The response!

My psychology teacher, who we casted for the female therapist character responded for my email with a question if she would like to take part in our music video.  She got back to me and this is her response:

This is what I replied:

The date of our music video shoot! 

Today we were told that our shoot is planned in November the 17th. I emailed my psychology teacher if she can take part in the shoot on the day. I am now waiting for the reply, however Teddy is going to email our dj character. 

Also Jason today told us that it might me impossible to have the hanging ma in our clip. Therefore now we need to come up with another idea OR cast one of the students as a hanging man, what we still need to discuss with Luke. 

Animatic 

Here is our animatic, which is a video of our storyboard put together with music, to get the general idea what we are going for when it comes to our music video. 

1. What is an animatic storyboard?
An animatic is a filmed version of the storyboard. The shots are timed to what the actual are supposed to look like. Its gives a general idea what is our concept, it helps to visualise the concept since the track is playing in the background and the shots are played in a right order.

2. How useful has this been to your music video concept?
Personally I think it helped us to see what kind of shots fit in the rythm of the music, but also it helps to imagine the whole flow of the music video.

3. What have you identified worked for your music video and why?
I think the movement and a lot of quick shots are working well with the pace fo the song but we still need to add more shots to make it more dynamic.

4. Do you have enough shots? if not what do you need to consider?
I think we do not have enough shots, but we have discussed that we should have more movement shots of the main mad character to create a rapid jump cuts between the scenes.

5. What needs to change or develop to your music video idea and why?
We need to develop the narrative between the main male character and the therapist.

6. What are you going to do?
Together with my group we are going to add more action in the video

Storyboard 

HERE is our complete storyboard that we draw and annotated. 

Letter to ZHU's record company 

Teddy wrote a letter to the record company - Mind Of A Genius - asking for a permission to use their song in our video. Below I posted a picture of the email that we sent. 

How to build a padded room?

Since we are building the padded room setting in the studio on our own, HERE is the technique that we are going to use! 

Meeting with Luke and set designer 

Yesterday we had a meeting with Luke and a set designer. I found that meting particularly helpful.We came up with new concepts and some of the ideas we decided to reject. 

We decided to twist the idea a bit and came up with the concept of a dentist chair in a interrogation room - we thought that the table and two chairs is too boring and it is not original, since it is a mental hospital we should have something crazy in the rooms - break the stereotypes. 

The mad man would be tied to the chair, while being in the room with the woman therapist. However it would be our back up plan when the idea with the hanging man will not work out. 

The other idea that we had was to switch the CCTV room to a mysterious/crazy location. We came up with the idea of a cave with few monitors in it or to create like a secret office in the middle of the forest that would be hidden under leaves and branches.

Another suggestion was to just shot the whole video in a padded room and have different elements cut between, which I thought is a good idea because it would give us more editting opportunities and we can experiment with various techniques like colours, lights etc. Right now the decision belongs to all of us - we need to think if we prefer to have only one set with various elements or three completely different sets. 

We were also thinking about variety of shots of the mad man and we came with the idea of eyes painted on the lids. 

As a last idea that we had yesterday was concerning the appearance of the DJ. We thought that it would be nice to add one more aspect to the video to increase the pace and variety. From the beginning we wanted him to be in a padded room with his colorful deck and adding some colorful lights with it.