Summary of Group Meeting 28/09/10

Group Meeting – Planning

On Tuesday the 28^th of September 2010 my group consisting of Jack Taylor, Nick Norman, Jake Parsons and Charlie Bennett held a 15 minute meeting discussing what will actually happen in our music video and what actually needs to be done to produce it. Therefore on the agenda was the discussion of ‘Props and costumes’ ‘Roles’ ‘Location’ ‘Production schedule’ ‘Equipment’ and ‘Health and Safety’

The artist we have chosen to base our music video on is ‘Chase & Status’ with the song called ‘Let you go’ The original video is based on a Jeremy Kyle like figure, who hosts his own TV chat show, helping people with problems etc. However, the night before the camera follows him as he takes drugs, get drunk, sleeps with different woman and crashes his car. This therefore shows him contradicting his TV personality and shows he has a wild personal life.

We have decided to use a similar theme of a ‘double lifestyle’ as shown in the original video. Below is a summary of each item we discussed:

Props and costumes

After a small discussion as a group we agreed that we are either going to use the character of a TV host just like in the original video, a judge or a doctor.

Therefore we would need a suit, a barrister’s outfit or a scrub.

Roles

We have decided that Jack Taylor will play the main actors role, Nick Norman will be the camera man and play small roles in the background, Jake Parsons will be the main person editing and will also play small roles in the music video, and Charlie Bennett will play small roles as well but will manager the group while filming.

Location

We agreed that we would use a night club/bar location for the characters wild side but also the streets in town for the driving and drug taking scenes. However we have not decided fully on actual locations such as exactly what night clubs due to the fact of permission to use them.

Equipment

During the making of our film I will need to use the following equipment:

.Camcorder – Sony

.Digital camera – To take screenshot for our online diary

.Apple Mac - To store and collect film clips

.Editing software - To create our film (Final Cut)

.Lighting - To create the mood of the film and make it visible for the audience

.Tripod - To keep the camera steady and not shake when filming

.Microphone - The microphone on the camera will not be of good enough quality so a microphone will me necessary

.Tape - To record our film on

Production schedule

We have been told that filming can commence on the 4^th of October and finish on the 19^th of October

Therefore we will start editing immediately after we finish filming