Filming Schedule

 Here is the filming schedule for our project - completed by Giorgio and Carrick

No.	Scene	Date	Location	People	Props	Equipment	Other
1	1 Jaden's House	16th December 2024 (Subject to Change)	Jaden's House	Giorgio - Director and Cameraman	Old Telephone	Camera BT Speaker Light	Location is far from our houses
				Carrick - Ast. Director
				Kaka - Ast. Cameraman	Grape Juice and Wine Glass		Traffic is a big issue
				Jaden - Actor
2	2 Bus Stop	17th December 2024	Sentral Parkir Kuta	Giorgio - Director and Cameraman	Headphones Bus		Having to go off peak times to ensure an empty bus
				Kaka - Ast. Cameraman
				Jaden - Actor
3	3 Beach	18th December 2024	Pantai Saba	Giorgio - Director and Cameraman	Ice Cream Umbrella		Have to work around private arrangements
				Kaka - Ast. Cameraman
				Jaden - Actor
4	4 Bar	19th December 2024	Soteria Restaurant	Giorgio - Director and Cameraman	Beer Bottle and Glass Car Rain		Have to work around private arrangements
				Kaka - Ast. Cameraman
				Jaden - Actor

Self-Reflection:

This is very helpful for the team to stay organized and on track with the tight schedule. Carrick was the spreadsheet expert so I let him took control for the writing. Me and my friend arranged how the team will complete the filming. I'm very happy how this turns out and I am fortunate to have a friend that understands how to create neat documents.

Location Scout and Risk Assessment

Here are a few locations we've looked at as well as the potential risks of these locations - completed by Carrick and Kaka

Self-Reflection:

I let both of my friend take care of location scouting and risk assessing. However, locations were picked based on agreement from all team members, taking consideration access and possibility. I am happy that my friends took care of the location scout because it would've took considerable amount of time to get to these places, as they're very far away from one another. I was able to focus on other tasks like creating the storyboard and writing blogs. 

Classwork: Camera, Mise-en-scene, Sound, and Edit

Here is classwork we were assigned to do individually where we learnt about camera angles and shots, mise-en-scene, different sounds, edits, and storyboards.

CAMERA 

Camera angles/shots are different ways of using the position and angles of a camera to convey emotions and tell a story. 

Heres a video of about camera angles that I search on YouTube and watch alone at home:

Here is materials from my teacher's presentation that I often refer back to for my projects.

Camera Angles

 

Camera Shots

Fixed	Camera remains static	Calm, peace, normal
Push in	Camera moves slowly toward subject	Brings the audience closer, more involved, getting more serious.
Pull out	Camera moves slowly away from subject	Takes audience away from the action, leaving a character. Detaching from subject
Pan	Side to side, camera fixed	Reveal information, mirrors natural head movement of the audience.
Tilt	Up and down, camera fixed	Same as pan, just a different direction
Dolly	Camera moves around freely	More immersive, we are moving inside the subjects world, we feel part of the action
Tracking	Camera moves around on tracks	Similar to dolly, but smoother.
Crane		Reveals the epic size of the setting, landscape.
Handheld	Camera is shakey	Very natural, immersive. High energy
Zoom	Zoom	Brings audience closer to budget. Draws our attention to something.

SOUND

Sound design can impact the emotions of the audience, and can help inform them of where a scene is taking place and what is happening. 

	Description	Effect
Diegetic sound	Sound that can be heard by the characters within the media text.	Add a sense of realism. Reveal information to characters (and then audience)
Non diegetic sound	Sound that can only be heard by the audience.	Enhance meaning, create an emotional response in the audience
Trans diegetic sound	Sound that transitions from one to the other.	Creates a link between the audience and the world. More immersive

Here is a video I watch to get a better understanding on sound designs in media:

	Description	Effect
Melodic	Positive and pleasing connotations	Enhances a positive scene. Create positive emotions in the audience.
Discordant	Harsh and unpleasant connotations.	Enhance negative scenes.  Create suspense, tension, anxiety
Contrapuntal	Has an opposite tone to the on-screen visuals.	Adds deeper meaning to scenes. Insight into the character's thoughts. Maybe they seek pleasure in doing bad things.

