Bed scene

Today we shot the bed scene, which turned out to be very sufficient and very successful for our group. From this our group can now create our opening of the video because we have the footage to now edit.

Here are some of our location shots on set...

Beggining to Edit

Today we began to edit with the footage with had. From this we decided to drag the opening shot of the London eye timelapse into final cut and place it where we would like and for what amount of time, then we worked on putting the timelapse into the middle of the song due to our other location, bed scene not being filmed yet.

Working to create a roughcut?

Today, i wanted to continue with the music video, so with some of the footage i created a rough cut of the video to see how it would look with our shots, but also to work on the lip sycing aspect which looks quite hard to do well. I used footage along with our storeyboard to ensure i had something on the screen during the whole song...

Putting song into final cut

Today after gathering all our footage we finally began to put our music video into final cut pro to edit. We did not do much but just prepared ourselves for a long editing process, therefore we transferred all of our footage into final cut, labelled all the videos and then following we will convert all of the clips into quick time movies. The screenshots below show our process of using and putting all our videos into final cut and show how we began..

Journal- 2nd Dance scene

Today we filmed the 2nd location, the dance scene. We started the day loading all of the equipment into the car and headed to school, when on arrival we carried all the equipment to the drama studio to set up. We set up of the the cameras equipment very early to prepare and be ready for when our actress and also our extras arrive. We first all of began with various shots of our actress hayley singing the song whilst dancing, this gave us the oppertunity to gather our shots we need and give a variety of shots to play around with.

Here are some of our pictures of the shoot

Getting a dress

Today Me and Tommy went up to Bluewater to get the dress we need to do our shoot for the night club scene, therefore we went to numerous shops to have a look. After a while we were getting very frustrated because we could not find a dress, therefore we resorted to going on ebay and ordering a dress of a shopping website which we were very happy with. The dress itself is a cocktail dress, its yellow with sparkly sequins to give it a glowing effect as very as the sparkle.

Journal- Uploading

Today in our double lesson as a group we had my laptop to upload our footage, the five of our videos whilst we were up London varied in length as shown on our shooting log therefore the time varied to how long they took being uploaded, once we had set the laptop to upload we continued to work on our digi-pack ideas, as a group we had a good concept but had to make changes for each of ours to be different from one another. I believe our group is very competitive and this therefore will lead to our group wanting all of our project in every aspect to be perfect,a digi-pack is one that we want to make ours the best.

Journal- London shoot

Here are some pictures of us on location filming, these photos of us show that we are really happy with one anothers company when filming and shows that we are all having fun however long we film for...

Review of 1st shoot

When making our way to the shoot we were really excited bout shooting because we have had a picture in our heads for months and to finally film felt so good. We started filming near the eye to begin with to get the sun going down in the distance behind, this shot was filmed on my camera for two hours continuously, we really enjoyed it till about an hour when we was all wanted to move because of the freezing weather. My camera run out of battery after two hours, therefore we completed, packed away and moved on to our next part, whilst waiting for the film Tommy noticed over the wall a merry go round, we then decided to go round and film there for a while too, obviously i took one for the team and went on the ride. We then moved onto Westminster bridge for our next location, this went very well especially with the people walking in the shot, it shows London's popularity and busy streets reflect what we want to achieved, a well established, desired destination. Following the bridge we went and had a break with hot drinks but then came back to film Big Ben, a shot we really liked when researching and was really happy to find it. We at this point film my camera with footage and a tape of Tommy's, we had one more tape with an hours footage left, therefore we filmed Big Ben for an hour and completed the night with a beautifully lit shot of the eye and the museum. To sum up the shoot i really enjoyed myself and so did the group, it didn't help that Nick didn't feel to good because he had to stand around, but I'm glad and i feel Tommy and Nick are too because from seeing our footage we are really pleased.

Things we could of done better....

• Took another camera for more footage to film.
• Another battery pack to have more time for the footage.
• make sure we have hats, gloves and something to keep us warm.
• Food and supplies to keep us going and feel better.

Here are some photos...

Journal- Pitch

Today we worked on a music video pitch, the pitch is needed to be completed by today to present to our teachers and fellow classmates, as a group we worked quite hard on this to make it perfect and to cover all bases.

Journal- Editing the storyboard in imovie

Today in the lesson we focused on getting the storyboard completed in the imovie software with the music accompanying it to show our shots at each precise point where we want them to be and giving the outline for the whole video. Below are some screen shots of our work...

Journal- Storyboard

Today as a group, we decided to draw and finish our storyboard, we worked really hard that lesson and worked for two hours. Working as a group i decided to do the written aspect of the group because my drawing skill is not very good from our pictures below we would like to show a visual record as well as a journal so it is one giving our account of the task a picture to all the writing...

Journal- Codes

Today i researched the codes and conventions of a music video because a few days earliuer we have been given our briefs. the codes and conventions of a music video are very much the same in each video. The codes are there to follow but also need to be there to challenge them aswell, researching this was ver informative for me and incitful to what our music video will have to be..

Journal- Experiment 2

In the next few days i decided to do another timelapse of the clouds, i chos ethe clouds because i thought that the clouds are never noticed when they are move, therefore focusing on them it will show the timelapse with more movement.

Journal- Experimenting with Time

Today i chose to experiment with a timelapse because this is one of the ideas our group is thinking about using. The experiment invloved me leaving my video camera watching my street for a eight hour period throughout the night. When speeding it up all that i noticed was the clouds movement over the period, it was good to do because it showed what would look good to timelapse and gave me an idea of what our group will have to do.

Journal- Music vids

Today, i researched a variety of music videos to see how they were made, the different ways in which they were produced and any effects that were used. I found that researching was very good to do because it showed the varst range of videos, from watching one of each genre it gave me a rougf idea of how music videos should be made for the each of the different genres.

Opening Jounal

Last year in media went really well, more then i could of imagined. Media was a new different subject i was always interested in but never, pursued until last year starting the AS course. I really enjoyed working last year as it was fun, practical and interesting, i really enjoyed last years making of a video because i had never of done something like this and it was new. The making of the opening title sequence was my favourite aspect because it was the chance to create your own piece of coursework from every aspect from making storyboards and the storyline, to actually producing it and making it happen. towards the end of the year i realised how much of the exam meant to me achieving a good grade and also how hard the exam was going to be if i didn't study. To sum up the year i believe it was very successful and therefore am looking forward to follow up with better results and also more imaginative coursework than last year.... :)