Production Schedule

As a group we were told that folowing a strict production schedule worked out by members of a group is essential for any task that has a deadline. We took this into consideration and decided this was best in one of our meetings.

This is a table designed by the group clearly outlining a schedule with dates and a description next to each one:

Date?	What? Where?
28/11/11	Meeting - Discuss stages of filming
12/12/11	Green Screen session
02/01/12	Review Meeting
02/02/12	Picture Taking (Ancillary Task)
03/02/12	White Screen session
12/02/12	Filming in Greenwich Village
15/02/12	Filming in Greenwich Embankment
24/02/12	Editing and Review for filming
26/02/12	Editing and Review for filming
29/02/12	Filming Re-Do's
06/03/12	Edit Footage

House Styles

After doing research into house styles the group and I created a style sheet which included specific colours we were going to include in ALL ancillary tasks as well as different logos for Olly Murs for us to choose from. Our style sheet also included fonts and font sizes we wanted to include in the ancillary tasks.

Mood Boards

As part of our pitch, the group and I did research suitable to present and one way of presenting the information gathered were through the creative use of mood boards which in a way told a story to whoever was looking at it about the chosen subject. As a group we made a few mood boards and with these were able to cover most parts of our research with them. These were not only a good way of presenting our research but they were often a reminder to us of things we had to include and what things we needed audience feedback on. Iindividual story boards were made for location (1) and overall iconography concerning album covers (2). We also used these to get things such as the mise-en-scene, camera shots and angles developed through research so that we knew exactly what we were doing when it came to filming.

(1) The first mood board concerning location has telephone boxes, sand and the seaside on it reminding us of British culture as well as referring to parts of the song. we often came back to this particular mood board when deciding on location and even when we were in the process of filming.

(2) The second mood board has different album covers from various well known artists such as Beyonce, Jessie J and Bob Marley. The purpose of this mood board is to identify the genres of the artist and the song. This mood board constantly reminded the group of the strong Pop and Reggae themes which we were going to keep to in the filming process. Another feature included in this mood board was the use of a presentation feature called Wordle. This meant we could have words on the mood board relating to the genres such as retro, upbeat and soul.

(1)

(2)

Olly Murs Inspiration

Whilst carrying out important research we wanted to get some inspriration from our artist and referred to some of his previous music videos. From these we were able to identify key points about iconography, mise-en-scene and other important factors such as location.

Group Meeting

As a group having had many meetings and decided to record one so that we could document and look back at things that were said in order to grow and develop together as a group. We thought that taking minutes was good but also felt that recording meetings would also help us develop and help us keep track of our developments. Below is a video of one of the meetings held:

Storyboard

Genre/Lyrics

These are the lyrics of our chosen song "Thinking of You" by Olly Murs and after a considerable amount of discussion and planning annotated the lyric sheet with thoughts about iconography, location and mise-en-scene and below is a screenshot of that. As a group we didnt want the lyrics of the song to be distant as far as the other products we were going to make were concerned and this meant we could include ideas from the lyrics in our Ancillary Tasks and other things such as location scouting. The lyric sheet became a very important part of our work and we reffered to it time and time again as part of our research.