FMP - More Location Scouting and Legal Cover

Whilst the majority of the locations have been sorted, we are still lacking; The studio location, the Bedroom and the Apartment. I suggested to Kiran that we could use my flat for the scene with Gareth and his mates after the break up and that I could speak to my mate who's got a flat down at Clarence Dock for the ex-girlfriends bedroom scene. The studio shot will have to be organised by Gareth and Kiran however, as wouldn't know where to start. Above is a picture of my lounge to be used as one of the locations.

Unfortunately my public liability cover only goes as far as use with audio work in Clubs/Venues, we are covered at D-Fusion but not for the other scenes. To cover ourselves against any legal claims I suggested the only thing we can do is write disclaimers and make sure every one on shoot signs them. To ease the worries about having no insurance for the kit Kiran has managed to arrange the hire of a private security firm, from one of her many contacts, she offered to pay them £300 for giving their help, however since we don't have a budget I said, "tell them we will design them a logo or make a moving image advert instead because we can't afford to be spending money like that." She did and apparently they are happy with a logo design.

FMP - Location Scouting

Kiran has been working hard, attempting to organise people for this Stay Focus music video. It's not entirely clear to me just how much progress has been made however I do know her and Gareth (the directors and producers) have developed a script. The idea is to involve a bit of narrative, this consists of; Gareth and his girl going through a rough patch, girl sees Gareth flirting with another girl, some confrontation occurs then the lyrics drop in simultaneously with Zaadil singing on the streets. The rapping and singing will be filmed both in the photographic lighting studio at college and on the streets, this will constantly cut in and out of the narrative. The next scenes will be Gareth writing in his studio, whilst his ex-girl is reminiscing on the good times they had together, with flashbacks of them when they were on better terms. At the end of the video Gareth and Zaadil will be doing there thing on stage at a club, Gareth's ex-girl will see him and fall for him again.

We needed to determine the locations that these scenes could be shot at, the lighting studio is sorted and booked for Friday 24th of April. The other locations secured today are; The park, which will be used for the flashback scenes, the scene with the confrontation between Gareth, his ex-girl and the flirt will be shot at Clarence Dock (dates tbc.) The club scene which will be shot at D-Fusion club on New Briggate, scheduled for Tuesday the 21st of April. As we were speaking to the manager of D-Fusion he showed great interest in our work, requesting we do a short promotional video for his club, so we managed to pick up some extra work that will become part of our FMP seen as one music video is not a sufficient amount of work between two people for FMP (information on this can be found on my previous blog post.)






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FMP - Location Scouting Leads to Extra Work

Kiran had previously been in touch with the owner of D-Fusion, however we went to confirm dates and times with him today. After securing this location with Ceaser, (the manager of D-Fusion) showed a real interest in Kiran and I producing a short promotional video for him. As we are currently looking for some extra work for the Final Major Project this is an oppurtunity we can not refuse. This will involve filming the functions at D-Fusion on the odd Friday and Saturday night, I have also offered to do a motion graphics to go at the end of the video promotion. We havn't managed to secure any payment as of yet, howver seen as we are paying £75 for four hours hire of his premises, the aim is to come to some sort of arrangement so we do not have to pay for this.

FMP - Do we ned all that Kit?

Personally I am a bit apprehensive about the need for so many cameras. Whilst Kiran and I will be doing the majority of the filming throughout the shoots, we will have help from Kirans friend who works at ITV. Zaadil (one of the producers) has studied a film course at Bradford college and is prepared to film the shots which he isn't in. Having said that I can't see four cameras being in use at any one time, furthermore as the kit can not be insured it would be more sensible to limit kit down to what is absolutely necessary. I have already told Kiran that I am not prepared to sign out a HDV Camera that I am not in charge of. 

FMP - Shot List - Dates, locations, scenes and required kit

APRIL 13th 2009 MONDAY:

EXT: CLARENCE DOCKS: 4pm – 8pm
Scene 1, 2 & 3
Kit required: 4 CAMERAS
1 TRIPOD
TRACK & DOLLY 

APRIL 14TH 2009 TUESDAY:
EXT CLARENCE DOCK & RED BRIDGE: 4pm – 8 pm
Scene 7, 8 & 9
Kit Required: 4 CAMERAS
1 TRIPOD
TRACK & DOLLY


APRIL 15TH 2009 WEDNESDAY: 4pm – 8pm
INT: DAY STUDIO & KIDS IN PARK
Scene 4 & INRODUCTION
Kit required: 4 CAMERAS
1 TRIPOD
3 TUNGSTUNG LIGHTS
TRACK & DOLLY

APRIL 16TH 2009 THURSDAY: 4pm – 8pm
INT: BEDROOM GIRL
Scene 5 &10
Kit required 4 CAMERAS
1 TRIPOD
3 TUNGSTUNG LIGHTS
TRACK & DOLLY

ARPIL 17TH FRIDAY: 4pm – 8pm
INT G’S LIVING ROOM
Scene: 6
Kit required 4 CAMERAS
1 TRIPOD
2 TUNGSTUNG LIGHTS
TRACK & DOLLY

APRIL 21st TUESDAY: 5PM – 10PM
INT D FUSION CLUB
Scene 12, 13, &14
Kit required 4 CAMERAS
1 TRIPOD
3 TUNGSTUNG LIGHTS
TRACK & DOLLY

APRIL 22ND WEDNESDAY: (7AM – 8.30AM FOR CAR)
INT CAR INTRODUCTION @ WALL IN HYDE PARK WITH JAG
Kit required 3 CAMERAS
1 TRIPOD


APRIL 24TH FRIDAY: 9AM – 4PM
Scene 15 CUT INS
INT STUDIO ART & DESIGN
Scene: GREEN SCREEN FOR MORPH AND G AND CREW DANCERS

Kit required 4 CAMERAS
1 TRIPOD
2 TUNGSTUNG LIGHTS
TRACK & DOLLY

FMP - Synopsis

G & Girlfriend sat on bench in park G is on the phone Girl is distant G is chatting away on phone.

