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Wednesday, 14 December 2011

editing overview

Key Problems I have encountered:

I have begun to edit the footage gained previously, I have encountered a number of issues; one being that the photos that are used for the multiple stop motions had to be changed, duration, speed and so on, this caused time issues, it took hours. Another issue was editing to the beat of the music which is difficult due to each clip having to be manipulated, again very time consuming. One of the shots I used was a cigarette burning itself out, taking about 10 minutes, I then sped this up. A problem occurred due to the clip being sped up to the point where the clip became corrupted. This resulted in the clip not being sped up enough to achieve the looked I wanted.        

                                                                                  
Certain photo's were blurred, this only became evident after the the footage was uploaded. This means that I will have to re shoot all the blurred footage to rectify the problem.
The footage of the cigarettes spelling out words from the lyrics had to be edited to the beat of the music and edited to coincide with the words in the lyrics.

character issues and reasioning




These are two of the current actors that will be in the music video, the female is Rachel Watkeys-Dowie, shown in the top left and the lead male is Micheal Godfrey shown in the bottom left. Both are in the costumes that were selected for the music video, the dark tops and bottoms have connotations to the hip hop/ rap genre, but are also a good contrast to her skin tone. Rachel stepped in as a replacement for the person who was going to be the female role who due to family issues had to step down.






Another reason that these two have been selected for the music video is their availability; as I'm working on my own, availability is important. I have selected people that have ample free time to help and star in my music video. I am also using myself, bottom left, it means that one less actor has to be directed and be available.

Tuesday, 15 November 2011

storyboard








shot list

Title: Miss Cigarette

Author: Callum Black

Shot List

Page 1

1. Opening shot, stop motion with 'Miss' made out of cigarettes

2. Moving to 'Cigarette' coming into shot again made out of cigarettes, some smoke will drift across shot

3. Still Shot- close up of hand

4. This shot will be a hand sweep / fade which comes across the title of 'miss cigarette' and knocks the cigarettes off a table which comes into view an fall to the ground

Page 2

5. Black screen shot

6. Shot then fades into sky with clouds. This will be a low angle tilt

7. We then have a tilt down mid shot which shows two people a woman and a man

8. The shot then has the two people walking forward towards the camera and past it

Page 3

9.We have a urban london street. Wide long shot looking down the road

10. We have a split shot with view of the street and then looking down at the people

11. The two people are walking forward with the camera tracking backwards

12. Shot of off licence sign with sky and urban scene behind. This will be a tilting up POV shot

Page 4

13. Continued POV shot as the man proceeds to walk into the off license shop

14. Continued POV shot in shop with man behind the counter coming into view

15. Shot moves to hand on packet of cigarettes - close up

16. The shot then is of the man leaving the shop from the other side of the road, with cars passing on the road

Page 5

17. We now have repeat shot of the two people walking down the street with the camera in front of them

18. The shot fades into a band playing in a room the track which has been playing. It has three members, the two people seen so far ( man and woman) and another man we call 3. The shot then fades as they sit down and we then have a split screen change

19. The shot the has the original man and woman sitting on a bench in a urban park with bottles and cans on the ground.  The look is off then being drunk

20. The shot then moves to a full shot of them walking in a park together

Page 6.

 21. Shot of close up of a hand and arm beside a packet of cigarettes  as man falls over in POV

22. Stop motion shot with cigarettes moving over the hand in POV

23. Pull pack shot of woman helping man up and both start walking again, this then becomes a long shot

24. Mid shot of the couple leaving the park


Page 7

25 Split Screen/ frame shot as they walk the man pushes the girl into the other screen/frame

26. The man and woman are now shot walking on each side of a urban london screen with a mid shot

27. We have a fade shot and change of location to a cafe from the street. This is then a mid shot of the two men sitting having coffee at a table. On the table you have a packet of cigarettes

28. Stop motion shot with the cigarettes now coming out of packet and running up the mans arm and into his mouth. With surprise the man spits it out just as the girl walks past the window of the cafe and sees this

Page 8

29. A wide shot as the man who spat out the cigarette leaves the cafe. And goes outside

30. The shot is then a split screen. Like 25 and the man pulls the woman back into his screen which becomes a wide shot

31. We have a repetition of 7 of the couple walking down the street together in a mid shot