Sound of the Underdogs

Tuesday, 11 March 2008

Idea's Whilst In Editing Suite 2

The other idea that I had was that we should have a title screen in which we contain a question, then we place the shots that the artists answered in accordance with this, so we would need to chop up the interviews into sections, which I have almost finished, and seperate the interviews.
Also we need to get together the ideaologies of our documentary, what we are trying to get across or raise awarness in this documentary.
Vipesh

Thursday, 6 March 2008

Idea whilst in editing suite

Wednesday 5th March 2008

Whilst me and Avneet were trying to sort out the opening sequence for which we have captured loads of footage of estates, we and Avneet soon realised that we did not have an order in which we were going to arrange the sequence of shots, meaning should we put the estates then the station, you get the point.
I discussed an idea with avneet this being, that we should create the opening as if the audience were seeing it as if they were living out a day in the musician going to the studio, this would mean incorporating an arrangement of the shots, meaning that we would first have to put in all the shots of the estates first (to give the idea of movement around, on train, almost as if the audience are the artist on the train looking out of the window), then you would need to place the station after this (to give the idea that the audience are the artist leaving the train station), then you would have to include the the studio shot at the end of the opening, (to give the idea that the audience that are getting a view point of the artist, have arrived at the studio to record a track).

Vipesh

Thursday, 21 February 2008

Filmig Diary 04 - Interview With Artist (Matthew)

Thursday 21st Feburary 2008

Today me and Rosanne went to west kensington to interview an artist called Matthew, we took a train from Ealing broadway, on the way we messed about, I recorded Rosanne doing her thing on the train, which we could once again use for the outakes part of our production. however getting back to the actual production, focusing on the good points firstly, we got another interview to add to our production, the interviewee answered the questions with relivance to the production, for example when I asked, 'What influenced you to get into the music industry?' and Matthew answered, that he used to try an immitate some old school swing and R n B artists, so inspired him to create his own singing style or lyrics, another good question asked was by Rosanne, when she asked 'What struggles have you been through in order to get accross your music?', this is good as it relates to our documentary, which is a documentary to discover how some underground artists are struggling to become mainstream. We asked all the following questions:

What influenced you to get into the music industry?
What struggles have you been through in whilst trying to get into the music industry?
Do you have any advice for people who are trying to make it in the music industry?
In a day how much music comes into your life? (e.g. studio time, even listening to it)

However the bad things of this interview were the following:

The mise en scene does not match the effect that we are trying to create, i.e. there should be some sort of white background, or a derelict building, to represent the non-edited effects of the documentary, or to represent the struggle of some sort, however we have shot the interview in a front garden area of a house, which has alot of flowers, however this interview could only be done there and then, so we cannot worry too much about it.
the background noise, we have some weird girls screaming and shouting in the background, which could link to an affect of realism that Micheal Moore uses in 'Bowling For Columbine'.
we did not make a script of what we were going to ask the interviewee, so we asked questions that we thought of from the top of our heads.

However the other good thing about this interview is that Matthew relates to most internet sites that he used in order to become known, for example 'Myspace' and 'Bebo', this relates to the decline of the music industry, yet it also represents how it allows most artists to become known within the music industry, as most producers and companies go to these websites as it contains so many people with so much talent on it.

We were even lucky enough to get Matthew to sing for us, which we could add to the production, he actually is a great singer. This shows how if you have the talent then you will get noticed, and the effort that you need to put in to get into this career option.

VIPESH

Wednesday, 20 February 2008

Reasearch on studio scenes

in order to develop a deeper knowledge of the music industry we need to contain things that allow our audience to see some of the things that people have to do in order for them to be widly recognised within the music industry, for example in the t2 and addictive video, we see that one of the girls said that they had to go a rave in leeds in order to get a feel for the genre of music, that being bassline, she then goes on to say that she hooked up with the producer on a internet site for connecting with people, 'myspace', which happpens to be a leading website for promoting their customers talents, this could also link to the decline in the music industry, so we could link this to the struggle that most people have when they are in the music industry as well as getting in it, people download from the internet rather than buying the cd's, also more and different genre's of music are available online. also looking at both the video's we see that the artists are performing in the studio, which is also a concept that we need to implement into our documentary, one of the ideas that we came up with is to have this clip playing over when the artist is discussing features of their lifestyle, i.e. what they do during a typical day for them, relating this to music, when they record a track in the studio.

These video's are taken from youtube, they are recordings from the radio station bbc 1xtra, if you would like to know more about this radio station then go to their website, www.bbc.co.uk/1xtra:

Vipesh

Thursday, 14 February 2008

Tuesday, 12 February 2008

Title of production/ opening shots

Graffiti

Simliary to the videos above, in our opening shot, we would like to get someone to graff our tilte and then in ending speed it up similar to this but ahve our oringinal as it will wipe onto the screen.

Rough idea for sketch of graff

Rosanne

Friday, 8 February 2008

Day 2 and 4 of filmimg

Day 2 of filming

On day 2 after school I went on my own to south Acton to film Beatruce (an upcoming artist) on her normal routine, to the studio she records her music. I met Beatruce and my cousin there, but unfortunately when I got there it was closed and I got pissed of cause I had to carry the camera and tri-pod on my own on the train. But I wasn’t going to waste the journey and I took location shots of the different estates around the area, to show the gritty areas most the artist’s come from, which will be used for our opening montage shots of different locations.

Day 4 of filming

I again went on my own but dragged my sister along with me to Hounslow were Beatruce lives and filmed her every day routine juggling sixth form, working and studio. We left early morning to get shots of her going to 6th form and coming back, which the group will use when we do clips of every day lives of upcoming artists and show them as normal people, as well as showing their struggles of breaking through in the industry.

AVNEET