Video Complete!

So I filmed the last scene which took 15 minutes. I then uploaded the scene and edited it so that it all made sense. I copied the idea we had on the storyboard and so I had all the shots needed.


A lot of the lip synching was out of sync because when we imported shots, the lip synching moved along as it hadn't been locked. So I have put all the lip synching in place.


Also, I felt that the last part of the video was slightly boring as it just finished on to the doors (and not very attractive either!) so I imported the last clip on to iMovie and added a title at the end. I put the name of the song and the artist's name as she is a new artist so this would help to establish her as this is in big letters and pink, which is a popular colour for our target audience. I think it finished the video off nicely.


However I asked Miss to evaluate it as there is still a bit of time before the deadline and received feedback such as
- lip synching was slightly out at 3 points
- one image needs to be changed so that it has more energy in it


I will do these finishing touches tomorrow in my lesson. However, right now I am doing my evaluation.
So now the video is complete and I am asking people to watch it and give me final comments on what they think.

Filming Problem

So today we were supposed to film the last clip (throwing Jack outside) however my partner isn't in and we can't film tomorrow as that is the date for the deadline. So I have asked around for people to film for me and I have found somebody willing.
I have made sure that all the actors are available to film and so I'm going to get the location ready now and then ask everyone to come down to film. Then I will upload this and edit, once this is finished then the video will be finished as a whole and I will only have my evaluation to do.

Filming

Today, we did so much filming! We re-filmed the chorus in the drama rooms, we used the specialist lights for this to make it look more professional, as our feedback from the showcase suggested that our current chorus (which was plain in-front of curtains) didn't look very professional. I suggested that we should use purple lights as the artist is called 'VIOLET Rowe' so this would be her statement colour so hopefully when people thing of purple/violet, this will be associated with Violet Rowe. This made a huge impact and the footage looks so much better. We were able to do this in the space of one hour as I got ready and turned the lights on during form time, so this was so successful within the time provided.

We also re-shot the beginning of the video as we realised the continuity wasn't great as we had a flood light in some sections whereas in others, it only used the light from a small lamp, also in this location we filmed the walking down bit again as last time my flower was on the wrong side of my head! So now, the whole first section's continuity is corrected and looks so much better. We also filmed some establishing shots of the artist getting ready (putting make-up/shoes on) which we want to put quick edits in at the beginning when she is walking down the stairs because the music is jumpy, so gives us a lot of room to do some fast edits instead of just plainly walking down stairs.

In the third lesson, we filmed the artist and the male together (before he cheated on her) just on a normal school day sitting on a bench and walking and running around a field, just generally being young and happy. I thought this would be good to put in the montage at the end as memories before she shuts the doors as to prove she's finished.

We had a small amount of time left so we went and filmed Jack in the french corridors again and the artist lip singing, which we were supposed to do on Monday however, this has given us more time to do the last bits of editing.

So this was a very busy filming day (3hours) and I was knackered by the end of it, but we have all our shots now! Apart from the last tiny bit where the guys throw the main guy out, which we hopefully should be filming on Monday! I should be doing some editing on Monday period 5 and Tuesday after school, as well as in lesson time.

Filming for Bridge #2

Today we finally filmed for the second bridge (line-up). However, Jack (the main male) wasn't in school so he couldn't film, instead of letting this get in the way, we filmed the other boys instead. We don't have to rely on other people so we did as much as we could and hopefully in the editing, it should come out right.
We only have 2 other boys (Jamie and Michael) that we officially had to be in the video, so I went down to the study centre to see what boys were in a free that would be in our music video. I asked about 7 boys and atlast, one boy said he wouldn't mind doing it! So we used those 3 boys and filmed as much as we could.
We needed point of view shots from me which we found difficult, as Natasha D is shorter than me but then  we tried putting the camera on a tripod infront of me, which worked well!
Altogether, I feel the filming today was successful, and so I should be uploading the footage tomorrow.

Filming Postponed

We were supposed to film today, however, the main guy couldn't make it so we couldn't film. I know that the deadline is coming up soon so we are going to try to find the next available date to film when we have got all our props, the actors and the location booked.
Instead, in this lesson time, we made the black strips to put in the background for our 2nd narration for the line up.

