Our Filming Location

We are going to film at a local pub, which is supposedly haunted. This would be a good location for our filming as we might actually incur a ghost encounter.
The pub is the oldest in Sheffield but it doesn't really sell itself as the oldest pub, it contains lots of different rooms within of different shapes & sizes.
It was built by the Talbot family in 1475 where it would be used for men going there to get refreshments after the day's fishing or hunting had finished. As it was situated on an important road leading to Lady’s Bridge and the castle, it could also potentially have been used as a wash house or laundry for the castle.

Ghost encounters that have being recorded are:
• The ghost of a little old man sitting by the original fireplace holding a jar of ale in each hand -Many cleaners in the past have refused to enter that part of the building alone
• After being left secure at night the bolted doors of the Snug bar have been found open on the following morning
• Lights in the cellar area are switched on and off
• A previous landlady claimed to have often heard the sounds of someone moving around in the downstairs bar after closing time
• The apparition of a child has been witnessed in the bar area and on the stairs
• A cold icy presence is said to walk past people causing them to shiver and feel unnerved
• A dark figure has been spotted in the hall
• A relief manageress who was at the pub in the 1990's maintained that she saw a heavy cupboard move across the cellar floor when she was the only one in the area
• The ghost of man described as wearing a flat cap
• Footsteps have also been heard around pub especially in the cellar.
• Ghost hunters heard an eerie voice say "I am an old man".
However the landlady who has lived there for over 8 years hasn't seen anything supernatural at all.

The location of the pub is;
Old Queen's Head
40 Pond Hill
Sheffield
S1 2BG


This is the inside of the pub. You can see what appear to be orbs in the image, there are quite a lot of them. The room has lots of old fashioned features what give it that 'ghostly' factor.


This is the outside of the pub, it has very old features with some of the parts dating back to the 1400's. The age of the property can easily be seen by its original features of timber frame, low beams and sagging ceilings.

The uprights on the face of the building have various figures carved into them including Spring Heeled Jack. He is a legendary figure thought to live in tunnels below the city, who would jump out to scare people.He was able to jump great distances and reportedly leapt over high walls. Other carvings can be found within the building.
The building became a Public House in 1851 and was aptly named after the decapitated Mary Queen of Scots who was imprisoned in Sheffield from 1570 to 1584.

Results

Overall people voted for idea 2, their reasons being generally that it was the most interesting, and would be different to what most people doing this project are creating (a music video). Idea 3 came close to idea 2, the reason generally being due to the fact that people of our age group prefer comedies. We thought this was a risky option to do after we considered the difficulty of getting an elderly person to act realistically. Idea 1 recieved only 5 votes, when we questioned some people about why they didn't choose this idea, it was due to it being of a specific genre of music, which doesn't appeal to them personally. Idea 4 recieved very little votes (only 2), so we decided deffinately not to go with that idea, as little people would actually want to watch it.

Analysis of Documentary

As well as analysing a music video I also analysed the codes and conventions of a documentary. I looked at 'Most Haunted' which is a British paranormal documentary reality television series.
The layout of the program includes the Most Haunted team members going around different supposedly haunted locations in the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, Romania, and America investigating paranormal activity for 24 hours at a time in order to have the best opportunity to catch supernatural activities. The documentary has a main presenter, Yvette Fielding but also consists of mediums, investigators and historians to actually give fact to the documentary. They also get special guests in such as other TV presenters e.g. Paul O’Grady.

Story Board

Questionnaire for presentation.

For our presentation we have decided to ask people what the views are on our ideas and which idea they like best. We decided to ask people around college aswell for a wider audience view rather than that of just media students.
We asked a total of 30 people.

Which idea do you like the best?
Why?
Which do you think would be the easiest to create?
Do you think our ideas are realistic?
What is your favourite genre of music?
What is your favourite genre of documentary?
Where do you watch short films, if any? E.g Internet

Our first idea's

The videos we are planning to make are either a music video, a documentary or a short film.
The videos have to be 5 minutes long and can either be filmed and edited or animated.

