Location Ideas

This picture is of Guilford high street, our first choice of shooting locations.

Essentially, we need to find a place relatively near school to shoot to ensure it is time efficent. If we were shooting an hour away we would lose atleast 2 hours travel time, and as we need daylight in our shoot it is vital we do not venture too far. Alex and I branstormed what kind of back drop we wanted, and decided Guilford high street would be a good location. The vibrant colours but still its not too busy to shoot in; especially on a monday midday. The highstreet could be used as it has shops the alien can go into and we could shoot the hocolate scene there at only a 25 minutes drive away. We also though that Guilford was not a particlary modern town, and the vibrant colours of the shops could comply with the 1950s theme.

Time Line sheets

These were sheets that we used to establish what kind of shots we wanted and when. These have been very useful when story boarding the music video, creating a reference to what goes where. We did completed them by going through the whole song and deciding what went better where. It was crucial that the lyrics went with what was happening in the frame and that the cut also went with the beat of the song. Although some sequences in terms of editing will change when we ge to that point, atleast we know what needs to be filmed. This was a very crucial stage of pre production and took a couple of days to complete.

Album covers of the Beastie Boys

By looking at past album covers for the Beastie Boys we got a better understanding of the star image of the band. Two of the three albums show the band on a street, conveying to the onlooker they are an organic band that evolved from street culture. From their outfits in all of the pictures we can see their gangster like style of shell suites and high top trainers. Their music is shown to be very important to the band as a boom box is featured in two thirds of the slbum covers. This may also be used to show they like load music and their slightly old school music taste, not conforming to the stereotypical rap we see nower days.

Pictures of the band

I have included pictures of the band in my blog to show the image the created for themselves through pr. The image we would like to create would be similar to this and we will show this in our single cover and picture of the band.

Props list and costume

Costumes, hair and makeup:

Rappers:
• Silver jumpsuits with their own trainers
• Gold chains
• Base ball caps
• Their hair if showing will be gelled upwards but at least two of the group should be wearing hats

Alien:
• Silver jumpsuit
• The make up will be green face paint


Props list
• 3 light sabers
• Two units for the background in the studio that will be painted to look like machinery on a usual spacecraft (included in set design)
• Mini spacecraft replica

Cast list and contact details

Alex Roberts
Peaslake
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Stephanie White
Peaslake
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Ian
Ewhurst
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Ted rowndtree
peaslake
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Sparky
Turrets
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CALL SHEET

8:40 am : hair and costumes for rappers

9:00 am : shoot begins (studio) with rappers doing the rap

11:00 am: break

12:oo am: more rapping filming doing their funny stunts

1: 00 pm: Lunch

2.15 Pm: hair, makeup and set up stage for the alien

2:25 PM: start
Shooting alien scenes (studio)

5:30 PM: alien shooting finish’s, clear up the studio

6:00 PM Finish shot day


We made a shooting schedule for our day of filming to give to the cast to let them know what we were planning to film and when. It is advantageous to have one as some students were unable to get out off all lessons of the day so they could know when they would be needed. Equally, we had to know what the set had to be left like on the Friday evening for a prompt start on Monday.
I posted it on my blog to show the various stages of planning that must be put into making a pop promo. I find, the more you can plan prior to the day of actually filming, the lower the possibility of anything going wrong. Thus, Alex and I wanted to ensure every aspect of the day had been accounted for and checked over to ensure a smooth day and not to waste any time.