Making the Monster

This is the making of the monster costume that Connie kindly offered to do seeing as she is more arty than me and Leah, this process took about a week to do and consisted of creating the monster mask and the arms and shoes that I would also be wearing in the video. To create the mask as you can see Connie had to paper maché  a plastic mask to create the texture and expression of the monsters face, afterwards she glued in eyes and teeth to create a monster look. The mask itself was very well made and was a good attempt based on our budget and the money we had to spend on it. Evaluating it though I would've liked if the mask itself had some breathing holes or something that I could see out of. The mask itself had no eye holes and nowhere to breathe out of so it was very claustrophobic and I couldn't see out of it at all. This meant that I couldn't see anything when I had the mask on so it made it difficult to act because I had no idea what I was doing or where I was going, the lack of breathing holes meant that it was uncomfortable to wear for long periods of time. Especially when we had to record in 20 degrees heat. Although it was not very practical it was a very realistic looking mask and portrayed what we wanted it too.




The rest of the materials were used to create the monster were found either in Connie's house or Leah and Connie went charity shopping and found them there. The cost ended up being about £8 each which was very cheap for what we got out of it and what Connie was able to do with it. The teeth Connie already had due to an old project of hers and everything was sourced from different shops and then it was used to create the monster.

Storyboard - Shot List

Storyboard

This is the storyboard that Connie created that details what is going to be happening within our video to help us with what shots and angles, a storyboard is also useful because it helps us set out our ideas and bring them to life with images before creating them in real life, it also brings out a set type of communication within the group because what we can't explain with words we can explain with images and drawing.

The second half of the storyboard as you can see is incomplete, after communicating with Connie we found out that she was struggling to create the second half of the storyboard because it was getting difficult to create the ending of our video because we had not decided on what was going to be the climax and the change. We then decided that the blank spaces within the storyboard are the things we can just improvise as we go along and decide what is best for the image we want to portray. This ended up being 'day in the life' activities of the monster and how they were going wrong to inspire him to want to change to inspire the narrative.

Shot List

Here are some examples of the shots we are going to do to create our music video and bring it to life. 

1. A birds-eye shot of the monster in his bed.
2. A montage style of the monster getting ready for his day - changing clothes etc.
3. Close-up of the monster brushing his teeth and his hair. 
4. A mid-close up of the monster getting ready in the mirror over his shoulder.
5. Low angle tracking shot of the monster and his feet as he leaves his bed.
6. An establishing shot of the park the monster is visiting.
7. A tracking shot of the monster as he walks through the park. 
8. The monster walking from frame to frame.
9. Mid shots of the monster sat on the bench.
10. A reverse dolly zoom of the monster sat on the bench through the bin.
11. An over the shoulder shot of a scratch card.
12. A close up of the scratch card.

Gantt Chart for the Music Video

This our Gantt chart to help us keep on schedule with our filming it helps us remain on track.

Survey for Music Video

This is our survey that Connie created, this survey is a way that we can see what our target audience would be and what type of music they like etc. This is helpful because it means we can adapt and change our music video to get the prime input from our audience. 

This question was to devise the best place to put our music video. This question was helpful as it helped us decide that youtube would be the most influential place to post our music video.

This question was helpful because it helped us decide which genre had the best videos and because our music video was very indie it gave us the confidence to help us realise that we could make a video that people like. This was a relevant question to ask.

This question was very helpful and relevant because it helped us decide what type of music video to do. We ended up doing a narrative video.

This question was unhelpful because it was it ended up with a 50/50 answer so it offers no input or incite.

This was helpful because it was an open question which allowed people to expand on the previous question because it means that it allows us to have a greater understanding.

This is relevant in the fact that it shows what the audience wants and if the music video should be relevant and we followed the answers to this because our music video matches the response.

This question is not really relevant because it does not add or detract from the music video.

This question was helpful because it helped us realise our age range when it came to creating the music video and the survey so we could work towards it.

Equipment List and Props

1. Cameras (we each have our own to choose from) 
2. Spare batteries/ Charging cables
3. SD Cards
4. Lenses (18-55mm and Macro and Fish eye and Wide Angle)  
5. Tripod
6. Portable Lights
7. Dolly 

Props: 

1. Monster Costume - Shoes, Mask, Furry arms
2. Different black clothing - for the changing section 
3. Fake Lottery Ticket 
4. Sleeping Mask
5. Glue/Staples/Back up fur 
6. Nutmeg for the dog scene.

Focus Group

We did a focus group in order to help us with our idea of our music video, these are some of the ideas we got given by our peers after showing them our ideas. It has been very helpful to do this because it has given us ideas from people outside our group while also helping us see how other people will perceive it. 

• There is a note or something in the shirt, some kind of inspirational note that helps him
• Falls in love with something or someone which helps him to get happy again 
• Dancing with an item of clothing, falling in love with somebody, clothing or an item
• Watching campy horror films 
• Even the people on the tv are screaming at him
• Italian neorealism
•  Just walking through town with the costume on and getting people's natural reactions to it
• Really rubbish things happening to him throughout the day 
• Dogs running away from him, raining on him, bags breaking, loosing on a scratch card.

Moodboard for Music Video/ Brief Description of Video and Inspiration/ Location Planning

Our song we are doing is The Wombats - I only wear black, we are aiming to do a video about a monster who is going about his day to day life and he's on road to self improvement and at the end of the video when he feels happier within himself he peels off the monster outfit to reveal a normal human underneath. We are focusing on the physical manifestation of sadness.

Inspiration for the music video:



Here are two video inspirations for the video we are aiming to do, The Fall Out Boy video is a good inspiration because it shows the more human side to the Antler Boy and we are trying to embody this in the later stage of our video. The Sea Fret video is good because it shows the monster we are trying to portray. The hairy monster is a good reference point for us when creating our own monster.

Location

This is the location we have decided to film in, partly due to convenience and also for our music video we are aiming to do a day in the life style video so its useful to have Connie's house available to use to film the day to day functioning of our monster. We are also planning to use the area around connie's house as well, Riversly Park or the big block of green on the map is also going to be a key area that we film in due to its accessibility and its also quite a picturesque place to film.