Girlfriend has had enough she gets up and walks away G notices her and rushes after her still on his phone

EST car they are arguing in car she wants to spend more time with him he tries to explain then his phone rings it’s a text she insists on Knowing who it is G has a flash back

Younger G and Younger girlfriend are playing as kids laughing and joking on the same bench whilst other kids are playing in the back ground

Flashes back to car Girlfriend slams door of car and G is frowning thinking if only they could be like they where back when they where younger


Group of men laughing joking around one lone girl is flirting with G.

G’s Girlfriend walking and see’s her fella being rather close to another women. She confronts G.

Girl looks disappointed walks off; G looks gutted its over.

G ISSOLATED head down writing his lyrics he can’t focus and looks at his phone several times longing to call his Ex. Crew in back ground

Girl is sobbing, looking at past photos she looks into the mirror and wipes away her tears, she’s lost in thought walks to the window.

G & Guys are all drinking laughing, like nothing has happened typical male testosterone.

Group of girls including Ex walking through
With shopping bags after retail therapy laughing and joking with other girls They see G walking towards them

G gets close enough to hand the bunch of girls a CD they don’t want it at first but eventual take it, his Ex just blanks him, one o f the girlfriends slips the CD into her handbag without her knowing it.

G looking over the bridge thinking speedo as conscious reveal first time

Ex girlfriend puts CD on, she finds in her bag getting ready to go out dancing in room

G and crew playing to a packed out nightclub

Ex Girlfriend walks into club and see’s G and crew

Girl see’s G and dance’s towards crowd

G see’s Ex Girlfriend and she gets closer to him on stage they hold hands

Written by K. Kaur

FMP - Brief Proposal - Stay Focus Music Video

I first came across this brief back in February when I was in the studio working on my PPD. I overheard Kiran talking with about to visual represent a song they must have played back atleast 10 times. I decided they must be working on music video so I started coversation to see what it was all about. Gareth introduced himself as weeksie, the main voice behind a group called Stay Focus, the tune was well produced and the group well established with music videos already aired on Channel U.

I was interested in getting involved with this project straight away as I my main interest when I started this course was to get a job in the music video industry after graduating. So I offered my skills to Kiran and Gareth suggesting myself to edit and help out with shooting the video if needed. Kiran said she knew a guy called John who worked ITV that would do the editing for her but she was in need of an extra camera man.

This was never intended to be my Final Major Project proposal because to me it was just going to a bit of part time filming, however a few weeks later Kiran asked me if I would like to edit this video. As my role changed to a much more influential part in the finished piece I decided to propose this idea to the three tutors. I got a resounding response, basically saying that's good but not enough work for two people for a Final Major Project. I will keep you posted about more work as it comes my way.

D&ad; Sound editing

To get rid of the white noise and reduce the whistle I needed to reduce the frequencies where this whistle occurs then replacing them with another effects equalizer. I also put a voiceover voice enhancer effect to increase the depth of the sample.

D&ad; Sound editing

I then cut the sample to make the audio fit better and automated it with the volume setting. As the sample got louder and quieter this automating was needed to allow a constant volume. After this I began to edit the music samples in a similar fashion, this time to ensure the music wasn't interfering with the voice over.

D&ad; Sound editing

When I first recieved the narrative sample, I was a little confused as to what I could do to resurect it. It was incredibly quiet with an echo and an extremely high pitch whistle over nearly every 's' word. I started by taking it into soundtrack pro to boost the volume intialy as logic struggled to increase the volume without loosing quality. As the sample had a lot of high end feedback I decided to only increase the low to mid frequencies. This enabled the production of a sound that was editable in logic pro.

D&ad; Development, Finishing touches

Finally I modeled a simple lamppost to give a bit more detail to my cityscape, I simply copied this into my cityscape and duplicated it. I set up a simple camera path and rendered the animation in a tiff image sequence.

D&ad; Development, assigning road and pavement textures in Maya

Create a poly plane and assign a lambert shader to it, plug in the road texture made in Photoshop to the color selection of the shader window. This should apply the texture to the poly plane, repeat this process but with poly cubes for the pavement then duplicate. This is the result I got in my render view.

D&ad; Development, pavement texture

First make a UV snapshot of the material you want to assign your texture to, open in Photoshop. Using the same process as before, this time find a lighter texture. I applied a grey layer to the edge of the texture to give a curb effect.

D&ad; Development, creating a road texture

First of all find yourself a nice asphalt texture, open in Photoshop and add your road markings by using the marquee tool and fill white lines for the centre of the road with two thinner parallel yellow ones at each side. Create curved yellow marks for the edge where this road will join another. Duplicate to make a full road network not forgetting to create an alpha channel to make sure the invisible bits won't be seen when assigned to a material in maya.