SHOOT/Call Sheet #4

Looking at the footage of which we captured, we don't have enough of our artist lip singing and other dancers. In order to put this right I have contacted the dancers Haroon, Nawid and Derryl (who isn't coming) to let me know when they're free so we can finally shoot everything we need.







Director/Costumes: Layla El-Alami
Contact number: 07961118798
Email: layla.el7@hotmail.com

Producer: Layla El-Alami

Location: Media Suit
Unit call: 10.30am- 9th December 2010
On location: 11.00pm- 9th December 2010Set: White backdrop
Camerman: Haroon Ahmed/Layla El-Alami

Editor: Nawid Obaydi

Makeup Artist: Layla El-Alami
Artist: Princess Landa, performed by Simone

Dancers:

Jigar

Paige

Chris
Kiana

Transport: Walkin/Bus if necessary

3.30pm Call

3.55pm Meet in the Media Suit

Load Equipment/Set

Location Contact: TJ, Lory, Dan
4.00pm Unload Equipment

Set and Light4:05pm Hair and Makeup for artist
Hair and Makeup for Dancers

Rehearse AND Shoot
EVALUTING 4TH SHOOT:

Finally, we've captured all the footage we need. I've called a group meeting to meet at the media editing suits at 15:30 after college in order to look over it and to log and capture parts we would want to keep in our video.

7:00pm Pack up and return all equipment

3RD SHOOT

Thankfully, the second shoot went successfully! Due to our determination and organisation, we were able to get all we needed to do done (realising our mistakes from our previous shoot). We arrived prompty at the Media Suit by 12.00pm, however it did take rather long to set up. Derryal (producer) had to be at a meeting, Nawid (editor) had only one hour to spend and Haroon (cameraman) wasn't going to come until 13:00 (one hour after). It was up to me to keep everyone energetic (specifically the dancers), adjust the lights so that there was minimal shadow in the white back drop. This was finally achieved by using two filler lights.

Call Sheet #3

Director/Costumes: Layla El-Alami
Contact number: 0796118798
Email: layla.el7@hotmail.com

Producer: Derryl Swaby

Location: Media Suit
Unit call: 11.45am
On location: 12:00pm
Set: Black screen
Camerman: Haroon Ahmed

Editor: Nawid Obaydi

Makeup Artist: Layla El-Alami


Artist: Princess Landa, performed by Simone

Dancers:

Simone

Chris
Paige

Kiana

Transport: Walkin/Bus if necessary

11.30am Call

12.00pm Meet in the Media Suit

Load Equipment/Set

Location Contact: TJ, Dave, Dan12.05pm Unload Equipment

Set and Light

12.10pm Hair and Makeup for artist

Hair and Makeup for Dancers

Rehearse AND Shoot

1.50pm Pack up and return all equipment

Evaluation of 1st and 2nd Shoot

Looking back no the tapes, we have A LOT of work to do. The dancers where not in frame, the ligthing was too bright, our location had unwanted objects (radiator covers) which would make it almost impossible to edit out. Due to this, we had to rescheduale another shoot. We've may have lost a lot of time, however, we are now more prepared and organised and understand what to do straight away.

SPECIFIC FAULTS:

I found that using three cameras wasn't as effective nor efficient as using one or two. We should run through it a good 3 times and we (cameraman) needs to have one/two cameras - one close up and one in mid long shot in order to get the subject in the correct frame. I'll also be keeping an eye on the cameras (going behind them to look at the screens) to check if the dancers are in frame.

The dancers were lit too bright, almost distorting their faces. As we will now be in the green room (with a black backdrop), we need filler lights to get rid of any shadow and we should adjust the main lights that would give a good contrast.

Green Room

We've now found an all new 'Princess Landa', because the girl who was suppose to mime has collapsed a couple of days ago. I've found another potentially good dancer who has very kindly agreed to be our artist for the shoot.

HOW OUR SET LOOKED

GREEN SCREEN:
In order for the green sheet to stay in its place, we used little chair desks to secure the corners (so it wouldn't roll back up).

 

 

CAMERAS:

We used three cameras for the shoot, two on tripods (Haroon & Derryal) and the hand held camera was held by me, simply because I have the most steady hands in the group.

 

LIGHTS:

We used filler light to lighten up the green screen as it reduces the amount of shadow. We found that these lights gave a glowing effect on both the left and right side which needed to be reduced. We came up with the idea of covering them with something quit transparent, so there was no too much but not too little ligght coming through.

Shot Types/Camera movement

Main shots that we will use for our video/why:

1) Close ups: Face to reveal detail in expression (use to cut in). Also close up would be used to enhance body movement (possibly sexual parts to reinforce the sexual side of the dancehall genre)

2) Mid close-ups:  This would be done by showing the subjects waist and above (shoulders, neck and face). This would be used in various parts in the video revealing costume as well as face

3)Mid shots:   This would be used not to convey a message in the video, but simply because the media suit is  too small to be taking long and mid long shots (because the back drop would be out of
                       frame).

Things I shall inform our cameraman (and myself)

Beware of Using Excessive Zoom:
It might look good whilst shooting and using a lot of zooms, however in the final edit zooming often looks cliche, and unless the footage is shot with a steady hand (or a tripod) it may look amateurish.

The use of different angles and perspectives:
This will be effective for our fairly fast paced video as straight cuts from different angles will make sections more exciting and up tempo.

