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Music Video Plan Progress

 Song : Ghost Town - Kanye West & PARTYNEXTDOOR

This the post containing our drive links for our shots and overall progress on the plan 

Important Links 



Checklist 

Done 
Not Done
  1. Brief 
  2. My Team
  3. Research 
  4. Diary Progress 
  5. Storyboard & Song analysis 
  6. Location 
  7. Narrative
  8. Representation and Ideas
  9. Digipack

Music Video Progress So far 

Beach Test Run

We tried doing some Shots / Trial footage during the Weekends in Week 4, But the results were underwhelming. The weather was quite bad and as such, I didn't get too many shoots in and around the beach area. While I did get some shots, It likely isn't going to get into the actual music video. 

Drive Link: ‘Beach Scenes - Beachwalk’

Concept Shots / Practice

At Sunday, We as group meetup at my house to discuss our project. While originally we were planning in shooting some of our shots outside, But the weather was again pretty bad so cancelled. Instead, to not make it go to a waste, We ended up doing a few concept shots. Which was good practice for when we actually do the Music video. 

Drive Link: ‘Concept Shot - Practice’

Some Concept Shots : 


Jason, Our main actor who would play the lead role, Does a very good expression on the part someone who is depressed. When we actually do the shooting, I would like Jason to keep this expression especially during the depressing , isolated shots of Himself. If anything could improve, I would like to maybe take the shots a little bit further. For Closeups, These types of angles and shots are good. But for typical shots of him, This is far too close. 

Football Concept Shoot 

This scene, following 'SCENE 3' of our storyboard would be the introduction of our Main characters Which is Jason. Our introduction would be done in a football scene of Jason kicking the ball. We did this concept shot on Friday in Week 5.  From this shoot, We would likely continue all of our football scenes in School as we have the means and a good location for it. On top of that, it saves us the hassle in finding another location for it. 

Drive Link + Behind the Scenes : Football Concept Shoot

The shots came out great, it fits exactly with what like our storyboard and should work when we actually do the final filming. The only bad thing was the weather, who at the time was cloudy which is not what we want as in this scene Jason is still doing fine. It would be better if the weather was sunny as it connotates a meaning of hope. 

Final Football Shoot

A week after were done with our concept shoot of the football scene, we did the actual final shoot in media class at school. This time I brought my camera and Jason with his football gear. The weather was sunnier than the concept shoot which is good, but in addition to the concept shots from last week that we redid. We also did some other shoots that has links with football, We hope that by doing that we would have more than enough shots when we edit our music video. 

Drive Link + Behind the Scenes: Final Football Shoot

The shots here did came out good in my opinion. While things can certainly be improved, like the positioning, acting and movement, I think we did enough shots to fill in all of our needs for the football scenes.  

Beach Horizon Scenes 

During the weekend, I planned to take some shots of the beach for our project. By chance the weather was pretty nice in the morning, But unfortunately If only I've gotten there sooner, I would've gotten a full sunrise but the results were great nonetheless. On that same day, I went out with some friends where we went to the beach again to shot the Sunset. I couldn't stay very long so I only took the sun an hour before sunset and not the actual sunset. 

Drive Link + Behind the Scenes : Beach Horizon Scenes

These shots I think came out good, It would be better if the weather was more sunny, But that's fine. I feel like these scenes would be good enough for the shots were going to use in the music video. All that I'm missing is the Night scene during SCENE 1. We would mostly use these shots for SCENE 9, SCENE 10 or Possibly  SCENE 2


Final Shots ( during Sleepover ) 

During a sleepover that we had in our friends place, We decided to take most our shots for the music video there. In there we did shots on a bunch of scenes which included SCENE 3, SCENE 4, SCENE 5, SCENE 6, SCENE 7 & SCENE 8. We had to change divert from what we had from our storyboard in a few scenes as the location, prop, setting and outfits did allow for some scene ( Drug scenes ) to take place. We also made new scenes during the sleepover which can and should help with fill any gaps that we have in the footage.

Drive Link + Behind the Scenes : Final Shots Sleepover

This is by far the most shots we had done in one single day and because of it, Its likely that we've covered the majority of the scenes that we have in our music video. But unfortunately, I only realized when I got back that out of all the scenes were still missing a lot of content that we could specifically on SCENE 9 & SCENE 10. In retrospect, I should've taken more shots of the 'damaged' surroundings. In addition , we still need a lot more 'Hanging out with friends' Scenes as there's clearly not enough for the duration of our music video. 












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