Scene Layout

Scene 1 – establishing shot of living room, covered in empty booze bottles, cans, and toilet paper. People are asleep.
Insert shot of someone asleep, followed by another.
Insert shot then moves on to a girl waking up, pans up to follow her as she sits up to rummage her hair.
Moves back to master shot as she stands up and moves over to the record player.
Insert shot of the girl pressing ‘stop’ on record player, and song begins to play. As the opening of song starts, insert shots of everyone waking up. Once the music kicks in, everything is then sped up and put into reverse.
Then it moves to a street at night, panning right, to follow everyone walking backwards in reverse back down the street.

Scene 2 - It then moves onto a low angle shot from floor level upwards, of a group of people dancing at what looks to be a dark club. (Slow) There is then an insert shot of someone smiling, and swaying their head. Insert shot of someone holding a bottle, and high angle shot of everyone together, from above.
The camera then moves onto another reversed shot of the group walking backwards, down another street. There is then a shot of someone walking through a door backwards. It then flicks to a group of friends sat around a fire, handing a bottle around the dire. In then moves to a close up of a person smiling, and then a medium shot of two people cuddling and laughing together.

Scene 3 – The group are then walking backwards into a skate park, holding skate boards and wearing skating hats and things. There is then a shot from the top of the rink, as someone sets off on the skateboard. There will then be a low angle shot as a skateboarder flies above.
It will then flick to the skateboarder landing on the rink with a group of friends stood behind. The camera then flicks to the group stood laughing, as there will be someone having a piggyback.

Scene 4 – There will be a group of friends having a laugh in the Sheffield Peace gardens. There will then be a slow motion clip of a girl throwing water towards a group of friends who will laugh and run towards her. A guy will then put the girl over his should, and run through the fountains, followed by the friends.
There will be a medium close up shot, of 2 people, separately wiping the water from their faces, there will then be a close up of someone laughing and looking at their friends.

Scene 5 – The group will be hanging around and chasing each other in the peace gardens as they are laughing.
Slow motion will then kick in as they run. There will be a low angle shot directly above, of the main girl spinning around. There will then be a slow motion medium close up of the main girl spinning, before a close up shot of the girl continuing to spin.
It will then flick back to the girl leaning on a wall, with one foot up against the wall, as she blows bubbles. A guy will then approach, and there will be a medium close up from the side, as the man approaches. There will be a slow motion shot as he pops a bubble. There will then be a high angle, slow motion shot as the girl blows bubbles, and the bubbles float up above her. The camera will then follow the bubbles as they drift away.

Animatics

The video above shows a rough idea to what the video will look like when it is finished. It shows where the music changes and how that would work with the scenes we have planned. This is a an initial idea so it may change when we come to edit the filming. Although we have this plan we have decided to also just film interesting shots on the day. This will mean when it comes to editing we will have a wider selection of shots as well as the ability to change things if it does not fit with the music.

Story Board

I have created these storyboards so that when we are filming we will know what shots we want. It will also mean that we will have an idea to how we want the scene to look like. The storyboard allows us to be organised with our filming and know what needs to be filmed.

Although we have this storyboard the overall effect of the film that we want to create is just people going out and having a fun time. This means that, if on the day of filming, we see something that will fit in with the film we will film it and then during editing we can see if it will fit with the over all aesthetics of the film. We do not want our film to look too structured as we want it to just look like people having a good time by filming interesting things that we see we will be able to keep the film fresh, interesting and appealing to our target audience.

Emails to Actors

Here is an email from one of the actors.
In order to publicise the creation of our video, and need for actors, I had an email sent trough the college to all the students. I had several replies; this is one of them.

-----Original Message----- From: Reed Elliot Sent: 13 October 2009 17:22 To: Steve Pidd Subject: RE: Message on behalf of one of our A2 media students. (Video Project)

hi.
Id probably be interested in doing it :)

-----Original Message----- From: Steve Pidd Sent: Tue 10/13/2009 11:50 AM To: All Students Subject: Message on behalf of one of our A2 media students. (Video Project)

''Hey guys!! Claire Johnson and I are going to start filming our A2 music video project, next week.

The music video will be to the song Feeder - Just a day.

We basically want a video of friends having fun, and doing fun things.

So we want people who are up for a laugh, colourful, brimming with confidence, friendly, and fun, and aren't afraid to do anything bizarre!

We want natural, fun people! Let me know if you want to take part, and I will send you the details of the video! Thankyou,

Emily-Jayne Fletcher.''

Lyrics for Feeder - Just A Day

Talking about Lights

This recording was done during a discussion myself and Emily-Jayne had regarding the lights that would be needed during certain scenes.

Scenes

I have used 'stripgenerator' to create a story board showing our over all idea. 'Stripgenerator' is website that allows you to create different storyboards or strips and then export them onto different blogs or blog on their website. This was a great website to use as it allowed us to see our ideas properly in a storyboard format.

The story boards show each individual scene. We are going to draw each individual scene and then scan this into the computer. The use of the individual scene storyboards will be there to show what camera work will be used where as these storyboards are just here to show our idea. With the individual scene storyboards we can include more detail and plan the filming properly.

The first scene shows the protagonist getting back to her room and turning off the music
Scene two shows everyone at a party having a good time.
The next scene is everyone hanging out, having fun, laughing and joking at a flat.


Scene 4 shows people sitting around a fire, playing guitar, eating and drinking.
Scene 5 shows people hanging out at a skate park, this will show interesting shot types and show off the skills of skateboards and BmX riders.
The next scene, scene 6, shows people at Rotherham/Sheffield fountains, they are going to be running around the fountains, putting in soap bubbles and laughing.


Scene 7 shows people sitting in peace gardens joking around.
Scene 8 shows a girl blowing bubbles and then someone comes and takes her to somewhere fun.
The last scene, scene 9, shows the girl leaning on a wall blowing bubbles and then it ends with a shot of the bubbles in the sky.