Filming Continues

On the 1/11/10, we continued our filming. On this day we went to Rita's house to film the scenes that required a 'home environment'. One of these scenes was where we see the female character in the video having to put her shoes outside because her boyfriend (male character) had vomited on them. We filmed the shot in relation to this lyric from the song "You've gone and got sick on my trainers".

Another scene we took was for the 10 seconds instrumental intro. In this scene we used fridge letter magnets to spell out the title of the song and the name of the song's singer using stop motion. Filming this scene in stop motion was particularly time consuming as we had to stop filming and then move the letters slightly (and so on) until we had completed the stop motion.

The last scene we took was the scene where the male character in the video scares the female character in the video. We did this scene on the cul-de-sac outside Rita's house. This scene was the easiest to film as it was not time consuming and it only took us roughly less than 5 minutes to film.

For our next filming day, we will be filming the other scenes such as 'foundations' being written in lipstick, a bowl of alphabet spaghetti spelling 'let go' and a wind up toy moving.

Fiona and Tanesha arranging the stop motion scene.

Tanesha adding vegetable soup to a pair of shoes to make it look like someone has vomited on them for the "You've gone and got sick on my trainers" scene.

Rita and her friend (David, who offered to play the male character) acting out the scene where the male character scares the female character.

Digipack: Cover Research

Throughout the production faze we also started to work on the Digipack elements which included;

• A poster in a magazine
• A cover for the song (album/single)

Before reading a brief we thought it was a magazine cover that was needed to be created and therefore this was the finishing product. However despite this not being part of the overall project I believe it gave us confidence regarding the elements that will be included as there was a lot of hard work that had gone into this artwork.

We looked at various magazine covers of a similar genre however not many captured the same theme that Kate Nash herself portrays. We did however find a magzine cover which actually had Kate Nash herself on the cover. Although there are some very close similarities between the two, we believe that ours still has its own style and stands out. We would replace the photo of Kate Nash with that of Rita's however.

The magazine cover which we used a lot of visual techniques from.

The finished product.

For the logo we looked at the logo for International Design (I.D.) magazine. We believed this was simple but made the statement we wanted. This reflects to the style of song and genre of Kate Nash.

Filming Begins

On the 18/10/10 we began filming our music videos. On this day we only filmed in the Media Production Room for the shots that needed the green screen and also different versions of a whole run through of Rita just lip syncing. The reason we shot a whole run through(s) is because we wanted to have back up/extra footage so that should anything happen that could hinder us from filming certain scenes or continue filming we would have back up footage that we would be able to use instead. However, that in mind we also shot some of the scenes that we intend to use (such as a piece of black cardboard appearing over Rita's mouth when she says an expletive).
The reason we took different versions of a whole run through of Rita lip syncing is because we wanted to have a variety of footage to choose from (should we have to use that footage). For example, one version we shot was just a close up of Rita's face while she was lip syncing.

Fiona on Camera 1, filming Rita's lip syncing

Location Shots

As part of our planning we went to one of the locations that we intend to film at. One of these locations was the Media Production Room (E225). The reason we chose the Media Production Room is because in our music video we are going to use a green screen to produce the background for some of our shots and the Media Production Room has a green screen that we are able to use for our video.

The cameras in the Media Production Room that we will be using to film the shots where the green screen will be used.







This is the green screen that we will be using in some of our shots.

The other location we are going to use is the house of our group member (Rita). The reason why we want to use her house is because in the video there are some shorts where we need a location which has the aspects and features of a house such as a bed or sofa for one of the shots that we are going to film.

This is Rita's house, one of the locations we will be filming in.

This is the bedroom that we are going to be filming 'Your face is pasty scene'. We chose to film in this room because in the scene we intend tho have the male character passed out on the bed.

The kitchen in Rita's house. We will use the fridge shown in the picture for the scene where we will use stop motion in spelling out the name of the song and the singer.

This is the cul-de-sac outiside Rita's house. We will use this location to film the scene where the male character in the video scares the female character.

This is the swing (in Old Moat Park) that we are going to include in our video (most likely for some lip syncing scenes.)

Shooting Schedule

This is the start of our shooting schedule which will take us up to Wednesday 10th October. We are hoping to also film over the half term, allowing us to get shots which may be difficult to achieve during term time.

