more filming

Jess and Nichola travelled down Romford so that further filming could be continued, and filmed the lead boy, ryan, lip syncing and playing guitar in a subway.

We decided as a group on using different locations such as the subway, town hall, benches, subway etc.
They began with filming ryan on the bench lip syncing and playing his guitar, to offer more variety we decided to film from different positions to make the video more interesting.

Then ryan was filmed walking down the subway, as he comes towards the camera we noticed that we couldn't see him lip sync as there was limited light. This led us to decide to film still in the subway, however we adapted and used the stairs that lead into the subway instead, this worked very well as ryan was comfortable lip syncing walking down the stairs and there was enough light to film. Once this was filmed we returned back to filming outside the town hall where Ryan appears to be most relaxed when lip syncing.

This is finally where our 'missing poster' is show, we placed it on the wall of the subway that Ryan is shown walking down, we show Jess and Ryan walk past each other going into the subway, however when Ryan tuns back to check it was Jess we show our poster.
Now we have this footage we are that much closer to finishing our video :)

filming at central park - 29th january

On this date we filmed our swinging scene where the main girl looks depressed and thoughtful.

We used different types of shots to fit with the song and the speed of editing, we filmed from the front, the back, the side andpoint of view on the swing itself, we then filmed and establishing shot zooming into the girl, once we filmed this and was happy with the results we placed it where we thought appropriate in our music video.

new props & plans;

Since we are having to film extra scenes and have changed part of the story line, we needed to include more props to help the audience to become aware of what is happening, and to get a better understanding of the music video.

We knew that the video would involve a missing girl; so to make this more obvious we needed to create a missing poster, that way we allow the audience to see, and also raise our prop numbers.

We used Microsoft Publisher to create our own missing poster, we included pictures and information it may need, to gain the knowledge of what a basic poster would look like we researched via the internet.

The time of the last sighting of the girl corresponds roughly near the time seen on the church clock, we are hoping members of the viewing audience will realise this also.

here is our poster;

editing -set backs

We have reached a major setback in the editing process of creating our music video.

Due to necessary feedback on our coursework; there are a variety of issues that we need to deal with:

- We need more lip syncing scenes, this time with a musical instrument (bass, guitar),
- Extra scenes developing the story of the song;
- Re-filming previous lip syncing scenes and story scenes due to the frame/setting either being too dark or exceedingly unclear;
- We also need to re-edit the scenes we do have, so the music video has an increased pace to parallel the song;
- Include a wider variety of set locations and;
- Include a wider variety of camera shots/angles.

if this is managed well and to a decent standard then we hope our music video will be more of a success, and also more understandable from the audiences perspective.

changes to our music video;

We have now done yet more editing, and while doing this we have realised that we need to fill up the one minute gap we still have with more footage.

To do so, we have decided to film the boy and girl meeting eachother in the middle of the street.

The boy and girl gaze at eachother, and then the girl turns and begins to walk away.

The boy is seen looking at his phone, at a text which says it is over.

Sad and Depressed, the boy turns around to look at the girl and finds that no one is there and he is actually on his own.

Just before the end scenes where the girl walks into the road, we will include scenes where the girl is breaking down into tears, showing she is also just as depressed etc.

editing once more

now that our media exam is complete we can focus fully on our media coursework once more.
Today we resumed editing the video but we still have more scenes to complete.
We also had to make sure the opening scene was parrallel to the tempo and beat of the m,usic so its all in time.

more editing;

we continued to edit for our video however some problems did occur. Once all the clips where uploaded and we estimated our rough timeline we realised all our clips did not amount to a time long enough to complete our music video.
this meant that after lesson we went out again to do more filming of Ryan lip syncing because we felt more was needed. Once this is edited our video is complete!

first editing;

we began editing using iMovie HD on the iMac computers. Once we uploaded all the scenes from the HD camcorder, we began cutting clips into smaller easier to handle lengths and began placing them in the order/sequence we chose for our video.
the first verse and the chorus have been completed in their first draft and so far the lip syncing is all in time also.
all that we need to do now is make sure we spend as much free time as possible in the iMac room to complete our video.

filming outside; locations

29th november - this weekend we got together again to film outside. However we have the unpredictable British weather to thank for our lack of outside filming. Cleverly resourced though we continued filming with an umbrella to protect the camera from the rain.
Despite these obstacles we where able to continue filming and i believe we done quiet well with the filming outcome.
we have also finally done our filming !!!!!!
however if when editing we believe more work needs to be done we shall have to re-film.

changes to the story;

after watching clips throughout the filming on the iMacs we suddenly realised our storyline may not be percieved in the way we intended it to be as the relationship between the two characters may not be as clear as we thought. We did however want to keep the audience in suspense so as to watch the whole video, we believed this would be very effective to make the audience uncertain as opposed to a large conclusion that could be very confusing.
Therefore we made changes, to make our story clearer we have decided to show more past tense clips of the couple together.
Due to the fact we already had some scenes filmed outside in the park we decided to continue with this.
The couple is holding hand etc, but then the camera turns round a tree to show you the couple but the boy is alone. We will then show flashbacks of a text saying 'im sorry its over'. This then flows for the later scenes where the boy is seen asa 'stalker' over his ex, and the girl seems to be going insane.

snow!

our school has been shut due to 'adverse weather conditions' therefore this prevented us from editing much of our music video using the school iMac computers. Nichola, Jess and myself also have to re-sit/take a few exams shortly and therefore will be revising for these exams in many of our media lessons.
There are also our other scenes we need to film but we are waiting on the weather to become suitable to film in as the conditions outside are icy and our scenes are outside.

christmas holidays;

we have at present broken up for the christmas holidays, we did notice however more filming is required so hopefully upon return or even during we can film some more story line.

I was unable to blog as until recent, due to dumb weather conditions my internet was down, however now my internet has returned i can resume blogging.