Production Journal 13

During the holidays we scheduled to do the last part of filming of our music video with the dancers. Unfortunately we found out that one of the dancers was going on holiday so she couldn't join us on the day we were filming.
On the day we wanted to film which was Monday 18th December the weather became a disruption as it started raining and it became really windy. We decided to wait for the rain to stop but the dancers had places to be so we rescheduled. On the day we rescheduled on it also rained so we decided to postpone it till the next week when every dancer wasn't busy.

We filmed most of the dancers on thursday 29th of December but, one of the dancers did not show up and he wasn't taking part properly when we filmed the other scenes so we decide to stop using him in our music video and make do with the dancers and footage we already had because he didn't have time to give up to film with us.
Apart from the weather we also had an issue with the battery running out so we couldn't use the flip camera and we had to use a digital camera instead but, the quality of the video was really good with the camera.
Apart from that and the weather we didn't come across any other difficulties and next time we have to remember to take some spare batteries when we go out filming.

Production Journal 12

We filmed the club scene with all our dancers in our music video. I was in charge of filming as my partner was in charge of directing again because it is more efficient as I know how to handle the filming equipment. We filmed this scene at school in a drama room because the room was dark and it had lighting that we could alter for a club scene. We gave the dancers and the 'club goers' glow sticks so that it fit in with our genre. This was the hardest scene to get to perfection because there was so many people in the room and they didn't always listen to our instructions so it got a bit rowdy at times. Another reason why it was hard to film was the fact that as it is a naturally dark room finding angles that had light was hard at times.

The room was quite small but we had to get everyone in the shot so it actually looks like a club rather than a couple of people dancing aimlessly.
In the end we got some good footage so that is what matters the most.

Production Journal 11

Today we filmed the rest of Priscilla's scene which included walking to church and seeing the DJ DELIRIOUS logos. This part of the video was filmed by me while the other member directed Priscilla on what to do. This part was really easy but we had to film from various places.
The only obstacle we faced was the wind blowing all the logos every time we stuck it somewhere. Apart from that filming on saturday went well.

Production Journal 10

We filmed Priscilla's first dancing scene inside the church. While filming, we came to the realization that the Pastor who we thought we were going to use wasn't able to be filmed.
Initially we had planned on our Pastor being someone else but due to a misunderstanding we had to settle for the Pastor we did film, either way, it is what we wanted, just not who we thought it would be. My partner took the reins o filming this time round as she hasn't done much filming beforehand. Even though there was supposed to be extras in this scene, they didn't know it until we came, but thankfully they went with the flow and we were able to film smoothly.

Production Journal 9

Myself and my partner filmed Paula's dance scene in the dance studio in our school. It went really well as we knew what we wanted and once the dancers were instructed, they did exactly as they were told. They knew in advance as their dance teacher had told them. We filmed Paula dancing in the dance studio with the other dancers. From fliming Lawrence's scene, we knew to film from different angles, which we applied when filming Paula's scene.

After having filmed Paula in the dance studio, we then filmed her walking down Lodge Hill seeing DJ DELIRIOUS logos as she was on her journey. Apart from passer bys, cars and buses constantly driving past and making noise, filming went really well. One thing that might pose as a problem later is that it was quite dark while Paula was walking down the hill, hopefully, we will be able to brighten it up.

Production Journal 8

We filmed the first part of Lawrence's scene. My partner wasn't there at the beginning as she has a lesson that she had to attend. The classroom I/we filmed wasn't very big , but had many tables, so we were pressed for space which made it hard to film from different angles as we couldn't always move the tripod around.
We had to make sure that we filmed from various angles so that we had a variety of clips, but had to take care so that they didn't look too different.
We were assisted by our media technician and he gave us advice on how to control our set while filming. We learnt to direct our dancers and tell them exactly what we wanted and how we wanted it-without being bossy or controlling of course.

Production Journal 7

Monday 28th November, we were meant to film a dance scene with one of our dancers but due to unforeseen circumstances such as the dancer feeling ill and was too tired to do anything, we cancelled filming today. As this is the second time we have had to reschedule this dancer's scene, me and my partner Banke Adebola have decided to use somebody else for that scene and replace him. We have done a new schedule for all the filming and editing we will be doing over the next couple of weeks.

