Group Storyboard: Kirsty

Here is my contribution to our group storboard.
I did shots 9-12...



Posted By Kirsty!!

Finsihed Music Video - YouTube

Here is the link to our video on Youtube



Enjoy

Initial Ideas

Posted By Rachel and Emma x

Audience Feedback

We categorised our results into age groups to allow us to analyse our questionnaire results in greater detail and see if any trends or patterns were present. The age categories were 15-20 years old, 21-25 years old and 26-35 years old.
15 - 20 year olds Category

• Generally, the younger category agreed that the genre of our music video was of the 'indie' type and that te visual style fo the video and the actors was similar to that of rock videos.
• A majority of the category however found it hard to establish that the singer was the girl's gaurdian angel and some were confused byt he fact that he was the sinsger and an actor in the video.
• Overall, they enjoyed the video and though that it get better at the end, whereas in the earlier scenes it was almost 'cheesy'.

21-25 year olds Category

• Thsi category was hugely similar to the younget category, establishing the video as "soft rock" and "indie".
• The majority of the group found that the piccadilly circus scene was their favourite sequence with the use of colour and the atmosphere of the lively city and speeding traffic. Howvere found that the ending sequence was perhaps slightly random and didin't fir in with the rest of the music video.
• The main problem with our music video was the lip syncing, some of the viewers noticed scenes in which the performance shots were not quite in sync with the lyrics.

26-35 year olds Category

• This category differed the most out of the groups as it established the genre as more of a punk/pop/rock genre.
• the major problem that the group had with the music video was the understanding of the narrative and the undersatnding the rwson behind the girl's suicide. Many of the viewers did not understand that her boyfriend had been killed in war and that she was committing suicide rather than live without him. They were also confused by the reason for the faded character/gaurdain angel as he wasnt in shot all of the time.

Posted by Rachel and Emma x

Questionnaire Questions

Question 1. How old are you?
Question 2. Are you male or female?
Question 3. What genre of music is our music video?
Question 4. Is our music viedo niche or mainstream?
Question 5. What did you understand of the narrative of our music video?
Question 6. What techniques work well in the video?
Question 7. What was your facourite shot/scene? That stood out most to you.
Qyestion 8. Would you buy our artist's album in the future?
Question 9. What do you think of the visual style in our music video?
Question 10. Do you think the narrative of our music video represents the lyrics?
Question 11. What doesn't work in the video?
Question 12. How could we improve if we were to do this project again?

Posted by Rachel and Emma x

Overall Shooting Schedule

Overall Shooting Schedule

Saturday 22nd September : Test Shoot

Time : 3:00pm -8:00pm
Location : 38 Buxton Road
Actors : Kamil and Caoimhlin
Group Members Attending : All
Equipment Needed : Camera, Tripod, Costumes, Dolly, Admin

Sunday 23rd September : Test Shoot

Time 5:00pm -9:00pm
Location: Millenium Bridge, Piccadily Circus, Bank
Actors: Kamil and Caoimhlin
Group Members Attending : All
Equipment Needed : Camera, Tripod, Costumes, Dolly, Admin

Tuesday 25th September : Re-shoot

Time : 4:00pm -9:00pm
Location : Connaught Waters, 38 Buxton Road
Actors : Caoimhlin
Group Members Attending : Emma and Rachel
Equipment Needed : Camera, Tripod, Costumes, Admin

Thursday 27th September : Real Shoot

Time : 10:00am -8:00pm
Location : Connaught Waters, 38 Buxton Road, Jubilee Bridge
Actors : Kamil and Caoimhlin
Group Members Attending : All
Equipment Needed : Camera, Tripod, Costumes, Admin

Sunday 30th September : Real Shoot

Time : 3:00pm -10:00pm
Location : Jubilee Bridge, Piccadily Circus, Bank
Actors : Kamil and Caoimhlin
Group Members Attending : All
Equipment Needed : Camera, Tripod, Costumes, Admin

Tuesday 2nd October : Real Shoot

Time : 5:00pm -11:00pm
Location : Southend-on-Sea
Actors : Kamil and Caoimhlin
Group Members Attending : Emma and Rachel
Equipment Needed : Camera, Tripod, Costumes, Admin, Towels

Saturday 6th October : Re-shoot

Time : 5:00pm -7:30pm
Location : Jubille Bridge, Embankment
Actors : Kamil and Caoimhlin
Group Members Attending : Emma and Rachel
Equipment Needed : Camera, Tripod, Costumes, Admin

