For part of our pinball idea we are going to film a close up of the ball running down the tracks. We are going to create this effect by using a large metal ball about 7 inches and build a track using flashing neon tubes that the ball can run down and filming this with a tracking shot. We are going to station the camera on a set of tracks and have the camera in-between the two rails that the ball is coming down and pull the camera back as the ball rolls down the tracks.

 

 

 

 

we have ordered a ball for this set

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B002SRVWUU/ref=s9_simh_gw_p263_d0_i1?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=1T5R9WX12E428XZKSMZC&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=429454147&pf_rd_i=468294

Looking into other videos

Four our fourth element we want to explore a whole variety of visual effects because that’s what a hallucinogenic drug trip is all about. We are looking into lots of possible scenes. For example we were thinking of having scots face gazing through a fish tank ant the camera. This is a music video that bex showed me and it has a lot of visual drug effects. There is one effect at 2:14 where there are lot of fish around his face

The 1975, sex music video there are a lot of cool visual effects when the boy is on the drug trip

At 2:13 there are some quite cool shot of different colour schemes and effects

 

 

 

We have decided to scrap the alien ideas of going into space by using the green screen. We have three elements of our video checked and ticked off.

The meth lab

The dunce

The pinball

Our shoot day has been announced as November the 13^th, which is a Wednesday. We have from 3pm to 6ish to set up set the day before. We have selected our spots in the studio where we want to set up each set. We have going to have the meth lab set first because it is the hardest to set up as there is a lot of apparatus. We have asked Katy’s permission to use the flasks, beaker and all the equipment. For the chemical reaction we are going to use baking soda and vinegar with food dye.

 

We are also going to use dry ice which will give off a steamy effect and create bubbling. it is quite a slow reaction too so we would have a good time to film in.

 

 

 

The dunce scene has been given a tick. We have got all the props for the se. For our costume we are going to have an old school boy uniform. For the wall we are going to have a white painted brick wall back drop. Our chalk board is this special paper that we have ordered off the internet and we are going to paint it matte black so that it gives off the effect.  We also are building a frame for the board from wood. We have found a stool and are currently looking for a teacher’s desk to pull of the old classroom look.

 

we are meeting with luke this afternoon to discuss the pinball machine and see if it is accessible and to generally discuss our whole idea.

 



 

 

 

 

Rehearsals

We did some rehearsals with Oli for the dunce scene, just to get a glimpse of what it would look like and to test out his role. I got him into an empty class room with a white board so that we could practice. couldn't find the stall so i put him into a chair and got him to bob his had to the music.

I got Oli to scribble on the board and go crazy because we want lots of sped up scenes of the boy tripping out as the boy is supposedly on psychedelic drugs 

I got Oli to dance and throw his arms around because we want that image in our music video. A weird trippy dance.

I think that Oli would fit the part very well. I think that dancing is spot on and the rebelistic attitude he portrays goes very well.  

 

 

We came up with the concept of the pinball idea for our video as the song consist of lots of different samples. We were thinking about hiring out a pinball table on the media departments budget. W want to film inside the pinball table and have the ball hitting the different parts of the table and then matching the samples of the song.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We were thinking about green screening Ollie at the end of the video to him in space as ball goes up one of the holes in the machine and it cuts to a game scene. We want to effect to look like a unrealistic cut scene for the table. we want to have him in space and then an alien come out and shoot him with a laser gun and then GAME OVER to come up on the screen.

 

 

                              This is a costume that we found on ebay. our aim is to make the  costume realistic we want a very fake and comic image.

 

 

Set designs

These are the sketches we have come up with for our set design. This one is the boy in the corner with the dunce hat in a classroom, for the back drop of the set we are going to use a brick wallpaper to give off a dated impression of the classroom. We are going to use and old fashion chalk board.

 

We found one in our house at skool that we could very possibly use.