Melodic Example (The last part of the scene):

Discordant example:

Contrapuntal example:

MISE-EN-SCENE

Refers to the arrangement of actors, scenery, and props in a theatrical or film production:

Visual example of each MES (Credit to Kristine Blog post):

Here is a video I got from another student and watched about:

Here is a video I watched that helped me understand MES better through movie analysis: 

EDITING

the process of selecting, organizing, and preparing visual, written, audible, or cinematic material to convey a message or information. 

Here are types of edits (from my teacher's presentation):

 

Continuity Editing	Non continuity editing
Straight cut (cut) Eyeline match  Shot /reverse shot Cutaway / Insert  *Match cut	Cross cut (parallel cut) Flash back Flash forward Jump cut  *Match cut

STORYBOARD

Here is a layout of a storyboard with its a description for each feature.

This has helped me in making my storyboards.

My first ever storyboard that I made for an advertisement project:

Self-Reflection:

I enjoyed making this blog as it allowed me to recap everything I've learned about the basics of media production. This was time consuming but I have more than enough time before the deadline, which allow to work without pressure. For the recap I had to return back to old presentations and personal blog posts. I did research and digging about what I've covered last year which took awhile but it was very useful. This recap helped improved my understanding of these film-making media concepts and terminologies, as it refreshed my memory about it. I hope this recap will be useful for this project. I will implement very good concepts that I actually forgot about on the music video.

Screen Test

To find a star for our music video we need to conduct a screen test. Here is a video of our class's group audition - we did this as a class - completed by Giorgio and Carrick

Advantages

The advantages of conducting a screen test like this is that we had access to over 20 people in the same room, which allowed us to see the various personas of each individual in a very time and cost effective manner. Not only that, but 90% of the potential stars knew the lyrics to this song which made things a whole lot easier too. People also were able to come out of their shell as this style of group screen testing made it so much more comfortable for everyone involved. 

Disadvantages

The disadvantages of having this style of screen test is that we could not analyse in detail all 20+ candidates. This made it a little bit more difficult to try and see which candidate would best fit the persona that we're looking for. Another thing that would be a disadvantage is that the personas in this video may have been overexaggerated as they were performing with friends. This may not reflect their individual or solo performance which is something we must consider.

Considerations

There were some people we considered for the role of the star in our music video, one of them was shown at exactly 3:00 (the one with the glasses). He personifies exactly who we are looking to cast in our music video. His name is Jaden Mutty and he perfectly encapsulates the kind of persona needed. We like his style in front of the camera: very outgoing, open, not shy, and not afraid to be himself. There were others there we may want to consider but so far he's the best of the lot. There were some there who weren't even lip syncing to the same song, perhaps they were too shy in front of the camera and we do not want to cast anyone like that. 

Self-Reflection:

Finding our star was very simple. The screen tests proved that each person has unique on-camera persona, which was crucial in making our decision. We all took part in the screen test to ensure we were choosing the right person to become our artist, and we choose Jaden. I already knew he was the perfect fit to become our artist. My personal second option was Kaka (He was featured on the video at second 0:54), but Jaden's persona was more fitting for our team's music. I never intended to be the artist, as I have other responsibilities in the team which make me very busy. The only professional videoghrapher and editor in the team is me, so I had to step down.

Song Research

Here is the research we did in detail on the song "Leave the Door Open" by Bruno Mars in 2021 which we chose to do for our music video - completed by Carrick and Kaka

Here's a brief background behind the song by Bruno Mars which we quoted from: https://silksonic.fandom.com/wiki/Leave_The_Door_Open#Background_and_release 

In an interview with New Zealand radio DJ Zane Lowe for the Apple Music podcast Beats 1, Anderson .Paak said the song required a lot of "patience and delicate" to create. He added, "A lot of meat went into this song." Mars lamented the lack of live performances due to the COVID-19 pandemic, adding "While I'm writing songs, that's a part of my whole thing. It goes to like, 'I can't wait till people hear this.' And it's also, 'I can't wait to play this for people. I can't wait to be with my band.'"

