It's been a very busy, but interesting and productive few weeks! We've got a huge amount of filming done and now have a total of FOUR different locations to put in our video, which beats last years foundation production which had one location in which was in the school grounds!
Firstly, I should state that we have decided to call out artist James Thompson, we felt that this was very British name, which went in keep with our portfolio built around Michael Buble, but I will add another blog post looking into the representations we want to create for our artist as well.
Below I have listed all of the locations we went to and have put some screen grabs in as well so you can get an idea of what we've done.
Trinity Theatre
One of the locations we used was a local theatre, which we were very lucky to have access to as Jack did a week of work experience there. This was where we did all of our lip syncing, as we decided we wouldn't overload the video with lip syncing and would only use the live performance shots as lip syncing shots. We wanted to make the music video look as if it was a live performance, with a side story in between shots of the 'live performance'. To achieve the desired effect we asked the lighting technician of the theatre to do the best he could to make the stage look like a music concert stage. Take a look at some of the screen grabs below, which show us adding a purply type hugh to the stage, as we felt this was most effective in making it look like a 'live' performance.
Firstly, I should state that we have decided to call out artist James Thompson, we felt that this was very British name, which went in keep with our portfolio built around Michael Buble, but I will add another blog post looking into the representations we want to create for our artist as well.
Below I have listed all of the locations we went to and have put some screen grabs in as well so you can get an idea of what we've done.
Trinity Theatre
One of the locations we used was a local theatre, which we were very lucky to have access to as Jack did a week of work experience there. This was where we did all of our lip syncing, as we decided we wouldn't overload the video with lip syncing and would only use the live performance shots as lip syncing shots. We wanted to make the music video look as if it was a live performance, with a side story in between shots of the 'live performance'. To achieve the desired effect we asked the lighting technician of the theatre to do the best he could to make the stage look like a music concert stage. Take a look at some of the screen grabs below, which show us adding a purply type hugh to the stage, as we felt this was most effective in making it look like a 'live' performance.
Ashdown Forest
Our second location we chose was Ashdown Forest in Kent, as we thought it would be good to use this dark, sombre location at the beginning of the song, before the jazzy saxophones kick in and before the song becomes more upbeat and happy. Luckily, it was snowing on the day that we drove over there so the shots worked even better. We also made all of these shots black and white so that it looked even more downbeat. Again, take a look below at a couple of screen grabs.
Brighton Pier
Out third location was maybe a little but cliche, but at the same time we knew it would work, and it was Brighton. A huge majority of the Media videos that we watched use Brighton Pier, and in a way i was rather reluctant to go there, but there are some shots that can become very effective there, and that's why we chose to go ahead with it. Take a look at some our screen-grabs below!
Leeds Castle
Lastly, we thought it would be good to go and film in a more glamorous location, which really supported Jame's image of a quite well off posh person. The location we chose to go to was Leeds Castle in Maidstone. This has some stunning grounds and it was a really nice day as well, so this worked to our advantage massively, and this was one of my favourite days of filming as we got some fantastic shots, and also some shots for our digipak as well. Screen-grabs are below.
Overall I'm really pleased with the progress we've made, and things are really starting to come together! :)
I'm currently working on the poster, whilst Jack works on the digipak. More posts to follow soon!
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