Our Moving Storyboard

Now we have finished drawing out our storyboard, we decided to take photographs of our drawings and put it together with the music to get a taste of how our clips will look when on film. As the pictures are still the video seems very slow paced and will definitely be more interesting when filmed. Despite this some shots were still too long and we decided as a group that they need to be cut up to stop the video from becoming dull and repetitive.







Here are the photographs of our storyboard before editing;

Molly's Gallery

Last weekend Molly's friend presented his photographs in a gallery called The Rag Factory off of Brick Lane (20th-21st November) and I came and visited to support her work. We decided to take the flip to documentate the visit and to also help us practice editing.
Here is our video of the day;

Rule of Thirds

The rule of thirds is used when composing film, art or photography. The rule states that an image should be imagined as divided into nine equal parts by two horizontal lines and two vertical lines. It also states that important compositional elements should be placed along these lines. Proponents of the technique claim that aligning a subject with these points creates more tension, energy and interest in the composition than simply centering the subject would.

Here shows a use of the rule of thirds on film. The shot is more interesting as it looks like the man is looking on at something rather than if he was in the middle of the shot.

Composition Practice for Performance

In Fridays lesson we also practiced where each of the four band members would stand in our real video. We have decided to use our school stage, however we are going to get a black sheet at the back of the stage as the current curtains are very dull. We decided to put the stage in black and white (similar to Jay-Z's '99 Problems' video) because the school curtains and stage do not conform to our genre and look very dismal. We placed ourselves in each position and even though the video was meant to only be short we all improvised and had a laugh with it and it came our much better than we thought. So here is the video featuring Molly as guitarist, Sarah as singer, Aimie on drums and myself on bass. In our real video we are either having two guitarists or the lead singer will also play guitar similar to Kings of Leons' line up.