Planning to Film blog

We ended up not filming over the weekend. We planned to go to the beach on Sunday but we had a few problems. First we didn't really communicate well. Only me and one other group member discussed it. We planned to text our group chat when we figured things out but we forgot. Not to mention it was one of our group members couldn't even show up due to a swim meet he had. I knew he had one but didn't realize that they fell on the same day. When Sunday rolled around, I texted everyone and then we just said we should postpone. It worked out for everyone though. We all had lots of homework and thanksgiving break gives us more time.

We also didn't have good weather for the film. We needed a sunny day for our music video. since it's at the beach, we would like a classic happy beach setting. If it is all rainy out, it won't fit the idea we were going for. If we go out next time to film and it is still rainy out, we will just film anyway. We will just make it so that the lobsters only come out when its rainy. We will make sure to cover the camera so it won't get wet. We will most likely use an umbrella or a building as a cover. Hopefully we won't have to deal with that but we will be prepared if we do. The rain will also get us all wet and it would look awkward if they beach goer is just out in the rain for no reason.

I did think ahead a little though. I went on the internet and bought some props. I bought a cooler and toy lobster. I also bought a costume. The costume is a lobster that looks kind of funny. I got some clothes out of my closet that I thought would look good if my team doesn't have any beach goer clothes them selves. We all have towels that we could use for props and to dry off. Someone will bring lunch because we will be out there for a while. We will also bring water because it is going to be hot out. We will be more prepared when the break comes.

Storyboard music blog

Me and my team did a storyboard on our music video. We had fun coming up with the ideas for what we were going to do with it. I drew the pictures in our storyboard and the team agreed. I drew because I was the best at drawing and I am in an art class. Just because I was the one drawing however, did not mean I was doing all the work. Dylan, Trent, and Owen gave me ideas on how to show off what was going on. I drew everything in the storyboard that we knew we were going to have. I drew a lobster tank from Publix, The props that the beach goer was going to use, and the lobster costume. My team helped me remember to draw everything. By the end we knew we had good thing going.

It starts off with a man sitting on his towel at the beach. He hears music and then realizes that there is a lobster with a boombox in front of him. He gets annoyed and gets up and walks away but then sees there is lobster dancing in his far vision. He gets nervous and drinks some water to make sure he isn't seeing things. The water is sea water and is immediately spit out because of the saltiness. The man feeling harassed runs away and tries to get help. Then there is a lot of shots where lobsters are dancing to the music. We will have the lobster tank in there as well to show live lobsters. The beach goer comes back and gets a chef with him. The chef puts the lobster in the pot and the song turns off and is carried away.

We will use many camera angles that will make the scenes look better. At the beginning we were thinking we would have a medium shot on the beach goer and the lobster. When he gets up we will have a two shot because we count the lobster as a person because fish are friends not food. An over the shoulder shot on the life sized lobster in the back ground. A medium close up on the person drinking the salt water. An extreme or regular close up on the tag of the bottle that says Rock Lobster.
We will have a wide shot on the shore as the beach goer runs by. We will have a wide variety on shots when the dance/tank scenes are shown. On the lobster tank we will have a pan from one side to another. when the lobster gets put in the pot, there will be a close up on the pot and the lobster.

Planning music Blog

In AICE media, we are currently doing a new project. It is a music video. In this project, we will have our choice of music playing over a story. Our group chose the song "Rock Lobster" by B-52. We think this song will be able to play a story while also being humorous. because of the songs theme, we will be filming on the beach. We think the Fort Lauderdale beach will be the best beach to film because it is the closest beach to us. We will also film smaller shots at a group members house and Publix, a shopping center with a lobster tank. In order to the shots at Publix, we would have to ask permission from the manager. We plan to contact Publix before we film there.

Health and safety is the most important part of this project. During this project and all of the parts, (filming and editing) we will make sure we won't play around and stay on task. While going to the filming locations, we will make sure to wear our seat belts because we will not film if we are dead. It is also required by law. On the beach, we will make sure we are not there too long in the sun to reduce the amount of sun we get.

Props are the element that really brings life to our video. For props we are going to need beach props. This includes a beach umbrella, towels, drinks, and sunglasses. These will all help bring out the beach scene. We will also have toy lobster. We have all these except for the plush lobster, which costs about $8.

For costumes, we will need a normal beach goer outfit. This would just be a tank top, beach shorts, and sunglasses. All of the other outfits are just going to be ordinary outfits. The outfits will help bring out the theme of the video.

For our schedule we have our storyboard done and I plan to do the blog for it tomorrow. We plan to film next week. We want to do it in a timely fashion, so we do not have to worry about filming at the and of our thanksgiving break.

Introduction music video

After we finished our commercial project last class and we are starting the new project now. Our new project is a music video. I’m very excited to start our video because I feel it will cool to be off campus. We get a wide area of creativity to work with instead of just being on school ground. In our last commercial we got an understanding on how long filming can be. We also know what editing tools we have to work with. The songs we can use are also in wide range.

The song we are doing is rock lobster. I think we can do something funny with that and my group agrees. We were thinking we could have a story about a lobster that is causing chaos. The chaos isn’t going to be extreme though, it will be more like an annoyance. When people try to get away from it the lobster will come back. We will have multiple lobsters towards the end just being annoying. Then it will end with chef taking it away.

The costumes we will use will be a lobster costume and some normal average joe costumes. The lobster costume because we need a lobster to be annoying and normal costume for someone to be annoyed. Lighting will be natural. We will be outside and inside with the sun and the room lights as the lighting. The acting will be the best of the best. We will have people reacting not over top but noticeable and the lobster be just crazy. The makeup we will use will be none. No one will need to where makeup unless we use red face paint. Props we will use would be a fake lobster and like beach props. The fake lobster will transform into a big lobster and the beach stuff are just stuff for the beach. The setting will be the beach and someone’s house. The beach is where it will start and the house will be towards the end. The camera angles we will use will be simplistic with wide shots to close ups. Sounds we will use will be digestive to begin with and music in the middle and digestive at the end. We will have special effects for some shots like smoke and filters.

editing the final product

Today we were blogging again. There was a problem though. The computer we were working on was taken by another group. when we finally got our computer, our video wasn't saved. We had to start all over but, it didn't take as long to get back where we were because we knew what we had to do and how to do it. Then when we tried to get on pinnacle studios, it wasn't running correctly so we had to get a laptop. The laptop didn't run the clips fast or well. It would be all choppy and it would have bad sound that would cut in and out. This made it very hard to know when to cut stuff out. Then we realized that it just didn't sync yet.

Once it finished syncing, we really started going. We got back to where we were. we got back to 40 seconds which we still have to cut a bit more. We also got it where everything was a smooth transition to each take. We cut it a bit more to 35 seconds and it seemed a bit rushed. We didn't know what to do. Then we came up with the idea to put music over it. We thought it would make the commercial go smoother and make it intentionally rushed looking. It looked cooler and we had to decide when we would put the music in. we looked at it many different ways and decide to have it play lightly over the entire commercial.

We also looked at other aspects of editing. We looked at transitions and a lot of them looked good. We wanted a good transition from eating to looking cool. We saw fireworks but that didn't look good. We saw lots of weird ones with houses and draw bridges but those were too overly complicated. Then there was one with a smoke effect. A smoke effect like ninjas use to vanish and it looked really smooth. then we actually saved it this time. i am very excited to continue editing next class. my teacher gave us an extended due date because of the computers messing up.