Sunday 7th October : Real shoot

Time : 3:00pm -10:00pm
Location : Jubilee Bridge, Trafalger Square, Leister Square
Actors : Kamil and Caoimhlin
Group Members Attending : Emma, Rchel and Kirsty
Equipment Needed : Camera, Tripod, Costumes, Admin

Tuesday 9th October : Re-shoot

Time : 4:00pm -7:00pm
Location : 38 Buxton Road
Actors : Caoimhlin
Group Members Attending : Emma, Rachel, Kirsty
Equipment Needed : Camera, Tripod, Costumes, Admin

Thursday 11th October : Real Shoot

Time : 5:00pm -6:30pm
Location : Southgate Station
Actors : Kamil and Caoimhlin
Group Members Attending : Rachel and Kirsty
Equipment Needed : Camera, Tripod, Costumes, Admin

Posted By Emma and Rachel

Summary of Artist and Audience Identity

Summary of Artist and Audience Identity

Artist Identity

The image that we want to portray to our target audience is that HeadKandi is a querky, individual, orginal band. They fit into the pop/punk/powerpunk genre of music. The type of style they conform to are skinny jeans, tight skirts, skinny ties, jackets, flap-top hats and plimsole shoes.

Audeince Identity

Our target audeince are male and females from the ages of around 15 to 35, who are interested in indie/alternative music.

Posted By Emma and Rachel

Timeline for Music Video

Instrumental 0-22 seconds

Bedroom scene

• Girl sitting and reading the the Telegram to tell her that her boyfriend is dead.
• Gets memory box out
• Reads second letter - from her boyfriend
• Flashback of argument
• Back to her looking to pictures and holding letters
• Flahback of him leaving for the Army.
• Girl smashed mirror or another object and leaves the house.

Verse 1 22-33 seconds

Lyrics - "Pretty girl is suffering, while he confesses everything,

Pretty soon she'll figure out what his intentions were about."

• Underground scene
• Girl leaving and her house and travelling to central london on the underground.
• Girl passing the gaurdian angel's path.
• Performance of singer at beginning of verse.

Verse 2 33-44 seconds

Lyrics - "That's what you get for falling again

You can never get him out of your head."

• Girl walking up through thr streets of the bridge.
• Both passing eachothers path as the girl sits on a bench looking out on the water.
• Performance of singer on "You can never get him out of your head."

Chorus 1 - 44-56 seconds

Lyrics - "It's the way

That he makes you feel

It's the way

That he kisses you

It's the way

That he makes you fall in love."

• Girl steps up onto the ledge of the bridge.
• Looks as if she is about to kill herself.
• Performance of the singer - shows more emotion as the narrative tension builds.
• Gaurdian Angel stops her from committing suicide.

Instrumental 56-1.07 seconds

• Girl slumping down against a wall in a dingey alleyway with spotlight from the streetlamp.
• Performance of singer trying to help her.
• Girl looking at picture and letter.
• Flashbacks of the thre couple happy.

Verse 3 - 1.07- 1.18 seconds

Lyrics - "She's beautiful as usual with bruises on her ego

Her killer insticnt tells her to beaware of evil

And that's what you get for falling again."

• The girl travelling by bus or cab.
• Her walking up the streets of London - crowds, high-rise buildings.
• More perforamance from the singer on lyrics, " She's beautiful as usual..."
• See singer following her
• See path's cross again.

Verse 4 - 1.18-1.29 seconds

Lyrics - "You can never get 'em out of your head

And that's what you get for falling again

You can never get him out of your head."

• Perforance of the singer on lyrics, "You can never get him out of your head."
• Girl looking at her reflection in a shop window, singer appears next to her.
• Singer tries to helo her.
• More shots showing her isolation by use fo the high-rise buildings.

Chorus x 2 - 1.29- 1.55 seconds

(repeated lyrics from Chorus 1)

• Girl is at piccadilly circus.
• Slo-mo traffic shots and fast shots.
• Shots of her isolation in the lights.
• Performance of singer on lyrics, "It's the way..."
• Girl attempts to committ suicide by killing herself by running into the traffic.

Instrumental - 1.55-2.06 seconds

• Flshback of a fight betweent the couple.
• Performance of singer trying to help her.
• Girl looking at pictures and letters again.

Repetition of Verse 1 - 2.o6 - 2.29 seconds

(Same lyrics as verse 1)

• Performance of singer on lyrics, "Pretty girl is suffering..."
• Girl back on the underground travelling to next location.
• Arrives at the entrance of a park.

Chorus (version 2) - 2.29- 2.40 seconds

Lyrics - "It's the way

That he makes you cry

It's the way

That he's in your mind

It's the way

That he makes you fall in love."

