Props & Costume list

Props

We used many more different props for the 'as live' footage than we did for the food-fight sequence.

• Playstation - Finally, we ended up using a playstation rather than the Xbox as the generation of the Xbox was wrong and therefore the usb's were uncompatable so we used the playstation instead.
  
• food - We used a variety of foods for the food-fight, of which consisted of various flavours and colours of angel delight, rice pudding, jelly, squarty cream on flan bases (with cherries to go on top).
  
• paper reading '19' and '20' - we used these in the 'as live' footage, as it includes the illustrative in the video. (therefore involving the music video conventions).
  
• rockband - Instead of using real instruments we used the light, plastic controller, instruments of rockband for a comical effect.
  

Costumes

We decided on bright, in you face, colours

rockband: colourful t-shirts and miss match trousers or shorts, colourful tights.

food-fight: singer - miss match t-shirt to trousers, foodfighters - white lab coats

Risk Assessment

Before starting our filming we had to make sure it would be safe so thought a risk assessment a good idea. the 'as live' part of the filming was carried out in Lloyds living room using the rock band instruments. the 'narrative' part of the filming was carried out in the Granchester Meadows, having a food fight.

As Live:
What could cause harm?
During the filming Amy, Lloyd and Ella will all use fake plastic instruments. there is also going to be a lot of jumping around and energetic movements. it is possible that someone could hit or knock into someone else. the room is quite a small space to film in. there is still furniture in the room so this may get in the way and hurt someone if fallen into.

What is the likelihood of this happening?
I think that because we are filming for quite an energetic song, it requires the actors being convincing and moving around a lot. there is much moving and jumping around and the instruments will be thrown around a lot. because of this i think it was very likely that someone was going to be hit by someone or something else very often.

Who or what could be harmed?
i think the main concern is that any of the three actors could get hurt, or that the camera may get damaged by being dropped by the person filming or knocked by the actors. we will also have to be careful not to damage any of the furniture or borrowed rock band equipment.

How much harm?
I don't think it is really likely that much harm will be done. The actors were not rough people and the props and furniture are quite robust.

How will the risk be managed?
The risk will be managed by keeping control. the camera will only be put in safe places and will always be held and looked after. the actors are very careful with the borrowed equipment and we will move the furniture to suit the set to eliminate the risk.

Narrative:
What could cause harm?
The main thing that could cause harm is maybe the food that will be thrown could hurt or get someone in the face, or make the grassy ground slippery. there is also the concern that the camera may get hit by food. maybe if all the actors that we use get excited and run around a lot, there is always the possibility that they could run into each other or fall over or get tired.

What is the likelihood of this happening?
There is probably quite a high likelihood of people running into each other or slipping over on food. maybe if our filming takes too long and it begins to get dark it may get hard to see what we are doing and again this could increase the risk of people running into each other. i doubt that the camera will get hit with food as it is a large space and the camera will not be too near the action.

Who or what could be harmed?
The only real concern is the actors bumping into each other or falling over. i don't think there will be much of a problem though.

How much harm?
I don't think much harm will be done as the actors probably wont hurt themselves too much if they fall over as they are running on grass. the camera will be looked after and wont be damaged.

How will the risk be managed?
The actors will be very careful about running into each other and the situation will be controlled. the food may make the ground slippery but everyone will be careful and rest if they need it. the camera will be kept far away from any possible danger too.

Planning Of As live Footage

The planning of the as live footage was much easier to accomplish than the food fight footage because we were only relying on the people in our group. We had our location planned out (above) and transport was easy. It took a couple of hours to get all the footage we wanted and it all went to plan :)

We had to do some careful planning in order to get the rockband for our filming. We had to arrange it with our friend to borrow his rockband equipment and we had to borrow a console off someone else. Our original location changed because of transport so we moved it to a closer location. All in all our planning was pretty organised and we were able to film on time and in a good location. :)

Shooting Day (Images)

The shooting day for creating the footage for the food fight was a long day as it meant that we had to make up all the food for everyone to throw at one another. Throughout the day we documented our progress in the form of images, taken on our personal hand held digital cameras and the cameras on our mobile phones. Here are just a few pictures from the day:


Here is the finish product of the food prep process. As you can see there are tubs full of custard, jelly, angel delight and cans of rice pudding, whipped cream and flan bases for 'cream cakes' that will later in the filming be thrown by us 'band members' at the 'singer', Amy. We have also got cherries to put on top for the finishing touch detail.


