call sheets

Week Commencing- 13/10/10

CALL SHEET ......NO.1 

We arranged a scheduled call sheet and this would be handed to all members of the crew and our artist before the shoot begins. This is to ensure there is no confusion about the meeting and what to bring to the shoot as well. This also includes what the day will consist of so everyone can prepare themselves and be aware of what is happening. We also, did this call sheet for every location because it would be less time consuming, because in the time that we would have to take out to explain what we will be doing, we could have been shooting. The call sheet consist of the location, date and time of the proposed shooting and any other necessary information required like costume for example.

Location: INFRONT OF GRAFFITI WALL AND AROUND BROADGATE ESTATE SITES.Curtain Road / Around Broadgate Estate  (both very nearby, 5mins walking distance) Curtain Road Hackney
EC2 London

Unit Call: 11.30am   Saturday 27th November 2010

On Location: 12.00am Saturday 27th November 2010

Artist: Crucial (Real name: Usman Mirza)

Outfit:  Nike trainers, plain black jacket with a hood (not too baggy or too fitted), 2 thick silver rings (on either hand), plain black snood (around the neck in some scenes and over the head in others)

Transport: Tube & Walking

11.00 : Everyone arrives at location.
11.30:  Double check the areas we want to shoot.
11.45: Set up equipment on 

Curtain Road

 and double check tape/battery etc.
11.50: Check the artist is wearing suitable outfit and meet standards (Crucial's snood sometimes covered too much of the right side of his face as the wind blew so we told him to put it further back over his head to prevent this.)
12.05: Start shooting.
12.30: Take photographs of the artist (Crucial)  for digipack infront of the wall of graffiti

12.45: Pack up and walk to Hollywell lane. (Various members of the group can take photographs infront of Crucial at other locations eg; other walls of graffiti, a basic art sculpture, a public staircase.)
1.00: Arrive at Hollywell lane
1.05: Set up equipment and instruct the artist of what to do.
1.10: Shoot necessary shots...
1.35: Pack up equipment and leave.

shooting schedule and risk assesment

Risk Assessment for shoot 1 - Location; Curtain Rd, London EC2 (Graffiti Wall)

Production/Person(s) involved: Ariba Ahmed (myself), Estella Ossei, Nora Bulale, Warsan Barqadle and our artist- Crucial (Usman Mirza).
& Estella's younger sister for extra assistance. 

Hazard: Cold temperatures

Nature of Risk:   .Due to such weather, the artist/staff members may fall ill.

                             .Also the artist may not be able to perform to the best of their ability because their too cold.

Preventive Measures:  All members of staff/artist were told to wear appropriate clothes (warm.) 
and were given hot drinks from nearest coffee shop to keep people on location warm.

Hazard: The equipment 

Nature of Risk: due to the equipment set up on the pavement the general public may trip over our equipment (this can lead to a lawsuit as this would known as negligence) (especially because we were set up on a pavement)
 Preventive measures:  

Hazard: The General Public

Nature of Risk: as we were shooting without any police/guard assistance we could have easily been targeted for theft due to our expensive equipment.

 Preventive measures:  


Hazard: Passing Cars

Nature of Risk: due to the hazard of passing cars, this could effects the recording of sound and could lengthen the time period of shooting.

Preventive measures:  

Hazard: The General Public

Nature of Risk: Due to the location being in a public place we encountered many interruptions where we had to wait for the people to pass by to continue shooting. This can lead to prologue delays with staff and actors getting frustrated.

Preventive measures:  

Risk Assessment for shoot 2 - Location;  TV Studio, Stanmore College (Projection scenes infront of white board)

Production/Person(s) involved: Ariba Ahmed (myself), Estella Ossei , Nora Bulale, Warsan Barqadle and our artist- Crucial (Usman Mirza). 

Hazard: Spotlight

nature of risk: heat of spotlight could make the artists feel uncomfortable, this and the light hitting his eyes may cause damage and discomfort which will put his performance at a disadvantage 


 prevention measures: only leaving the spotlight on when necessary &

having short, frequent breaks so no harm is caused to the artists and only leaving the spotlight 

Hazard: Loose wires from the spotlight 
nature of risk:  Team members/Artist may trip over the wires  (especially because it was slightly dark)

Preventive measures:  making sure everyone was aware of the wires and avoiding walking around there, not moving around or moving equipment around much until the main lights were on.

