Filming Dilema

It's time to start filming now and we are currently having problems with times when we are all free. We will discuss next lesson on when we can make it . A maximum of 3days of filming is needed to collect a lot of footage.

TIME FLIES !!

Media AS and A2 post it reveiw

Here is a video, we made reveiwing AS & A2 year :

In the news (Media Magazine Advise)

It is important for us at this moment in time to produce our best work yet, We have had the past AS  year practicing and improving our creativity but we now have no room for mistakes, WE WANT PERFECTION. The following is an extract from the Media Magazine that caught my eye: 

" Writing about video production in the first ever issue of MediaMag..Chief Examiner Pete Fraser pointed up the importance of planning the minute details of each shoot to avoid wasting time on location;testing batteries, lighting amd microphones before setting off; and planning to improvise when group members are absent:

 " Treat your project with professionalism and organisation and you will not go far wrong. Being creative is brilliant- but you can't beat being organised."

......planning is vital to achieving succeful results in your production work, it's also important to realise that failing, making mistakes or just plain getting stuff wrong is not such a bad thing. IN fact we should be encouraging failure as an important step on the way to success!"

This simply advises us to leavbe room for mistakes and encourages some creative risk taking. It was okay in the past AS year to keep it safe , but now we should showcase all radical creative ideas even if we make mistakes we can learnt from them and create a master piece !

Font Selection for digipack

We would like to use similar fonts as the one's used by Jack Johnson , as we are using one of his songs.

This Font Looks Similar to FRENCH SCRIPT font with a little bit of definition 

The font here is similar to Calibri and is appropriate 

However, we do not want our digi-pack to just copy the same style , BUT we want something similar and appropriate to what we have planned our artist to represent.

Last Lesson

In our previous lesson, we experimented with Photoshop to edit all our pictures for our digi-park. After we did some filming , to test our angles and also did some lip syncing.

Lessons to be learnt (in prep for next filming)

We have learned quite a lot after yesterday's filming :

Fun

This is a good example of a music video that portrays young people having a good time.
This fits in well with our target audience.

Music Video Ideas

iN THIS ADVERT, IT INCORPORATES STILLS INTO A STORY , AND I THINK IT WOULD BE A GREAT IDEA TO INCLUDE THIS INTO OUT CONCEPT BUT HOPEFULLY MIX WITH VIDEO ASWELL

Changes of ideas

Change is needed :)

When it comes to actors , we couldn't really find anyone  to act out the couples scene we had planned to do in our original idea, BUT we now have decided to make the music video, more about young people having fun , tourist kind of feel to it . This way, we can all be involved in it and have a good time doing it . Infusing amature videos with staged ones will make our work very appealing and relatable to the AUDIENCE , However, with tht in mind, we also want to be clever in our camera angles and movement and also the way we edit our work !

The Carnival (filming)

Yesterday, was the Weston Carnival 2010 and this marked our first day of filming. We wanted to capture the bit in our sequence of friends out and about having fun.  We had a big problem as Fhahima had trouble with charging the camera as it is new improved equipment but that did not stop us from getting as much footage as we can . We ended up using her camera to capture videos and photos to add to the music video.

Carnival Night(We took various shots that will feature on the blog)

Preparation

As we are soon about to start with our recording for our final music video, we really need to start thinking about how we are going to achieve this successfully and as planned initially. We have to also organise the props, actors, equipment and manage our time within a reasonable schedule and not be of track nor left behind.

So far I have created a timetable, within my personal diary of what we should be achieving and covering within the next few weeks, and so next week the carnival is due to run on the 15th of November 2010 at 7pm, this is a starting point of our filming and then should go along with our initial plan as well as our storyboard in which we will take along with us.

Lip Sync Practice

Today in our lesson we practicsed how to capture different angles and shots of lip synching using the new HD video cameras we have recently ordered and received. As we have not experienced lip syncing before, we found it very difficult at first and a struggle to capture this, along with the timed soundtrack.

After a few attempts we managed to capture a few clips of George, playing as our 'Busker' which we have included for our music video. We also had problems with the new HD video camera, as instead of videoing, we accidentally pressed on the camera function and with many practise and retakes, we eventually managed to do this properly.

As the HD video cameras are new, we had to experiment and play around with how we have to convert the clips from the device to the MAC PC's, and then edit the soundtrack along with the clips in good time, using Final Cut Pro. This is what we have achieved and are hoping to convert these skills when we actually record our music video in a few weeks time!

Animatic

During the half term we converted our storyboard in which we first hand drawn, then scanned onto the PC and converted it into ReelClever, a media technology website which can edit media products into a more professional standard.

We then used the images from the storyboard to create our animatic, an animation version of our music video, in which we can use to help stop errors before we film our original music video. We used final cut pro to import all the images from the storyboard, and edit it along with the soundtrack.

We faced many problems and noticed that we have had less footage or images in our animatic so we decided in order to extend the footage, we should include jack jhonsons face in every chores. This idea worked very successful, so we then exported it into quicktime movie and then uploaded it onto youtube, and copied the link to insert into this post.

Below is the video of our animatic ..