Tuesday, 16 November 2010
Research/Influence
As part of our research we thought it would be helpful to look at a band that are real soldiers. "The Soldiers" – Sergeant Major Gary Chilton, Sergeant Richie Maddocks and Lance Corporal Ryan Idzi are a different type of band who released an album called ‘Coming Home’ in 2009. All of the proceed's went directly to charities including Help For Heroes, the British Legion and the Army Benevolent Fund. We looked at their style of cd and cover and talked about what parts we thought worked well and what parts we didn't think worked and wanted to use this band as an influence.
Tuesday, 9 November 2010
Filming Day 2
After receiving all consent forms to film the children we began our filming. Our location was in a local sports field, with a bridge and small stream. We wanted this open space as it works well with the mise en scene of the soldiers training ground. We asked the boys to get into their costumes and we also dressed up our actor as tony blair. We took all the props we needed and starting to look at the lighting and what would be in the back of the scene. We was wary that because we are filming in winter the days get darker, quicker so we didn't want to do the majority of the filming in bad light.
We started our filming, and as part of our video is a choreographed routine, we taught the boys the 13 second dance and made them practice until they were completely in time. We also wanted footage of tony blair giving the boys there army bundles, and them being dressed within seconds. This stage is where we will have to edit our footage by speeding up the speed of the clip so that the soldiers are collecting their bundles, changing and leaving the show all within a few seconds. This will make the scene alot quicker and less predictable as with 5 actors doing the same thing makes it harder to substain the audiences attention.
We made the bundles of clothes and tried to make them as authentic as possible with brown tags with all the soldiers details on. These were the bundles that we used in the video.
Aside from the filming we also took photographs for possible CD cover ideas or adverts. We wanted the boys to look as serious as possible without looking angry, but also wanted them to look like a band.
We started our filming, and as part of our video is a choreographed routine, we taught the boys the 13 second dance and made them practice until they were completely in time. We also wanted footage of tony blair giving the boys there army bundles, and them being dressed within seconds. This stage is where we will have to edit our footage by speeding up the speed of the clip so that the soldiers are collecting their bundles, changing and leaving the show all within a few seconds. This will make the scene alot quicker and less predictable as with 5 actors doing the same thing makes it harder to substain the audiences attention.
We made the bundles of clothes and tried to make them as authentic as possible with brown tags with all the soldiers details on. These were the bundles that we used in the video.
Aside from the filming we also took photographs for possible CD cover ideas or adverts. We wanted the boys to look as serious as possible without looking angry, but also wanted them to look like a band.
Monday, 8 November 2010
Filming Day1
Today was the first day of filming and we had planned the whole session the day before. We had arranged times and locations with our actors so we could have a clear shooting schedule, without wasting time. Our group had also been provided with amazing new Sony HVR-HD1000E cameras, so we had a pre-session where we learnt to use the cameras properly and experiment with what they can do.
Our first scene to shoot was a shot of Tony Blair in his office, surrounded by hate mail. We created this setting with a huge table and a blank wall, whilst covering the table in letters, envelopes and papers. We dressed our actor in a suitable suit and a realistic mask and started filming at different angles with different lighting to show the actor in various ways.
Our second scene was to shoot a dramatic scene of the parents of the child soldiers,where the mum is histerically screaming at the news on the television of tony blair. We found this quite difficult as we were filming two people and had to make sure that we was following all the acting. This scene we used the built in microphone so we could get footage where we could hear what the actors where saying. We took shots of various angles and used close ups/reaction shots of the parents to show their expressions. We also wanted shots of the mum dropping a tea tray in anger, so we had to set the shot up so that when she did drop the tray, the teacups and other props didn't smash on the floor.
Our first scene to shoot was a shot of Tony Blair in his office, surrounded by hate mail. We created this setting with a huge table and a blank wall, whilst covering the table in letters, envelopes and papers. We dressed our actor in a suitable suit and a realistic mask and started filming at different angles with different lighting to show the actor in various ways.
Our second scene was to shoot a dramatic scene of the parents of the child soldiers,where the mum is histerically screaming at the news on the television of tony blair. We found this quite difficult as we were filming two people and had to make sure that we was following all the acting. This scene we used the built in microphone so we could get footage where we could hear what the actors where saying. We took shots of various angles and used close ups/reaction shots of the parents to show their expressions. We also wanted shots of the mum dropping a tea tray in anger, so we had to set the shot up so that when she did drop the tray, the teacups and other props didn't smash on the floor.
Saturday, 6 November 2010
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