Production Diaries 1

This is the production diary of our first video.

Audition Process

Casting Cancellation and Cast Replacement

Contingency Plan

Crew Not Showing Up/Being Late
Because we are the crew, one member's role may alternate on the day if one member of the crew is unable to or simply doesn't show up.

Location Becoming Unavailable: Too Noisy/Too Crowded/Closed-Off
Because our location choices are quite generic and can be shot at various different locations, for instance, if we are unable to film at Clapham Junction Tube Station, we can film at another tube station or film at Clapham at a less busier time.

Camera Battery Running Out
We will always carry at least one spare and full battery pack on our person, so if one battery does finish, we always have one in reserve.

Lip Sync Practice

As a class we were asked in our groups to do lip syncing practice in preparation of our music video. We all had to do a lip sync of a verse from Carly Ray Jepsen's Call Me Maybe :s

Here's the verse from the video we used to lip sync:

Hope you enjoy!

The reason why we did a lip sync, because it was practice to help us with our music video - the performance element of the video (Brandon rapping) would be synchronous with the performer rapping and therefore gives the appearance of verisimilitude. Also, lip syncing the whole song gave us more coverage, in case we decided to divert from the structure of our storyboard and experiment or if there are errors that could not be used in the final video, it would ensure that we have enough coverage to protect our product.

Location Recce

Location Recce 1

Location Recce 2

Location Recce 3

Location Recce 4

Props List

Props List Template

Crew Requirements

Crew Requirements

Equipment List

Equipment List

Production Calendar

Costume List

A costume list of all primary and secondary characters

Costume List

Costume list

Costume List

Costume List

Treatment

He's Coming Home Treatment

Animatic

Storyboard

This is our final storyboard, we are extremely happy as we feel it goes through step-by-step in intricate detail the main shots we want to include in our video, bar the shot of A taking the acid tab. Upon reflection and advice, we have decided overt drug-use may glamourise drug abuse and such approbation does not reflect our standpoint on the issue, nor our schools. We feel it would be best for us to implicitly communicate A's potential drug use.