Group Minutes

Meetings:

Meeting 5th October: Members present Alex Williams (AW), Elliot Smith (ES), and Natasha Green (NG):
This afternoon we discussed many factors that will affect our planning for our film. For our music video we have decided that we are going to use two locations, a Victorian room and an open field these are for our two scenes that are going to be used in our video.

MUSE consists of three male members, Matt Bellamy, Chris W and Dom Howard. We decided that we are going to use Alex to play Chris, Elliot to play Dom Howard and our good friend Sam to play Matt Bellamy. The reason on why we picked Alex to play Chris is because he is very tall and looks the most like him. Elliot is going to play Dom due to similar heights and body structure and this is the same reason for Sam to play Matt.

The Band footage is going to be filmed a Victorian room that is very large with high ceilings. This is because some of MUSE recent videos have been shot in large rooms with high ceilings.

As we are filming the band we are going to require a lot of equipment this includes drum kit, lead guitar, bass guitar, mic stand, mic and Amp. Luckily some of us play instruments so all the equipment is very easy to get hold of.

Equipment:
5 cameras and Stands
Red bulb
Torches many as possible/ orange filter
CD player with music

We decided to use 5 cameras so that we can get a variety of camera shots and angles to work with. The red bulb will allow us to create atmosphere and will resemble previous muse videos. The CD player with the music will guide us on what parts we need to play and perform.

By looking through at previous MUSE videos we noticed that they all wear distinctive bright coloured outfits that are different to each other.

Chris ( Alex) : White trousers, white top, black suit jacket, dark shoes and face mask
Dom ( Elliot) : Green trousers, white top, black hoody, dark shoes and face mark
Matt ( Sam) : Red trousers, white top , red hoddy, dark shoes and facemask

These colours are often worn by Muse, the facemask resembles a previous video by MUSE on where they used facemask this was in their video " supermassive black hole"

For our second location we decided to film it in a open farm / field this is where we are going to film our protest. We have decided to film and create a protest because we recently went to the MUSE gig a couple of weeks ago and we noticed that they opened the show with a protest against resistance. So we thought this would be a good MUSE element to add into our film, we are aiming to film it in twilight. This will allow us to see if the camera picks up the dark or if it is poor quality.

For our protest we are going to use 18 extras for our protest, these extras won't be hard to get hold of as these extras will be our friends.

Equipment:
5 Cameras and Stands
Potential vehicle
Torches
We are going to use 5 cameras so that we can get a variety of shots which will gives us to lot work with and edit for our final cut. The potential vehicle may be used to aid us with our filming; we thought that we could sit in the vehicle and film the protest to crate panning equipment. The torches are going to aid us with potential lighting and effects to give us the best possible shots.

Props:

Hand Held Flares

Bonfire

Bamboo polls

Flags

We have decided to use hand held flares as we feel that this will look good on film and come across as very effective and fit in with our protest theme. This is where the bonfire is also linked in with the hand held flares. The Bamboo polls and flags will be marked with the resistance logo to mark our protest.

We feel as if this meeting went very well as we discussed a lot and are eager to get started on the further details on the planning.

Meeting 12th October: Members present Alex Williams (AW), Natasha Green (NG):
In today’s brief meeting we discussed what needed to be done in the upcoming weeks. Firstly, we discussed about our recent filming that took place
last Thursday on which we filmed our riot scene and lab scene. We discussed on how successful it was and what ideas we are going to use when editing it. We were severely motivated on continuing to do more filming and editing due to our brilliant footage of the riot scene.

Meeting 19th October: Members present Alex Williams (AW), Elliot Smith (ES), and Natasha Green (NG):
In this session we wanted to complete the editing of the Riot scene. We were very keen to do this as we enjoyed looking through and editing our riot scene.

Meeting 2nd November: Members present Alex Williams (AW), Elliot Smith (ES), and Natasha Green (NG):
We were disappointed due to the fact that we weren’t able to complete the editing of the riot scene. We all thought that we would have completed the editing in the previous lesson. Of course, we didn’t think that the editing would have taken such a long time. The main priority of today’s lesson was to complete all of the riot footage.
Meeting 9th November: Members present Alex Williams (AW), Elliot Smith (ES), and Natasha Green (NG)
Today we realised that we had hardly any footage apart from the Riot scene and old lab scenes. We realised that we only had a few weeks to get it done, so we really needed to get a move on. The main focus on today’s lesson was editing the Riot scene and Lab scene. We discussed what we needed to do in the upcoming weeks. This was more band footage, drug testing scene and business man scene.

Meeting 16th November: Members present Alex Williams (AW), Elliot Smith (ES), and Natasha Green (NG):
Today we discussed about the very important band footage that needed to be filmed. (Sam Taylor) was only available on Thursday 19th November so all of the band footage had to be done and completed this coming Thursday. We decided that the band footage was going to take place at my house in the empty garage. We decided this would be a brilliant location as the garage has plenty of space and the dark background would fit perfectly within our film.

Meeting 23rd November: Members present Alex Williams (AW), Elliot Smith (ES), and Natasha Green (NG):
Editing the recent band footage was the main focus on today’s meeting, we filmed a lot of band footage and we realised that we had very little time to complete the rest of the editing and filming. So we discussed on doing some editing during our free time, which would mean we would be using our free time more effective, which resulted in getting the whole process done a whole lot quicker.
Meeting 30th November: Members present Alex Williams (AW), Elliot Smith (ES), and Natasha Green (NG):
(ES) brought to attention that the film was missing part of the drug testing, so we discussed that we needed to film this seen ASAP. We arranged to film the drug testing scene on Friday the 3rd of the December since we all could attend this date. For the drug testing footage we suggested that we needed x3 extras (Stephanie Stevens, Ben Sutton and Glenn Dourish) to play as scientists. Again, we noticed that we needed to correctly fit the footage with the Song. This was to be done after this meeting.

Meeting 7th December November: Members present Alex Williams (AW), Elliot Smith (ES), and Natasha Green (NG):
In today’s group meeting we were very eager to discuss on what was needed to be done in the final editing stage of out film. We knew our deadline for filming and editing was on the 14th December so a lot needed to be. Firstly we discussed the remaining footage that needed to be done. The footage that was to be done was final shots of band which is going to take place at Elliot’s house in his garden. The second piece of footage that needed to be filmed was footage of a small child (Rachel Smith) and the business man (Sam Taylor), which was going to take place down a country lane. We decided to do all this final footage on Friday 10th as we all could meet this date. We then discussed that we needed to add final touches on to the editing.