Production Journal 6

Today we pitched our entire music video concept to our whole class and our Media Studies teacher. The pitch included details about our band/artist, including which record label we'll be signed to, what our ideology is and who our target audience is. A synopsis of the video, including details of performance and/or narrative elements, location shots and any costume images. Our animatic. An explanation of how we have used Goodwin's elements within the video. Lastly an explanation of why we have decided on this concept and how it will appeal to the target audience and 'fit' into the music industry.

Overall the pitch went quite well and the only criticism we got from our teacher was that our target audience was too high because originally our target audience was ages 14-30 but we had to reduce it to ages 14-25. The people in our class generally had good things to say about it and they concluded that we were ready for filming.

Production Journal 5

We have begun our animatic of our storyboard and have started to upload it on IMOVIE. We imported the pictures we storyboarded into IMOVIE to begin with. We had to shorten the length of how long each shot will appear as the music video would be way to long if we didn't. Instead of using a camera to take the pictures of our story board, we decided it would be best to use a different strategy because using the camera made it blurry,unlike our new strategy.

Production Journal 4

We went to take pictures of the locations we will be filming at. We went to the secret dance location first, as that is where the dancers will be at the end of the music video. As the establishment belongs to someone else, we had to get permission from the staff to make sure we can film when we are ready as it wouldn't be very good if we were to turn up and start filming to have them tell us that we can't. Lighting is a big issue and we must ensure that whenever we are filming we have the correct lighting to ensure that it isn't too dark.

As we will be filming in the dance studio of our school, we went to take pictures of the dance studio where we will be filming one of our dancers. Just like with the previous location, we had to get permission before we start filming. Our reason for doing it here is because we will show the chosen dancer approching a dance establishment and the cut do the dance studio in our school because it has the right layout.

We will be filming in both our churches so we needed to get permission from both our pastors and we will attain a letter of them allowing us to film there. There is a possibility that youths of the church will be filmed too which is not a problem. There were no other problems which made it easy for us to get the RECCE evidence. Once we have finished our animatic, we will be ready to start shooting our music video.

Production Journal 3

We started to write a shot by shot in the sequence of how we want our music video to be. The purpose of writing a shot by shot was to then draw it on our storyboard to avoid imperfections. We had some difficulties in doing this task as neither myself or my partner are artistic, therefore, we struggled with the drawing part.

Due to our inability to draw properly, we wrote down what each shot should look like on the storyboard and we needed to match the shots with the lyrics. Neither of us had the song on any device which resulted in us having to print out the lyrics. This is a mistake that will not happen again because one -if not both- of us will have the song on some sort of device as we are planning so we can have a visual of what shot will be shown at a specific verse of the song.

Production Journal 2

Once our briefs were chosen and we had decided on what song to do, we needed to do a moodboard to show what our music video may consist of and give it house/dance music connotations. We had a brief idea of how we wanted our music video to look but we also knew that in the process of storyboarding, those brief ideas have have to change.

We wanted the moodboard to convey the dance/house feeling as that is what our video will consist of. We printed out the lyrics of our chosen song which made us able to show what shot would be shown when a particular verse was sung. We wanted to give the impression of a club feeling which is why we had strobe/bright lights as that would contrast nicely to the dark background we are planning to have.

The pictures of dancers, a DJ and party people are elements that we hope to have in our music video. We made sure to use bright colours to emphasize the fact that this is a colourful genre, which is why we used colourful paper and felt tip pens to begin with. Collectively, we decided to have a DJ on our moodboard not only because he is good looking, but because having the DJ in our music video will make it relate to the people more as he too wants to have a good time.

Production Journal 1

When we received our briefs, our primary task was to then get into groups that we would work best in. When deciding who to be part of we had to take into conseideration people that will contribute to the group and were hrad workers.

I decided to pair myself up with another member of my class. We chose to do the House/Dance genre as we came to the conclusion that it would be difficult to do a video for a girl group if it was to be just the two of us. As house/dance music is usually produced by an DJ we decided that our artist would be a DJ. After much deliberation, we decided on the name DJ Delirious as it just stood out and seemed to be a perfect fit. When the name was decided we then had to decide on what song to use that fits with our brief; the song we chose couldn't be too old or too recent.

In the end, we decided to do a song called Boogie 2nite by girl group Booty Luv. Before we could get that ball rolling we had the have our teachers approval before we went any further.