Group Meeting

This is a group discussion we had over facebook to discuss dates and props form filming

Converting/Editing

Rather than wait until we have every single bit of footage we decide it would be more efficient to begin making the final peice with what we already had. Afer 3 hours of converting over 70 peices of existing footage we began editing. We've also decided it is much more beneficial to edit in pairs, today me and jennie were editing, tomorrow it will be sasha and jennie. Currently, we are 43 seconds into the song, however as much of the lesson today was spent finishing converting and arranging files, we're hoping to be closer to 2 minutes into the song by the end of tomorrow.

HI, yeah when Ashlie left I edited more of the video, I finished off most of the verse and started doing the chorus, but we are missing a lot of film.

Filming left to do

We were looking through all of our shots that we filmed, and noticed that we are missing some footage that we still need to do.

We will shoot these scenes on wednesday the 9th of march

• Shot of couple at table in cafe
• Point of view shot of couple 
• guitar shot
• artist looking disgruntled

19th February

The shots we done were successful and will look really good once we have edited it all together, especially the point of view shots of us spinning

. Also the shots at Tobys house will be good as we filmed us on Facebook Chat and point of view shots looking at the phone. T

he video is going to be good, but we still have a lot to do, but it wont take too long. 

26th January & 3rd February - Cafe Shoot

Here Me, Toby and Sasha filmed the cafe shoot where Ellie is really upset because of the breakup with her relationship. We filmed this without the tripod as it was broke, once we played this back, we saw that the footage was really shaky and that we needed to reshoot this scene. 

On the 3rd Feb we re-filmed this scene and filmed a new part with a tracking shot using the car with Sasha holding the camera on the tripod, filming me running down the street which looks really good and effective. 

We only have a small section to do and then we are done!!

GO TEAM. 

Outfits for music video

 

 

 

Here are some dresses I picked out for our music video 

Lip Syncing Video

Here is our video in which we practiced lip sync and experimented with the editing software.

Lip Syncing Exercise

24th November Wednesday

We had a double lesson this lesson so we thought it would be a good idea to do our lip syncing activity.   We chose Bad Romance by Lady Gaga, to make our video to as we all knew it and we thought it would be fun to experiment with.

At first we had to get used to being on camera, we were all quite camera shy... but once this passed Sasha filmed the majority and we got on with miming to the song using different angels and shots such as, High angel, close up and mid shots. Working through our shyness has enabled us to feel more comfortable within our group and i think it will make it easier when it comes to make our final video.

Once we finished miming, we uploaded the video onto Final Cut on the apple mac, we found this program hard and confused at first as we didnt know what we were doing. Eventually we got the hang of it and Toby cut some of the video and slotted them together to make a smooth video. Jennie and Ashlie then added effects to make it more interesting to watch, also made the video look professional.

Overall this activity enabled us to bond as a group and it provided us the opportunity to gain vital knowledge and understanding of Final Cut.

Setting Research

Me (Jennie) Toby and sasha decided to do some research into the possible location for our music video. 

We felt that this setting could provide a good backdrop for a narrative, we feel this setting would suit Ellie's music and song as it is all about home and this location is near our home and somewhere Ellie visits.