Speak With Our Hands

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Rough Cut Feedback

• Zombie people look cool, although a bit random. (We need to make our ideas more obvious.)
• Editing fits well but is repetitive. (We need to finish our other location shots.)
• Lip-syncing is accurate. :]
• Good, original ideas, thoughtfully planned etc.
• Interesting costumes and make-up.

We've had a lot of positive feedback, but also some confused audiences. With our final shoots we will try to make our theme more obvious.

OUR FIRST ROUGH CUT^.^

The rough cut has a few gaps (which will be filled eventually). We are yet to film the narrative parts and some of the cutaway images. We also are going to film the female speaking parts in the video. We have messed around with the colour filters in some of the shots so the Youtubers can watch and hopefully give us their opinion of the different effects.

First Day of Filming

12:10
This is Bing, blogging from the first day of major filming. Today we're hoping to get most of the Outdoor/Zombie shots done today. As we speak, our make-up expert is finishing a gash above and below Tomska's eye.

12:43
Abi's now moved onto herself, leaving Tom and Rosie fully zombified. We're about to go and film, using this laptop as our portable CD player. Tom looks like this:
End of the Day:
We've completed filming on the outdoor performance. Our location ended up being a farm lane near Bing's house, which we will also use in the narrative.

Bingmix

We had some trouble finding a good copy of the original song, so we had to piece one together from two different versions. It's by no means perfect, but it'll do...

Planning Our Shots

Outdoor Performance / Zombies:

This will mainly be simple performance shots. Our aim is for these cutaways to be fluid, so the camera should always be moving. Since we don't have a steadycam we will try to adapt a tripod so our footage is less shaky.

Location: a street in Feltwell.
Props: record decks, zombie make-up and costumes, pimp gear.

- Low angle wide, looking up at performer.
- Medium tracking past performer.
- Wide tracking out zombie shot.
- Low angle medium with zombies in background.
- Close-up hand reaching for shoulder.
- Close-up faces (show off make-up).

Narrative (Bomb Story):

Location: Bing's house / Feltwell / Cambridge / College?
Props: Alarm clock, dynamite, bag, glasses, detonator.

Feltwell
- Close-up alarm clock.
- Medium waking up shot.
- Medium stairs (?).
- Wide exiting house.
- Close-ups running.
- Wide running down street.

(We aim for all of these shots to have some tracking in them to keep the video moving.)

Town/Other
- Wide running shots.
- Close-up running shots. (shoes, hands, face, bag)
- Medium establishing shot of indoors. (Same location as indoor performance.)
- Close-up hand in locker.
- Wide running.
- Medium (Hollywood) character shot.
- Close-up hand on button.

Shiny Box:

All the footage in the shiny box will be static, filmed on tripod (in keeping with the convention), but it will be cut quickly to avoid slowing the editing.

Indoor Performance:

This will be filmed in the same location as the narrative character ends up placing the bomb. This will tie in with the narrative quite effectively. The shots and angles will be similar to those being used in the outdoor performance.

1st Problems

No-one on the internet seems to like the version of this song we have, and since we have a glith in ours we may have to settle for a different version like:



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