Filming: Studio

Today, we were filming in the photography studio for some scenes of our music video. One element that we did today was making coloured water. We used red and green food colouring in order to create a pattern in the water and in our music video we plan to slow the movement down and cut into it. 

Here are some pictures of what we did.

The food colouring was provided by Eyerusalem, Rebecca recorded the movement and I took pictures for our blogs whilst directing and aiding them.

Call Sheet - College

Filming: Leake St

At first, we were going to shoot in the photography studio, however there was no teachers around so we decided to go to Leake St. Luckily, another member of the group already owns a camera, due to the fact that they do Photography, so we used that to film parts of our production. In the graffiti tunnel, we used 3 smoke bombs, which were provided by me, and did a variety of shots and angles.

Here are some pictures and a video footage of what went down:

Call Sheet - Leake St

Group Chat: Some Of The Meetings

These screenshots were taken by Eyerusalem.

Researching and Planning the Moving Image Work

Annotated Lyrics - by Whole Team

Team Roles - by Eyerulasem

Music Video: Risk Assessment - by Rebecca

Our Storyboards

Contacting Record Label - by Aaishah

Location Scouting - Recces - by Aaishah

Team Meeting 1

In our meeting, we were going over the lyrics and annotating it as we went along in order to find out what the cuts will be like and what the actress is going to do for each line. We also did some location scouting and we booked a day to go to the Sky Garden and planned for various other locations. The storyboard is in process along with annotating the lyrics.

Pre-Production Lesson

In today's lesson, we were planning out our production and what we are including in our video and lyrics.



The documents and processes we need to go through this week are:

1. Treatment
2. Storyboard
3. Recces (Location Scouting)
4. Risk Assessment
5. Permission for actors and locations. - We need to get release forms for our actors and email the owners of our locations we want to use and the record company of the song.
6. List Team Roles
7. List of costumes, props & make-up
8. Team Meetings: which will be four times a week.

Trip To The Store: The Strand

On Wednesday, I went on a trip to The Hayward Gallery: The Infinite Mix exhibition from 12pm onwards.

This exhibition had a variety of audio-visuals from different artists. The visuals contained documentaries with unexpected and imaginative turns when it comes to sound and editing. Not all of them have story lines to the visual and allows viewers to explore different types of art.


The visuals were all displayed differently from each other, for example there was holograms, 3D, collection of images, projections, normal videos and CGI. The whole exhibition had it's own unique concept and stands out.







Cameron Jamie - Massage the History (2007–9)

This video consists of provocative dancing from young black men in the living room, who were originally dancing to hip-hop but the soundtrack was replaced in order to refine the film.

The video uses different edits like a fade to the next scene and non-diegetic sound for the soundtrack.




Jeremy Deller & Cecilia Bengolea - Bom Bom’s Dream (2016)

This video was one of my favourites, due to the fact that it was extremely funny and has elements of bashment,

Bom Bom's dream contained a lot of CGI, for example the chameleon was one of the main factors of the video as it also came with an added on voice. Even though the CGI wasn't that great, it made it funny and this will humour the viewers. The video also used a green screen when it came to the shot in the clouds. A lot of editing was used in this video and that is what I liked about it alongside the bashment. The story behind this video was to have a cultural and contemporary effect like Alice In Wonderland

Kahlil Joseph - m.A.A.d (2014)

Kendrick Lamar was the main element of this short film. What I liked about this video was that it was dual-screen and sometimes it would show the same scene but in two different angles or the two screens would show two scenes that relate to each other. 

Kalil Joseph used a variety of clips from news footage of police brutality, home videos from the singer's uncle and his own footage of everyday life. He wanted to show the people of Compton, whilst making a response to Kendrick Lamar's album. What I also liked about this clip was that he used lyrics from Kendrick Lamar's album and made changes such as distortion or cutting them to down in order to make rhythms to match his editing. The story was intriguing and caught my attention; the relation with sound and camera created an amazing visual of an African-American Community and I would like to use similar techniques that Kalil Joseph used in my music video.