The Set

The build went well; our design for the set was a barn. The only issues we had was finding a company that could sell us bails of hay, all of the companies we initially called could only sell hay by the tone which clearly wasn’t what we needed. After searching far and wide we finally found a local farm that could sell us hay by the bail, 60 pounds later we had a finished set and something that resembled a barn.

Evaluation of shoot day.

Our shoot day went well, we started and finished pretty much on time. The studio stuff went really well and it all looked really nice the only issue we had was that our lead turned up late and then had a little problem with the lyrics that we didnt notice on the day but will have to try and fix or cover up in the edit. We then have all of our field stuff which you can see an image of above, this all went to plan and we only got kicked off of one persons land which I thought was good goinge. I do have one worry though and that is that the studio stuff and the feild stuff is going to look weird along side eachother but we will see when we come round to editing which will be soon. Over all the shoot went very well and I am looking forward to seeing the final product.

I operated the camera for the most part on the day of shooting as this is where I feel I have most knowledge and experience. The camera we used for this particular shoot was the Sony F3 shown in the image below

The reason we where aloud to shoot on this camera is because I had been able to use it prior to the shoot when we traveled to Italy to shoot a documentary with the Hurtwood Film Academy earlier this year. This camera is the higher end camera that the school owns and when used properly and treated properly in post can through out footage of cinema quality. Along with the F3 we also used another lower end of Sony camera to shoot the stuff in the field as the F3 would have been to much to cary around and set up with the little time we had. 

In the studio we used a Dolly to get the nice fluid tracking shots we wanted, having access to a dolly is a huge help as we didn't have to get one in ourselves. We looked over the shots earlier this week and the tracking shots look amazing thanks to this great piece of kit (Shown below)

CD Digipak research

CD Digipak research

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Letter to the label.

To XL Recordings,
We are a group of A Level students working on an A Level project for a qualification in Media Studies. We are writing to request permission to use the following track as part of this project:

Vampire Weekend, Run.

With your permission the track would be used as the accompaniment to a short form video that is made purely for assessment purposes and will have no commercial usage. The video will be viewed only by members of the school community and the assessor of the examination board.

The artist and the copyright holder will of course be fully recognized in the pre-production and evaluation material that accompanies the project. We can also include a full copyright notice if required both in the planning material and on the video itself.

Yours sincerely

Niall Green, Talisa Bergsen and William Bodnar-Horvath

Hurtwood House School

Props and Costume

Animatic evaluation

After showing our animatic to the team at Hurtwood and getting their feedback on it me and my group decided that we have to many narratives going on so we decided to cut it down from 6 to 3 so we can film them in more detail.

We are shooting at the beginning of November meaning that the weather and lighting are probably going to be terrible which could change the video from happy and hippy to sad and dull which could be a big issue. We also have to be very careful that the video doesn't end up being cheesy.

Rough Cast List

Narrative (Field)

The list below is our cast list for our field scenes in the video, we need a fair amount of people for this part of the video to work as we need to create a crowd like atmosphere leading up the final scene outside the barn.

Ollie Baynham

Mina Hambro

Bella Speaight 

Plum O’Keeffe

Jess Adam

Georgina Morton

Kyle Foreman

Sola

Charlie Lindsay

Will Barlow

Sarah Findlay

Lavinia Di Loernzo

Daniela Wild

Josie Fellows

Ellie Wilson 

Simon Wood

Kate Boucher

Will Edgley 

Lillie Resta

Sunshine

Jana Page

Aimee Watts

Lara Pitctet

Band (Studio)

Below is the list of band members we would like for our video.

Patch Wadsworth

Jake Cecil

Rollo Spreckley

Freddie Dixon