Shot Lists

Results on Questionnaire

So I've gathered up my results and added both the online and paper questionnaires.
Using Excel, I created my own graphs to present the results.
I ended up with 27 responses.

Q1)

From the survey, the most popular result was 16-20. This is good, as it means most of the answers are from my target audience of teenagers.

Q2)

Most were girls (15 girls), but I've managed to try and even out the results by handing out most of the paper copies to boys.

Q3)

The most popular answer for this question was rock, which isn't the genre of my song as mine is pop/folk and rock/folk. However pop and pop/rock was also a popular answer, which means to please my target audience I'll need to include some codes and conventions of pop/rock videos: performance of singer, editing to beat through pretty much all the song.

Q4) From my results of 'What is your favourite music video? and why?', there were quite a few answers of 'funny', 'silly' and parody songs. This suggests that people aged between 16-20 like parodies compared to more official mainstream music videos. Examples of answers were: Miley Cyrus's Wrecking Ball with Nicholas Cage's face, Feminist Blurred Lines, and What Does The Fox Say. These popular parodies such as the Blurred Lines and Wrecking Ball, tell me that teenagers like to make fun of the current media. To try and incorporate these responses, I can link and hint influence from these videos: for instance I'm having people dressed as coyotes which can relate to What Does The Fox Say. 

Q5)

17 people selected performance as one of their answers (or only answer). 12 for narrative and 10 for concept. This links back to how rock was the most popular answer and the the typical code and convention for rock music videos is performance.  Most of my music video is going to be performance based as I'm including singing and dancing. 

Q6) For the question 'Representation of characters: How do you like certain characters/people presented in music videos?' I got many responses on how they hate nudity of woman (which probably was decided by Blurred Lines and Wrecking Ball, as there are many bad responses): 'No nakedness', 'I don't like excessive nudity', 'I don't like when there's a music video that uses excessive nudity to make money', 'Not naked and swinging on metal balls. Or naked girls prancing about or a guy talking about blurred lines. Anything else is pretty much fine'. I'm definitely not going to include naked girls in my music video, as I pretty much agree.

There has been responses saying to opposite however: 'Girls naked (self respecting), and guys rich, surrounded by women, hench'. This again shows the jokey side of my target audience, as this responder (male) is being sarcastic to dig at the song Blurred Lines. However he is also referring to negative stereotypes of male audiences, and how men are highly attracted to the female body. It also suggests that some of the younger generation of boys agree with feminists and how women should be respected.

Q7)

In this question the most popular answer was singing with 22 responses. This works out well, as my music video will include lip syncing. However, I wanted to use slightly complex editing, and the target audience has voted against it (but I'm still going to do what I've planned, as my song is fast and up beat.)

Q8)

Because I need to make a promotion pack for my product, I've asked what is most effective out of the three things I could make. Unfortunately 'Website' was the most popular result. I don't really want to make a website as I feel that a CD and magazine advert would be most effective for my song and will work out better for me to design. However, having a website would be a good way of promoting the video as you could most probably have the video it's self, behind the scenes, and interactive competitions and polls. This is something I'll hopefully decide on later, as I quite like the idea of having a website.

13/10/13 Update

Yay!! I've got some filming done!! Me and one of my coyote actors waited till it was dark to walk down the the lamp post I wanted to use. I believe that the filming was successful as Cristalle took it seriously and didn't become camera shy. I managed to get quite a few good shots of the lamp post and Cristalle dancing.

I'll be uploading the footage onto final cut on Monday hopefully!

Production Schedule

I've planned out with my actors when I'll film, so I know when I could start editing:

Take Camera and Tripod on Thursday 10th October to Tuesday 15th October:

• Record some scenery shots 
• Sunday 13th, record coyote 1's scene between 6:30pm - 9:00pm
• Upload footage onto Final Cut Express on Tuesday 
• Select parts which I definitely want to use

Take Camera and Tripod on Friday 18th October to Monday 21st October:

• Friday 18th, record coyote 2's scene  between 6:30pm - 9:00pm
• Record some scenery shots
• Upload footage onto Final Cut Express on Monday
• Select the parts I want to use
• Add soundtrack
• Work out where I want footage to be

Borrow Camera, Green Screen and Tripod on Wednesday 23rd October during free lesson:

• Record coyote 1 and victim 1's scene
• Upload footage onto Final Cut Express
• Place footage possible places
• Edit out green screen

Borrow Camera, Green Screen and Tripod on Thursday 24th October during free lesson, lunch and after school:

• Record coyote 2 and victim 2's scene at free lesson
• Upload footage onto Final Cut Express second lesson
• Edit video
• Record coyote 3 and victim 3's scene at lunch
• Upload footage onto Final Cut Express after school
• Edit the footage and remove green screen

Borrow Camera and Tripod on Wednesday 6th November second lesson:

• Record Tom's scene
• Upload footage onto Final Cut Express
• Edit the footage into the rest of the video

Real editing Wednesday 6th November and onwards (December time):

• Add in transitions, split screens, key framing and cut perfectly to the beat

Online Questionnaire

I've decided to stop taking in results for my online questionnaire as I just believe that I won't get any more replies. However, I did try putting it on Facebook and Twitter aswell as my blog, but I'm not that popular on any of them so I've only got 17 people who actually was bothered to do it. These are the results I've got, but isn't my overall results as I still need to add my paper questionnaire responses.

Character Costumes

Target Audience