.

 

 

We choose black boots as they look like Doctor Martin's which are largely worn by people into the rock music.



 

 

We choose a leather jacket as it is typical of the rock genre.

 

We used a lot of eye-liner as that is a key characteristic of many cultures in the rock genre. Backcombed hair is common in the "scene culture" and we used red lipstick to represent that anger that Aice is feeling. She is almost devilish and red is the colour of the devil.

 

 

Test Shots of Actors:

We took test shots of Alice to see how her hair and make-up will look when filming.
Connie: Hair & Make-up
Kieran: Photography.
This is the hair and make-up that Alice will be wearing. See Costume design for reasons why.

The reason Alice is pulling the face she is, is so that we can see what she might look like when she is in character. Because the character is rebellious we want her to look dangerous.

Production Schedule:

Here is the production schedule i created in order to organise our shoot. It is important we stick to this so that our days are not to long and exhausting.