WL - Shooting Schedule #8

Tom is going into Leeds this week to get footage at the airport as well as getting footage of planes landing and taxi footage. This will involve filming in Leeds Bradford airport as well as filming in an area for plane spotters. Hopefully we can get some footage, however filming inside the airport could be an issue with security. This footage can be used in a rough cut.
Footage to get:

• Footage inside the Airport
• Aeroplane landing
• Taxi footage

Location: Leeds Bradford Airport

Equipment: Tripod, HD camera

Group Members: Tom

Daft Punk E.g. 6: Discovery (Album)

Album: Discovery
Artist: Daft Punk
Genre: Electronic
Director: Kazuhisa Takenouchi
Year Released: 2001

Points of influence:

• While we wont be making an animated music video there are points we can take from these. In One More Time, for example, there are scenes of people dancing and 'live performance footage'. The shot types, editing and 'lighting' used from these will have a big influence on our party scene.

example videos:

The music videos from the 2001 Daft Punk album Discovery together make up a feature length film, Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem. It was directed by Kazuhisa Takenouchi who specialises in anime. The film tells the story of the Discovery album and features each song.

The album Discovery is recognised as a concept album which makes it suitable for use in a film.

From Wikipedia:

Early versions of the album included a "Daft Club" membership card. The card included a code which granted access to an online music service, which featured tracks later released on the album of the same name and Alive 1997.

The Daft Club was used to promote the film and through it were released previously unreleased remixes of tracks from the Discovery album.

All of the music videos have a clear narrative when watched together in order and are set in an alien planet.

The first four episodes from the film were shown on MTV and Cartoon Network in 2001. Cartoon Network showed the episodes online as part of their Toonami Reactor project.

Magazine Ad Update 2

I have updated the magazine ad to include the new background, photographed by Will. I have also made the Daft Punk text on the left darker following audience feedback. I will be getting more audience feedback on the updated design after Christmas, but here is our current design.

Updated Magazine Ad

Daft Punk E.g. 5: Daft Punk - Robot Rock

Track: Robot Rock

Artist: Daft Punk

Genre: Electronic

Year Released: 2005

Points of influence:

• Large amps are used in this music video. We will try and use similar in our video, but if they don't look effective we will not use those shots.

• 'Special Presentation' ident at start
• Television screens - video was filmed on VHS to create a retro look
• Daft Punk logo shown on the screens
• Features performance footage
• Double-necked guitar and drums are played - going back to their roots
• Flashing coloured lighting is used a lot
• Both band members play in the Daft Punk helmets and black leather/artificial leather
• Edited so that the footage is in a circle shape with black on the outside throughout
• Smoke machine is used in parts
• Huge amps are shown - either referencing their rock music beginnings or their use of technology
• Lights turn out quickly to end the video

Podcast 5: Update of Whats Been Done

Daft Punk E.g. 4: Daft Punk - Prime Time of Your Life

Track: Prime Time of Your Life

Artist: Daft Punk

Genre: Electronic

Director: Tony Gardner

Year Released: 2006

Points of influence:

• This video uses interesting transitions which we will use as inspiration for the transitions in our music video.

• 'Special Presentation' ident at start
• Blinking transition (0:20)
• Zooms out (0:10-0:28)
• Skeletons with hair lip synching
• TV screen 
• POV shot (0:56)
• Photos used to transition forward in time from the young girl to her as a teenager
• TV screen used to show girl after she dies

Skeleton

Daft Punk E.g. 2: Daft Punk - Rollin' and Scratchin'

Track: Rollin' and Scratchin'

Artist: Daft Punk

Genre: Electronic

Year Released: 1997

Points if influence:

• Party scene - we will use a projection similar to the one in this music video as the backdrop for our party scene.
• We considered using the Daft Punk logo painted on the ground or on a wall in our video as it is in this video. We have used the font in our magazine ad and digipak which we downloaded from dafont.com.

• Multi-layering used
• Abstract coloured shapes
• Uses a street sign as a title
• Features live performance
• Cutting to the beat (1:00)
• Daft Punk logo painted on the pavement

Abstract Coloured Shapes

Features Live Performance

Daft Punk logo painted on pavement

WL - Digipak Design

Here is the initial design for the digipak, we based the design on the suitcase used in the video and took the pictures when shooting on saturday. For the digipak it's important to note the small details such as record labels and copyright information. I used the emboss tool in photoshop to create the text and the globe in the centre. I think the design is simple yet eye catching and will work especially well when it come to the final product on cardboard. We used a template from the musividz blog and downloaded the 'Daft Font' from dafont.com. As you can see also the front cover relates to the back.

