Research and Planning: Victim of the Mind Breakdown

VICTIM OF THE MIND

SHOT BREAKDOWN

LOCATION: 40 PELL STREET READING

SHOT 1: High angled shot of the piano keys as Amy begins to play.

SHOT 2: Low angled medium close up of Amy’s foot on the pedal

SHOT3: Extreme close up the camera pans from right to left and stops as half of Amy’s face is in the shot.

SHOT4: Close up of Amy’s face illuminated by candlelight

SHOT5: Extreme close up of a candle flame the camera pans from left to right.

SHOT6: Medium long shot of a wall mural of leaves blowing in the wind illuminated by a few candles.

SHOT 7: Extreme close up of Jenny’s eyes the camera is fixed her eyes look lost and sad but stern at the same time.

SHOT 8: Extreme close up of Jenny’s ear and the top of her shoulder the camera pans from right to left.

SHOT 9 : Medium close up of the bottom half of Jenny as she sits on the steps

SHOT 10: Still shot of the waterfall.

SHOT 11: Close up of Amy’s face and a candle as she sings victim of the mind.

Shot 12: Still shot of a tree illuminated by sunset

SHOT 13: Medium close up of a unlit candle in a wine bottle that is placed in front of a picture of a waterfall.

SHOT 14: Medium shot of the piano and Amy playing with the song.

SHOT 15: Medium close up of Amy face once again illuminated by candlelight and singing victim of the mind her eyes shift from the keys to the camera.

SHOT 16: Side angled shot of the piano with the unlit wine bottle as Jenny circles to the door.

SHOT 17: Extreme close op the unlit candle again the photo of the waterfall.

SHOT 18: Medium long shot of Jenny standing in the open doorway it is dark and murky outside.

SHOT 19: Medium close up of Jenny in the front of the shot and Amy in the background.

SHOT 20: Jenny turns to look at Amy but all there is left is a lit candle under the stairs.

SHOT 21: Montage of close ups of Jenny walking around the room, picking up random objects and eventually walking to the corner of the room.

SHOT 22: Montage of candles a mix of the candles that are in the room with Amy and a mix of candles that are in the room with Jenny.

SHOT 23: Still shot of a sunset/ sunrise

SHOT 24: Medium shot of Amy as she is playing the chorus

SHOT 25 high angled shot of the piano as Amy plays the recurring melody for the instrumental.

SHOT 26: Still of a tree in the Beacons

SHOT 27: Moving shot of the waterfall

SHOT 28: Fade out to fade in of waterfall scenes.

Research and Planning: Equipment List for Filming

Equipment:

Tripod x2
HD Camera x2
Camera tapes x2
Gorilla tripod x1
Candles
Reflectors

Research and Planning: Rough Shot List Guide

After looking back at footage so far, and having outside observers watch some of our footage; we realised that our opening footage had dull lighting, and the overall filming was fuzzy. Furthermore, we hadn't filmed any performance elements of our artisit singing.

We decided to think of other possiblities for the opening, that included performance elements. Below is the rough draft of our Shot List for the opening of our music video:

	Direction	Shot	Props/Ideas
Shot 1	Amy’s eyes	Close up
Shot 2	Piano still	Single shot	Piano
Shot 3	Foot on Piano keys	Mid-shot, Close up, Panning	Piano keys
Shot 4	Candles	Close up, Fade in/out, Slow motion	Candles
Shot 5	Flame of the candle	Mid-shot, Close up, Bird eye view	Bird’s eye view of the candle from above
Shot 6	Bird eye view of the Piano keys	Bird’s eye view	Piano keys, Amy’s foot playing
Shot 7	Side face of Amy’s face make-up	Mid-shot, Close-up, Long shot	Amy’s make-up
Shot 8	Performance elements of Amy singing	Mid-shot, Close-up, Extreme close up, Panning (a range of shots)	Amy’s lips, eyes, mouth, chest upwards
Shot 9	Side shots	Mid-shot, Panning, Fade in/out	Amy herself
Shot 10	Amy’s arm	Panning shot
Shot 11	Performance elements of Amy singing	Mid-shot, Close-up, Extreme close up, Panning (a range shots)	Amy herself
Shot 12	Waterfall image in the frame	Close-up, Zoom	Waterfall image in the frame, and the room around the frame.

Research and Planning for Ancillary: Album Designs Cut 1

Below are the photographs for our album so far. We have created the album artwork in a style that meets both our audience and bands demand. Thus, we have created an album cover that is simple yet affective, and illustrates both the beauty in nature, and the beauty in life itself. This idea compliments the music video following the representation of moving from a dark place of depression, to where they are guided into a light from their depression.

Album Artwork - Front Cover

Album Artwork - Back Cover

Research and Planning for Ancillary: Font Research

Looking at our five experimental album cover images, we narrowed the choice down to 'Zapfino'. We felt that the font captured the essence of the photograph well, representing our artist as pure and innocent, 'angel' like, which is one of the ideas we had for our artist. I decided to research into the 'Zapfino' font into more detail.

'Zapfino' Font Album Cover - Victim of the Mind

Zapfino Font:

Zapfino is a calligraphic typeface designed by Hermann Zapf in 1998. The inspiration is based on an alphabet 'Zapf' originally penned in 1994.