CGI

Here are a few shots of us using the green screen production room. From experimenting with the equipment we have a wider range of techniques that can be brought into our music video if we intend on using the green screen software.

We have decided to use the green screen room to create an out of space set for our music video production. It will be present when we have lip synching in the song. The background involves both earth and mars rotating in space to reflect the song's title.

Initial Shot List And Story Board

This is our initial shot list which we first planned. This is a guidline for our project and we know that when filming some of these shots will altered.

For our video, we decided to evaluate which shots we would be filming and what they would include. Due to the nature of our video, we have decided to only plan the opening and closing scenes of our video, this is because we hope that the shots for the surreal elements of the film will come to us whilst we are filming, and not stifle our creativity before we leave to begin filming.

Opening

• Extreme Close up of performers eye (00:00-00:04)
• Slow zoom out to reveal whole room, long shot of performer (00:04-00:10)
• Various Mid-Long shot of other characters dancing (00:10-00:25)
• Slow zoom in to extreme close up of eye, eyes close (00:25-00:38)
• Eyes Open, extreme close up (00:38-00:40)
• POV shot of character examining surroundings (00:40-00:44)
• Establishing shot to show characters location has changed (00:44-00:52)
• Canted angle shots of character exploring (00:52-00:58)
• POV shot of character experiencing surreal imagery. (00:58-01:05)

The middle of our song will consist of abstract shots, strange colours and environments, and our performer will encounter strange situations. We have decided not to make a shot list for this section as we believe we will film better shots if we are unrestricted in our ideas.

Closing

• Low angle wide-shot of character walking up garden path (03:06-03:10)
• POV shot of character walking into same room as start. (03:10-03:14)
• Faded shot of character sat down, clear shot of character "sitting into himself" (03:14-03:20)
• Opens eyes, slow zoom out, establishing room from beginning (03:20-03:28)

Initial Story Board

Here you can see that we have put our ideas onto paper and created a short storyboard using the main shots from our shot list. Again we have left a small part of the middle section out of our planning as we want to be creative and bring more original ideas when filming. This will add to the whole surreal effect. Instead of displaying every picture drawn seperatley, we decided to create an animatic so it doesnt take enough space. In between each image we have added a video transition to make it seem like its a flicker book.

Pre Production Brainstorm

We thought that the best way to express our individual ideas for the music video production would be to make a brain storm. This includes factors such as narrative, costume, locations, genre and props etc. This would help a lot as we can see a variety of ideas to choose from for our final piece. From each category we have chosen one or more ideas to develop so we could think further into that idea.

So far this has helped us a lot as we always look back to our original brainstorm for new ideas when shooting our music video. The locations area was specificly useful to give us new shooting ideas. Also the props and costumes were discussed using this technique, the chosen ideas from these were the tie dye t-shirt and a ninja costume.

About Our Music Video Artists

(Source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prodigy)
The Prodigy are an English electronic dance music group established by Liam Howlett in 1990 in Braintree, Essex. Along with Fatboy Slim, The Chemical Brothers and The Crystal Method, as well as other acts, members of the Prodigy have been credited as pioneers of the big beat genre which achieved mainstream popularity in the 1990s and 2000s. They have sold over 25 million records worldwide.

The group's brand of big beat music makes use of various styles ranging from rave, hardcore techno, industrial and breakbeat in the early 1990s to electronic rock with punk vocal elements in later times. The current band members include Liam Howlett (composer/keyboards), Keith Flint(dancer/vocalist) and Maxim (MC/vocalist). Leeroy Thornhill (dancer/very occasional live keyboards) was a member of the band from 1990 to 2000, as was a female dancer/vocalist called Sharky who left the band during their early period. The Prodigy first emerged on the underground rave scene in the early 1990s, and have since then achieved immense popularity and worldwide renown. Some of their most popular songs include "Charly", "Out of Space", "No Good (Start the Dance)", "Voodoo People", "Poison", "Firestarter", "Breathe", "Smack My Bitch Up", "Omen", and "Warrior's Dance."

The name displayed on album covers changed from "The Prodigy" to "Prodigy" between Music for the Jilted Generation and The Fat of the Land in 1997 and back again with the release of Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned in 2004. However, Howlett has stated that the title has always been "The Prodigy." The change was made only to fit within the displayed logo, according to Howlett.

Keith Charles Flint (born 17 September 1969 in Braintree, Essex, England) is a dancer and vocalist of the English electronic band The Prodigy.

Liam Paris Howlett (born 21 August 1971) a.k.a. "Master H", is a DJ and core member of the English band The Prodigy.

Keith Andrew Palmer (born 21 March 1967, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England), known by his stage name Maxim, is an English singer-songwriter and MC, famous for his work with electronica band The Prodigy.

Leeroy Thornhill (born 8 October 1968, Barking, Greater London) is a British electronic music artist and formerly a dancer and live keyboardist of the British rave act The Prodigy. He has produced solo work under the names Longman and Flightcrank. He was born in Barking but raised in Rayne near Braintree in Essex, and grew up as a football and James Brown fan. Thornhill joined The Prodigy along with Keith Flint after they met Liam Howlett at a local rave club. Both were dancers for the band's live show. Thornhill's height is 6 foot 7 inches (200 cm), a whole foot taller than Flint who is 5 foot 7 inches (170 cm) and his style of dance can be described as a 'technical running on the spot'.

*Leroy is no longer a member of the group, but was an active part when our chosen song was made and released.

Pre-Production Recce

After discussing ideas about possible locations for our music video we have used Google maps to find ideal locations for the ''trip'' phase in our video. As a group we decided we were required to find a locations with a large woodland area and an empty field. Here are some of the possibilities we have chosen, included places such as:

Wythenshawe Park

Sale Water Park

Bruntwood Park

Platt Fields Park

As well as these locations, we have thought hard into the interior production side to our music video. This is when the character will be on the sofa and is about to make the trip into the surreal part. After thinking hard about possibilities for this location we have decided to use one of our friends living room in his house.

Friday 1st October 2010

Today, we made final decisions on the locations we will shoot at and created a shot list for the production side of our project, to guide us in the right direction, while shooting.

The main locations for our filming will take place in Bruntwood Park, Cheadle and our interior scenes will take place inside of a living room, most probably a house close to the park, so we can jump between locations if necessary.

Today, we also completed our Music Video analysis and once we have concrete idea's for the planning and pre-production side of our project, we will be able to shoot our music video.