Meeting 5th October: Members present Alex Williams (AW), Elliot Smith (ES), and Natasha Green (NG):
This afternoon we discussed many factors that will affect our planning for our film. For our music video we have decided that we are going to use two locations, a Victorian room and an open field these are for our two scenes that are going to be used in our video.

MUSE consists of three male members, Matt Bellamy, Chris W and Dom Howard. We decided that we are going to use Alex to play Chris, Elliot to play Dom Howard and our good friend Sam to play Matt Bellamy. The reason on why we picked Alex to play Chris is because he is very tall and looks the most like him. Elliot is going to play Dom due to similar heights and body structure and this is the same reason for Sam to play Matt.

The Band footage is going to be filmed a Victorian room that is very large with high ceilings. This is because some of MUSE recent videos have been shot in large rooms with high ceilings.

As we are filming the band we are going to require a lot of equipment this includes drum kit, lead guitar, bass guitar, mic stand, mic and Amp. Luckily some of us play instruments so all the equipment is very easy to get hold of.

Equipment:
5 cameras and Stands
Red bulb
Torches many as possible/ orange filter
CD player with music

We decided to use 5 cameras so that we can get a variety of camera shots and angles to work with. The red bulb will allow us to create atmosphere and will resemble previous muse videos. The CD player with the music will guide us on what parts we need to play and perform.

By looking through at previous MUSE videos we noticed that they all wear distinctive bright coloured outfits that are different to each other.

Chris ( Alex) : White trousers, white top, black suit jacket, dark shoes and face mask
Dom ( Elliot) : Green trousers, white top, black hoody, dark shoes and face mark
Matt ( Sam) : Red trousers, white top , red hoody, dark shoes and facemask

These colours are often worn by Muse, the facemask resembles a previous video by MUSE on where they used facemask this was in their video " supermassive black hole"

For our second location we decided to film it in a open farm / field this is where we are going to film our protest. We have decided to film and create a protest because we recently went to the MUSE gig a couple of weeks ago and we noticed that they opened the show with a protest against resistance. So we thought this would be a good MUSE element to add into our film, we are aiming to film it in twilight. This will allow us to see if the camera picks up the dark or if it is poor quality.

For our protest we are going to use 18 extras for our protest, these extras won't be hard to get hold of as these extras will be our friends.

Equipment:
5 Cameras and Stands
Potential vehicle
Torches
We are going to use 5 cameras so that we can get a variety of shots which will gives us to lot work with and edit for our final cut. The potential vehicle may be used to aid us with our filming; we thought that we could sit in the vehicle and film the protest to crate panning equipment. The torches are going to aid us with potential lighting and effects to give us the best possible shots.

Props:

Hand Held Flares

Bonfire

Bamboo poles

Flags

We have decided to use hand held flares as we feel that this will look good on film and come across as very effective and fit in with our protest theme. This is where the bonfire is also linked in with the hand held flares. The Bamboo polls and flags will be marked with the resistance logo to mark our protest.

We feel as if this meeting went very well as we discussed a lot and are eager to get started on the further details on the planning.