Monday 18th October 2010
One run through of the song entirely in lip syncing. This will help in the editing process in the case of any previous errors and mistakes.
Start to do separate shots in which they need different props/positioning.
Shot 4: ‘Then I’ll use that voice…input Darling’
Rolls eyes at the camera
Shot 6: ‘Then you call me bitch’
Clip art speech bubble goes over face inc random characters.
Shot 8: ‘And I won’t give a shit’
Black rectangle card put over mouth
Props/Costumes: Rita in colourful dress and black piece of card.

Wednesday 20th October 2010
Continuing with media production room shots. Retaking any from the 18th if needed.
Shot 20: 'What a surprise'
Rita in a party hat
Shot 21: 'Don’t want to look at your face...'
Pulling a gag motion
Shot 30: 'I know I should forget, but I can’t'
Shaking head
Shot 31: 'And every time we fight...but I can’t'
Starts to give up on last word, turns away.

Monday 25th October 2010
Possibly complete all shots in the location of Rita’s house
Shot 10: 10 second intro, spelling of title in tune to the piano
Stop motion of foundations being spelt on fridge
Shot 3: ‘And you humiliate me, in front of our friends’
Bunch of teddies
Shot 7: ‘Everyone we’re with will be embarrassed’
Bunch of teddies, same position but having rosy cheeks

This was the precision in which we needed is laid out in a section of our shooting schedule here. We believe that this is how we should operate to finish shooting on time in order to reach our deadlines.

Shot List

Shot 1: 10 second intro, spelling of title in tune to the piano.
Magnetic letters spell out FOUNDATIONS
Rita’s House

Props & Costumes: Magnetic Letters
Fridge

Shot 2: PENDING

Shot 3: ‘And you humiliate me, in front of our friends’
Wide shot of teddies
Rita’s House

Props & Costumes: Various teddies

Shot 4: ‘Then I’ll use that voice…input Darling’
Lip-syncing
Media production room
Green screen, various colourful backgrounds

Props & Costumes: N/A

Shot 5: ‘Why don’t you just have another beer then?’
Beer goes down in stop motion
Table
Rita’s House

Props & Costumes: Beer, Pint glass

Shot 6: ‘Then you call me bitch’
Lip sync
Speech bubble with random letters/symbols/numbers etc appears over face

Props & Costumes: N/A

Shot 7: ‘Everyone we’re with will be embarrassed’
Wide shot of teddies with rosy cheeks
Rita’s House

Props & Costumes: Various teddies, felt

Shot 8: ‘And I won’t give a shit’
Black rectangle goes over mouth on swear
Media Production room

Props & Costumes: Black card

Shot 9: ‘My fingertips are holding onto the cracks in our foundations’
Foundations spelt in lipstick

Props & Costumes: Lipstick

Shot 10: ‘And I know that I should let go but I cant’
Whiteboard, written on the board and rubbed out on I can’t
College

Props & Costumes: Whiteboard, marker

Shot 11: ‘And every time we fight, I know it’s not right’
Rita in superhero costume, punches camera. ‘POW’ flashes over.
Costume shop

Props & Costumes: Costume

Shot 12: ‘Every time that you’re upset and I smile’
Big smiley face, Big sad face
College

Props & Costumes: Sad face, Smiley face

Shot 13: ‘You said I must eat so many lemons…’
Yellow room, Eating lemons etc
Media production room

Props & Costumes: Yellow dress, Lemons etc..

Shot 14: ‘Yes it was childish’
Swinging on swing, pulling tongue
Park

Props & Costumes: Hair in pigtails, dress

Shot 15: ‘And you got aggressive’
He pushes her off swing
Park

Props & Costumes: N/A

Shot 16: ‘But it gives me thrills to wind you up’
Wind up toy

Props & Costumes: Wind up toy

Shot 17: ‘My finger tips…’
Lip sync
Media Production room

Props & Costumes:


Shot 18: ‘And I know that I should let go…’
Let go in alphabet spaghetti, pushes away on 'but i can't'

Props & Costumes: Alphabet Spaghetti

Shot 19: 'Your face is pasty...'
Lots of alcohol containers, shoes shown with sick on them on 'wasted'

