Plans for Filming this Weekend

Further Updates

On Monday, Suela and I presented our presentation on what we have acheived so far in our music video project & ancillory tasks and what we have left to do. In the presentation we covered initial ideas & research, planning the concept, research into existing music videos, storyboarding, casting, locations, costmes and filming schedules. This was recorded

Updates on Progress- 14/11/09

Admittedly, our music project has been slightly neglected for the past couple of weeks in favour of pressing coursework matters in other subjects which required my undivided attention but I'm not going to let that happen again because I get out of the swing of things and me and Suela, as a team, are prohibited from moving forward in our aim of creating the kind of music video we envisaged. In the past week we have made some progress though and the video has always been on my mind when coming across images, video clips or other music videos which have influenced ours. Currently we are putting together a presentation on how far we've come and what we still have left to achieve on powerpoint with some screen captures of our individual and group blogs. The plan is to present this on Monday. Our presentation of the presentation will be filmed and we are hoping to put the video of this onto our blogs as a testament to the point we've reached in our project.

We've also finally managed to get some screen tests. With her new camera, Suela has recorded Dan lip-syncing to the track and experimented with different ways of filming it. I also plan to upload at least 3 of these screen tests up and comment on them. Upon seeing them, I was very pleased. We've worked with Daniel before but strictly as an actor and we weren't sure how well he'd adapt to the role of storyteller, love interest and, most importantly, artist. Personally I thought he was very natural in front of the camera, singing in an intense but meaningful manner and slouching against a wall to counter-act that so it's not too intense. Dan's learnt the lyrics to Vienna perfectly so I don't have any concerns about him not being prepared.

We're hoping to get everyone together one last time before we begin filming towards the end of November and begining of December so there's no confusion on the day and they know the story well and what role they are playing. I believe it's important for the actors to be well informed on the progress we've made as they are a vital part in carrying this narrative and bringing to life what we have only planned.