Organisation and explanation of cast, props and locations

This Friday we will go down to RAF Upwood and film the smashing sections of our music video, as all the cast have a day off from school that day. We will take two cars with the cast in, and will take all the props needed including costumes, bat, masks, and use the storyboard and shotlist to film the end of the video while we have everyone together. When getting to the location there should be no one there, but incase there is, we will ask the farmer permission to film. Everyone is bringing their own costume and I will bring the masks, and after shooting we will arrange the next time people can go down and film.

Risk assessment

• camera must be held out the window of car while filming the middle of the road - have to hold the camera very safely and get the minimum amount of film that we can in order to protect the schools resources.


• must use the bat appropriately for the film - when we started filming someone swung the bat around and broke it on a wall, so from then on we had to use a metal pole for the main character to carry around, this being more dangerous than a bat. I used the pole safely to make sure no one got hurt.


• when smashing things such as the TV and clock the camera man and person smashing the item have to be careful. We are lucky because the characters wear masks and hoods so are protected of a sort, but whoever is filming will also have to cover up, and stay as far away from the item being broke as possible.


• where we are filming is an abandoned RAF base, and the village is smashed up and wrecked already, giving us a perfect setting to smash our items up. Once the items are broke we need to clean it up and throw the TV and clock in the skip. We have to be careful were we stand as there is smashed glass all over the floor and rooms burnt out, but we can all wear thick shoes and big coats to protect ourselves.


• the masks themselves will restrict our vision, so we have to be careful when running and especially smahsing things. In some clips, where our backs are turned to the camera, we could not wear the masks as long as no one turns around.
  
  

Location and shot list

Below is the location and shot list I wrote up after visiting RAF Upwood on a location scout:

We will take these when we go to film as a reference to where we need to shoot, and will speed up the whole filming process hopefully.

New storyboard

With our new idea and location for our music video we needed a new storyboard. We wanted to get across the threat and danger of these people with masks on that are 'Frauds' and build tension that they could be capable of anything, before finally showing them losing the masks to return to normal everyday life. The storyboard took a couple of drafts as ideas for different angles kept coming into our heads, but I finally drew up this one which we will follow when filming:

A change of direction and another location scout

Looking back over the last section of filming we did, we decided that the typical chase through school corridors was too predictable, so we have decided to make a new video somewhere unique in an abandoned RAF village called Upwood. Our new ideas came to us on this first location scout to RAF Upwood. We decided to keep the masks and Frauds concept, just continuing the story we made in our first filming session in a new place that would be more interesting for the audience and examiner.

This one of the bigger manor houses in RAF Upwood. The deserted houses were all used for something when the RAF were there, and I am guessing this one was used for people to live in, due to the many rooms, kitchen and dining areas. The houses all look posh, perfect for the scenes where we are then smashing them up; and some don't look deserted when just walking past them, adding to the effect of us breaking things in them.

Inside the houses are burnt and already destroyed, with rubble on the floors and graffiti on the walls. As you can see the corridors are quite dark, so filming in them will be difficult to get clear shots. We could use the light through windows, or perhaps film from the outside - in. The masks will restrict our view too, so we will have to be careful and plan a safe route through the path we will go on.





I think a shot walking up to the houses would look good as you can really see how derelict and dangerous this area is. An over the shoulder shot would look very effective, or a shot like this photo, and I think we will not use an establishing or long shot in order keep the mystery about this place to the audience.




This is another corridor shot, but this room had a lot more natural light coming in through broken windows. These corridors are very narrow, this presenting even more problems for filming, as we may have to use more over the shoulder shots and close ups, however this would not keep the audience entertained so we will have to find ways of getting other shots.





Larger rooms like this are a lot easier to film in, as there are no restrictions to where or what we can do. People have already smashed everything up in these larger rooms, so will look already destroyed in the video. Natural light will again some through these windows, and creates a natural setting for a shot.





This is one of the bathrooms near the cafeteria area. The tiles are smashed and laid all over the floor, and the ceiling is decrepid and falling down. Although the lighting and mise en scene in this room is perfect, the graffiti is offensive, therefore we must be careful when filming that offensive language is not in the back, as music videos do not have this.