Planning Blog Project 2

In every project we will do in AICE Media, we will have to plan. the planning period is a critical part of the filming process, and we are excited to get started with this music video project. while this was our least favorite part in the last project, we are determined to streamline the process and make it as great and as easy as possible. Our current plan for the project is to film at the beach, as that is public property and hopefully not a lot of people will be at the jetty, which is a place far south of the beach which often does not have a lot of people and will hopefully be an optimal location. the jetty itself as lots of rocks and lots of sand (of course) and will be the start and probably the end of the video itself.  i am very excited to take the walk there.

In terms of health and safety, we know the dangers of the beach better than most people, so we will do our very best and take every precaution to make sure the actors, costumes and equipment stay safe throughout the whole of filming. we will do our best to make sure that the filming gets done in one day to minimize the risk of the elements destroying our equipment and ruining morale. we will try and ask the owners of the jetty if we can film there or not.

For props, we will have minimal because the core of the commercial will be the actors. in fact, the only two props will be an inflatable jukebox and a pot for the lobster to boil. that is virtually it for props, which is ok because the actors carry the scene completely. the props are just for immersion.

the costumes will be the driving force of the clip, as the costumes will show the two characters, the man and the lobster. the contrast between the two groups will be stark, and the viewers will obviously see the two groups as different.

For software, we will be using the same program as normal, pinnacle studios. we will be doing this because our teachers require it and it is a pretty well of the program. I sill hope we do not have the same slowness problems that we had with it before, but we are prepared to deal with them.

The music we will use we do not have to ask permission for because we will not be selling this music video. if we were, we would have to pay royalties and those are way above our paygrade and definitely not worth it.