Digipak Front Panel w/ Spine

Back Panel

Dummy Magazine Ads

I created two dummy magazine ads to get audience feedback on. The first is themed around the briefcase carried by the traveller in our video. For the other design, the traveller's face would be in an outline in the same style as the woman in the dummy ad.

Magazine Ad Dummy 1

Magazine Ad Dummy 2

I will be getting audience feedback on these, seeing which design people prefer, what they would change and whether people think they are effective or not later in the week.

TC - Lyrics Timesheet

Timesheet TC Version 1

Daft Punk E.g. 1: Daft Punk - Burnin

Track: Burnin

Artist: Daft Punk

Genre: Electronic

Director: Seb Janiak

Year Released: 1997

Points of influence:

• We have taken direct influence from the party scenes in this video, which we will be using in our video. One thing I would like to take most influence from is the use of whip pans.

• Whip pan and jutter transitions
• Flash effect
• Morphing from young to old with wave ripple transition
• Cutting to the beat
• Cutaway shots on high pitched notes
• Fantasy
• Smooth transition from toy truck to real truck
• Another sound comes in as the truck changes scenes onto the roads
• Editing matches techno beat, which is broken up by one long take showing a boy, a toy truck and a dog
• Speeded up footage
• CCTV screen part of mise-en-scene
• Cuts between close-up shots and medium-long shots at party scene
• Elevator used as setting
• Shots objectifying the female body
• Slight camera tilts at party scene
• Closed narrative

Toy truck transitions to...

... a real truck

Ripple transition between young and old 

Long take breaks up fire truck callout over techno beat

Podcast 4: Filming and Creative Arts Evening

Daft Punk Past Music Videos

Below is a list of all the Daft Punk music videos, with links to each.

Homework (1997)

Revolution 909
Da Funk (1995)
Around The World
Rollin' & Scratchin'
Burnin'

Discovery (2001)

One More Time (2000)
Aerodynamic
Digital Love
Harder Better Faster Stronger
Crescendolls
Nightvision
Superheroes
High Life
Something About Us
Voyager
Veridis Quo
Short Circuit
Face to Face
Too Long

Human After All (2005)

The Prime Time of Your Life
Robot Rock
Technologic

Tron: Legacy [Soundtrack] (2010)

Derezzed

Magazine Ad Design 1

WL - Digipak Layout

WL - Shooting Schedule #7

This weekend we are going film scenes with the traveller as well as two encounters. First of all we are going to film the encounter with Tom doing magic in outside bluebell woods. This will involve a sequence of shots with card tricks and the dance incorporated. We will also film the traveller around the woods walking and then the interaction between the biker and the traveller. This should give us some valuable footage towards a first rough cut, however we still need more encounters for our final product.
Footage to get:

• Card trick encounter
• Miscellaneous walking
• Biker encounter 
• Woods footage
• Directing footage

Location: Bluebell Woods, Ilkley

Equipment: HD cameras, Tripod, Figrig

Group Members: tom, Will, Andy

Podcast 3: Delegating Responsibilities/Creative Arts Evening

WL - Shooting Schedule #6

We hope to get some good footage at the creative arts evening of different people replicating our dance moves with instruction for different group members. We also hope to show of things like the initial digipak design and magazine ad/poster. The video made from this footage can be used to try and extend our audience.
Footage we hope to achieve:

• A variety of people taking part in the dance
• Instructing people how to do the dance

Location: Ilkley Grammar School
Equipment: HD Cameras, Figrig, Tripod, Macbook
Group Members: Tom, Will, Andy

First Rough Cut

This is our first rough cut. Although it does not include footage for the entire song it begins to demonstrate how our video will fit together.

WL - Shooting Schedule #5

We have extended our idea to include a dance which can be replicated in order to help extend our products audience appeal. For this are going to do an instruction video for the dance using students in the 6th form center in the hope we can show this at creative arts evening and get people to take part in the dance and replicate it. 
Footage we hope to get:

• Tom instructing the dance
• Students replicating the moves

Location: Ilkley Grammar School
Equipment: HD Camera, Tripod
Group Members: Tom, Will, Andy

WL - Shooting Schedule #4

Tom is going to a club this weekend in order to try and get some very rough club/ party scene footage. This is going to hopefully be used in a initial rough cut. Oviously we will film the proper party scene at a later date to be used in our final cut, however this footage should give us an idea of editing styles and shot types which we can use for the final cut. Tom is using his phone camera as it would be a problem if his camera got lost or stolen etc.
What we hope to film:

• Club/Dance footage
• Misc club footage

Location - The Beaver Works, Leeds
Equipment - 720p phone camera
Group member - Tom