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Lighting Research

Here is a link to a Los Angeles based blog for studio and film lighting effects.

http://www.lavideofilmmaker.com/filmmaking/film-lighting-tips.html

This website talks about different uses of lighting and examples of how there used in cinema. This site is useful as it presents a range of different lighting effects and what effect they give to the audience which means we can refer to this to help when using different lighting.


How to make a Music Video: Lighting setup



This video is good as it shows how the lighting of a scene is built up from just a basic boring room into a very professional looking video. And will be useful when using lighting to make a setting more visually interesting. Also it talks about moving the camera slightly when there's a static lip syncing part of the video which is a tip we can use in our video.


 Tips on using a reflector outside in the day:



This video is very useful as it explains good tips which we can use when filming out and about in Cambridge. They explain that the reflector should not be used to reflect the light up at the subject as that makes the scene look unnatural. This tutorial was good however it requires the sun and many of the shots we'll be film will be in the shade.

Call Sheet

The Rather large and Expensive Company

Call sheet 1

Justin Timberlake – Last Night

Date	Time	Who’s Picking up Equipment	Who’s Putting Back Equipment
12/10/13		Peter	Peter

Props – Cigar, IPod Headphones, Toast (optional Peanut butter,) Umbrella

Costume – 2/3 Suits (JT colour Tie, other 2 black), 1 Pair Sunglasses, Hoodie, Homeless Clothes, 1 Set of Normal Clothes

Location – (If it rains we will use the rain for effect), Peter’s Bedroom, Outside The Grafton, New Square, East Road, Emmanuel Street

Potential Timings for Last Night

Roughly – 30 secs

Scene of JT waking up from bed-

(starts with close up of head, turns to show his face, medium close up as he starts to get out of bed-

Roughly – 15-20 secs

Singing in the mirror (reflection, lip-synch etc)-

Putting on suit-

Roughly 30 secs

Going about Daily Morning Routine-

(Breakfast, brushes teeth)-

Roughly 10 – 25 secs

Leaves house and walks down the street-

Potentially looks at his reflection in a houses window-

(also lip-synchs to the camera whilst walking to the camera)-

Roughly - 15+ secs

Someone drops money on the ground whilst walking past JT, JT returns the money and is given a cigar in -return

(no lip-synching present in this scene, multiple use of camera angles will be a priority)

Roughly – 15+ secs

JT stops a occupied teen from walking into oncoming traffic, given a high five in return-

Roughly - 15+ secs

See’s someone a bit unhappy and offers them the cigar to cheer them up

Roughly – 30+ secs

Stops to have a bite at a Fast food Restaurant-

Thinks about last night, indicated by JT staring into space every few seconds-

(undetermined as to what restaurant we are going to choose)

note that ideas are still welcome to be posted, this is incomplete work 

Research on genre and target audience

Genre research:

The song Last Night is a mix between Pop and R&B and the conventions of this genre include; showing wealth and status through jewellery i.e. watches, chains, cigar ect, another is reflections i.e. singing to mirrors, cut away from narrative to a performance where they're singing to the camera, costume changes are conventional to pop but not so much to R&B another is backing singers and dancers.

To keep to conventions in our video we'll show the characters wealth and status through his outfit, which will be a suit, his jewellery and through props such as cigar. For the reflection part of the convention while he's putting on the suit he well lip-sync some of the song into the mirror and the camera will be over the shoulder, another is if during the video the character can check himself in his reflection. The performance part of the conventions we could have a few other people in suits sometimes appear to be backing singers/backing dancers. When doing costume changes we could have more subtle changes in his costume for example changing ties and having some shots with him with a blazer on and some with only a wast coat on.

Target Audience:

Justin Timberlake is targeting a wide variety of audiences ranging from teens to more elderly. This is done through his use of hi image, the image of Justin nowadays is very classy and smart and because if this his target audience can be very ranged. Because of this in our music video we want to replicate this and present our singer as classy and smartly dressed.

Location Recce

Peter's bedroom:

Outside Grafton:

New Square:

East Road:

Emmanuel Street:

Health a safety risk assessment:

These locations will be suitable as our idea is of our character walking down the street in a urban setting to fit with the song and we think this area of cambridge would be perfect for our idea. For the bedroom scene we chose Peters bedroom for that as could be passed off as a small apartment in which our character will be living.

While filming on location in town we need to be careful of other pedestrians and when tracking the character and walking backwards the camera man needs to be carful of where there going while also watching where they're going.

If we are going to be film in the road at any point we need to be cautious of cars driving in the road.

As for bedroom filming we need to be carful as to not trip over any of the equipment in a confined space.

The Perfomance - JT

The perfomance of the song Last Night  by Justin Timberlake will focus on one central character and his journey throughout the music video, the narrative would be in the lyrics and what is being shown on screen are after what happened (in other words he was dumped and he is currently recovering well). Events such as waking up in bed and proceeding to have breakfast then going outside will be performed by the main character / singer JT. There will be scenes where he will sing lip synched to the song for additional effect, depending on the lyrics and where he is in terms of location at that point in time we will determine at which points he will sing and which points he will not as we want to make this as professional as possible. We will experiment with different types of editing to see which would have the best effect (e.g. a parallel edit could be useful to show one shot of him being perfectly fine eating food, and the other shot showing that his mind is elsewhere.