Location: INFRONT OF THE WHITE BOARD / PROJECTOR IN THE TV STUDIO

Hazard: Spotlight
Nature Of Risk: heat of spotlight could make the artists feel uncomfortable, this and the light hitting his eyes may cause damage and discomfort which will put his performance at a disadvantage 
  Prevention Measures: only leaving the spotlight on when necessary &

having short, frequent breaks so no harm is caused to the artists and only leaving the spotlight 

Hazard: Loose wires from the spotlight 
Nature Of Risk Team members/Artist may trip over the wires  (especially because it was slightly dark)

Preventive measures:  making sure everyone was aware of the wires and avoiding walking around there, not moving around or moving equipment around much until the main lights were on.

Hazard: Noise
Nature of risk: noise from  next door may distract team members and more importantly the artists so we may not all work tot he best of our potential

Preventive measures:  before we start shooting, inform the people next door so they don’t make unnecessary noise  

Hazard: Food/drink
Nature of risk: Spillage of food/drink could damage equipment (especially because shooting would be done during lunch hours)
preventive measures: no food/drink would be allowed on set.

Hazard: Noise
Nature of risk: noise from  next door may distract team members and more importantly the artists so we may not all work tot he best of our potential

Preventive measures:  before we start shooting, inform the people next door so they don’t make unnecessary noise  

Hazard: Food/drink
Nature of risk: Spillage of food/drink could damage equipment (especially because shooting would be done during lunch hours)
Preventive measures: no food/drink would be allowed on set.

After we did our rehearsals I produced a shooting schedule for when we were going to shoot the real thing.

Blow me away

Shooting schedule

Shoot day #1                     Friday 12th November 2010

Location: Bedroom scene in Colindale at 5:00pm

                 Scene #4

Cast members: Natasha (female actress)

                            Mo (male actor)

Extras: no extras

Props: Rose

            Rose petals

            Champagne

            Champagne glasses

            Candles

            Gift

Equipment: Cam recorder

                      Tripod

                      Lights

                     

Costume and make-up: Natasha- corset and leggings

                                          Subtle but nice make up

                                          Mo- blue jeans white shirt

Set dressing: remove teddy’s, posters and other extras from room

                      Re-arrange the tables

                     Set the champagne glasses and bottle on table with candles around.

Blow me away

Shooting schedule

Shoot day #2                     Saturday 13th November 2010

Location: Balcony scene in Edgware    (party scene)    3:30 pm      

 Scene #1

Cast members: Natasha (female actress)

                            Mo (male actor)

Extras: 15 male

              15 females

Props: Table

             Champagne

              Glasses

              Food

Equipment: Cam recorder x2

                      Tripod  x2

                      Lights x2

                     

Costume and make-up: Natasha-black dress                                           

                                        Subtle but nice make up

                                          Mo- black jeans white shirt

Set dressing: remove any extra prop on the balcony that was not needed

                        Tidy up and clean balcony

                       Place the table to the side and set up champagne bottles

                      Set up camera on one angle of the balcony and another camera at the other end of the balcony.

Set up lights.

Blow me away

Shooting schedule

Shoot day #3                   Saturday 20th November 2010

Location: Marble arch      12:00pm

 Scene #3

Cast members: Natasha (female actress)

                            Mo (male actor)

Extras: no extras

Props:  No props

Equipment: Cam recorder

                      Tripod  

                     

                     

Costume and make-up: Natasha- blue skinny jeans and pink top

                                          Subtle but nice make up

                                          Mo- dark blue jeans and black top

Set dressing: set up camera and tripod so it is not obstructing any general passenger way. 

tv studio scene look

over the weekend we shot our TV studio scene. Below is how we wanted it to look like.

