Mood picture...

I just found this album cover photo of Grinderman, an australian band, and thought it would suit my invented artist quite well and kind of demonstrates a mood or a meaning or maybe just a visual that could be related to 'Fortune's Fool' Peter. 

Digipak

Digipak

View more presentations from Paula Riemann

Feedback

The blog is excellent with plenty of detail and a clear sense of progression from the initial idea, through the different variations and on to (what I hope is) the final concept.  There is a very clear sense of research present which feeds into comprehensive planning materials.  You have also included reflection on how feedback at various stages has had an impact on your creative direction.

James

TO DO!

Props List - Who gets what?

1.     Costumes

- skinny black boys jeans (Tay - Deadline: Fr 11thNov )

- ballerina costume (I'm making it myself - Deadline: Friday 18th Nov)

2.    Props

- purple color and pen (art department / order - Wednesday 9th)
-> try it out

- painting (Jess is making it - Deadline Monday 14th Nov)

- Ballerina box (Leyla/Grace - )

- photo of peter for cover (Grace, between 14-19th Nov)

- lantern (Paula - Deadline Monday 14th)

- flowers dead & alive (Cranleigh-Monday 21st )

Music

- lyrics to Tay

- piano chords to Sam/Freddy

Price total:

Price each: Me: £15 + £10 + £8 + £13 =£5 = £51/4= £12,75

School: shelf, books, glass, frame, chair

Shooting schedule incl. location and shot details

Locations

1. Studio as. 'asylum' or cell - where the performance takes place. 

-> Just without the soft walls!

• black piano
• a door
• sheet of glass in the front of the camera - looking through it on the studio and the artist writes on it
• pen
• color? purple - climbing up walls and glass

•  set-up #1: performance, Peter and piano
•  set-up #2: only piano keys playing by themself
•  set-up #3: Peter behind glass, writing on it
• (set-up #4: white walls getting colored/ Peter body painting, painting on glass, throwing himself on the walls, playing piano with colored hands)

Shot numbers from storyboard
1 - 10 (dissolve into house location), 12, 15, 16, 17, 31, 32, 33.




2. House, Leath Hill as. the artist's imagination/peaceful world where he is a good person and has the power of rejuvenating things and bringing 'dead' things alive again.

•  set-up #1: window, overshoulder on hands wiping the glass leaving purple hands  + purple curtains
•  set-up #2: room with ballerina, quite empty, shelf with books - fixing doll's arm, throw up, shot on legs of real ballerina landing -> leaves purple, real ballerina has color on herself, 
•  set-up #3: fireplace, rocking chair, picture -> picture hangs slanted, puts it straight and colors refresh
•  set-up #4: rotten flowers -> alive beautiful flowers: vase is fallen over with rotten flowers, puts it back up, leaves hand prints and flowers become alive
•  set-up #5: rejuvenation
•  set-up #6: rejuvenation
• set-up #7: corridor, wallpaper, door at the end+light, color on hands on walls

• 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Shot numbers from storyboard

Permission letter to Grizzly Bear's record label

To Warp Records. We are a group of A Level students working on an A Level project for a qualification in Media Studies. We are writing to request permission to use the following track as part of this project: Grizzly Bear - Foreground With your permission the track would be used as the accompaniment to a short form video that is made purely for assessment purposes and will have no commercial usage. The video will be viewed only by members of the school community and the assessor of the examination board. The artist and the copyright holder will of course be fully recognised in the pre-production and evaluation material that accompanies the project. We can also include a full copyright notice if required both in the planning material and on the video itself. Yours sincerely Helena Lageder, Paula Romy Riemann, Grace Anthony and Leyla Jafarian Sabagh. Hurtwood House School

Props and costumes

Props List

Old looking Piano/ worn out stool
plain White Door
Long sheet of glass

Black board Pen
Doll

Live flowers (think about symbolism)

Dead flowers

Light (behind door)

Tea & Teacup

Paint (for walls)
Body paint

Fruit
Rotten fruit
Clingfilm?

Rocking chair
Comfy chair
Curtains
Painting/Old frame

Black skinny jeans
Wolf hat
Strawberry chupa chup

 

Costumes

location house:

• white Ballerina Tutu making it look rough, bit dirty, used... + bare legs + point shoes 

   

• him: black boots with laces (see above)
• black skinny jeans
• black jacket 'army style' with collar
• white T-shirt

location studio:

• black skinny jeans
• navy long sleeve jumper with white stripes
• bare feet

Cast - Who's our Peter?

I think about our artist as a good looking, rather dark haired, tall, skinny boy around 19-22 years old who represents his style of music (indie), vulnerability and a hint of crazy- or weirdness while having some sort of sex appeal. 

This is how he could look like:  
I was thinking of calling asos.com and see if that model is available;)

And then here is a German musician whose looks and the mood of the CD covers represent what I think matches our hypothetical artist!

So we tried to find some boys in our school to cast and these two are the options:

1)  Walter Daley

2) Taymour Williams

The Ballerina

Me

is probably going to be danced by myself. We want a classic ballerina but not in the standard tutu. (More about that in 'costumes'-post.

Storyboard Animatic + Evaluation

Here is my group's storyboard but filmed and accompanied with the original track. In that way we can see how long every shot lasts and how it could look overrall to eventually change weaknesses and anything that doesnt really work or looks right...

I think in our storyboard, the strenghts are the musicality and it provided us with a clear structure of the whole video which is a relive and a help. But I think we still need to think of more concrete ideas about actions in the house related to our theme 'dead - alive'.

Also we think that the use of color should only be in the studio which is a bright white room so the effect would be better than using color in the house where we have already have existing colors.

In terms of editing, I really enjoyed editing the animatic, but I just like editing and Final Cut Pro. It was a very simple editing process and we didn't have any problems. The opposite actually, I think editing and putting all the drawn shots together inspired Helena and me for shot ideas and how to film what at what times in the music and the whole thing became a bit more visual and real for us.

Overrall, I learned from this task how to shoot a storyboard and just learned the fact that you make these storyboard animatics before you film the real thing, because I didnt know that before...

Development from original idea: Storyboard#2