Diary

Arctic monkeys – Diary

September 8th – This is the day we started to construct our blog’s by adding the summer homework onto the constructed blog.

September 9th: today’s the day we plan and get our ideas on paper and start conducting our initial ideas and thinking what our ideas are for the narrative/concept based of the video and also the plan for our performance elements of the video. Although first of all we needed to decide on a song that already had a none existing music video so there was no copy-write issues to consider.

September 10th – 11th: today we finally came up with our song for the video we are producing; the song was chosen and agreed on by all members of the group the song we choose was a song sang by the arctic monkeys (pretty visitors) we chose this song because we thought it would suit our musical taste and as the song has a different tempo through out so there was different speeds to work with. Now finally we started to plan properly with known the song we were producing to. We started of by thinking of a narrative based for the video and came with the idea of a man having insomnia and having crazy flash backs.

September 14th – 15th: Monday 14th we decided to get our band together and plan and book to film for the next day, we booked out the drama hall and got organised for Tuesday we also planned on what the band should wear and also on which member of the band will perform what instrument. Tuesday 15th this day we filmed our first piece of performance based in the drama hall, everyone got there and were co-operative to what we asked and also we used the time conductively and got the footage done on all different types of angles.

September- 16th – 18th: These 3 days we put our footage on the drive and started to play around with the footage and started to edit the performance base.

September 21st – 25th: we then started to think beyond our planning and started to produce some audience research also needed to some more band research on the arctic monkeys we spent this week and the next 2 weeks researching and planning.

October 10th – this Saturday we headed down to Northumberland Park in Tynemouth to film our first piece of narrative based we used this area to film as the scenery was a good place for our video as its suppose to like weird and crazy. We thought this day went well and the time was used well.

October 12th – 21st: we started to put our performance elements and narrative elements together to produce a rough cut to show to others on the course, this was to help us see what we could better and see it the place and the environment was good enough after receiving our feedback we decided on doing a whole re shoot and filming in a different area. We also decided to shoot our performance elements in a more exciting and different way.

October 21st – 23rd: the rest of the week we went through the theory that had to be placed on the blogs.

October half term – we filmed at a different location on the Tuesday of the term holiday this was to do more narrative elements for the video. We did this filming at the quarry as it has the same type of scenery but looked more adventurous and interesting. This filming day went good and everyone did what we were after.

November 2nd – we got back after the holidays and started to edit the new footage and forget about the footage used for the rough cut.

November 3rd – We started to look at how we were going to sell our video for example the DVD cover had to be made for our target audience and to suit our video also had to produce a music advert. We did this for the next upcoming weeks with adding filming in-between.

November 13th – We did performance elements at the quarry and made it different and had our performance in the middle of the water then the next week we went back to film more narrative at the quarry and we are now editing and finishing of all bits and bobs for our deadline

November 25th – DEADLINE