In late February 2021, Bruno Mars and Paak announced on social media platforms the formation of their new band Silk Sonic and group's first studio album An Evening with Silk Sonic. On March 5, 2021, shortly after the announcement of An Evening with Silk Sonic, "Leave the Door Open" was released as the first single of the aforementioned project alongside the "Silk Sonic Intro".

We chose this song because it fits the persona of our potential star, and it's a very mainstream song which will allow us to unleash our creativity into this passion project. We agreed that its a song we can all listen and jam to which will make the progression of our project so much easier. Not only that, but original singer sings in an American accent. People with American accents are easier to cast in Indonesia as most Indonesians who are fluent in English speak with an American accent, making it more believable to people watching our lip synced music video as it wouldn't really fit or be right if someone with a British, Australian, or local Indonesian accent were singing. Furthermore, it helps with the social media as we are able to seek a wider audience, whereas if we chose a Christian song, we would have to cater to a more niche audience which is a lot harder to do in our case.

We intend on challenging the traditional conventions of this music video by making our star a young teenage Indonesian who is fluent in English. This allows us to further develop our star into a person who produces this style of music. Our star being so young but with so much life experience is what will make our star stand out. He's intelligent, but dumb at the same time. This encapsulates a lot of teenagers who are heading out into the world and they are the kind of people who we are targeting with our music video. We want our star to be seen as a role model, someone who our audience can learn from. "Mistakes made by our star will not be repeated by our audience" is what one of our friends said should be our key focus of our music video.

Self-Reflection:

Our team decided to choose this music, Kaka was the first one who actually mentioned this music, and I loved it. The finale decision was primarily influenced by me (as always). I let my friends to research more about "Leave the door open" by Bruno Mars. Through this research we would be able to deduce our video's MES easily and ensure success by curating the video to the target audience's preferences. 

Storyboard

Here is the storyboard for our project at different locations - completed by Giorgio and Jaden

The storyboards were planned out the way that we wanted them to be. Giorgio and Jaden discussed this together based off the notes we all made as a group to try and bring a message to the audience of a man who gets rejected on a date by a girl. However, our teacher had some feedback to give us. One major thing he told us was that the chronology of our storyboard didn't make sense and that there was no meaning to it. We listened to his feedback and took it all on board. He suggested that we include a scene where the girl comes in and sees that the star is a bit crazy, and then runs out and finds another man. This made a lot more sense than what we thought of so we decided to take that on board. Unfortunately, our teacher set out a deadline which didn't leave us much time to insert and fix these changes to our storyboard. 

Self-Reflection:

There was a lot of thinking and brewing up ideas to create the storyboard, and it took quite awhile. Me and Jaden worked together on creating the storyboard, as both of us are the better drawers in the team. I did the first half of the music video while my friend did the other. We went through many different modifications and variations, but at the end we stick to the lyric sheets as our guide. One of my friend and my teaccher were confused on the meaning I was trying convey through the storyboard which was utterly frustrating, so I had to reflect on changes I should do that could improve clarity. At the end, we did only minor changes to the storyboard which made the story we're interpreting makes sense.

Lyric Sheet

Here is a copy of the lyric sheet we annotated to give us a better idea of each scene - completed by Giorgio, Carrick, Jaden, and Kaka

Here's the lyrics to our song that we printed our and annotated. We thought that by doing this we'd be able to get a better idea of how we would be able to use it to help with our storyboard. We decided to do this as a group so we'd all be on the same page when it comes time to produce our media product. We found that though it was time consuming, it's essential to ensure that we get a good idea in our head as to how each line will play out on screen.

Self-Reflection:

The whole team gave very good ideas and it didn't took as much time as I expected it would. We finished this lyric sheet in only one class session. This lyric sheet has proven to be very helpful in making the storyboard, I solely used this lyric sheet as my guide in creating the storyboard. Anytime I felt lost I always refer back to this sheet, so it directs me into the right ideas.