Feedback on final.

Most people seemed to like it.
Every single person said "Great performance, bit out of sync" or something to that effect. People pointed out some stuff we didn't know we did that was good, but for the purposes of looking good, yes, we did purposefully put Ollie in when the trumpet plays because he plays trumpet. Most people seemed to find it entertaining, random or crazy. That bit with the stuff was well received. Lots of people liked the editing, but some suggested the bits which we used two different shots facing each other would have looked better in a mirror. The cartoon stuff was said to flow well. Everyone seemed to like the effects, cartoon ones but they found the bad tv effect odd, but we used to to make to footage better. EVERYONE loved the costumes and colours. How clever are we?

Shooting at Tescos

The shoot at tesocs was a bit disasterous because when we got there, we found our camrea had no battery, however, we had a back-up camera which didn't give as good quality, but was better than nothing. It was quite difficult to get everyone organised and get shots without people in. Also, the store said they didn't know we were coming dispite the fact that we had had a phonecall saying it was okay and that the staff would be informed.

The letter we sent to tescos

After college one day, Alice went for a wander over to the big stores in hopes of getting permission to film. No such luck, but tescos told us to write a letter, so here is it:

Dear Mr. Savory,

I represent a collective of media students currently studying at Long Road Sixth Form College. We are writing to request your permission to shoot some footage for our A level project at your store.

To minimalise any inconveniences this may cause you, we hope to film at the least busy part of the day with a maximum crew of eight. We will arrive in costume and be sure not to disturb any of your customers. We hope to film on the 6th of October at 9pm.

The music video we make will appear at the arts picture house in Cambridge on the 13th of November in front of other media students and media teachers, and we will include a thank you to the store.

We look forward to hearing from you,
Yours Sincerely

Alice Walker-Mitchell



We used college paper to show we were actual students. However, despite leaving a telephone number and address, we have yet to get a reply, hence we will have to think of a new place to film. Maybe in front of stores? Or in a kiddies park? Somewhere colourful is essential.

What we need for monday

Monday is a day when we are filming at Tescos.

Who will bring what?
Alice- Costumes, Keyboard, Bass, Mic, people
Josh - Sooty, Glasses
Gareth - Guitar and Mic
Rian - Drums

Alice will go ask tescos today cause she's gonna be in town anyway

Not quite on subject....

While in the car I was having ideas for other music videos for the songs on the radio, for example, Baby it's fact - Hellogoodbye came on the radio and I suddenly got inspired to make a video where a couple are driving along with the song on and their car suddenly takes off and takes them to cloud 9. Interesting idea for 8 in the morning....

Plans - What we need to do, what has been done

Needs to be done:
Filming
finish costumes - paint the tights
Arrange a date for tescos
paint the boxes
find a 6
get the evil guys costumes ready
create a dance routine

Done:
Bought costumes (thanks go to alice for the cash)
rounded up 5 people to be super heros - alice, leo, josh, ollie, melissa (except alice,all friends of alice)
animatic
collected a few boxes, although, we don't know if it's enough for a wall.
taken pictures of possible location for the wall of boxes:









All in all, we need to get to get on with it!!!

Brainwave!!!!!

How about a superhero theme? With like, KAPOW signs and such! It would work and look cool. I think it'll be awesome!!!! So yeah, stuff like this.

maybe



and a bit of









Okay, that about sums it up. :)

Pitchish

Well so far, our idea for Alphabeats Fantastic 6 involves lots of dancing and bright colours, we wanted to do a simple choreographed routine in some parts while in other parts we'll have performance. We are planning to acquire many cardboard boxes and paint them all different colours to make a backdrop. Also we will use other bits o' footage inter spliced in between sections of dance. Also we're gonna reference the superhero theme with some scenes where the "World police" save people. We also might have some people jumping through the walls of cardboard boxes.Paint will also be thrown around in a playful manner. Also we're gonna dress up in lots of costumes with lots of wigs and stuff. It's gonna be awesome. Fo Shizz.

I'm not sure this is suppose to exist but......

The original video for Fantastic 6: