Research of Digipaks

Account of shoot day

On Thursday the 3rd November it was our turn to film our music video which we had been working on for the last couple of months. To prepare we created a shooting schedule to give to our cast and production team this would enable no time wasting searching around for cast and we could just get into the shoot. We also had created a storyboard which mapped out our shots we were going to use on the day, Having this was a huge advantage on the day as it enable us to be prepared and know what shots to use at which time of the day, Obviously these weren’t set in stone but they gave us a good indication of which ones we would. Once we had all met we gave the cast a quick briefing before beginning on our performance aspect of the scene.

Unfourantly one of our band members was unable to attend during the day so our group had a quick discussion and we decided to go on with only 3 members of the band holly, Will and Otto. When I first saw the lights and the set I was really pleased and thought we could do a lot with this so when filming started we went with wide shots of the band before creating good and interesting close ups and mid shots to show of the musician skills and to make the audience griped. We decided to have holly on a swing, Swinging back and forth with her face getting in the camera this is to add a real hard hitting feel and to pump the audience up like the music suggest we should do. We also played high emphasis on the DJ will Bodner because it was a piece which the dj was very influential and will was giving a good performance so he gains good camera time. Also we can keep flashing back to him and holly. The lights were adding to the effect and I was very pleased.

The morning went really well and we gain all our shots Unfourantly our plans to film in the woods were dashed as the weather was awful therefore we had to improvise and decided to create the same effect of a girl tripping in a club in the studio which I feel work out well as all our extras who performance well dressed up as strange creatures. This added a surreal feel to the video and we decided to use a combo of close up and mid shots to grab the true essences of this so overall I was pleased with this. For the duration of the shoot I was in charge of sound, I enjoyed this task as it was important that the cast knew when the music would come in and it was vital they understood it so I was pleased with this. I also took the camera for a little while and believe I produced a good few shots which can be used in our final edit. We warped at 4 pm and I feel we all had a good productive day. Now for the editing.

codes and connvetions of Genre

Different types and styles of music are divided into genres - or categories - to show what style of music they are. The genre is reflected in their music videos via the editing, camerawork and mis-en-scene.

Our band, the Prodigy, belonging to various genres including electronica, synthpunk, rave, dance-rock and alternative rock.


In order to show this, we have chosen to represent/use the following things in our music video:
- a dark, sinister setting (shows it is not a sugary sweet pop video)
- the performers will be mainly in black/edgy clothes
- the props are going to contribute the hedonistic/pyschadelic atmosphere (unrealisitic and trippy like their from a dream)



Our camerawork will consist mainly of a lot of low angle and close up shots of our performers to show they have dominance. We will also use the camera hand held for a lot fo the video in order to create that grungy, dark, organic look.

The editing will be very fast cuts, slow and sped up motion.

storyboard

We decided to film our stroyboard and then edit it so we would get a rough idea of how our video would look and how each scene will fit in with each other and give us a guidline of shot to do during the shoot.