• Girl in park - Hamstead Heath
• Looks over to the lake an at her reflection.
• Performance of singer

Repition of Chorus 1 - 2.40 - 2.55 seconds

• Girl travels by over groundon her way to the sea.
• Singer trying to help her but can't.
• She arrives at southend.

Instrumental - 2.55-3.28 seconds

• Girl walks down in to the sea and committs suicide by drowning herself.
• Singer dies as well as he fades out completely.
• Fade to black as song finishes.

Posted By Rache and Emma x

Prop List

Prop List

Treasure Box
Army Suit
Letters
Pictures of couple
Memory sentiments
Bag/Suitcase
Costumes -Black tie, braces, white shirt, skinny jeans, shoes, hat, white dress, flip-flops
Telegram
Necklace

Posted By Rachel and Emma

Visual Styler of our music video

The visual style that our group unanymously visualised for our music video was;

• Metallic colours/silvers/blacks for the costumes in particular.
• Location beginning in a girlies bedroom, frilly/bright.
• Icons e.g. Locket/ring, secrets box, wilting rose, letter.
• Lighting - nightime, twilight/dim
• The idea of the singer being a gaurdian angel and crossing paths with the feamle actor.
• London Location - high rise buildings
• Iconic locations - Hyde Park/ Oxford Circus/ Trocadero - escalators.
• Singer = Gaurdian Angel - like Bruce Willis' character in 'Sixth Sense' - thinks that he is alive but is actually dead.

Posted By Rachel and Emma x

Money Money Money

Hey Team! :)
We need to get our account sorted out so if we can all blog the money that we've spent and what we've spent it on then we can ask the department for it back...
Ive thought of these expenses, but add anything that I may have forgotten
Media Account Requests

Costume Money:-
£10 for Boy’s shoes.
£5 x 2 à The 2 shirts, one for acting and one for performance.
£30 for the total cost of petrol money spent on the transport of the project, mainly the trip to South end.
Individual Transport ticket money.

Thankyouu
Posted by Skipper x

Chingford To Floriiiida

Hi Emma....

Well seeing asno one has left you a comment I thought I would lol....umm well we didnt manage to decide anyhing for the press release on the friday as we were tied up with sorting out thefinished video...so we havent got anything to tell you really :S soo you could either crack on with something you think is good, and then send it to us and we can finish it/adapt it....or you could do nothin...or you could come up with some ideas for the type of band we wnted to portray....so its kinda up to you as us lot havent come up with the goods for you :S
&& as fr the video being on youtube...as far as i know i thought mr brock was putting it up there....but obviously he hasnt...so im not sure what i can suggest...??
ms b. has a facebook which you could talk to her on??
anyway, hope your having a really god time, && hope you dont come back darker than me :)
Love you
Kirsty Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Earth to england

Hey Guys,

You said you lot would do serveral things but i havent recieved anything n nothing has been posted on the blog. Please could u help coz otherwise i cant do the press release n also i need the video to be put on youtube so i can access it to do my essay...

Love Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Note From Florida

Hey Guys,

Just a quick hello and seeing how all my lovely fellow group members are?? How is the lovely project going?? This is the first day i have had internet so couldnt contact you all before. Let me know if there is anything i can do and i shall start work on the press release when you guys tell me how ou would like to market it etc.

Love You All
XxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxX
(p.s it is over 90 degrees here just to rub it in abit hahahahahahahaha)

p.p.s Write a post back to let me know whats happening and what you would like in the press release n keep checking this as i will keep posting to keep in contact MWAH!

Jerome's Blogging

10/10/07

Bedroom shots re-done, southend sequence finished, bridge sequence almost done, performance shots have to be put in.

- One more re-shoot left (Underground sequence)
- Deadline Friday/Monday?

Here are some pictures which I felt represented the themes and emotions of our music video narrative.

Posted By Skipparrr

Here are some pictures that represent the emotions that we are trying to convey in our music video.

Posted by Skip Skip Skip to the Hop

Weekend Shoot

The weekend shoot went really well; Saturday shoot was really good - we got all the shots that we wanted, however were delayed and had to start later than planned as there were problems on the tube.

Sunday shoot was productive aswell, we got Kamil's performance shots, linking shots, bridge shots and also the Piccadilly Circus shots.

Still to do: We still need to do the shots at Rachel's house with Keevlin and the underground shots with both Kamil and Keevlin.

Posted By Kirsty X

Jerome's Blogging

Weekend Schedule sorted (Friday shoot still needs to be arranged)
All footage shot so far has been edited

What needs to be done

Re-shoot x 43543676

Weekend Schedule

For our weekend shoots we have decided that we are definately shooting on both Staurday and Sunday night in order to film the underground, bridge and piccadilly circus shots. However, Kirsty can not make Staurday Evening due to a family engagement. We may also be filming on Friday evening in order to shoot the perfromance shots. However, we need to check the availability of our actor, Kamil. If our actor is unavailable for this shoot we will find time to film performance shots in our organised shoots.