Costume	Male artist: blue jeans and white top.
Set	camera x2
Props
Lighting	1 camera light, low key lighting
Colour Scheme	pink background
Camera Style	medium close up  to close up shots of the artist performing in front of the camera
Editing Style	Straight cuts from different camera style
Special FX
Performance
Kinetics

research on music video's

We were not sure whether our music video should be performance or narrative based. So we looked into hip-hop and RNB genres with narrative within their music video to help us decide.
Trey Songz - cant help but wait.

For our first scene we have a balcony scene, and i liked the camera angle of this shot. I thought it was very effective as it shows the character point of view and you can also see a part of the scenery. In our video we could use an over the shoulder shot. so u can see the female actor in the camera. To potray our chracters feeling and emotions by the use of faical gestures. Also we can use a point of view shot and an establishing point of the scenery.

Rihanna ft Eminem- Love the way you lie

I liked this video becasue they have a narrative within their music video aswell. Iliked the use of editing to show the transitions between different scenes when cutting back and fourth from the artist to the actors. We could use this as we are also having a narrative within our music video. During my music video researched i have found out that many RNB music video have a narrative within thier songs. This makes the lyrics in the song more clearer to the audicence and it allows the audience to realate better to the song.  I aslso liked the use of location in the video they relate the artist to the narrative being told in the story. They do this by the use of mise en scene and location as the house is burning within the narrative you have a straight-cut to the artist in front of a burning house. I thought this was effectvie because the fire represented the emotions within the song, and in the scene at the end rihanna in red hair emphasises the emotion of pain and anger, and it helps illstrate to the audience what the song is about. Looking at this video has allowed me to consider what props and lighting we should use within our music video. We could use back lighting to help seperate the subject from the background at our marble arch scene.

indicative videos

We did research as a group into different real media products to gain some idea's on what to include in our music video.
Music video's that we looked at were

Eminem- loose yourself
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO2wA0Te0wM

Although this video is mainly narrative based and we decided to focus on performance base, in our music video, their was a few shots in the video that we thought we could use in ours. This scene where Eminem is hitting the camera, we thought would be effective to use in our video, as it's expressing the artist feelings, and the scene wasn't seen in many hip-hop videos.



Eminem- When i'm gone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wYNFfgrXTI

We decided to use this scene in our music video. The scene where Eminem is writing some of he's lyrics on the paper. We thought this could be effective as it reinforces the way the artist is feeling, and the audience maybe be able to recognise typical codes that relate to our music genre.




Devlin- brainwashed 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRob2t2PPek&feature=channel

We thought this shot would be effective of a meduim close-up of the artist performing in front of a camera. It is effective because minimal prop is used so it would be easy to replicate in our video.  It also shows the audience a little of how the scene was shot, and could represent to our target audience that anyone with talent in the music industry, in Britain could also produce their own music.

Jordin sparks- one step at a time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIE5QtkxzvM

The beginning of the music video starts of with a close-up shot of Jordin feet, and as she's walking to the beat of the music, the camera is tracking her movement. We thought this would be effective as it wasn't seen in many hip-hop video's, and we could use a spotlight on our artist.




Lowkey- something wonderful 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3_2hJfhwro

We liked the use of graffiti background in this music video, and from our research into the hip-hop culture, we thought it would be effective to incorporate this into our music video as well. It also follows the mainstream ideology of hip-hop music video and make' it easier for our audience to recognise what genre of music our video is and to identify with the artist and lyrics better.

RKZ- Defeat me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_HSkEFHgtE

 We liked the use of the graphic effects, and lighting used in this shot. We thought it would be a good idea to incorporate this into our music video, as it could help put across the artist points in he's lyrics and helps emphasis he's feelings.. We could have images that related to the lyrics be projected  at the background.of the artist whilst he's singing. We could use different level's and colour of lighting to achieve this effect in our music video.

ideas for our music video

CRUCIAL:' PURE HIP HOP '

SONG LYRICS:

This is hip hop right here..crucial

My brain cells addicted to speed
I follow the assassins’ creed , dominant species, new breed
suicide bomber aint the path that I lead al-Qaeda out on the scene, crucial execution , see


This is hip hop in its purest form, recognise it G, DJ Preem, the beats are supreme
And no one fuckin' with the way that i speak, so don’t compare me to Lowkey or Immortal technique
When I’m just doing me

I’m governing my own religion, it’s the new edition
I’m flipping the lyrics to a side before its Biggies vision
I’m in the fifth dimension, living in a prison and I don’t concern myself with humans no more cos most of them are bitches
my rhymes will leave you leave your infant babies face covered with stitches..and kill ur unborn child while still in its foetus
u wudnt understand the wrath of a genius
you know me I’m anti fascist anti Christ and anti gimmicks.