Here are some macro shots of the food that will be thrown in peoples faces. Here is custard that we made for everyone to throw at one another.


And this is angel delight. We made three different flavours so that we would have a variety of colours in the food-fight, we want the colours to show up clearly on the lab coats that people will be wearing to protect their clothes and show up the food clearly.

Whisking angel delight fun!

Testing that the whipped cream works.....

.... Because we wouldnt want to be unprepared now would we!

Yet another macro shot of the food we are going to be using. This one is a mixture of jellies, although once we had got the food to the site it melted a bit therefore was a little bit runny, but still usable.

After filming: rice pudding in the face, but they loved it!

After filming close up shots: Chocolate angel delight in the face, thank goodness for lab coats to protect everyone's clothes.

Fun times! We tried to keep the camera running as much as possible in case anyone did anything particularly hooligan-ish, for example walking around with tubs on there heads.

Lloyd got a bit hungry after having angel delight and jelly thrown all over him.

Unimpressed?

After we attacked Amy with the cream cakes, for the final shot of this section. Amy decided to get her revenge.

Overall the shooting of the footage went extremely well and we created lots of footage to use and therefore was very productive.

FOODFIGHT!!!

WELL THAT WAS A PIE IN THE FACE; BUT MORE ON THAT LATER...

First about the organizing of the fight...
Well Lloyd did the main bit of the organization, trying to get our friends to turn up to the shoot at the right time, they are very unreliable and most of the people who i asked could not make it but Ella phoned some of our friends at hills and they turned up only Rob, Jason and Emma showed up.

...well back to the FOODFIGHT!!! It was amazing fun to do and we shot a lot of footage using the camera in different ways and at different angles to get a varied amount of shots.

One issue we had on the day of shooting was the issue of timing. We had to try and shoot all of our food fight footage before it got dark. As we only started shooting at about 5pm we had to work fast to get everything done before the light faded.

We managed it :)

The second problem we faced was the issue of food. Because we had made up all the food before the shoot and we had a limited supply of it we had a limited number of takes. We did unfortunately run out of food before the shoot was over and so we improvised.

Angles

We are going to be shooting from a multiple amount of angles to get a large range of shots. This will put the audience closer to the action of the band and food fighting. Using shots like low angle tilted shots give the impression that the band are superior. Also close up shots, of the artists, and preferably many more. These images will give an example of the other kind of shots we are intending on filming:



We need to shoot the artists, each, playing their instrument from a head on mid-long shot.

We need lots of close up shots of the singer, as they are lead the song, preferably more of this artist than the others as the focus would be best to be on her.



We like the idea of shooting the instruments being played from behind the artist's back, to make the audience feel closer to the action, close ups.

This shot gives an idea of the close up shots, of the instruments, we are going to be doing. It also works as an example of the low angle shots we are going for, when shooting the singing artist to make her appear superior.

Test Footage

We went out with our camera and shot some test footage. We tried to fit it in time to the music and make it similar to our animatic.

Selection Proccess

We had a list of 13 songs to listen to and choose from for our music video.

Name Artist

Buss It Up Kano - 4:48
Whatever It Is (I Can't Shake It) The Shivers - 2:55
Pieces Field Music - 3:05
She Said Holly Golightly - 2:04
19-20-20 The Grates - 2:05
Cologne Cerrone Houdini Goldfrapp - 4:26
Succumb Bassboosa - 3:41
Precious Depeche Mode - 4:09
Tomorrow Will Be Like Today Money Mark - 3:37
Seen The Light Cosy Cosy - 3:36
Lotus Cage The Elephant - 3:17
Snakes Autons - 2:28
Plastic Hearts Dirty Pretty Things - 3:10