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.