Mood Board

Below is my mood board for my project. It features images connecting to my theme and hopefully evoke the kind of feelings that my final piece will give. I have featured a mixture of soft colours and textures with hard, dark, dangerous colours and textures. I wanted to show the stark contrast between two themes that I am bringing together in my video. 

Timings

Timings will be a very important part of my pre production and planning for this project. In order to easily relate visuals to the music, I have done exact timings of each verse and when certain verses, chorus' and important points in the song occur. This will make it much easier when it comes to storyboarding, shooting and editing the video.

• ·      Music intro- 00:00- 00:13 (13 secs)
• ·      First verse (speaking)- 00:13- 00:27 (14 secs)
• ·      Vocal harmonies (1^st half)- 00:27- 00:41 (14 secs)
• ·      Vocal harmonies (2^nd half)- 00:41- 00:48 (7 secs) (music fades at 00:45)
• ·      Rhianna singing- 00:48- 00:55 (7 secs)

 SONG CHANGE at 00:55

•  ·      First verse (1^st bit) – 00:55- 1:09 (14 secs)
• ·      First verse (2^nd bit)- 1:09- 1:22 (23 secs)
• ·      First verse (3^rd bit)- 1:22- 1:45 (23 secs)
• ·      First Chorus – 1:45- 2:13 (28 secs)
• ·      Second Verse (1^st bit) – 2:13- 2:39 (26 secs)
• ·      Second verse (2^nd bit) – 2:39- 3:01 (22 secs)
• ·      Second Chorus – 3:01- 3:29 (28 secs)
• ·      Vocal harmonies 3:29- 3:51 (22 secs)
• ·      Last line 3:51- 4:00 (9 secs)
• ·      End- 4:00

Song Lyrics

Here are the lyrics for the song I will be using in my piece. After I had chosen 'High for This' as the music for my project, I came across another song that I think has the emotions in it that I am looking to evoke in my video. I therefore decided to do a mix of the two songs.

The two final songs are 'High for This' by The Weeknd and 'Mad House' by Rihanna.

Lyrics:

(Music intro)

Ladies and gentlemen

To those among you

Who are easily frightened

We suggest you turn away now

To those of you who think they can take it

We say, welcome to the mad house

Haaaa ooooh ooh oh ooh oh

Haaaa ooooh ooh oh ooh oh

(mad house)

Nah nah nah

Nah nah nah

Nah nah nah

Nah nah nah

(music starts to gradually fade)

Come on come on come on in,

Come on come on in

(mad house)

(Song change)

You don't know what's in store

But you know what you're here for

Close your eyes, lay yourself beside me

Hold tight for this ride

We don't need no protection

Come alone, we don't need attention

Open your hand, take a glass

Don't be scared, I'm right here

Even though, you don't know

Trust me girl, you wanna be high for this

Take it off, you want it off

Cause I know what you're feeling

It's okay, girl, I feel it too

Let it be, baby breathe

I swear I'm right here

We'll be good, I promise, we'll be so good

Open your hand, take a glass

Don't be scared, I'm right here

Even though, you don't know

Trust me girl, you wanna be high for this

Project plans

 

 

 

 

 

Feasibilty Report

Over the summer I thought a lot about what I wanted to do for my final major project this year. I want to produce something that will showcase my strengths as well as challenge me in the process. This made it very easy to decide that my project will be heavily film and editing based. My passion in this industry is editing, this is what I want to do when I graduate, and I also thoroughly enjoy the production side of a project. As well as doing something I am comfortable with, I also want to push myself and try and expand my knowledge and skills in the visual effects side of things. This means there are certain areas in my project where I will include compositing and subtle visual effects.

I thought about what I enjoy and what influences me, and began thinking about music and fashion. I decided that basing my project on areas of the creative world that I am passionate about will mean that the project will be fun for me, and also means I am more likely to produce something really good. Once I had decided on these loose aspects, I began thinking about how I could tie all the elements in my head together into one piece.

I remembered seeing something on 'Americas Next Top Model' called a motion editorial and thought that it would be a great basis for an idea. The idea of a motion editorial is basically modeling in moving image rather than photography. The designer is able to tell a story about his/her collection through camera angles, facial expressions, movement and music, as well as showcasing the clothes themselves.

I began thinking about contrasting clothing, environments, makeup and hair. I picture soft, floaty, feminine clothing with unusual dark make up and extravagant hairstyles against a hard industrial, urban background. I think that the contrast between the image of the model against the environment will help to tell a dramatic story. When looking around for inspiration, I found the feel I want to create with the look of my models is that of Hilary Swank in Black Swan, something beautiful yet creepy.

