Havoc - Research

Havoc was a music video produced by Andre Chocron for the band 'While You Slept'. Chocron is a director from Oslo, Norway. He set up this video with his video production company called Frokost Film.

Havoc 

When shooting at high speed there is a lot of things that need to be taken into consideration. The photograph or the footage may be taken in a way to appear to freeze the motion this is so it especially reduces motion blur when it comes to editing. This therefore requires sensor with a good sensitivity and very good shuttering system or fast strobe light. In slow motion photograph again may be taken at a high sampling frequency or frame rate this was then require some means of capturing successive framers, this is done with either a mechanical device or moving data off electronic sensors very quickly. However in high speed there is also other considerations which include record length, reciprocity breakdown and spatial resolution.

When Andre Chocron did this there would have been a lot of things he would have had to take into consideration other than those that I have mentioned. Due to them shooting in a very large room which was relatively dark the use of lots of lights would have been very important, without plenty of light the slow motion would have looked dark and gloomy and therefore not the effect he was going for. Although as a professional this wouldn't have affected Chocron but the type of camera used is very important when it comes to shooting in slow motion. This is because some cameras are only made to shoot in 24-30 frames per second and therefore it will look fake that not even the best editing software can fix, which is why it is also vital that the right frame rate is chosen. With slow motion there will be a lot of extra footage than needed, this is due to the speed of the shots, therefore this means that there also won't be a soundtrack therefore I soundtrack on top of this footage will have been done separately.

Making Of Havoc 

In order for the production be successful a lot of things will need to be practised, the lighting will have to be practised to make sure that the room is bright enough on camera, so it gives off an amazing effect. The most important thing that needs to be practised is the actors knowing their call which will involve each of them knowing their positions and timings. Along with the lights it is important to practise with all of the electrical equipment this is in order to make sure that it is all working which will make the slow motion work. Finally the synchronisation between the actors will need to rehearsed hundred of times because without them all being together it will all go terribly wrong.

There was between 40 and 50 people in this shoot and therefore in order to make sure that everyone was in it he would have had to listen to the soundtrack loads of times to make sure he had all of the timings correct and then choreograph it so that everyone would fit it in. This is very important in a shoot like this because every move is vital and one mistake or one person missing out could mean a failure for the production.

The percentage that Andre Chocron had to slow it down by was 8.3% the reason for this being the percentage of being slowed down is because 25 is the normal speed which will then be divided by 300 which is the high speed which is 0.083 which is then times by 100 to get the correct percentage.

The seconds of live action that were actually filmed and the length of the resulting music video were 216 seconds. This again was is done by 300 the high speed times by 18 which is the approx number of seconds which gives you 5,4000 frames which then is 25 which then gives you 216 seconds of footage.

Havoc - Behind the scenes. 

Review of Havoc 

I think that this music video has some of the best lighting I have ever seen in a music video. I think this is to do with the fact that there is also a white background. This really helps with the lighting, however I like the fact that there is a shadow on her face it makes the screen not to bright. As I previously explained the lighting is important because too much or too less can easily ruin it.

I like that fact that in this the main focus is on the woman, although there is dancers in the background they aren't the main focus. instead for the majority of the music video they are out of focus as they are just seen as little figures in the background. Each of the dancers are wearing grey, I think that this compliments the white background and the white dress the woman is wearing really well. In this I think it is a very subtle colour and instead of using something like black which can be seen as overpowering.

I really like the way the directors use the fire in the background when the woman stands up, it shows the amount of power that she has. I think that also because the fire isn't bright orange it goes really well with the theme of the colouring which I expect is what the directors wanted to happen. Finally right at the end it is blurred out before 'HAVOC' is written and I really like this.

Personally I loved it, I thought that the way all of the actors were in synch which each other was amazing and so different to anything that I had seen before. I think that the dancing and movement that were done were superb and therefore it meant that it turned out very well. I think that the lighting in this was also incredible as you could see every person very clearly which meant that was the correct amount of lighting and nothing too overpowering.

http://gizmodo.com/5164508/tips-for-shooting-the-best-slow-motion-video - 29th April 

Zombie Shoot

For the first day back at college we were assigned with a class zombie shoot, outside on the hoe. The idea behind this was that half of us would be dressed up as zombies while the others would be the victims. The end project had to be a 2 minute zombie film keeping with the soundtrack that Neil had given us.

Along with the zombie shoot we had to come up with a zombie plan of survival. My ideas on my survival list were all very funny and not very serious. Although however I think some of them would work pretty well if there was a zombie attack. I think that this was a good idea because it made us get more into character and what to do if an attack actually happened, however unrealistic.

Zombie Survival Plan

Once we came up with our plans some of us had to get into character, myself included. I put on black eye make up and made myself have really pale skin to look like a snowman. I then put on a plain white top and covered it in fake blood. I would say that just under half of us were covered in zombie make up and fake blood. All of us then had to walk through town to get to the hoe.

Once we got to the hoe we were put into 6 groups in my group was Olivia Searle, Chloe Binding, Matt Jury, Simon Childe, Abi Cannings, Jess Mitchell-Fowle and Tyler Sinclair. In my group myself, Chloe and Simon were the zombies, while Olivia, Abi, Tyler and Jess were the victims. We were given a camera, tripod and a newspaper. The reason for being given the newspaper was because we were all told that we needed the same opening shot of the newspaper rolling away in the wind. Matt was the director and he told us all of our positioning and asked us for our advice on the best shots which I think was really good.

The first shot was of the newspaper flying away in the wind; this was actually incredibly hard to film because there was very little wind when we were shooting this shot. The next was the shot of Chloe walking through the shot, Simon and Abi fighting and myself lying on the bench and then walking off camera, the third shot was of Olivia been eaten by myself and Chloe. That was all of the main shots done, after that we got shots of Jess and Tyler on the bench being scared, then as the victim they had to go down to the bottom of the hill and be trapped in this little space, this was the same for every group.

After that had been done we did shoots of all the zombies together there was about 20 of us who had to walk towards the camera in the correct time. Each of our movement was important because if someone was out of time then it would be very noticeable. We did this shot about 4 times to make sure that everyone was in time after that had been done we did two shots with the Go Pro. One of the shoots was of Matt running through us and getting out the other side and then the second shot was of Matt running through the middle and all of us capturing him and bringing him down. This was really fun to shoot.

I think that this shot was incredibly fun and a little different, however I think that it was quite hard because we had 2 and a half hours to film everything which wasn't very long at all considering how much we had to film. Also the weather kept changing which meant that the lighting kept going from dark to light which was a little bit annoying but other than that it was really great.

This was our edit