Final Scenes

The latest piece of filming was back at our "house" location to film our final scene. On this occasion we needed it to be dark, so that lack of light was less of a problem. The only thing was that Peter's face was hard to distinguish in the dark when he was walking towards the house, we did however improvise by using a large torch. We also had a problem with communicating with two of our actors who were being filmed inside the house but from the outside. Therefore, we stayed on the phone to them to give them the signal and direct the properly. The rain could have been an issue for us, had it got heavier as the window would be covered in water making it impossible to see through. Luckily the rain wasn't too strong, and am umbrella protected the camera!

We found this scene particularly challenging as we had to experiment with lighting and a sheet to create the silhouette effect we were looking for. After this day of filming we are only left with small amount of footage left to be filmed which shouldn't take more than an evening hopefully!

Behind The Scenes: Emily's Interview

Behind The Scenes: Would You Rather

Behind The Scenes: Peter's Turn On The Camera

Behind The Scenes: Millenium Bridge

Behind The Scenes: Break

Behind The Scenes: Update

Behind The Scenes: Southbank

Behind The Scenes: Rock On

Behind The Scenes: London Waterloo

Behind The Scenes: Amy's Interview

Behind The Scenes: Worcester Park Station

Video Synopsis!

Our artist leaves his home, which he shares with his girlfriend, and goes about his day/journey to buy he an engagement ring. During which he is constantly thinking about her and wanting to be back with her. In the end he returns home and proposes to his girlfriend.

Our video is simplistic in it's plot, but the blend of narrative within the music video filming and editing style, creates an engaging piece of film. We have included our artist rapping, in order to comply with the music video conventions; we decided not to have our artist singing throughout the song as we thought that this did not fit with a narrative-based music video. One video in particular that we researched, and was similar to our style of music video was Just Jack's "The Day I Die".

We are making sure that we edit to the beat and don't make our clips too long to avoid using unnecessary, and uninteresting footage. We are of course aware that our video does need to look like a music video, while also not following all of the conventions. Our video needs to be watchable for multiple times by one person and it needs to be interesting enough to sustain these views.

Typical :(

Unfortunately, we've had to re-do some of our shots:

• Rapper
• Ending shots
• Peter leaving the house

So on Sunday, we re-did our rapper and leaving the house shots, as well as taking pictures for our digipak :D And then tonight we are going to re-do the ending shots :) soo hopefully all we go well!!

Emily was suppose to upload the shots we did yesterday today at school and try edit but she's currently waiting for the computer we're using to be free and then she will get on it!

We need to edit our pictures to create our digipak! And then finish editing an maybe any research we need to be done.

Ohh also need to upload some videos to youtube as well as typing up our audience research :D

All for FRIDAY!!

Filming = DONE

Today was our last day of filming! Although it took us a lot longer than planned to complete all our shots, we hope that by re-filming shots that we weren't completely satisfied with will make our filming even more professional. Amy, Alex and Emily re-filmed our ending to ensure that it makes sense and to improve the quality of lighting. Vikki and Peter were very professional in their acting and are pleased that there is nothing left to film! We are all very pleased to have the filming completed especially as the weather has taken a turn for the worse! We can now concentrate on finishing our editing in iMovie and then begin our Final Cut Pro additional edits, we are confident that it will all come together once these edits are completed. We have some research work to complete then the finishing touches will be added to our websites and Digipak! Just 4 days to go!

Even More Equipment Issues!!

When I went to get the filming equipment today for our production over half term I was told that the monopods had all been lent out, therefore we will either need to try and manage without one or borrow one off of another group. Fingers Crossed the quality of our filming will not be changed by this, and we will all try our best to make the most of the equipment that we are fortunate enough to have! We definitely made the right choice to book our cameras early and need to ensure that the swapping of equipment from group to group runs as smoothly as possible. I also found out today that there is another group which we will need to share our camera with making the schedule for filming even tighter!

Peer Assessment

In our groups we had to go round the class and watch each others videos amd assess them, even if they weren't finished. Our video was was far from finished at the time; we still hadn't filmed a few shots, and had others to re-do, regardless, we were assessed. The feedback was welcome as we were open to changes and alterations that had to be made because we hadn't completed the editing.

Feedback has to be taken with a 'pinch of salt'; we cannot afford to take it to heart because this is the information that will make a good music video a great one. It took a while to get to the stage that we were at when we were assessed

Below is the feedback that we recieved about our music video part way through the editing period:

Audience

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The results that we received showed a semi-understanding of our video; becuase we had the basics done people were able to understand what we had left to do. However, one of the comments said that our Main Man looked as if he was sad.. This would be fixed using live type and final cut.

The Cameras + Half Term = PROBLEM!

Luckily both the small Sony HD cameras and tripods have been booked out weeks in advance! Throughout the course of the day people have been rushing around to book out the cameras, however with a total of 6 altogether we knew it was ESSENTIAL to make sure we had the equipment we both wanted and needed before this chaotic rush commenced.

Now, however, we have to come to arrangements with other people who also need them on other days.
Things we need to consider about this agreement are:
- Can we get them back
- ...With plenty of time to charge beforehand
- Because we are the group who are supposed to have them in our possession, we cannot afford for them to break our be lost.
Not only will we be held responsible, but we will also not have filmed our work.

Feedback

We have started to receive more feedback from other groups with regards to our video. We have told them to watch it and to be as critical as they can; we have still received a much more positive response which we feel is almost too good to be true. Because of this we have asked are EXTREEEEEMELY critical teacher if he too can do an assessment for us.

..... Let's see how this goes.

Let's Try This Again Shall We..?

Uploading the fast and slow sequnces: take 39...

What a joke?! We are currently in the process trying to upload our fast and slow sequences once again. Although we finished filming uploading and editing our preliminary task, it has proved difficult to upload the footage and we are yet to find out why it is such a challenge. Because of this one set back we have not been able to blog about it and how our influences for our music video has stemmed or been discouraged from it. We hope to have a solution to this repeatedly annoying solved VERY sooooon.

Our deadline is coming and Youtube is being STUBBORN!

Peer Assessment: Take 2

As the video is now officially complete, we have suggested to our teachers that we should have another peer assessment. This is because the first time our video was not even close to being roughly edited, and neither was many of the other groups. This time, however, almost everyone is complete. It will be interesting to see what kind of feedback we will receive this time.