Content analysis of a music video

KTA2: Content analysis
Music videos have certain codes and conventions which are related to the type of music in which it is for. I am going to analyse the video for P!nk and her song 'Who Knew'.






The style of music for the video is a pop rock song, the video is Pink herself singing the song at the front of a fair ground and the video flashing between her singing and two teenagers who are going on rides in the fairground. Who later argue and end up going in different directions, the boy goes away in a corner suffering from an overdose. The girl finds him and gives him back a necklace and rings him an ambulance and then walks off crying. The video cuts between Pink and the teenagers making it a mix between performance and a narrative video. The video is more a narrative style as the words pretty much match with whats happening in the video, for example. 'You took my hand, you showed me how, you promised me you'd be around' and the two teenagers in the video are sat on a ride holding hands and cuddling each other. This meets the familiar codes and conventions for a music video. The genre of the song is pop/rock it meets and recognises the codes and conventions of this genre by the characters that it uses. The two teenagers give it a good sense of a pop video as they are messing about and having fun which connotes pop music, the colours also used in the video are quite bright, for example the lighting behind Pinks head as she sings at the fair ground gates are brightly coloured lights and they also flash this connotes fun. Pinks actual performance in the video is light quite darkly which connotes a bit of mystery to the fair ground and a deeper meaning to the song rather than just two people falling out. Like nearly all music videos it shows the performer singing in the song, this is highlighted and made to look interesting in the video by the use of camera angles such as zooming in on Pinks face and behind her being dark so it makes her stand out more in the video. Zooming in on her face connotes a deeper meaning to the song and connotes that she is genually upset. The video has conventions that meet a typical rock stereotype, its cuts back to a scene from the night before where the boy is on the side of the bed and injects himself with some kind of drug, the lighting is very dark at this stage which connotes that it is wrong to actually do that especially behind the girls back who is shown asleep behind him. The fact that the video has being shot in a fair ground connotes that it should be fun and all a good laugh but the video hides away from the conventions of being fun and connotes a much deeper meaning that no matter where your are bad things happen and that are fairs really that much fun?. The boy lashes out at the girl in the video due to the drugs kicking in and it shows her wandering around by herself, this follows conventions of a rock video of a 'innocent, young' girl walking around looking for help. As the boy is sat alone the lighting changes again to dark to show again that something is wrong and he needs help, it cuts to the girls eyes to show her emotion, lots of closeups are used at this stage in the song to juxtapose the lyrics and to show emotions of each character. Flashbacks of the teenagers having fun are also shown this suggests that there time is almost over (could be the boys life ending and he is flashing back at all the fun times together) and they give an extra narrative to the video. The cuts are in sequence with the actual beats of the music, this is following the conventions of any music video and often creates dramatic effect changing from scene to scene with every beat. The end of the video is an extreme close up of Pink and gives the video a sense of completion, most music videos finish with a close up of the performer or a character that has being used within the narrative.

Music Video Research

To help with ideas for making a music video I reasearhed a few music videos from different varietys of music from rock to r'n'b. This gives me the basic ideas of what a certain type of music has in its music video, it has a given style which makes it easily recognisable. For example both the Linkin Park videos have more darker colours and lighting in them compared to the video by Pixie Lott, this is because of there genre's, Linkin Park are a rock band and Pixie Lott makes pop music.

Linkin Park - New Divide

Enrique Iglesias - Can you hear me?

Kanye West - Stronger


Linkin Park - Shadow of the day


Pixie Lott - Mamma Do

Lesson objectives 25/06/09

Looking back on my lesson objectives I have completed uploading of the screenplay ans the callsheet and the final video, I still need to upload out storyboard and my evaluation of the whole project.

Coin drop clip

Filmed by Nigel Richardson

Starring - Steph Bowen & Jonathon Watkin