Recce: 'Never Be Alone' & Permission Slip + Backup

Recce: 'Never Be Alone' 

Here is out recce for our music video shoot, we took a shot of the outside location and the surrounding area, due to the cabin being locked on the Reece we had to use a photo from our animatic to show the inside of the cabin. The cabin will need decorating and we had planned to use flags and curtains to section off and decorate the inside. A lot of the content will be removed to open the space up and to give more room for shooting.

The cabin is a wooden and suits the role of our theme, we wanted to portray the party theme as very exclusive and in the middle of nowhere. Th cabin fits the purpose perfectly.

We gave the cabin a 9/10.

As you can see from below we have acquired a permission slip from Rose Cottage Cabin.

Backup Location

Here is our back-up location, it is T.G.I Fridays; an American style restaurant & bar. The walls are decorated in graffiti and street art. This location is a backup as we are still waiting upon permissions as it requires head office approval and we would have to alter the theme slightly. We really love the look and how it is decorated but until permissions and themes are cleared it is only a back-up.

Shot List

Here is our shot list for our music video, it includes shots for the Party & Narrative side of the video.

Preparing for the final music video

We are now preparing for our final and official music video. We have set up an event on facebook to organise a date that our actors can do and how many people can come. We have put up all the information they need and have offered lifts to the location if needed. 

We are in the process of producing a very detailed shot list, as we learnt from our mistake in the mock shoot that we didn't plan enough before the day, therefore look longer than needed. We are also debating wether to change the original location as it is a little small for what we need. 

Filming the Draft

Multi-clipping Never Be Alone Draft

Here is our multi-clipped or multi-cam edit of our music video, the narrative side of it has not been added yet as some shots are missing. Me and Ellie worked together last night developing our skills in Final Cut Pro X Multi-cam, as seen from the screenshots.

We found it difficult to cut to the speed of the music in some areas of the song, we had to slow the whole thing down to match the beat.

Here is the multi-clip edit:

Here are some screen shots of multi-clipping and experimenting with colour grading. 

This screen shot is of a colour grade we were testing out, we watched youtube tutorials to find out how to personalise a colour grade, this then gave us the freedom to get a natural gradient.

These two screen shot are of us multi clipping, we took in turns to do this enabling us to learn and practice our skills with this technique.

Call Sheet

Here is the call sheet and contact details for the shoot of 'Never Be Alone'

Costumes

I have done costumes for people that will be filming quite a lot. We plan to have more people than this, therefore they will need to dress very similar to these costumes also. I wanted the main character of the girl in a little black dress as this will make her stand out as the most sexualised, we want her to be looked at voyergeristically.