THOMAS CUNNINGHAM FOUNDATION PORTFOLIO 09: October 2010

Friday 22 October 2010

animatic and feedback

After screening our animatic, we were given feedback, which was overall positive. We we're however asked to have more of the narrative point of view, from the guy on the computer and the main 'mysterious girl'.

All our settings and location were fine, we did however realise that we wouldnt be able to shoot the location Cornhill shots on the main shoot day (9th November), therefroe we will have to do this after.
When focusing on the main girl, we are using lots of picture stills focusing on one point of her (eyes), and then compliling them together at the same point, so her eyes will stay in the same place, but teh rest of her body will be moving. We feel that this will create a unique shot, in comparison to the rest of our video.

Thursday 21 October 2010

costume ideas

Here are some of or ideas of outfits for the video.

BAND - Plain coloured tee's (grey, white or black)
- Optional zip-up hoodies
- Skinny or Low-rise jeans
- Trainers (hightops,
tennis)

DANCERS
- White or black sports bra's
- Shorts/ Hotpants

PARTY PEOPLE
Girls :-
- Band or Cropped
Tee's
- Neon or Black coloured bra's
- Skinny jeans/ Shorts / Leggings
- Cool patterned tights
- Hightops/ Heels

BOYS (laid back style)
- Plain or band tee's
- Jeans (skinny or low)
- Trainers

legal permission

In order for us to be able to make our own video for 'We Are Rockstars', it was required of us to email the record company, 'Almost Gold Records' to seek legal permission before hand.

We created this email and sent it using George's school account

Here is the email we sent:

Seeking Copy write Permission (Does It Offend You, Yeah? - We Are Rockstars)
George Smith
Sent:	Tuesday, September 28, 2010 12:34 PM
To:	http://www.blogger.com/info@almostgoldrecordings.com

To Almost Gold Records

We are a group of A Level students working on an A Level project for 

a qualification in Media Studies.We are writing to request permission to 

use the following track as part of this project:

We Are Rockstars by Does It Offend You, Yeah?

With your permission the track would be used as the accompaniment to a 

short form video that is made purely for assessment purposes and will have no commercial usage. 

The video will be viewed only by members of the school community and the assessor of the examination board. 

The artist and the copyright holder will of course be fully recognised in the 

pre-production and evaluation material that accompanies the project. We can also include a full copyright 

notice if required both in the planning material and on the video itself.

Yours sincerely,


George Smith, Tom Cunningham, Catherine Dixon & Megan Knowles
Hurtwood House School

Here is a link to their website and a shoot of the home page:

http://www.almostgoldrecordings.com/artists/

Here is the link to their website and a couple of screen shots of the home page and artist

page of their website:

http://www.almostgoldrecordings.com/

uv paint supply

After some research we have found a few compnaies that we could order the UV paint from.

http://www.glow.co.uk/glow-party.html

http://www.uvgear.co.uk/product/uvbodypaint.htm

This is the effect that we are going to be going for....

In terms of the body paint design, we want to create patterns, rather than block colours (handprints, stripes, dots and more complex patterns)

We have researched that on average, the paint will cost around £2 per tube. But do to the effect that we want we will probably need double the amount per person. The colours we would like to use are orange, pink, yellow, green and white. Therefore the paint will cost around £60.

planned props

Bed

Chest of drawers

Bath

Sink

Toilet

Mirror

Beanbag

instruments

Drums

Guitar

Bass

Synth

Microphone

AMP

digipak idea

This is the digipak idea created by the group. As this is used not only as the cd cover but also as advertising and so it had to relate our band and the theme of our video.