On both Saturday and Sunday evenings we will be shooting from 4pm until the end of the shoot, approx 8pm-10pm.

On sunday morning before the Central London shoots we will all re-shoot the opening sequence at Rachel's house.

Posted by Skipper & Baird <3

Jerome's Blogging

Tuesday 2nd October Southend Shoot

We arrived a little later then schedule but quickly found a backdrop for our shots, under a bridge against deserted shops. We then got some linking shots on the front with the vibrant colours of the amusements lights as our backdrop. The Beach shot didnt go exactly to plan as the tide was out and therefore the sea was a long way out and it was too dangerous to go out. However, we managed to improvise and the shot seem to work reasonably well.

We then dropped Kamil and Caiomhlin home, after getting Maccy D's. =) x

MEDIA SHOOT

Sunday 30th September Media Shoot

• This shoot didnt go to plan - we ended up meeting at 3 o'clock - 3 hours later than originally planned.
• We didnt have the iPod & it was really busy, so we couldnt really take any shots successfully.
• Caiohlin was supposed to meet us up London at around 4/5ish, however her trains were delayed [From Liverpool] and therefore wouldnyt get back to London until 10 in the night time - because of this, we couldn't shoot, as it would have been way too dark for us.

We came to a group decision that it would be best if we just called the whole shoot off and have extra shooting sessions during the week to make up for lost time.

Posted By Kirsty :)

Jerome's Blogging

Thursday 27th September

Lake Sequence and Bedroom Scene

What needs to be done

Up London sequences (Cancelled today due to acting commitments and freezing cold weather)
Sea sequence
Anything else i can't remember

Wednesday 26th September

Shoes bought for Kamil (Emma and Rachel)

Period 4 & 5 (Jerome and Rachel)

Shots captured/Edited

Lunchtime Meeting

Shooting Schedule decided
Storyboarding/Shotlists

What needs to be done for tomorrow's shoot

Rent army suit?/Buy costumes
Finish storyboards/shotlists

New Actor

Kamil Price-Latorre (Picture jacked off facebook)

Kamil is the new male lead singer/actor who will be replacing our old actor, due to commitment issues. x

Shooting Schedule

Hey Fellow Team Members! =)
Just a reminder that we are shooting tomorrow during the inset day at 9am sharp until 12pm to get the suicide attempt at the Lake 'Connaught Waters' and re-shoot of the bedroom scene at my house (Skipper). We could aslo do an evening shoot in central London to film the suicide attampt on Jubilee Bridge. This shoot would take place from around 4-6pm. However, we still need to check availability of the actors!
Also, me and Emma are hopefully going to do some filming on Staurday Evening to try and get the performance shots of Kamil on millenium/London bridge from around 5 --> Finish.
The Sunday schedule is from around 4 O'Clock until finish, where we will be shooting the Piccadilly Circus scene and the Thames (Death) scene.
Lots of Love :P x

Jerome's Blogging

Meeting during Media Lesson P2 & 3

Group issues sorted

Male actor was decided (Kamil)

Storyboards for the scheduled shoots were started.

NOTE: Emma needs to be less bossy, Rachel needs to be more confrontational, Kirsty needs to be less negative, Jerome needs to put in more effort.

Lunchtime Meeting

Storyboards continued

Shot list for the beginning sequence written up

A list of different scenes in the music video were written up in order

Capturing started

Period 6, 7 & 8 and after school

Beginning sequence editing started

Rough shooting schedule finished (By Kirsty)

What needs to be done

Buy Kamil shoes (Rachel and Emma)
Storyboarding/Shotlists
Rent army suit?

Locations Mood Board

Here are some images of the potential locations of our project. As you can see it is mostly based in the central of London in some well known areas and landmarks. We felt that the high rise building would help to create a sense of isolation for our main character.

Posted by Rachel

Album Cover Mood Board

Here are some images that I feel connote the kind of style that I think would suit the Album Cover of our band. Our decided name is HeadKandi and I feel that the focus on the lips with the bright colours and hundreds and thousands etc.

