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(Post 34) Planning- Directorial Style

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Shutterstock, one of the internet's largest sources of stock media of all types, put together a tribute to 5 of the most famous American film directors today; Wes Anderson, David Fincher, Quentin Tarantino, Alfonso CuarĂ³n and Terrence Malick. All the footage demonstrates the different directing styles the film directors are so well known for.  For example,  Wes Anderson   the director of  Moonrise Kingdom, The Royal Tenenbaums,  and  The Grand Budapest Hotel,  has  a distinct colour palette that links everything from a the production design to the outfits.   His frames are known to be kept stationary, preferably in straight-on fashion making the shots  feel as if they are part of a painting  which most directors usually avoid because it prevents the scene from taking on a three-dimensional feel. David  Fincher , the  director of films such as  Gone Girl  and  Fight Club,  integrates impossible camer...

(Post 33) Planning- Editing

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Images of annotated script showing we you envisage longer and shorter takes, to establish emotion or generate pace, action and intensity as well as t ransitions between scenes and shots and the style of transitions we are looking to use. The longest take in our music video will be a tracking shot of about 23 seconds. This will simply be of the performer playing the piano, as this scene will cover an instrumental part of the song that doesn’t include any singing. The shot will start from behind the performer looking at his hands playing the piano, then the camera will smoothly and gradually move around the piano. After about 16 seconds, the camera should be positioned exactly at the top of the piano making the instrument and the performer stand right in the centre of the shot. The last 16 seconds of the tracking shot will be the same as the first part until the camera is filming the behind of the performer again.    Another interesting editing style will be the s...

(Post 32) Planning- Sound

In our music video there will mainly be non-digetic sound which will be from our chosen song. there will be a short snippet of digetic sound which comes from Michael playing the piano. The music that appears to be coming from the piano will match that specific part of the song. There will be no other sound effects other than

(Post 31) Planning Storyboards 1

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1. The titles naming the title of the song 2. titles naming the artist with the first shot of Jess in the background 3. Jess & Herbie walking through the garden 4. piano performance from behind 5. Jess holding a floating light and Herbie leaning on her shoulder, filmed from behind 6. Jess holding a floating light and Herbie leaning on her shoulder, filmed from the front 7. Herbie & Jess walking through the forest 8. The kids playing at an abandoned cottage 1. performance with slow move away from the piano 2. Herbie climbing the tree 3. long performance with tracking shot 4. Jess picking a flower 5. Herbie & Jess at the beach 6. Jess sitting on the steps at the front door 7. landscape shot of Happisburgh & lighthouse 8. Jess & Maddie standing in the water at the beach 1. close up of artist 2. Jess and Maddie walking towards the lighthouse 3. Jess and Maddie walking towards the lighthouse - close up from behind 4. Wind b...

(Post 30) Planning- Props

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The props we need: - wooden bow and arrow - piano - floating lanterns - bath - car - picture frame Wooden bow and arrow We like the idea of having a wooden bow and arrow as a prop for Herbie to use as a toy because it shows that despite things not being great at home he is still young and still has the imagination of any other child his age. It should be fairly simple to make so shouldn't be too time consuming. At the end of our music video we want it to be this bow and arrow that gives the audience the realisation of the connection between the boy in the video and the artist playing the piano. Grand Piano   Our song is a piece of piano music so therefore we want to have our performance aspect of our video of the 'artist' playing the piano. We want the piano to be in a big empty room with windows behind it and we know of a few places we could potentially go to film these scenes. We want to keep the room simple to make the audience focus on the m...

(Post 29) Planning- Costume and Make-Up

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We wanted the make up and costumes to look as natural as possible to tie in with the countryside setting and innocent, slightly melancholic feel we were trying to create with the film. We therefore avoided any bright or harsh colours of make up and used only a light foundation to help the actors skin glow on camera.   The costumes we sourced were made from natural materials, as we wanted to give a nostalgic feel of a memory of a happy time that has past. We choose only neutral colours for the costumes and loose flowing garments as we didn’t want the clothes to stand out and needed them to add to the romantic, fluid feel of the film. We used mostly whites and off white which helped add to the innocent feeling of the piece. We were fortunate enough to already own the majority of the clothes we needed in order to create the look we were going for. Most importantly Evie's mum already owned a victorian wedding dress which created the perfect outfit for Jess in the video....