Patti Smith

I'm looking at David Bowie and more specifically androgyny  in males as I believe it is more relevant to our music video. However I would like to make a nod to androgyny in females and to the artist Patti Smith in particular.

Approaching Editing

On our first real day of editing, we set about organising all our clips in keeping to the timing of the animatic that we had already made. This means that we can build around the original narrative which will give us a strong frame on which to rest the performance clips of adam, cutaways etc. that we will want to add later. However this is harder to do than we initially though, because we had to keep so religiously to the timings we often felt like we were cutting from clips that we liked because they were too long according to our animatic. This can feel somewhat restrictive, especially when you have more than one favourited video in one section that has quiet a short time space according to the animatic. Luckily, we took note of all the videos we were cutting and still have the originals to make alterations later, we dropped many to the side so we could still see them whilst we are editing, this will make it easier later on when we want to adjust.

First Look at Dailies

Today we had our first look at al the material we had filmed over half term and the first week back. We were all very glad with the footage, although we realised we were missing a performance of Adam in the park, this was due to severe weather changes half way through filming that prevented us from filming him as we originally planned. However, we have a lot of great footage of him lip syncing in other areas. Whilst we looked through our footage, we categorised our material into different folders and favourited the footage we especially liked as well as making notes on all the different variations of the same clips and which parts of not so good footage we could potentially use as cutaways etc. It is very helpful for me for us to be so anal with the organising the clips as I am naturally very disorganised and this gives me a clear focus on where we are going with our video.

Shooting Adam in the Art department

We used the all white smaller room in our art room to project clips we found off youtube onto Adam whilst he lip syncs to Take me out. We did this a couple days into our return to school and we were very happy with the results.

First Day Filming

Our first day filming set off to a great start, the weather was beautiful
and sunny, perfect for our shots with Calvin. However, upon our
 arrival at the park at the previously stated 09:45 we uncovered that
much of our cast members had backed out at the last minute or were
 just uncontactable. Although stressful, I felt that we dealt with it well
calling in replacements and finally making a group decision for Rachael
 and I to appear in the video as group members.

Production Call Sheet

It was my job in the team to duplicate a professional call sheet for both our days of filming. This helped all of us get organised and completely understand exactly how we should manage our time on both days as well as giving us a greater understanding into how the professional world of music video production works. We posted this on our Facebook group so that all our cast members would understand where to be, what time and when to be there.

Production Call Sheet Day 2 by evedibb

Music video group on Facebook

Above shows all the initial cast members for our music video, we chose a small group of boys and girls between 16 and 18 years old.

We used the social media network, Facebook to communicate with other cast members for our music video. We created a private group named Music Video and added all our potential actors, posting the initial dates for filming. By doing this we had an easy an accessible way to communicate with all our actors and a quick way to initially find out who was free to film. 

Above is our last and first postings in our Facebook group.