I then moved on to the music. I want the music in the piece to heavily influence the feeling of it and therefore started listening to some of my music, looking for inspiration. I finally found it while listening to a song I had recently acquired, 'High for This' by The Weeknd. The song is beautiful and the music is quite dramatic and dark, which fits perfectly with my visual idea.

The next element to work out is what area of visual effects I want to incorporate into my piece. I will most probably shoot some footage using the green screen studio, as it gives me the opportunity to make shots look even more unusual and dark. This is something that I will work out in the early pre-production stages, when creating my storyboards. I was also inspired by Lady Gaga's 'Bad Romance' video, in which she was oversized eyes which give her a look that is very unnerving, yet mysterious. I plan on experimenting in an attempt to recreate this look on the girls in my video.

In terms of the resources I plan to use to produce my project, I imagine there will be significantly more hardware used than software. To shoot my footage I will be using a Canon 5D Mk II SLR or Canon 60D camera and tripod, although the tripod may not be used a great deal as I will be shooting a lot of the footage hand held, to create the personal feeling I am looking for. I will also be using hand held lighting to create the perfect light and therefore the perfect mood of the shots. I will be needing hand held lighting rather than kinos and dedos because I will be shooting outdoors for the entire shoot, which means that lighting that require mains electricity is no use to me. As previously mentioned I may want to use the green screen studio at the Workstation for some of my shots, and indoor lighting, as well as the hand held lighting, will be needed to try and create the same lighting as the shots outside, in order for the shots to be consistent. Because of this, when it comes to planning I will shoot the outdoor footage first, so that I know exactly what look I need to recreate in the studio.

When it comes to software, I will not be using a great number of programmes. I will edit in Adobe Premier Pro, as this is the programme I am most familiar with. I will composite and Chroma key in Adobe After Effects and if I am able to create the ‘oversized eyes’ I will be using 3DS Max to model the eyes and will use MatchMover to track the 3D eyes onto the footage. Because I am not confident with 3D and have never tried to create and track eyes onto footage, this aspect may not appear in my final piece, as I will not put something into my piece which I am not 100% happy with.

To conclude, I am extremely excited to work on this project. Putting my interests and passions together with my strongest skills to produce a piece of work that hopefully I can be proud of, is really exciting, albeit a little daunting. I can’t wait to get underway with all of my planning and start producing work towards my final major project piece. I am very pleased with my project plan as I think I have left myself a good amount of time to complete all of the elements. The worst thing I could do, would be to underestimate how long it will take me to do things and with this plan I don’t think I have. I am generally very good at sticking to project plans and hopefully I will be able to stick to this plan, and therefore not put too much pressure on myself, especially in semester 2. Luckily, we have another module this semester that is all about pre production and planning, so I am trying to complete my pre production work for this project at the same time as the work for the other module. This means I am familiar with each stage of the pre production process as we learn about it each week in lectures. If I can keep this up, along with following my plan, I think overall I will be very successful in this module.

Fashion ideas- Clothes and Make Up

 I want the costume for my piece to be feminine, floaty dresses as this will contrast with the hard environment and also add romanticism to the piece, which fits with the music.

The make up on the characters in the video will be dark, dramatic and a little bit creepy, as this again contrasts with the costumes and adds the dark sinister feeling that I want to give the video.

Videos that have Inspired me

America Next Top Model Motion Editorial

'Bad Romance'- Lady Gaga

'High For This'- The Weeknd (music track)

Initial Idea

Over the summer I thought a lot about what I wanted to do for my final major project this year. I knew that I wanted it to be heavily based on filming and editing, as this is what I am most interested in and what I want to do when I graduate. I also wanted to include some compositing and subtle visual effects, as I still want to push myself and try something new.

I thought about what I enjoy and what influences me, and began thinking about music and fashion. I remembered seeing something on 'Americas Next Top Model' called a motion editorial and thought that it would be a great basis for an idea. I began thinking about contrasting clothing and environments, makeup and hair. I pictured soft, floaty, feminine clothing with unusual dark make up and crazy hair against a hard industrial and urban background. I decided that this would be a really cool starting point.

I then moved on to the music, as I wanted the music in the piece to heavily influence the feeling of it. I started listening to some of my music, looking for inspiration. I finally found it while listening to a song I had recently acquired, 'High for This' by The Weeknd. The song is beautiful and the music is quite dramatic and dark, which fits perfectly with my visual idea.

The next piece of the puzzle to work out was what area of visual effects did I want to incorporate into my piece. I will most probably shoot some footage using green screen, as it gives me the opportunity to make shots look even more unusual and dark. I was also inspired by Lady Gaga's 'Bad Romance' video, in which she was oversized eyes which give a very unnerving feeling to the video. I plan on experimenting in an attempt to recreate this look on the girls in my video.

Overall there are a lot of different aspects to my project, but I feel that with proper planning I will be able to achieve something I can be very proud of.