Peter and the Wolf music video; The making of...

Here's our 'making of video' compiled from footage shot on the 2 days. Enjoy!

Digipack Plan...

For our digipack we have come up with a basic structure of what we want it to look like.

On the front cover we want a picture of 'Peter' in a wolf hat, tying in with the name of the band. The picture is a polaroid and it is place on an aged wooden table. He will be holding a red chupa chup, and on the bottom of the polaroid in scribbly writing will be the name of the album 'Lollipop'. On the table next to the polaroid will be a relevant item to him/the album, which hasn't been decided yet.

On the back cover will be the same table, the track listings in black on a white outline/highlight and the wrapper of the Chupa Chup.

On the left inside cover there will be writing on the perspex we used in the studi oset up, thanking all the people who contributed to the album in scrawly writing, surrounded by doodles.

On the right inside cover where the CD goes, there will be a large picture of a lollipop.

Animatic & Feedback...

Here is the anamatic we put together of our music video, with the current working version of the storyboard. To create we filmed each shot for 10 seconds and compiled them into one video, following the song to create a more solid and visual structure than a page of images. The editing process showed us that we really need to think about where we are going to place our cuts, as the song doesn't have a heavy beat to work off of, and the vocals are very fluid and soft. We want the overall effect to be quite cinematic as the film is more about the content than relying on the song.

It is clear from this video that our movie lacks content, which was something that was mentioned when we presented the anamatic in the class. As the song is slow, it is vital that we don't just repeat a small set of images as the audience could lose interest quite quickly. Whilst the content is slow moving, we need a lot of it to keep the movie interesting. As a group we are planning on coming up with a lot more rejuvination ideas for the house, e.g. a notebook begins to write without a person, old flowers blossom as Peter walks past, and an old photo leaps into life when Peter straightens the frame.

Whilst the video may lack content, I think this process has shown the group that we now have a solid framework to build on. Looking at the anamatic it seems the story comes through a lot more than it ever did from just the storyboard alone. It is much easier to visualise the final product now. All we have to do now is fill in the gaps.

Feedback

There is some detail here and plenty of evidence of how your idea is going through a variety of different phases as the group develop it.  You have begun to cover the necessary planning documents, but there are some major gaps in what you have been asked to do this week.  In particular:

• the animatic and evaluation
• shooting schedule

This posts need to go up as soon as possible so that we can start to focus on the production phase.

James

Timeline #3

Timeline #2...

After going through the first version of our storyboard, we edited it down and created a revised version with a slightly different storyline, it has a lot more content and we have included the element of a performance piece at the start, using a piano.

Timeline #1...

Here is the first attempt at a timeline for our music video...