Monday 18th October

Today we did some more filming of the love connotations. We bought some fairy cakes and spelt love across them, with one letter on each cake. We spelt it with the pink icing.

We also made a paper chain couple and drew faces and hearts on them with pen and icing, then took shots for the purpose of match cuts. We then uploaded all of the pictures and started to edit them using photoshop.

we also discussed a schedule for during the half term holidays, as we plan to get the majority of our filming completed ready for editing when we come back.

Filming

Monday 11th October:

Today we started filming some stop-motion effects. We bought some love heart sweets to write the lyrics of the song with. We also made a love heart shape with them and made the heart break into two. We also uploaded the animatic story board onto the blog.

Thursday 14th October:

Today we did some more stop-motion filming of more lyrics from the song we decided we wanted to use. We also wrote out the sentence "and the love kickstarts again..." onto paper and took pictures letter by letter. W e also continued to film with the love heart sweets, focusing on the words on the sweets for example "love bug" and "i love you", we made these spin and move across the camera. Later we can edit the footage and make them move across the screen using stop motion.

Animatic Storyboard

Original Filming Locations

These are some shots of our Manchester location where we will be filming some of the narrative couple scenes, and some of the love connotation scenes. These include Picadilly Gardens, the Northern Quarter and the steps outside the M.E.N Arena.

Shot List from the first sequence

1. Male walking along the street- long shot from the front
2. Match cut to the female walking along another street- long shot from the front
3. Cut to the male reversing- long shot from the side
4. Sequence of 3 flashbacks:

• Couple sat on a sofa- medium shot
• Couple eating a meal-wide shot
• Couple walking holding hands- medium shot
• Couples hands-close up

5. Cuts to the males face, fast forward the zoom out of his face - into a long shot

6. Couple walk onto camera from opposite sides- two shot

7. Cuts to the close up of the males face, which then does 180 degree pan to the back of his head- close up (180 degree pan)

8. Match cuts to the back of the females head and does another 180 degree pan to the front

of her face- close up (180 degree pan)

Initial Ideas

Love Connotation Ideas

• Heart Balloons (drifting away)
• Heart cakes (being eaten away-stop motion)
• Paper hearts in a sink (going down the plug hole-fast forwarded and reversed)
• Heart shape hand gestures (transition)
• Haribo Hearts (stop motion )
• Roses
• Love hearts
• Confetti
• Heart on a mug
• Heart in the pupil
• Make hearts out of food
• Hearts on bricks
• Shadow hearts
• Draw a heart on a condensed window
• Peg up hearts
• Heart on the sole of the trainers when they walk
• Heart cushions
• Paper chain men/hearts- (match cut to people)
• Heart stickers
• Peg heart t shirts on a washing line
• Spell love in clothes on a washing line
• Peg up paper words which spell LOVE
• Lie on the floor spelling love
• Piccadilly fountains (hearts instead of water)

Narrative/performance ideas

• Male performer walking through town
• Female performer walking through town
• They are walking to meet each other
• Male gets rewound and enters a flash back from a good time in their relationship
• He then gets fast forwarded back onto the street
• Camera revolves around the two peoples heads
• Camera zooms into the girls eyes from males point of view and she blinks in time for the chorus

Estimated time of completion

Recording Days

We intend on spending 4 weeks filming, roughly 7 hours a week.

We will spend the rest of our time editing and completing the CD Cover and Poster, which will be about 4 weeks which will take us up to our deadline in December.

Thursday 14th October:

Duration- 2 hours

Content- filming some of the love connotation scenes, including the shots of the love heart sweets to edit in stop motion later.

Music Video Analysis

Music Video Analysis –

The Ting Tings – ‘ shut up and let me go’

Technical aspects of the video

There are a variety of different shots used in the video but the main shots that are used are close ups to show the performers singing or medium shots to show the performance aspect of the video. There are low camera angle shots used to show the performance aspect of the video as he is on the floor, but also there is high camera angles used to show the fighting performance that takes place in the video. The most effective camera movement that is used is the transition in and out of the hands, this is very effective as the hands lead onto a different variety of shots.

The editing of the video is very effective as match cuts are used to get the effect of the transition of the hands into various shots. The background of the set has been edited, possibly green screen has been used, to move to the beat. Colour filters have also been used to give shots different effects to them. Lip-synching has been used as there are performance aspects in the video.

The costume used in the video is very casual, it reflects the music style which is pop/indie music. The location of the video is set in a studio, green screen has possibly been used to create the movement in the background. There is performance used in the video and this is a fighting scene that fits with the lyrics of the song, “shut up and let me go…”. The performance flows with the beat of the music and doesn’t look out of place. Bright white lights from above light the set to give a clear and bright set which is visually exciting.

Narrative/Genre aspects

This song and music video is typical of an alternative pop song because it consists of an uncontrolled dance-orientated beat. The video shows an indie pop duo (singer and drummer), which is part of the performance. It is an illustrative narrative because the footage helps tell the story of the song of the couple fighting. The song also involves disjuncture when the performers create different shapes, using hand gestures, which then transition from scene to scene. The video switches between performance and narrative. We see Katie (singer) lip syncing all the way through and also a drum in the background, which carries the main beat. The balance of the narrative and performance is consistently equal throughout the video as she lip syncs during the narrative.

Overall we think that the most effective technical aspect of the video is the transition of the hand gestures from one scene to another. We want to incorporate this in our video but instead of random shapes we will use hearts to continue our theme of love.