FLASHBACK FILMING

FRIDAY 12TH DECEMBER - ARMY/ FLASHBACK SCENES

With a 9 o'clock start for Eddie and I, we were with our crew by 10 and driving up to the woods in order to film our army /flashback scenes. The idea of these scenes are an explanatory narrative in order to show the progression of our protagonist's post traumatic stress disorder. It features 'Ollie' our protagonist (first on left) and his army colleagues, following their friendship before they get an unexpected attack from the enemy which ends up having all his friends killed including his best friend 'Dan'; second from left. This sparks an anger which leads him to proceed in killing the enemy. Guilt ridden, he blames the death of 'Dan' on himself, because he got there too late to save him.

OUR CAST

(From left - Lewis, Kieran, Ollie, Dan and Alice)

Oliver Trivett (Protagonist)

Daniel Iley (Best Friend)

Kieran Hutchings (Army Soldier Friend)

Lewis McNamee (Army Soldier Friend)

Alice Foster (Army Soldier Friend)

Nathaniel Scott-Perry (Enemy soldier)

THE HEAD CAM

Not only have we been using the Canon 600D but we also used a head cam for point of view shots, to create that shaky/ handheld look and to connote the fear in our protagonists eyes to our audience clearly. This worked extremely well and the difference in shot will be a great comparison with our others, as it is slightly more blurred which portrays his emotions as he fears for his life - things are not so clear to him in moments of panic. This will be edited in as a point of view shot to enhance the narrative of our music video.

ON SCENE OF THE FLASHBACKS - GETTING READY

ARMY FLASHBACK FILMING DAY

FRIDAY 19TH DECEMBER - ARMY FLASHBACK SCENES

To our music video, the army flashback scenes are of vital importance to our narrrative. These form the reason to our protagonists Post Traumatic Distress Disorder. 

A group of young soldiers are sent out to defend an isolated part of the woods; a part of the woods that had not been touched by enemy hands in a very long time, so the soldiers are thought to be relatively safe out there. However this team faces an enemy attack, where our protagonist's best friend gets stabbed trying to defend himself. His friend dies in his arms and this is what leads to his distress and paranoia of the forest and the war.

 Above: (Oliver Trivett - Protagonist) on set in army gear.

Above: (Dan Iley - Best Friend)

 (Alice Foster - 

Army Soldier)

Above: (Kieran Hutchings - Army Soldier)

 Above: (Lewis McNamee - Army Soldier)

SHORT FILM FESTIVAL

On one evening this week, I attended a short film festival at the Exeter Phoenix centre, which was a two night experience showing national and international award winning short films that we would nominate to be the overall winner of an international film competition. 

Although I chose to do a music video, rather than a short film, seeing incredible pieces of art through film, made for an inspirational and influential evening. Being able to view young and new film makers showing off their work using low budget equipment was fantastic to see and gave Eddie and I a lot of excitement towards creating our own video.

These videos also influenced our own piece giving us ideas of shots and camera angles to use, especially as one particular video was set in a war featuring young people, which was very topical for us - this film especially inspired our video.

WEATHER

Weather update on Army filming day

EVENU INSPIRATION

EVENU INSPIRATION

EVENU - "OWN WAY HOME"

In terms of a rock/ alternative band, I thought it would be good to look at some upcoming band videos, to be inspired by professional videos made with a lot less money than most music videos. This band, 'Evenu'  I discovered through the drummer who i met a couple of years ago and have ever since fallen in love with their music, so 'Evenu' have been a massive inspiration in the conventions of my own music video.

They have used a band with four members, including 2 on guitar, 1 bassist and 1 drummer.

The major reason that I found their music video to be such an inspiration was mainly because of the camera shots and angles that were used.

I wanted to get influences from a pre-existing band of a similar genre so  I could match the codes and conventions of the shots they used.

Evenu as a band uses a variety of different shots in their video and it gave me the inspiration we needed to use different shots to great success.

As you can see from the screenshots I have captured from their music video of "Own way home", they have used close ups of each of the different band members to signify that this isn't a solo artist and that every member is as important as each other. The band is a team effort and this is something I wanted to portray within my own 'Greenday' video. 

The only person who gets extra close-ups and shots of them-self is the main singer, as this is a convention of band shots, in which the main singer always gains the star image and becomes the icon of the band.

Evenu has been a massive inspiration throughout my work and final music video as its useful to be influenced by real media texts in order to follow and adhere to the stereotypers and code and conventions of the genre, which I feel my video has done very successfully - creating a balanced piece between a strong narrative and impactful band shots.