Final video shot diagrams:

Upon reading Mr Smith's note yesterday, I realised that he has a point that the female actress will require some further detail and understanding of exactly what the music video is supposed to be. With this said, I decided against the Animatic idea, since I am running out of time to produce one, and because my drawing skills are severely limited as demonstrated for my first Animatic I made. Instead I decided to use simple but interpretable PowerPoint diagrams to show what each shot is supposed to be like:

Final Video Shots

Music video daily progress keeper:

This is a short but useful way of using time management skills to measure my progress and complete production of the music video to a good standard by the deadline. (1 week.) Filming will begin tomorrow morning, so I will require maximum effort and commitment next week during the editing and finalising stages of production. At the end of each day, I will be posting on my Blog to state what I have completed during the day. I will do this to keep track of time and weigh what I have done to what I still need to do. Since the video is mainly one shot of me on the sofa, there should not be too much editing required, but the timing will still be tight since I have had to wait this long. The actress should certainly make it this time.

My review of the Digipak + poster:

As part of my coursework grade, I will require to evaluate my products. As preparation and extra progress, I have decided to evaluate my final Digipak and poster products:

Self Assessment

How I can use cross media production:

In other words, how can I make my Diigpak and poster relate to my actual video. During development of these products, I had to try and relate my Digipak and poster to the video I was planning to develop.

Unfortunately, my previous plans for my video did not consist of the current idea or its properties that I recently discussed with the teaching staff over. My idea was still based on my draft at the time of development of even the final stages of these 2 products. This means that my backgrounds, images used, fonts, colours, all related more to that video of a trapped, entrenched soul that was suffering from booze and being punished by heartbreak. That was why I used my wall with the prison image, AKA the barbed wire, for my front cover, besides it being a Calvin Harris inspired cover. The use of the brick wall in my Digipak and poster was significant, and it supplied imagery of being trapped, tortured, punished, and suffering.

My current video idea does relate to that sort of imagery and presentation vaguely and subtly, but not as entirely as the previous idea. In order to produce a series of products and a video with consistency and use of cross media production, I need to consider how to make my productions relate…

Firstly, it seems that the use of an anachronism will be used, AKA an incorrect time reference. It seems that a cross between chronologies will be used to create an effective narrative visually. On one side of the sofa in the shot, I will be sitting still, more or less, talking to the camera, singing the lyrics to the Proof song. Meanwhile, the female actress I am using will be performing most of the visual acting. She will be acting a year relationship in 3 minutes, while I am in another time period, after she has left, reflecting on the relationship we once had. It’s like I’m not even there. (In terms of logic and correct chronology, I am not.

Now, with this storyline there comes some obvious mental punishment. Some psychological entrapment of the man in the video’s mind. He is suffering inside due to being punished because his girlfriend has left, and he is trapped because all he can do is sit back and reflect and what events have transpired. Basically, you could argue that the man in the video still possesses all of the same negative mood qualities that he had in the previous idea of mine. He is still trapped, punished and tortured inside because ‘everything that has transpired’ in the relationship that took place before his reflection process in the video ‘has done so not according to his design.’ This means that the Digipak and poster bare significant relevance to the video because the brick wall image and other use of presentation in these products relate to the narrative of the music video. It may be beneficial for me to provide emphasis towards these moods during filming and editing of the video in a procreative way…

Time plan contingency:

Since my video will now require all footage to feature the girl acting, I will obviously have to change my time plans. Also, the video is now a somewhat different idea to the improvement I had in mind. Since the girl can no longer make it until the weekend before the deadline, AKA one week after originally intended, the schedule will now have to be altered significantly...

Time plan error and contingency plans:

Time plan error:

The error was that I was originally intending to film the footage for the video on 17/11/12 and then have a solid fortnight based time slot for editing and making necessary improvements. The problem being the female performing artist in the music video, pulled out due to personal issues that conflicted with my filming plans. She could have only made it to the house for filming during the day, and since the film takes place at night, and since we need some time and she was on a tight schedule for this day, the occasion had to be cancelled. With this problem in my plans to manage time during video production, I will now need to declare that filming will take place on 24/11/12. I will also need to use this experience to reflect on my planning. I will now conduct a brief but effective contingency plan schematic in which I will determine what I must do if something else goes wrong…

Problem:	Effect:	What could go wrong:	What to do about it:
Female pulls out of filming again on 24/11/12.	Filming is now incomplete and can seemingly not be complete and edited by the deadline.	I fail the coursework due to either failing to film the video or film it in the week, then not have time to edit it properly.	I have already arranged a date for filming with the artist, and have constantly reminded her to be there for the date. Last time, the problem’s source was that she forgot that she was supposed to be filming and made other plans.
I cannot gain access to a decent camera for filming on the day.	Filming can now no longer be conducted and I cannot make my music video.	I fail the coursework due to not completing the music video and not getting any filming done.	I plan to use the library camera and book it a day or two in advance to combat this problem. If this option is not accessible, then I will either borrow the female artist’s camera, use a family members camera. Or if worst comes to worst, film with a webcam or phone, though quality will be limited if we use this.
School is closed due to damage, bad weather, etc…	I cannot progress with my work. The longer an event like this takes place the greater the significance…	I fail the coursework due to not completing the production of the video, not being able to hand in video at deadline, etc…	I will have to work at home if this occurs, since I am working solo, this won’t be too big of a deal. I will have to use what software is available on my home computer to complete both production of the video and subsidiary tasks…

Computers stop working or internet access fails.

Faulty electronic system used by the school computing error, etc…

My coursework is failed because I cannot use essential resources for my video production and other tasks.

If I cannot work at school for a significant time period, I must make up for it at home. If access to superior software is the problem, I will have to use what software is available to me with the technology I have to complete the coursework.

New shot list:

Shot list for my new and improved, final version of the music video:

The new narrative is supposed to focus on an incorrect time reference. While I appear to be a ghost figure, not interacting with the visual surroundings, I am actually in a different time position from what the female is doing. While she is portraying a year long relationship in 3 minutes, (The start with the flowers, the middle with the meal and movie, the end with the shouting.) I am sitting on the sofa from a point in time after she has left. I am visually reflecting on the time we had together while not actually participating in the narrative content taking place in the video around me. There may or may not be cuts in the video, but the camera will be on a tripod and will film the same shot of the sofa throughout. I will constantly be sitting on the right side of the sofa, showing little to no emotion, simply singing the lyrics of the song. Meanwhile the girl will be performing all of the actual acting of the film.

Time plan for video production:

My plan for the next 3 weeks during the filming of the final version of the music video:

Time plan