Posted by Rachel <3

Initial Ideas For Our Band Name

Initial Ideas For Our Band Name

Rachel and Emma created a mind-map of ideas to what our band called be called. Here is a list of all the names that we came up with:

• Delirium
• Traffic
• Apollo
• Senseless
• Wackho
• Erratica
• Stanmmer
• Boyduck
• Happyhead
• Milkgun
• Good Ladies
• The Colour Principle
• Devil Fever
• Bumblebeeboys
• Clockwork Colours
• Clockwork
• Addiction
• HeadKandi
• DirtyCash
• Racketcat
• Aryan

All of the group chose their favorite 5 potential band names and the most popular were The Colour Principle, HeadKandi, DirtyCash and Happyhead. After we all sat down and considered these 4 final band names we decided that we all felt that the most affective and innovative name was HeadKandi and therefore that is what we have decided to be the name for our band.

Posted by Emma

Album Cover Research

Whilst Rach &&amp; Emma Were Continuing With The Timeline, Jerome && Kirsty Researched Into Some Existing Album Covers In Order To Get Some Inspiration For Our Own Album Cover Shot.


We Made A Collage Of Different Album Covers Which We Will Look At To Give Us Inspiration For Our Own Album Cover.


We Selected Covers That Belong To Artists Falling Into The Category Of Power Pop - The Same Category That Sugarcult Belong To.


Here Is The Collage Of Our Album Covers:



Our Reasearch Shows That You Cant Really Generalise When It Comes To Power-Pop Album Covers. We Found That The Majority Of Covers Either Have An Image Of The Band Or An Image Of A Cartoon Or Something That Doesn't Relate To The Band Name At All.

As A Result Of This, We Have Decided To Call Our Band HeadKandi And Have Some Initial Ideas Of Our Album Cover Image. We Are Currently Toying With The Idea Of Having A Close Up Shot Of Some Full On Lips Sucking A Lollipop Or A Stick Of A Rock Smothered With Lip Gloss And Lipstick. This Idea Completely Conforms To The Randomness Of Some Power Pop ALbum Covers.

Posted By Kirsty && Jerome

Test Footage - Transparency

As Part Of Our Idea For Our Music Video, We Wanted A Guardian Angel To Appear Throughout The Whole Video. As The Video Progresses He Gradually Fades Out.

We Wanted To See If We Were Going To Be Able To Make Him Fade Out, So On The 11th September, Jerome && Kirsty Took Some Footage To See If The Whole Transparency Theme Would Be Able To Work.

From Discussions With Jake When He Visited Us, He Told Us That If We Wanted To Create A Transparent Effect, We'd Have To Film The Shot As A Still Shot && Then Film The Shot With Just The Background In It. When Editting, We'd Have To Put The Shots On Top Of Each Other, And Add A Dissolve Transition To The Still Shot, Which Would Give The Effect Of Someone Fading Out.

Jerome && Kirsty Filmed Two Shots && Editted Them With The Help Of Mr Brock.
We Added A Dissolve/Transition To The Shots Which Created A Fading Out Look.

We Were Pleased With The Outcome As It Was Very Reassuring For Us To Know That Our Ideas Were Actually Possible.

Posted By Kirsty :) && Jerome ;)

Lunchtime Meeting

7th September - Lunchtime - All Present.

We Have Definately Decided The Female Actress Caiohmlin In Year 13 - She Has Agreed To Act For Us, But Has Told Us That She Cannot Make The 29th As She Is Going To Liverpool University, But We Should Be Able To Work Round That.

As Of Yet We Have Not Got Definates For The Male Actor && Singer, But Should Hopefully Have Them Completely Finalised By Monday.

We Have Also Arranged A Meeting For Sunday 9th September, So That We Can Start Making A Treatment For Our Test Shoot Weekend.

Posted By Kirsty.

Potential Male Actors

Here are some pics of the potential actors for our music video...

P.S The mean looking guy on the left :)

Posted by Carrot and Rhubarb

Potential Female Actresses

These are the potential female actresses that we have chosen...

Posted by Carrot and Rhubabrb

Lead Singer

We have found our actor for our lead singer! Hes a definate and he's a right looker as well ;) ....RESULT!!

Here are some snaps of him :)

Posted by Carrot and Rhubarb

Final Song Choice

Here is a link to the song that our group has decided to do:

http://www.radioblogclub.com/open/98097/pretty_girl___sugarcult/Sugarcult%20-%20Pretty%20Girl

hello 3E

thanks for coming in tues am to sort out Britney, shouldn't take long.

we could meet for a chat then if you like as I will be free??

should definitely meet weds lunch anyway as agreed with kirsty mon evening

looking forward to going through your ideas

make sure you post as much info onto here as possible - meeting notes, links to potential tracks, ideas etc, so you can show off all the hard work that has been achieved over the last couple of weeks. recording the creative process you have been going through is crucial.

despite your setback last week, you are well ahead and should feel confident that you will be at the right stage of the project come friday