Burnin' fever Shot List
After devising a storyboard for my music video I have produced a spreadsheet document about shots needed for the video in listed order as well as any other materials needed for certain shots such as possible props, equipment, costume and also preferred and chosen location. Certain parts of my list highlighted in yellow are locations which need to be found as I currently have concrete location in my head I can film in whereas places highlighted in blue are locations which haven't been confirmed but I understand the means to get such locations.
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Tuesday, 29 October 2013
Monday, 28 October 2013
Friday, 25 October 2013
Burnin fever update - Music video update
Burnin fever update - Music video update
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Whilst developing my music video once again I came across a similar problem of finding a section of a song which I felt was too long for visual interpretation and didn't really offer that much to the music video itself. Therefore using Garageband once again I cut down a section I felt was too long.
Tuesday, 22 October 2013
Burnin fever Update
Burnin fever Update
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Casting
Casting
Ollie as "The hacker"
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Joe as "The Robot"
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This is Joe and I will be casting him as the "robot" or the personification of the Burnin fever virus. During the music video Joe will wear a bright blue suit and the giant robot mask I have constructed with the intention of making his character more distinguishable, memorable and also seem very out of place with our "world". I have chosen Joe because he is quite tall which would do well in conveying the robot as an intimidating figure but he is also quite thin which should do well in connoting the robot as more of an alien figure.
Ollie as "The hacker"
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Ollie will play the hacker in my music video. During the music video above we will use gel to get his hair to look scruffy and unkempt to suggest a man slightly on the edge and clearly focused on his work rather than his own personal appearance. I have also dressed him up as a lab coat to convey to viewers that this character is a man of science. I have chosen Ollie because I find that he has the look of what some would consider a stereotypical geek i.e naturally wearing glasses and wearing braces. This could easily communicate to viewers a man of intelligence connoted by his glasses. however my actors braces may connote a rather youthful character, this can be avoided by not featuring shots of my actor or rather use shots of my actor smiling and juxtapose the youthful nature of the hacker to the dark lighting I plan to feature to make him look sinister which should convey a slightly comic mood one which I have desired to pursue in my initial ideas post. I also could use the lighting to reflect of my actors braces to make them appear more like fangs making the hacker much more monstrous.
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This is Joe and I will be casting him as the "robot" or the personification of the Burnin fever virus. During the music video Joe will wear a bright blue suit and the giant robot mask I have constructed with the intention of making his character more distinguishable, memorable and also seem very out of place with our "world". I have chosen Joe because he is quite tall which would do well in conveying the robot as an intimidating figure but he is also quite thin which should do well in connoting the robot as more of an alien figure.
Extras
Because my video features the mass spread of a virus I require a number of extras to film with to place more emphasis on the infected characters being a widespread group rather than just one person.
To do this I turned to social networking and put together a hub page for my music video; this mainly revolving around organising extras for various shoots. For such extras my priority is putting together a large group to make the infected characters intimidating as a group and to fill in roles for the infected victims.
Saturday, 19 October 2013
The Selfish Giant
The Selfish Giant
The Selfish Giant is a British 2013 drama directed by Clio Bernard inspired by a short story written by Oscar Wilde also called the selfish giant. The film follows the story of two teenage boys who get caught up in the world of copper theft. The film was screened at the Directors' Forenight section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Europa Cinema awards. The film was nominated for the 2013 Lux Prize and was screened n the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.
In the original story written by Wilde it follows a Giant who builds a wall around his garden to keep the children out which causes it to stay in winter until one day children slip through the wall and start playing in the trees. The giant eventually sees the error of his ways and tears down the wall thus winter finally ends and spring returns. Before doing this though the giant notices a little boy who is too small to climb the tree. the giant feels sorry for him and helps him out. Eventually as the narrative progresses the giant grows old and it is revealed that the small child he help years ago is actually Jesus Christ. At this point the giant finds him under a beautiful white tree and talks with the child. The child mentions "You let Me play once in your garden, to-day you shall come with Me to My garden, which is Paradise.". That same afternoon the giant happily passes away and his body is covered in blossoms.
The main theme or message which runs in the story is the idea that if you give happiness, you gain happiness
Unlike its source material which feature fantasical themes such as giants and orgres and also religous themes such as Jesus christ as it seems that the film is taking a more gritty and realistic tone one review on IMDB describing it as "basically how capitalism works: not by making an academic movie with statistical figures, but by telling the highly capturing dramatic story of two teenagers in an English community who need to collect scrap to make ends meet."
From such a review one could assume the link between the story and film is apparent in the form of how one could suggest that the giant and his wall which kept the children out could be possibly mirrored as capitalism in this stories context and how it can be hard really to move up in life living under such a system with circumstances thrown at you. Could the director be comparing capitalism to this wall?
