Problem Solved

After a few tense editing sessions and a lot off pressure from the teachers, we, as a group managed to rectify our editing problems and get back to the standard (and more) of what we had before we lost a lot of work. Now that we are back on track, we can get on from where we left off!

This pic shows the opening that we lost, and had to reconstruct, a lot harder than it looks, changing clip speeds and using colour correction.

Editing Problem

Today we have had a few small problems whilst we were editing. Final Cut quit unexpectedly and, by no fault of anybody but myself the work of half of todays lesson was lost. Next time I will remember to save! Looks like im in for the long slot after school and for the next few days...

More Digipak work...

Much the same as my last post, we are still working on our digipak design and how we want it to work out. We have decided to run with the black and white theme, but keep some of our original image in colour. Today this slide was put together as an idea that we can base the rest of our digipak around, although we still need to decide weather this will be our final design. I have mixed feelings about this specific tile. I feel that it could work, because it shows the loneliness. But on the other hand, i dont feel that it compliments the song.

Digipak Design

Today we sat down and decided what kind of Digipak theme/design that we wanted to go for. We are still trying to finalise our ideas, but common themes arising are that we will have the artist alone, not part as a group, and that our Digipak will be in black and white. We also decided that we are going to stick with a 4 panel product instead of 6, simply because we do not want to put too much into the product, which may take away from it. One thing that we have decided on for sure, is the fact that we will be branding our actor as an individual artist, giving the whole product individuality and originality.

Digipak Sketches

Below are out basic sketches for the digipak that we are hoping to create for our product.

We started by getting some basic ideas of what we wanted our digipak to look like down on paper. The design work was important to us so that we knew what we had to do when the product was nearing completion. Without the prior planning, I feel that we would not have created a strong digipak because our ideas would have been mixed up with no clear path to follow.

Editing

Today we continued with the same work as our previous session on Tuesday 11th. We have noticed that there we still have big gaps to fill, and some of our footage already needs to be re-filmed. Although, at the moment this is no major drama, if we leave it, the problem will escalate! But today has been successful by continuing to build our skeleton of the video

Editing

Today, we continued on with our editing, tidying up our opening and roughly positioning shots to where we wanted them to be. All in all a successful session as we have a main skeleton ready to start finalising!

Filming 7th October 2011

For our filming session today, we headed out to the local village to get some more lip syncing shots and fillers. Although in past posts I have mentioned that we do not wish to film in the local area, Carshalton Highstreet is an area of outstanding beauty, with it's historic church and beautiful park. We managed to get some vital shots to in order to reveal our twist at the end of the video and also managed to fill some small gaps we had in our lyrics. Hopefully we have finished the bulk of our filming now and we will not have to do much more...

Filming 4th October 2011

Today we made another trip to London to get some filming done for our music video. The day was very successful getting a lot of footage filmed, and this time, we had our main actor with us! We had a plan for the day (please see below) which I felt we stuck to very well enabling us to get lots of work done, cant wait for the next filming session....


4th October Plan:

10:00 - Arrive in London and head to Green Park, where we aim to film a manner of shots, but mainly showing the actor alone in such a big space to show his lonliness. I aim to take some pictures, not only for the but for the group to add. 

10:45 - Filming in Embankment and Westminster. This seems to be the best location for us in order to film opening shots of the music video as it gives us the opportunity to film some of our flashbacks.

11:30 - We now aim to be at Oxford Circus where the busy streets will be perfect in order to emphasise the solidarity of our main character, this will  also be another opportunity to take some photos for the Digipak.

12:15 - We plan to head straight to Primrose Hill, where again we would be looking capture the emotion of the actor as well as the surroundings that he is in. We then plan to head to Charing Cross in order to finish up our filming for the day.

13:45 - For our last section, we wish to film the introduction locally, which is shown by the first few storyboards; this consists of the two actors arguing and then the accident taking place, it is vital that this is filmed correctly in order to gain maximum effect. If all goes to plan, we could start editing from here but we can film any shots that we have missed or did not account for as and when needed.

Transportation

To make our music video as good as possible we do not want to be filming in and around our local area so as you can see from our plans we have opted to use Central London. We want to make good use of the cheap travel that we are lucky enough to have to get around the capital. Our oyster cards give us free bus travel which is very helpful for getting us to the station, and we also get half rate travel on the tubes so the day works out relitvely cheaply. In  total individual travel costs have only reached around £10 which is very helpful because of the ridiculous prices that we would otherwise have to pay.
We aim to get ourselves to Leicester Square and walk around for the rest of the day filming and get a tube home, a very cheap day for lots of filming...