Filming for Bridge #2

Tomorrow we plan to do the bridge for the second bridge. We should be doing in period 1 in the french corridors. Due to the drama room always being busy, we changed our location to the corridor which is also a white background. This is also a better time slot as this is a free when we have at least 3 boys with no lessons that can help us out.
I've downloaded the song that we're using on to my phone so I can play it whilst I'm lip singing so that it doesn't make too much noise and we don't have to have cables everywhere to connect an ipod dock.

Change of Plan (Yet Again!)

So we had everything ready but the drama rooms where my group wanted to film were being used by a GCSE class. This was a flaw in my planning and preparation but it has taught me that I need to book the location in future.
I will be going to ask the Drama teacher when we can use the room tomorrow to officially book it, but this means finding a date suitable for my group AND our actors AND the teachers so it may be a bit difficult but it needs to be done!
However, this is the last scene needed to be filmed! ...and maybe a few more extras for the ending to make the clips a bit more snappy but the timeline is looking good! I'm confident at this moment that the video will be finished by the deadline and to a high standard (hopefully).

Changing The Plan

Jack (our actor) has contacted me to tell me that me and him have a last minute school commitment which will take half an hour after school. This may affect our filming time but hopefully not too much.
Also, I've managed to get a few of my friends to play the guys at the line up for the second chorus and they've all agreed to come to school tomorrow at our decided filming time so this should be a successful filming session.


Today, in drama I took down the set that was stopping us from filming our second chorus so we can use the white background. So, hopefully in my free lesson tomorrow, I will make the black lines for the line up to make the scene more believable. 

This is what I want it to look like.

Filming for Narrative

Today we did the filming for the narrative and it was successful because we finally had Jack to play the 'guy'. I asked him when he was next available to film again and he said next Wednesday which works for me and Natasha.


I had a free first lesson whilst Natasha and Jack were in class, so in this time I...
- Printed pictures of Jack with another girl from Facebook (which I got permission for in form time)

These are the pictures I printed out and
stuck to black paper.

- Bought black paper so I could stick the pictures to the black paper and cut them up so they looked more professional. 
- Got a camera and tripod from the technician
- Got our tape for the camera
- Got the lamp 
- Got the ipod dock
- Got the flood light
- Got the extension lead from the hall
- Got the story boards so we knew what shots we needed in particular
- Got a table
- Bought all of these things down stairs to our location
- Painted my nails blue so that it is the same colour as the one we filmed the scene with before
- Got into my costume and did my hair and make up

I bought all this down so it was ready for filming when the group
were able to join me.

This was all ready by second period so it was ready for filming, this was great because it meant we had more time to film and less trying to get ready.
I thought Jack would be best in just his school uniform, minus his tie and scruffy hair. I gave him some water so it looked like he was sweating so it matched the image in our story board. 


He worked well and we got the shots we aimed for. Other than a teacher coming in at the end asking us to stop for health and safety reasons as we were in the way of the fire exit, but it was fine as we had shot all of our shots by then. 

Filming Chorus

Today, we filmed the chorus in the hall doing the performance part. I think this was a successful session, we spent about 2 and a half hours filming and we got most of the shots that we needed. However, I think we might need to film a bit more as we don't have enough different material as we were in a rush because we had to give back the props to the different departments before they went home.

Once we have uploaded the filming onto the timeline, we can see how much we have and how much extra we need if we do.

Filming for Bridge

We filmed for the bridge part of our video today, this is only a few seconds long but a key block within the video.
The shots were mainly the artist singing to the camera as it's supposed to be intimate camera work but we did also do different shots, like crawling towards to the camera just because it's quirky. I thought it would be a good idea to input quirky little shots at random intervals within the video as it breaks the conventions of a video running smoothly straight through.

Images

Today, we wanted to film the beginning part of the video on the stairs, so we did this. Afterwards, I thought it would be a good idea to take some more images, which we could use for the album cover. Also, I was in different hair, clothes and make up than before so this would be suitable.


The images are on the group blog. 


We should be filming the next bit soon as we couldn't film the first scene as the boy we need was in an exam. Also, we need to film the rest in the drama rooms which are busy right now.