First draft of poster

Possible inside panels Ancillary 1

shot ideas
spears against backwall
drum stuff
zoom out
Also i think i should add some wire joints to my army pieces to add a bit more life to them.

More set

Set

Here are some pictures of my on going set construction.

More Prop stuff

Here is a photos of some of the props I will be using. They are toy soldiers fit in with the song's theme and they are small. This means they will be dwarfed by the polysterene head which will act as an imposing government figure.

Right I have kind of started filming now, I have done a little piece of i am not sure what, blog work but not for my final piece. (results will be up sometime during the week) I was going to do the real thing but i encountered some issues i had overlooked. I have dismssed some locations as i need access to a power source for lighting, though i could cut that piece, and i need a very long time on the location. using somewhere around my house would allow me to work when ever i wanted.

garden
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lighting during day would be good and even and at night i could bring out an extension cable to do the red scenes.

- it would very much look like a garden

attic
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looks quite cool beams cobwebs etc

- looks like an attic

i can overcome these issues hopefully as i will be working zoomed in to small objects, the background hopefully will lack focus and i will do my best to keep unsightly things out of shot.

an alternative location i could use is my grandad shed, id need to clear it out and i could run and extension cord out, it looks really cool and the shed spins for some reason, which woul dbe a cool shot.

I think i shouldve found a cool location first and then created something to fit it like i did last year. rather than creating something and then looking for a location.

Right after all that i have decided

i am making a set in the study, it will be like my orignal vision, floorboards olde worlde look. It will be practical and good looking. It should be ready for use mid next week. :D until then i will carry on with some stuff for my blog.

Shooting Order

There are a shortage of HD cameras at school and i dont want to work in low def. However there is an SLR available. I can use the SLR to create the stop motion aspects of my video. The issue is that some of the shots will include me destroying or tarnishing things so i cant do those shots first and then repair the objects to then shoot the HD shots.

Due to the shortage i wasn't able to get a camera over the winter holidays this was when i planned to do most of my filming. Stop motion is a very lengthy process and adding more real time footage may well be necessary, especially considering the length of the song. I plan to capture as much stop motion as i can, and if last year was anything to go by ideas will spring to mind during the process. Hopefully these ideas can be shot in real time. Also i have kind of assumed that the combonation of the two (real and stop motion) will look fine. I may have to add an entire alternative narrative to my piece, for example band shots.

Stop motion shot i can take.

Opening- grain growing shots.
Moving head
pattern crystal fighters inspired part

Cant do the paint shot or the burning/melting

might be able to do the pins shot.