Blog reflection 11

Blog reflection 11

This week we purely focused on editing the clips we had. However at the beginning of the week we filmed a few un planned shots to help bring the video together. Editing allowed us to see the faults in our previous filmed shots. The main decision for this week was trying to decide what shots went where and what shots we wanted to use in our music videos and ones to avoid. We also decided this week that we wanted to have behind the scene clips in our video. Meaning we had to go back and sort that out. However a lot of time has been spent on trying to get use to final cut. We had to change the colour on a majority of clips because they were too dark but final cut tools helped us make them brighter. We also started our digipak and magazine as we took some pictures when we filmed so we had consistency through all three products. We started editing the digipak and magazine to help us later on in the production area. We did this because we didn't have any shot to edit before filming because we used all our previous shots.

 Our plan was to have our first draft by thursday which we missed due to the lack of shots. However we have a deadline for next friday which we will meet allowing us to get feedback. I also had to decide weather i wanted to use fireworks or photoshop to edit the digipak with, i decided to use photoshop as i felt the software would give me more space to edit the digipak. I also want to become more experienced with this software. We mainly need to fill in the gaps for the bits we don't have footage which will be done by next week. I fell like we are in a good place in terms of timing for production. 
This week i learnt how to use final cut in more details as i can confidently import footage to my library which was a struggle before. I also learnt how to correct the colours on dark clips and how to add fades and filters to a clip. 

Week ten blog reflection

Week ten- blog reflection 

This week we have continued to edit and make sure all our pre-production work is up to its best standard. This week we have been focusing on adding transitions to the clips we edited last week. We have also started to think about creating our digipak and magazine. However hopefully we will start actually designing them on mondays lesson. The biggest decision this week was trying to get the right transitions, we didn't want to add any ones that made our work look silly. Some of the transitions didn't look good at all. We also had to try and decide a day were we could get our artist in school to film the studio scenes and a day were the teacher we needed were in school after hours. We decided Monday as everyone is free and available. However i was hoping to film these scenes during this week but it failed so we continued to edit and add to our blogs. We also filmed some more shots under the subway as we felt the shot we had were a bit weak, in terms of camera movement and shot types. We also added some more shots to our shot list because we felt we could improve the shot we had, we added over 20 more shots. This allowed our music video to have more cuts. We both decided after watching other indie music videos that we didn't want too many cuts because the song has a slow pace.
Overall this week has been a good week because we were able to look at our work and see what we can do to improve it. My aim is to have filmed all the scenes we need by the end of next week and have the rest of the time to edit and make our digipak and magazine. I also hope we can take our pictures for them during filming time so the products all match. 

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Week nine blog reflection

Week nine

This week has allowed us to see what we filmed during half term. We started to edit the footage we filmed in the half term. This then allowed us to see what we have to film next time. This weeks main decision was deciding what footage went where when editing the clips with the song. We both felt that we still need to film more however i was really happy with the footage we had and the footage we edited together. From the shot list i think we filmed about 20 shots in one day. We filmed many shots in he day we filmed but we found that we didn't get the artist lip syncing to all the song. So we only have certain lines which are lip synced in that location. However the narrative side of our video is coming along better than i thought. Editing was a little bit of a challenge because we haven't really edited using final cut, but once we edited twice it got easier. Final cut allowed us to add different and more difficult aspects to our work unlike I Movie. We had to use YouTube and the teachers to help us a little as we had trouble with one of the clips. The lighting was too dark to use but we liked the shot, we figured out how to change the colour but the shot didn't look right. We have already added a lot of footage which means we have a lot more time to edit and re film if we have to. Our plan is to film on Monday and then edit the clips in on Tuesday so we know where we are and what we have to film again. Our main concern is getting shot where the artist is lip syncing and in the studio as we need to fill the middle and end bit of the song. This week has made me more confident about our idea as its coming together as we edit and film. Hopefully by the end of next week we will have a draft to show to our teacher and get feedback. 

Week eight blog reflection

Week eight

This week is half term and we finished our pre production in lessons, however we did have to make a few changes to our analysis of the digipak and music videos. We also started filming which was fun because our idea was coming together, however due to the rain we had to move our location closer to home. This was a big decision for us because we really wanted to use that location (Bricklane) but it rained heavily on the day we needed to film so we changed it to Romford skate park and the subways around Romford. I wasn't disappointed with the new locations as i felt the location still worked and gave us the hipster look. The subways really helped with our narrative and the new location was easy to get too with the cast and the equipment. We filmed this week so we could be ahead of the schedule so we have more time to edit and re film any bits we need as we have different ideas. We also had to change our location and our idea slightly to fit the weather, this showed us how things can affect our production and we have to be ready for things like this. We also found it hard trying to get everyone to meet at the same place at the time we picked because we had a lack of communication before we went out at filmed but it worked out better for the production. We both feel that we need to edit the shots we have before we film more.

This is the location we filmed at. 

Call sheet 1

Casting and final inspiration

Finishing bits

We made a casting video to get an idea and see which person would fit the role of our artist the best. This allowed us to see who can lip sync which we believe is an important part to make the video look realistic. But we also wanted someone who could perform. From the casting video we picked Ediz to play the artist because in the casting video he lip synced well and he could perform were as Gareth could lip sync but not perform. Ediz also had the look of our artist so it worked out perfectly.

We also made a final mood board to show our inspirations for our final idea, these pictures and videos sum up what we want to create. Some ideas have changed from our last mood board, we will look at this mood board when we need to create the look of the music video and our artist.