From watching the trailer I have noticed that unlike other media texts with a similar premise such as television series Breaking Bad i.e turning to a life of crime to survive or being forced into it by the circumstances offered to you, the trailer above doesn't glamourise crime as other shows may do using a grey-tone wash to convey a gritty look to the film communicating to viewers that this film is about social realism and "representing the world as it is".
Review by the Guardian website is comparing the directors work to that of Ken Loach who was known for his social realist films such as Kes a British drama released in 1969 which follows the story of about a young working class boy who has little hope in life and is bullied, both at home by his physically and verbally abusive half-brother, Jud, and at school. From researching both films it appears that unlike other media texts on offer these texts rather focus on real life and possible real life issues rather than glamorous of peoples lives and roles in films such as the "buddy cop" genre or other action or crime based films.
In the original story written by Wilde it follows a Giant who builds a wall around his garden to keep the children out which causes it to stay in winter until one day children slip through the wall and start playing in the trees. The giant eventually sees the error of his ways and tears down the wall thus winter finally ends and spring returns. Before doing this though the giant notices a little boy who is too small to climb the tree. the giant feels sorry for him and helps him out. Eventually as the narrative progresses the giant grows old and it is revealed that the small child he help years ago is actually Jesus Christ. At this point the giant finds him under a beautiful white tree and talks with the child. The child mentions "You let Me play once in your garden, to-day you shall come with Me to My garden, which is Paradise.". That same afternoon the giant happily passes away and his body is covered in blossoms.
The main theme or message which runs in the story is the idea that if you give happiness, you gain happiness
Unlike its source material which feature fantasical themes such as giants and orgres and also religous themes such as Jesus christ as it seems that the film is taking a more gritty and realistic tone one review on IMDB describing it as "basically how capitalism works: not by making an academic movie with statistical figures, but by telling the highly capturing dramatic story of two teenagers in an English community who need to collect scrap to make ends meet."
From such a review one could assume the link between the story and film is apparent in the form of how one could suggest that the giant and his wall which kept the children out could be possibly mirrored as capitalism in this stories context and how it can be hard really to move up in life living under such a system with circumstances thrown at you. Could the director be comparing capitalism to this wall?
From watching the trailer I have noticed that unlike other media texts with a similar premise such as television series Breaking Bad i.e turning to a life of crime to survive or being forced into it by the circumstances offered to you, the trailer above doesn't glamourise crime as other shows may do using a grey-tone wash to convey a gritty look to the film communicating to viewers that this film is about social realism and "representing the world as it is".
Review by the Guardian website is comparing the directors work to that of Ken Loach who was known for his social realist films such as Kes a British drama released in 1969 which follows the story of about a young working class boy who has little hope in life and is bullied, both at home by his physically and verbally abusive half-brother, Jud, and at school. From researching both films it appears that unlike other media texts on offer these texts rather focus on real life and possible real life issues rather than glamorous of peoples lives and roles in films such as the "buddy cop" genre or other action or crime based films.
Tuesday, 15 October 2013
Burnin Fever Update 2 - investigating ASCII art
Burnin Fever Update 2 -investigating ASCII art
Whilst browsing the internet I managed to come across someones fan made music video to synthpop artist Com Truise a similar artist to my chosen one. After watching the video one thing that particularly stood out to me was the use of ASCII animation and old computer text effects to convey a sort of software like feel to the song. This is something I believe would work well for my own music video in scenes depicting the digital world and the computer hackers virus to allude to a similar software theme i.e software which doesn't look exactly safe and for commercial use.
After witnessing this video I started to investigate ways I could reproduce such an effect however with live footage rather than just animated frames. My first option during this investigation was HasciiCam and AAlib, programs which allows users to convert webcam footage into ascii art real time. The intial idea was to first film the shots I desired to be in ASCII and then using Manycam mount the footage to replace my face on the webcam, then I would use some external software to record the footage on my PC. The problem with this however was the fact that both HasciiCam and AAlib would only work on linux operating system and unfortunatly I do not have said system and im not in contact with anyone who has a computer with linux therefore I had to change my plan of approach.
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| Experimenting with Krazydad |
After searching the web for alternatives I came across website krazydad.com/asciicam/ which allowed me to re-create a similar effect to HasciiCam whilst running on a windows computer. The problem with this site was getting filmed footage onto it and then capturing footage of my computer monitor whilst the webcam effect is taking place. This would cause a lot of complications just to my achive my desired effect therefore once again I sought for a more simpler and easier route.
Finally I came across an app called RealWorldAscii on the app store which allows people to film in ASCII art here are my experiments with the app below.
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