Shoot Day

Our shoot day began at 9:00am on the 19th of November in the Studio. All our filming was done in the studio because this allowed us to use the appropraite equipment that was needed to produce our style of video. We discussed the set plan and final idea for the video the night before with the technicians so we were therefore completely prepared. We decided to shoot the non band section first so we therefore prepared the actors, with outfits and hair/makeup.

Our group discussed what shots we were going to film and in what order, we did this by sketching out a quick story board. The studio didn’t take long to set up as it was a simple set plan (There was a green screen with a platform in front of it) This set up was completely different to our initial storyboard seeing that the whole plan consisted of a full-built set which would have mad up the location. The reason we chose to use the studio for all our shots was to detach the idea from reality and to bring in the 'Sin City' effect.

Throughout the morning and part of the afternoon the 'sin city' scenes were filmed, and the band element only took an hour or so, so the day ran quite smoothly. On the day of the shoot we cut a large piece of our original idea out of the video. This was due to, too the amount of time we were given, too much time was taken using the green screen scenes so we therefore decided to get rid of the final office scene, due to time and the length of the video, this would have made it too long.
For the green screen shots, we based them on the post production, keeping in mind that when it came to editing, we had to have shots at certain angles to then add special effects and the background. The camera was kept locked and focused front on to ensure that when I came to animating, there were no complications of merging shots with others.

The image of the ‘killer girl’, is her idealized image of her imagination. We chose this girl in terms of her attractive looks excessible to everyday women seen in media who show fashion as a non realistic image. We also casted her for her acting skills which were importantly needed in the video to portray a hard and fantasy character. While the man who gets killed is showing the image of a sleazy man instead of the image of an attractive man. The reasoning behind this was initially to show her reason of killing him. This consisted of a last shot in the video which would have been the girls imagination of all the brutal killing which we had previously watched. This shot would have explained the reasoning of choosing that particular cast. However, in terms of a shortage of shooting time, we could not shoot this last scene which now makes it a mysterious murder. However, the audience would still imagine, because of the contrast of images of the cast, that the man has obviously offended the attractive girl.

When the Sin City scenes were completed we removed the platform and the green screen and had a simple black set with spot lights on each of the band members, we did this because we wanted the focus to be on them rather than props around them.

Our band was made up of mostly girls and a boy lead singer, this was done intentionally, because our video puts across a message of female domination, we showed this in both sections of our video.
Throughout the day our group took turns in the use of camera work, I was also given the role to document the shoot and photograph scenes that could be used in our blog and digi pak.


Our group felt extremely satisfyed at the end of our shoot day, we had a worry that all the filming would not be completed by the end of the day but we finished in perfect timing. Our group worked well together and we were able to comunicate effectively when we needed too. I thought the day was a masive success and am thrilled with the final outcome.

Call Sheet

Cast list

Patch Wadsworth

Lillie Resta

Freya Spargo

Molly Astley

Amiee Watts

Simon Wood

Props List

Long board room table
Office chairs-leather
Office cubicles
Office appliances (stapler, hole-puncher, pencil and pen holders, folders, filing cabinet, pictures, billboards, maps)
Harsh lighting
(Graffiti) Brick walls to move around for different shots
Office plants
Laptops or computers
Printers
Interactive Board
Bass Guitar
Electric Guitar
Drums
Microphone
Abandoned building set
Sharp murderer knife
Big garbage bin
Lamp post

Costume list

Woman:
Killing scenes:
- Zip-up Latex suit
-Combat boots (whatever)
-Push up Bra
Office scene:
-Pencil Skirt (Black)
-Blazer with shoulder pads (Black)
-Black high heels
-Ordinary glasses

Man:
-Black business man suit
-Red Tie
-Deer Stalker
-Brief case

Band
Girls:
-Ripped Tights
-Tattoos (drawn on or sleeves)
-Piercings (Fake)
-Doc Martins
-Ripped tops
-Denim short or ripped trousers
-Lot s of jewellery (rings and necklaces)
-Coloured hairspray (blue and red)

Boy:
-His own jeans (black or denim)
-Checked shirt
- His own shoes

Schedule for the day

9:00 am- all meet in studio – get cast into costume

9:15 am- finish preparing the set for ally way shooting beforehand.

10:00 am- begin filming scenes with the alleyway set and costume.

12:30 pm- Get Lunch.

1:00 pm- continue filming in alleyway

2:00 pm- set up for band section

2:15 pm – begin filming band section

4:30 pm – wrap + strike kit

Lyrics

I've got the demons in me
I've got to brush them all away
I feel the demons rage
I must clean them all away,
Yeah, yeah [with echo]

Excite to scream them away
Cobwebs in the way
That magic cleaner will
Shine his smile over me
Yeah, yeah [with echo]

I am the demon
Cleaner who saves the day
I get the backwall
And important they'll always stay
Yeah, yeah [with echo]

If only one thing that you know
Imposters from the show
They'll try to trick you into
Normal treatment
Oh don't you listen to them say
Shush them all away
I am the demon cleaner
Madman so,
I am the freedom cleaner
Standing naked here to say
I'm the only way
I'm the only way
I'm the only way
I'm the only way

Shot list

Close up tilt down of drum set.

Extreme close-up of drumstick on drum.

Extreme close up from side of foot on drum pedal.

Close up of bassist playing.

Close up of strings of bass being played.

Extreme close up of bass players head.

Close up at low angle of electric guitarist playing.

Medium close up track across bass and drum player.

Crane shot of electric guitarist.

Extreme close up of bass players hand.

Test Footage

This is test footage from our shoot day of the band section. Our cast worked well together and looked exactly the way we wanted them too. For the performance element the lighting was simple, in that we used a black set with four spot lights to focus on the band and instruments; the lights rotate to create the effect of moving and to make the mood slightly dark. We also had test footage of the green screened section, this shows how the set looked and how we achieved the final cut of the video.