Filming Schedule

Classwork : A Level Media Studies

 This blog contains all the theories and lessons we learnt.

Camera angles

(Made by my teacher) This is all the camera angles we learnt. Different camera angles produce different effects and feelings to the audience, it also further improves and enhances the watching experience.

Mise en scen

The mise en scen refers to what we as the audience visually see in the frame or scene. Some examples of a mise en scen are:

- props

- set design

- costume

- hair

- make up

- colour

- performance

- lighting

- blocking

- focus

- weather

- environment

Editing

Here are what we learnt on the different ways to edit scenes together 

- Continuity Editing

- Montage Editing

- Parallel Editing (Cross-Cutting)

- Cutaways and Inserts

- Jump Cut

- Match Cut

- Crossfade (Dissolve)

- Cut to the Beat (Rhythmic Editing)

- Split Screen

- Flashback and Flashforward

Theories

(Made by my teacher) Here are the different theories we learnt

Self Reflection:

This blog helps me with refreshing my mind on the older theories and terms we learn in previous semesters. To make this I went through old notes and presentations we saw in class and piled them together into this blog.

Location Scout & Risk Assessment

Here is our Risk Assessment and Location Scout for our project

Self Reflection:

Me and Sharon did the location scout and risk assessment as we started this blog first before all the other blogs and we hadn't had a fixed plan yet therefore nothing else to do, so we just split the location scouts and did our own parts.

Screen Test

To find a star for our music video we need to conduct a screen test. Here is a video of our class' group audition, we did this is a class.

Storyboard

 This is my storyboard for my music video project.

This is the one I drew for the main music video

This is the one Sharon made for the performance recording of the music video (shot at the beach)

Song Research

  This post is made by my teammate Sharon, here we will look in detail at our song choice : 'High School in Jakarta, NIKI' 2022

"High School in Jakarta" is a song by Indonesian singer-songwriter Niki. It was released by 88rising as the third and final single from her second studio album, Nicole (2022), on 5 August 2022. “High School in Jakarta” revisits Indonesian singer-songwriter NIKI’s high school years. After revealing the challenge of maintaining a long-distance relationship and the end of this relationship in the videos of “Before” and “Oceans & Engines,” the video of the third and final single off NIKI’s sophomore album depicts how the young couple fell in love in high school. As a prequel to the previous music videos, from a nostalgic lens, we see how NIKI and her ex-lover met in the drama club, how they fell in love, and how they came up with their couple handshake, which also appeared in the previous videos. 

The reason we choose this music video is as high school in Jakarta music video is representing our daily life as a high school student. The themes, mis en scenes, events in the music video represents us as high school students which makes us relate to it better. Moreover, the scenes locating at school would be easier for us to film as we have access to the location. 

Our music video will subvert from the conventions in high school in Jakarta. This is as the music video has connotations has typical high school vibes such as love, friendship and school dramas. However, my team would like to show the darker side of high school which is usually overlooked by people such as in academics, breakups, friendships and navigating throughout our high school years. By showing the darker side of highschool we are able to show a more raw, honest and relatable perspective which goes above the idealized image of highschool videos represented in media. 

Self Reflection:

Sharon did the song research, as this was her song choice after all. She is a huge fan of the music artis "Niki" who made High School in Jakarta and just had overall better knowledge on music compared to me, so she took over the song research.

Lyric sheet

 This is our lyric sheet, I annotated over the lyrics and what scene goes where, Sharon (my teammate) gave me ideas and feedback.

This is the first draft of our lyric sheet before I talked to our teacher to see if there were any improvements. 

Moodboard

  This is the music video's moodboard that me and my teammate (Sharon) made:

The first scene is at school, to represent high school and the events happening and revolving around high school. (I made this)

This is the performance scene located in the beach, we wanted to make it not as bright. (Sharon made this)

These are the outfits other than school outfits such as at home and the beach. (Sharon made this)

Self Reflection:

The moodboard was mainly focused on by Sharon, she uses pinterest a lot more than I did and I'm not really an aesthetic or style person so I wasn't the best at picking out a certain aesthetic or style for our music video and star. I picked out the moodboard for the school scenes as I already had a vision on what the vibes would be like, while Sharon picked out the moodboard for our star's outfit/clothing style and the beach scenes.