Story Board

To know the order of locations and the photos, I needed to create a simple storyboard. This will help me in my filming to understand the simple structure of the video.

Storyboards in professional films are a lot more detailed with perfect timings so the movies work out properly. They are timed to the second, so the director and cast know exactly what to do, and whats going to happen.
Storyboard is defined as:
'A panel or series of panels on which a set of sketches is arranged depicting consecutively the important changes of scene and action in a series of shots ( as for a film, television show or commercial)'

These are some examples of storyboards from famous movies:
This is a very small part of the Jurassic Park (1993) storyboard, it has 8 images which probably adds up to roughly 10 seconds of footage. Each scene would need a storyboard, taking a significantly long time to accurately create.


This storyboard is from the very famous 1960 film Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock.

Or some are very simple like Snow-white and the Hunstman...

Album Cover Practise

I decided to practise on photoshop in trying to create a first initial idea for an album cover. This is what i came up with. ITs very simple and I want to keep it to this style, with a circle, but maybe use 3, i like the darker background and light writing. I also have a plan for my ideas of a possible album cover.
Problems:
The image isn't in the centre of the screen, I had problems trying to move it, but will learn again later to make it the best I can.

I done this by choosing a coloured background then on another page having the image, using the 'Elliptical marquee tool', holding shift to get a perfect circle cutting around the chosen part of my image,  in this case, Daniel in the middle of the road. I wanted to get a bit of his surroundings in the image too. 

After a circle appears around the image go to 'select' and 'inverse' so that part of the photo is stuck to the background and will not be removed. After thats completed go to the 'rubber' and 'background eraser tool' start selecting areas around the circle, it doesn't matter if you accidentally select what inside the circle because it won't disappear. Then go to the actual 'eraser tool' and start rubbing out the rest of the background. 

Then duplicate that layer, and drag the second copy onto the colour background which was on another tab. I adjusted the size and position of the image then, added text and a small border around the image. 

This was a very simple attempt at an album cover, i learnt a new skill and that was how to cut out a circle from an image. When it comes to my real album cover  will take a lot more time on it and be very careful. 

Prop List

Camera
Tripod
Memory card
Clothes which are the same at each location.
Wellies- to get the best shots in the mud!

A practise

I downloaded the trial of premier pro which i will be editing my video on, to practise and learn skills which can help me when doing the real thing. I took a few shots of a rough practise, and will start to edit it.
This is the practise video, I used a random song by 'Years and Years' called 'Real'. It has a fast beat which was hard to put the footsteps to so i just put them at a constant speed. The photos are quite irregular, and the angle varies. I wanted it to have a home made feel, so some are not equal, it looks like its from a hand held film, but in the style of Wes Anderson.
I did want it to run smoother but that was difficult to do when i was on foot and trying not to make the photos out of focus. I had some ideas:
-Using a dolly to put the tripod and camera on.
-Sitting in the back of a car, probably the boot and going very slowly to get a steady set of photos and videos.

-Putting the tripod on a skateboard.

This is the short video from my Youtube channel.

People I'm using in the video

This is my main character who is going to feature in all of my video, its my brother and I'm using him because he's my brother and i can easily use him in different locations and he isn't very busy. He is also willing to be part of my video.

Stop motion

'A cinematographic technique whereby the camera is repeatedly stopped and started, for example to give animated figures the impression of movement'. 

 As my video will be partly photos edited together so this is one of the best stop motion found. I will take photos, montage them together to make an exciting video.

Here are some very experienced stop motion videos from youtube.  
Mine definitely will not be this advanced, but this is the general idea of my coursework.

To develop my work....

I had the idea instead of filming all of my video, to take photos of the steps and then edit them together to make a moving image, its a little like my preliminary task, but in some ways its different.
I'm going to do a short practise in a few days to see how it works out and refine my editing skills.

Target Audience

My target audience would be a young adult and teenage audience, because upcoming music videos are quite simple but effective, they do lots of shots of the scenery and seem to be successful, young people are becoming more 'individual' and i can't see young children age 12 and lower to enjoy this kind of music and video.

I will show people the song and get their advice on it, they will be a variety of ages, this is one of the feedback i received, Philip Davis age 18:
"After just listening to 2 minutes of it, I already feel as if I know the song, its really catchy and I think it fits in well with your idea"

Characters Ideas

I need about who I'm going to use for my video, I need at least 9 people to use, and 1 main character who is going to be the key person throughout the majority of the video.
The people will only sing the chorus, and just walk along, and there will be various shots of scenery.
Possible people to use in my video, but i need to make sure they will be free and willing to be in my video.
Natalie Sharman
Owen Smith
Daniel Watson
Charlotte Day
Matt Cook
Kirby Smith
Lewis Dudley
Naomi Knight
Toby Setters
Josh Downs

Character profiles, I don't need to really make character profiles because my people don't really say anything or have a strong relationship with the audience. My main character will be the one I focus on. I think I want the main character to be a male, just because males have mainly taken the main roles, and are more up for being in a video. Unless there is a female who think would take the role week, i think a male is best for my idea.
Using my brother (Daniel Watson) would be very easy, as he is around me and would want to be in my video. He's easy to arrange with and like similar music to me, so I think he would already know this song and wouldn't have to learn the lyrics.