Final Music Video

First lesson back after Christmas!

This is our first lesson back after Christmas- the edited video deadline is on Tuesday and the website, digipak and evaluation is in for next Thursday.

Today we have been adding editing touches to our video. It is completed in the sense that there are no more shots to be cut or added and the whole song is filled with video. However, now we are editing shots by adding special effects to them. Some of the outside shots are quite dark so we have made them lighter,  we have changed the shots of the band performing to a grainy black and white effect as we thought it gave a better feel to the song. We have then cropped some of the band performance shots to get rid of any pointless and unwanted space around them.

We have also been working on our website. We were told by our teacher that only a homepage was needed when all along we had been working on 3/4 pages. We have now cut this down now though to one  page and we think we have all the basics and essentials on it that is needed.
Here is a print screen of our finished website.

Safina and Siobhan :)

Today's editing.

Today I filled in a lot of the walking shots with performance shots as this was pointed out to us last lesson for being too long. Now we have cut down the walking a considerable amount and it looks a lot better.

This screen grab shows the clips highlighted in blue which are now, not just walking shots but performance shots too. This shows how much walking we have cut out and replaced with the bands performance.

Now the whole song is full of clips and is practically finished giving us a bit more extra time to work on the website and CD cover.

Siobhan :)

Audience feedback

Today in our class we were given the chance to look at each others music videos so far and evaluate them

We got mainly 'good' for music video with two 'basic' and one 'excellent' for each of the points on the evaluation sheet.

The comments were 'some shots too long', 'narrative wasn't clear' and 'too much walking'. 

We are currently working on the too much walking point and hoping to put in some performance shots to fill this up.

This week we have filled the whole length of the song with shots in a suitable order, so it is just a case of shortening shots down and adding more performance in. 

It was suggested to us that we should do a bit of extra filming to make the narrative more clear however this seems unlikely with Christmas coming up as many of the band members will be busy or away for the festive period and it will be very difficult to get them all together at one time. It also seems too late to film now as we only have 4 lessons left before the deadline in January- it has been extended as we missed a weeks worth of media lessons due to the snow- it will create a lot of pressure to get these shots edited and put suitably into the video in time. 

The screen grab at the top is of our video so far and the clips that have been highlighted in blue are the ones that are solely of the band walking, this is what we need to shorten down and add the bands performance in to. It is 6 shots worth of walking and next time we blog we will have hoped to have shorten this down considerably.

Siobhan :)

Today is the first time we've been able to edit due to bad weather conditions. As the college was closed all of last week, we weren't able to book out equipment to shoot new material. The deadline for our music video has been extended to the 11th of January, so hopefully we'll be able to get the new material.

In the lesson i've shortened some of the clips down to go with the tempo of the music. I did this by using extra footage of the band practice and pasting them between the previous clips.

Safina :)

Band performance taster

Today we edited the main band sequence to coordinate with the music. We used several close ups of each member performing, and then a medium long shot of them all together. We need to do more beat editing to  go with the pace of the song.  

 

Intro of our music video

Here is the intro to our music video. We are really happy that we have got the first part of our video done as we are finally getting somewhere. It's good because it fits directly with the intro and finishes just before the vocals come in.   

Siobhan Drake & Safina Frankson

Filming is over!

On sunday we filmed the last of our music video. This was the second time we had to shoot so we could finish the band performing and getting close up shots of them. Also we needed to re-shoot the part where heather cries as the lighting was too dark, and the part where she rips down the tribute wall.

We've just finished importing the rest of our footage and have about 28 minutes of it. As we shot the band performing the song individually, the amount of footage we have has shot up.

We worried a lot about the filming as the guitarist was 40 minutes late for filming. This was problematic as we didn't know when he was going to turn up and there was a chance that we would have had to film again if he didn't. If this had of happened, it wouldn't of been fair to ask the band to bring all their equipment for just a couple of shots.


Safina & Siobhan :)  

Film Notice

This is the notice we used whilst filming on the park last week. It explains why we needed to film and to notify members of the general public that we'd be using the park for a bit.


Safina & Siobhan :)

Weather report for Sunday 21st November

We are planning to re-shoot this coming Sunday, even though what we need to shoot is all inside- the garage performance and some of Heather's tribute wall scenes, the camera will need to be outside for the garage part so that we can see the whole of the band performing together.
The forecast is white cloud which is relatively similar to what we had when filming last Sunday so we should be able to work with this type of weather. This forecast is from the BBC website.

Safina and Siobhan :)

Review of Sunday 14th November's shoot

We had our first film on Sunday 14th November. It went relatively well and we got quite a lot filmed- most of the story line anyway. However, we did have some difficulties.  We did want each member of the band- apart from the lead singer to sing a line of the breakdown. ("I'M GOING DOWN, YOU'RE COMING WITH ME.") However, none of them were too confident to do it so we had to change it so the lead singer sung it instead.
We then filmed Heather, the stalker girl in the bedroom with the tribute wall. But looking back at the footage we think we may have to re-shoot some of the scenes. The one where she runs into the room and rips down the posters off the wall is not done as aggressively as we would like and our extreme close-up of her crying is too dark.
Once we got round to filming the performance aspect of the video we found it was too dark to see the band properly in the garage so we are needing to re-shoot on Sunday to do this as long as we can get hold of the equipment.

This is a short clip of what we filmed of Heather in the bedroom. It isn't fully edited yet but it is on here to give a feel of how our video is coming along and to show the few shots that we will need to re-shoot at the weekend.

Safina and Siobhan :)

Updated weather forecast

Here's another weather report from the BBC closer to the shoot- it's still set to be sunny on Sunday!

Siobhan :)

Weather forecast for Sunday 14th November

We are planning on doing our first lot of filming this Sunday- the 14th so we thought it would be a good idea to check the weather reports in order to be able to know for sure whether we could do our outside location shots or not.
Here we have to print screen shots of weather reports, one for the BBC and one from ITV, these tell us that it is due to be sunny on Sunday which is good news to us. We shall post another further on in the week, closer to the shoot to check that nothing has changed for us.

BBC

ITV

Siobhan and Safina :)

Dark mood board.

This is a dark-themed mood board. It shows jealousy, revenge, hate, remorse and death. These are the key things that we want to be portrayed in our music video. We wnat to recreate a dark and intense atmosphere in our video that is felt by the viewer when watching it. It connects well with the mood and lyrics of the song. This puts our main themes, ideas and mood into pictures that are unable to be described in words.

Siobhan :)

First film shoot!

We are planning to do our first filming shoot for our music video this Sunday- 14th November 2010. The band and stalker girl have been notified and are aware of the equipment that they are required to bring- style of clothes, instruments, etc. A weather report will be posted later on in the week so we can be more aware of whether we will be able to shoot the outside shots or not. All locations and actors are available for this date and if needed, a re-shoot will be arranged too. This could possibly be Sunday 21st Novemeber 2010- one week later than the first shoot. We wanted to start filming as soon as possible so as to have as much time as we need to re-shoot and edit.

Safina and Siobhan :)

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