 

We are going to shoot this set in the studio and for the costume of the school boy we want to use grey shorts, shirt and tie, as the scene will be in black and white we need to think about the variations of shades we could get. For example we could use purple and blue to get those different shades of grey when we turn it to black and white

This is our performance set which design as an cheap and dingy meth lab. We want to set up three tables around the cook and cover them with white cloth. We have got permission from the science department to use their apparatus, e.g flasks and boiling tubes, for the back drop we are going to use a striped plaster wall paper and for the lighting we want to use hanging light with poor lighting to give of the dingy basement effect that we want to achieve.

 

The jump suits and masks have arrived. This is Gil, the cook and the performance. I think the suits look very realistic as they are real bio hazard suits

This the email that we sent to XL record to ask them if we could use there song, frontier psychiatrist by the avalanches.

 

We had a talk to luke about our current idea to see if it was relevant and achievable.  

We were told to take the detectives out of our video and change the whole story but to keep the concept the same. We came up with the whole idea base around pinball as the song is consisted of lots of different samples much like when the ball hits different parts of the table. We are still keeping the concept of a meth lab but we are going to completely change the whole boy walks around house tripping out. We are going to hire out a pin ball table, one that flashes with bright colours. We are planning on taking the glass of the front and filming close up inside the table. We are going to project scots face onto the ball and have to hitting the different parts that react , then cutting to the different sets, e.g the dunce scene.

The story board and organisation

This week we have completed our story board for our video and drawn all our ideas down so we have a rough visual image here are the pictures.

These first few scenes are shots of the lab equipment, lots of different chemicals mixing around to create a bubbling effect. For the video we are thinking about using bicarbonate soda and vinegar to create a eruption, we are going to use dry ice to get the steam effect of the chemicals, we can get dry ice off the drama department

This is some of the shots of Gil on the decks, who is our dj. I have the decks at my house which is 2 turntables and a mixer, I shall bring these in on the day, I have also ordered the bright yellow jump suit and the chemical gas mask. Here is the link

Suit

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B008JYSYFC/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1380976933&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX110_SY165_QL70

Gas mask

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00D9JNA3S/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?qid=1380976933&sr=8-2&pi=AC_SX110_SY165_QL70

The gas mask is a chemical gas mask and a cheap one so that it gives a off a very dingy look

For these shot we want the chemicals to be reacting and then we want steam to come out by using dry ice and the use the steam to fill up the screen and then act as a transition shot onto the boy going crazy on the chalk board

When the screen fills up with steam we want to editi the shot so that we have a face poking through and lip syncing the words, "dexter is criminally insane" also at the end of the first verse there is a bomb sound that goes off and for this shot we want to use a very old recording of a nucular bomb testing.

At the Beginning of our video there is the sound of galloping and we want to use an old tv advert of a boy on a a rocking horse as in the. Keep we have a theme of toys showing through out as there is a lipsync performance of a head poking out through toys, 

There dunce is relates to the criminally insane boy scribbling on the chalk board. There is then shots of him sitting in the corner of the room with a dunce hat on. The shots cut away and back to this shot throughout the first verse the dunce hat will get bigger in each shot until

It eventually takes over him

And then he starts jumping around the room when the third verse drops. We have organised the dunce hats and we are asking the art department for detailes as we are going to construct them outselves,

Throughout our thriller we are going to have  these detectives sneaking about following the narrative, the boy while scribbles on the board, throughout the video we are

Going to have him roaming about a house reacting very wierd to this drug as the detectives Follow him it is his imagination 

In the back ground of the dunce scene we are going to have more graphite being added when the camera cuts back to it.

In this video there a lot lots of shots of the boy’s face drunk as he moves around the room. You can create this shot by strapping a camera to his chest and the camera flows his boy as he walks around. It gives off a very wavy effect and the surrounds change and tilt and you see his head in the same position. We are going to use this effect with our boy who is on drugs to show the camera his facial expressions and to give off this same effect. for this shot we want our main character, the boy to walk around different shops and  act very wierd