Sunday, 30 October 2011

Monday 24th October - Sunday 30th October

In this week we came back and started putting the footage we had from the previous and putting our work all together and we slowly but surely by using certain effects such as fade in and fade out and colour correction the effects were making video start to look good.

After this we continued to edit what we had to see if any more filming was to be done for the music video.

Sunday, 23 October 2011

Monday 17th October - Sunday 23rd October

At the start of the week we got our camera and tripod and we all went up to London with our lead signer to go and film some shots. We got the train to London Victoria and the minute we got there we thought it would be a good location to do some filming of the lead signer and his girlfriend standing there holding each other whilst everyone passes them. With this we did the lead signers girlfriend doing the same with myself we decided we again would use this for fast pace editing to make the clips shorter and this would follow the conventions of music videos of having short quick shot in the video.

From London victoria we took the underground to get to Camden Town. Here we took alot of shots of our lead signer walking through Camden lip syncing to the song. These shots were successful as it gave the song a nice scene setting to it. We also continued doing shots of the lead signer and his girlfriend walking through Camden and then did the same with myself and the lead singers girlfriend.

Sunday, 16 October 2011

Monday 10th October - Sunday 16th October

At the start of this week again we went back and uploaded all the footage we took from the previous week. We looked through the clips and decided on which ones we like and could be a success in the music video. We added in some clips to the video and decided that we needed some clips of the lead signers girlfriend with another man, we done this because we thought we could use the fade in fade out tool on final cut express and do some fast past editing to show the difference between the two.

After doing these shots we went back to our computer and uploaded the footage, we started putting little bits together in the song but had some many gaps which we new we could go and do some great shots in a wider environment such as London. So has a group we came up with a plan of where to go and what to do and that would be what we where to do the week coming.

Sunday, 9 October 2011

Monday 3rd October - Sunday 9th October

At the start of this week what we did first was upload all the footage we had from the previous week, once we done this we were able to clear the camera and leave us with more space on the camera to go and film alot more shot. When we first uploaded all the footage we had we decided to play around with what we had and see if everything fitted. We were happy with the shots from the garage of the lead signer and the band but where not so keen on the shots of the lead signer just signing and seeing his lips. once we choose certain clips we like we worked out what was the next stage to go out and film and looked back on out storyboards.

Before we went of to film we went to clean up the garage and put away the materials we used as it was a friends garage we were using, we all went as a group to do this as it was a team effort putting it together so we all went to put it away and clean up.

The next stage for us in this week getting our lead signer and our actress to jazmines house to film some shots there. The shots we filmed there included shots of them being a happy couple on the sofa laughing and joking and kissing and cuddling up. Then we also when we was there decided we should do shots of them arguing cause the lead signer sees her texting another male. From there he throws the phone to the chair and storms out the house. all this together consisted of shot-reverse-shots, over the shoulder shots, medium shots and close up shots.


Also we filmed upstairs in Jazmines house of shots of our lead signer and in the bed with his girlfriend as he lip synced the song whist she was sleeping we did this to show how he knows she has ben unfaithful but hides it for her so a shot like this could represent the love he has for her.

Sunday, 2 October 2011

Monday 26th September - Sunday 2nd October

In this week we started to do alot more filiming, we spent most of our time at the gargage filming the band playing and getting a mixture of different shots. Before we were able to start filming we had some technical difficutls with some of the lights that we had put up where the bulbs had blown, so before filming we put up another set of lights around the band to have the effect that we first intended on doing.

When filming during the week we thought it would be a good idea to get single shot of every band member performing to the song. We did this because when though we would be able to have a number of different shot which we could include in the video and put them together and have some fast past editing between them.


We also did alot of takes filming the whole band in a medium shot perfroming, we did alot of takes because at certain parts of the song there were issues with certain band members at certain points of the song, but we kept the footage rolling to get the most out of what we had.


We also got close up shots of our lead signer performing, we did this to following Andrew Goodwin's theory of having close up shots of the lead signer to show band identity.


In the week we experienced some problems with setting of the garage and the lighting, this meant that we had to use some of the time we had to work around and change certain things in order to show of the band and the scenery the best we could.