Our filming

This is proof to how much we have filmed, but as you can see our footage is too dark or too grainy. Because our niche is lights, we need to use our still cameras in order for the quality to be perfect.

Why we chose to use stop frame

Alanah and I chose to use stop frame after some problems we had with getting access to the film cameras school provide, because of my partner becoming banned from using the film cameras, we decided to purchase our own as we thought it would be more convieniant and better quality. We then started to experiment with mine and Alanahs still cameras. The quality made so much difference, and the jerky movement of the camera as we changed positions when taking photos matched the beat to our music perfectly. We could also experiment with better angles.

After filming 1hour and 45minutes of film, we watched over the footage we had already filmed, the footage was dark and grainy and we knew we would get marked down for this greatly.

We decided that the stop frame animation works better with the genre of music, the beat is fast and now we have the option to get transitions of the beat.




 

Equipment we used

Serif Page Plus 11 - for ancillary tasks


Nikon D40 and Sony DSC-T300 - for stills


Apple Mac and Imovie - for editing

Canon mini DV film cameras - for shooting

We used the filming camera to start off with, we filmed 1hour 44min and 50seconds of film, because the quality wasnt very good, we have only used two peices of shooting material in our video which was the red hand being set alight by using purfume and a lighter, we also used the motorway using the other film camera.
We decided to use stills for our video. The quality is so much better, we could even use dark locations or dim lighting because the camera still picked up enough light and was of good quality.

Digi pack

A little bit about our artist

font

This is a font cloud me and Alanah created, we did this to test out some fonts that we liked.

still images/ story board

All images displayed like these are our story board. Because we are using hundreds of still photos, it would be unpractical for me to draw out every single photo.
As you can see we have a lamp seen in different camera angles, medium close-ups to long shots. This is so when seen as a video, it would give a jerky effect to go with the beat of our fast paced music. The images are of a lamp going around a house plugging itself into different plug sockets. This is a representation of cheating. Me and Alanah, seeing as our video is concept based, decieded to do something 'out of the box'. A lamp should only have one plug socket to gain energy from, so to represent cheating we have it stealing the energy source from other plugs, heading its way upto a bedroom.



From all our planning below, this is a big change, the idea cae out of nowhere. We thought that having lots of different lights would look odd when put all together, sort of like we just placed anything anywhere, and we werent sure how to make them not look random. So we came up with one main light source which was this lamp and the idea behind it so again... it wasnt random! We then thought if we had a main light source, we could use different ones now and again in our mucis video such as a candle or fairy lights and car lights of the motorway. I feel this idea was decided abit to late but i have confidence in me and my partner that we will finish it for the deadline!