Anarchist, above average anabist aint an act or an activist..
arrogant, abbasinate the alphabet , always out to accumulate interactuate and leave dull minds acculiate

That was alphabetic slaughter
the melody’s so goody goodys compared to Pakistani law enforces
and all you people do is talk about terrorist threats, give me a break man you aint seen terrorist yet.

Till the break of dawn I practice scientology
my rhymes hit harder than.mafia contracts on your family
People will be people though aint a damn thing changed
still a lot of deception a lot of pride and a lot of vain
Happy with the things are going now, no complaints

watch the news , feel sorry then back on the games
what the hell is going on in your brain
what the hell is you a stupid motherfucker - your whole generations in the drain
reconciles in the toilet nowadays
we downloading everything, no one really wants to pay but i stick to the scripts you other brothers...trip and spill..its a stupid thought to step against the bisons will

man i dont understand you people sometimes ,
i don't understand why motherfuckers use eachother all the time
pissed off, im chopping the head of racist reverend
running through the streets on september eleventh

Give me a day or better yet give me some seconds
and im gunna turn your most gangsta diciple into a revolutionairy veteren
throwing shots at your president
retrospectively blasting holes in your history
like a cannon ball, like im back from the eighteenth century
this was meant always meant to be, the prophecys predicted me

I step out of interdimensional portals 
i reside in the netherealms where the fires of hell is the focal

my brain will only turn your brain into tomato juice
you're about to find out what the human tornado do

Breaking bias beliefs
boradening brains breaking beef batter bnp backers battling barbarocracy
baffling barz barodynamics, easy B, balaklava on backpackin bidded baratory

ay yo swiss its over

dead c squares my literature
when i spit my lyrics , its ridiculous
i make evel knievel chillin down his spinecrucial  ,excecutionBelieve me

 I have enclosed a copy of the artist lyrics. As a group we all sat down to read over the lyrics and come up with ideas that we could incorporate in our music video. Using our knowledge and background research on hip-hop music our director Ariba came up with the idea of using graffiti in our music video. As many hop-hop cultures used graffiti in their music video and we wanted to reinforce the conventional ideas of hip-hop within our  music video. We went out to find places were we could shoot our take pictures of effective graffiti to use in our music video. Our production manager Warsan found us a location on Liverpool street were we could use and Ariba and Nora thought up of camera shots and ideas we could add to our treatment. 

treatment

I have included our treatment. A treatment includes all the important conceptual elements of our music video. It should state our idea's for our music video, the type of camera shots and edits we would like to use, and how we would expect our music video's to look like shot by shot. Our treatment is just a rough plan on what to follow when shooting our video, but  it helps us stick to a plan and it becomes easier to shoot the different scenes as we go along, as we would have planed out what we wanted the scene to look like. However our ideas may change as we rehearse and start shooting. we all came up with idea's within our group and discussed the different types of edit's we would like to use, we then wrote down our idea's and our director (Ariba) wrote up a treatment we all then edited it and agreed on a final one. As we go along we will edit our treatment to how we want our video to look like. 

Below I have included a copy of our treatment. 

Treatment

CAMERA TILTS UP & ZOOMS IN- to show mid-shot of upper body (waist upwards). Low-key lighting used here.

STRAIGHT CUT to feet.

STRAIGHT CUT back to turso. Spotlight in the same place. Points to camera and says ‘This is Hip-Hop right here…Crucial’

STRAIGHT CUT to show face again & upper body but this time spotlight moves up and down twice.

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STRAIGHT CUT of mid-shot (waist upwards). Natural lighting used here with pale cream background.