Props & Costumes: Alcohol containers, shoes and fake sick

Shot 20: 'What a surprise'
Rita in a party hat

Props & Costume: Party hat

Shot 21: 'Dont want to look at your face...'
Gag gesture on 'making me sick'

Props & Costume: N/A

Shot 22: 'You've gone and got sick on my trainers...'
Close up of shoes on 'trainers'

Props & Costume: Vegatable soup

Shot 23: 'Oh my gosh...'
Rita is going to be doing a jigsaw, one piece will be left and on ' i cannot be bothered with this' she pushes it off the table

Props & Costume: Jigsaw and table

Shot 24: 'Well i'll leave you there tilthe morning'
Clock dassed out still on ' morning'

Props & Costume: Clock

Shot 25: 'And i purposly wont turn the heating on and dear god..'
Penguin waling past

Props & Costume: Penguin

Shot 26: 'I hope im not stuck with this one'
Face stuck to hand

Props & Costume: N/A

Shot 27: 'Cracks in our foundations'
Sellotape wearing away, with a heart stuck to her hand

Props & Costume: Selloetape

Shot 28: 'And everytime we fight...'
He is trying to wake

Props & Costume: N/A

Shot 29: '...everytime that your upset and i smile'
Sad face on 'upset' and happy face on 'smile'

Props & Costume: N/A

Shot 30: 'I know i should forget, but i cant'
Close up of her shaking her head

Props & Costume: N/A

Shot 31: 'And everytime we fight...but i cant'
Lipsyncing, towards the end she gives up.

Song Lyrics - Annotated Plan

"Foundations"

10 seconds intro – spelling of title in tune to piano keys

Thursday night,
everything's fine,
Except you've got that look in your eyes,
when I'm telling a story
And you find it boring you're thinking of something to say.
You'll go along with and then drop it
And you humiliate me, in front of our friends.- Shot of teddy bears

Then I'll use that voice what you find annoyin' (Donkey Neigh)
And say something like
"intelligent input darlin' why don't you just have another -lip synching beer then?"
-Beer goes down in stop motion

Then you call me a bitch -(speech bubble with random letters) and everyone
we're with will be embarrassed, -(Teddy bears with rosy cheeks)
and I won't give a shit -(black rectangle appears over her mouth)

[Chorus:]
My fingertips are holding onto the
cracks in our foundations, -(spelt in lipstick through stop motion)
and I know that I should let go, -(rubs out ‘let go on a whiteboard’)
but I can't.
And everytime we fight -(Female character wearing a boxing glove and punching the air with it) I know it's not right,
everytime that you're upset and I smile –(smiley face and sad face)
I know I should forget, but I can't.

You said I must eat so many lemons, 'cause I am so bitter. -(Female character in front of a yellow background whilst eating lemons and having a lemon smile)
I said "I'd rather be with your friends mate,
'cause they are much fitter" -(action man posing)

Yes it was childish
and you got aggressive
and I must admit that I was a bit scared,
but it gives me thrills to wind you up. -(wind up toy moving)

[Chorus] –(The words ‘let go’ in alphabet spaghetti in a bowl and then the bowl appears again with the words ‘I can’t’ but she pushes that one away as well)

Your face is pasty, 'cause you've gone and got so wasted, -(alcohol cans scattered everywhere and the female character’s shoes covered in vomit)
what a surprise, -(Female character in party heart)
don't want to look at your face,
'cause it's making me sick. –(gag gesture)

You've gone and got sick on my trainers,
I only got these yesterday.
Oh my gosh, I cannot be bothered with this. –(Female character is doing a jigsaw, but then stops doing it and pushes it away)

Well I'll leave you there till the mornin',
and I purposely won't turn the heating on
and dear God, I hope I'm not stuck with this one. –(Picture of male character’s face is stuck to female character’s hand but the female character tries to shake it off)

[Chorus]

And every time we fight I know it's not right, every time that you're upset and I smile. I know I should forget, but I can't. –(Male character is asleep after drinking too much alcohol and female character tries to wake him up but he doesn’t wake up. Female shakes her head in disbelief and gives up)

Note: The lyrics which have not been italicised are the lyrics which will be lip synched by the female character/Rita.

Further Note: Please be aware that certain annotations may not necessarily be carried out/implemented in the actual video as during the filming process we may decide to alter certain aspects of the intended plan.