Location

DRAMA HALL/BEACHIn the drama hall, I intended to have a 'try out' shoot, for example have one or two of the dancers dancing, and seeing if the black curtains are easy to edit. There's also alot more space in this locations as dancers need as much room as possible.  Another reason as to why I've chosen to shoot it in the hall, was because there's a lot of different/effective lights which will lighten the subject well enough without creating shadow.

For precautionary reasons, I've alsochosen to shoot in the Media suit, where we can use green screen

.MEDIA SUIT/GREEN SCREEN

Green screen became the favourite in the video world because digital retained more detail in the green colour channel. It also requires less light (than blue screen which is mainly used for films). In the pass decade the use of green has become more dominant in the use of special effects.

Why use green screen?

The reason as to why green screen is so popular (especially now with new developing technology) is because the location/setting is changeable through the use of digital software.

(Picture taken from musicsmartstudio.com)

Hair/Costume/Choreography

I've contacted all the dancers, given them the song and asked them to come up with routines/dance moves to do on the shoot. A majority of the dancers take a Performing Arts course, which is an advantage to both them and us, as participating in other dance related activities, their overall grade moves up.

Whilst looking at various reggae/dancehall and hip-hop videos, I've analysed their hair styles, makeup and costume. The majority of these videos have women dressed sexually, for example, short, tight revealing clothing. This mainly due to the fact that the media industry is dominated by males, hence why most of the time the media portrays women as sexual objects. 98% of reggae/dancehall music videos reinforce the idea that women should be seductive and are portrayed as sexual objects to men.


For our video, I asked 100 people (50 females and 50 males from the ages; 16-25) :

'IF YOU WERE TO WATCH A NEW REGGAE/DANCEHALL MUSIC VIDEO SUNG BY A FEMALE ARTIST, WOULD YOU PREFER OR NOT TO WATCH WOMEN EXPRESSED (THROUGH CLOTHING & DANCE) SEXUALLY?'

Likely: 54%
Unlikely: 46%

Now I asked the same people a slightly different question:

'IF THE MUSIC VIDEO CONTAINED VERY TALENTED WOMEN EXPRESSING EMOTIONS THROUGH DANCE, HOW LIKELY OR UNLIKELY WOULD IT BE FOR YOU TO WATCH IT?'

Likely: 89%
Unlikely: 11%

I asked one more question in order to decide on how the dancers would dance and what they would wear:

'WOULD YOU PREFER FOR FEMALES IN A MUSIC VIDEO?'

Less Clothing: 22%
Not too less but not too much clothing: 58%
Completely covered: 10%


PRINCESS LANDA REPLACEMENT/DANCER: SIMONE

MAKEUP: Suttle, as she is wearing glasses (covers her eyes).
COSTUME: Shorts, rolled up tank top to reinforce the modern 'ghetto' look which correlates to the song.
JEWELRY: Colourful chain and big silver earrings to represent the dancehall/urban fashion.

FEMALE DANCERS COSTUME:
1) White tank top, black leggins (easier to move in and defines body movements).
2) Fitted/short-ish dresses to enhance curves and movement
3) Heels to enhance the length of legs

Preferably in black and white as the video will be in black and white

MALE DANCERS COSTUME:
1) Baggy t-shirts to enhance movements
2)Jewlery: Necklaces/chains etc to juxtapose the song's lyrics


DANCER 2: KIANA




DANCER 3: CHRIS




DANCER 4: PAIGE


DANCER 5: KAI



Having past experience in the dance industry, I told/choreographed 3 of the dancers and our artist (Simone) to do the same specific move - but filmed individually. I can then edit them down to very quick straight cuts in order to really enhance the hype of the beat. It would aslo be the signiture move of the video.

Call Sheet #2

Unfortunately, due to our artists' busy schedule (work etc), she was unable to attend to the 1st rehearsal. We then had no choice but to find someone who could be our 'Princess Landa' as we were pushing for time. Luckily, one of the girls' who was originally a dancer in our video, agreed to step in and take the role of the artist.

Director/Costumes: Layla El-Alami
Contact number: 0796118798
Email: layla.el7@hotmail.com

Producer: Derryl Swaby

Loaction: Drama Hall (Beach)
Unit call: 3.30pm
On location: 4:00pm
Set: Green Screen in order for it to be edited afterwards


Camerman: Haroon Ahmed

Editor: Nawid Obaydi

Makeup Artist: Tanika Fearon

Artist: Princess Landa, performed by Belle


Dancers:

Simone

Yannik O'Holi

Zarah

Chris
Kiana

Transport: Walkin/Bus if necessary

03:00pm Call

04:00pm Meet in the Media Suit

Load Equipment/Set

Location Contact: Leanne (head of the arts)

04:15pm Unload Equipment

Set and Light

09:50am Hair and Makeup for artist

Hair and Makeup for Dancers

Rehearse AND Shoot

6:45am Pack up and return all equipment

Risk Assesment

Production/Person(s) involved: Music Video/Layla, Derryl, Nawid, Haroon, Artist, Dancers, Makeup Artist

 

Shoot Date(s): Friday 5th November
                       Wednesday 10th November

 

NATURE OF HAZARD:          PREVENTIVE MEASURES:         IF OCCURS:
Loose wires                           Tape all wires on the ground  -               Tape all wires               
Spillage of food/drink             No food or drink in the set   -                 Remove all food/drink from premises
Cameras falling/dropping        Secure ALL camera before shoot-         secure every camera/tripods
Lights being too bright            Make sure no one looks directly -          dim lights
                                              into them