CAMERA POSITIONED IN A DIAGONAL ANGLE to view artist performing in front of camera. Ends at ‘new breed..’

STRAIGHT CUT of same shot but camera positioned more to the right. Viewer can no longer see camera screen. Here lyrics start from ‘Suicide ain’t the path that I lead..’ till ‘Crucial execution scene’.

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STRAIGHT CUT to mid-shot of artist in front of grafitti wall. Natural lighting used here.

CAMERA PANS artist walking to the right. Starts from lyrics ‘This is Hip-Hop in its purest form..’

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CUTAWAY of location with the yellow and white skull. Starts from lyrics ‘Recognise it G, the beats are supreme..’ till ‘No-one fuking with the way that I speak..’

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CAMERA AT LOW-ANGLE SHOT so artist is crouching and comes close to the camera.

CAMERA PANS a little to the right when artist smacks and you see a glimpse of the grafitti location. Lyrics here are ‘So why compare me to Lowkey or Immortal Technique when I’m just doing me.’

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STRAIGHT CUT to mid-close up shot (shoulders and face). Here we are able to see the camera screen.

Background out of focus. Screen in foreground clear and in focus.-Differential/Variable focus.

Natural lighting used here.

STRAIGHT CUT to mid-shot (showing waist upwards) of artist performing in front of camera

Natural lighting used here too. Lyrics start from ‘I’m governing my own religion..’ till ‘You know me.’

A SERIES OF STRAIGHT CUTS back to mid-close up scene and then another straight cut to the mid-shot scene x 3. Both shots of same scene edited together.

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STRAIGHT CUT to mid-shot (waist upwards).

Then CLOSE UP as he approaches towards the camera and whistles. Lyrics here are ‘Anti-fascist, anti-gimmicks’.

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STRAIGHT CUT to projection scenes of mid-shot (waist upwards).

Low-key lighting used here.

A SERIES OF STRAIGHT CUTS to close-ups of the same scene in projection scene of his face. Lyrics here are ‘Above average annalists..’ till ‘All you people talk about terrorist threats’

CLOSE UP of writing ‘You ain’t seen terrorist yet’.

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STRAIGHT CUT OF LOW-ANGLE to long shot of him walking down the stairs.

STRAIGHT CUT of low angle mid-close up shot of him sitting down. The camera is positioned to view him in a diagonal angle from the left. Lyrics here are ‘Till the break of dawn I practise scientology’ till ‘our cries in vain’.

STRAIGHT CUT back to him walking down the stairs but this time he is closer to the camera than before.

STARIGHT CUT again of mid-close up back to him sitting down performing the song in front of the camera.

Natural lighting is used here.

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STRAIGHT CUT to close-up. Viewer can see the camera screen in the frame.

STRAIGHT CUT to mid-shot of artist performing but this time can no longer see the camera screen.

SERIES OF STRAIGHT CUTS of close-up shots of his face. Lyrics start from ‘Happy with the way things are going no complaints’ till ‘Man I don’t understand you people sometimes.’

Natural lighting used here.

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STRAIGHT CUT to projection scene and we see a mid-shot (showing waist upwards).

Lyrics here are from ‘I don’t understand why you mother-fuckers use each other all the time’ till ‘blasting holes in your history’.

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STRAIGHT CUT to mid-shot of artist performing in font of camera. But the viewer can’t see camera screen in the frame.

A SERIES OF STRAIGHT CUTS to show just through the camera screen only. Through here we are able to see close-ups of his face to emphasise facial expressions.

Lyrics from ‘Like a cannibal I’m back from the 18^th century’ till ‘breaking bias beliefs’.

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STRAGIHT CUT to another projection scene. This is a close-up (shoulders and face).

Low-key lighting is used here.

STRAIGHT CUT to mid-shot of the same scene. Lyrics from ‘Broadening brains’ till ‘Crucial execution scene’, where he points to the camera.

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FADE to a black screen and then you see a blurry image of his face, whilst he is facing sideways.

Low-key lighting due to the many shadows here.

STRAIGHT CUT to clearer image of his face and shoulders.

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STRAIGHT CUT to mid-close up of feet walking to the rhythm of the beat.