Editing

Today while toby and jennie and sasha filmed the last few peices i started to sift through the footage from the forest in search of pieces we could use to fill in instrumental gaps. Whilst doing so i came accross footage that hadn't been fully converted and once it had been i found the perfect shot that we'd been missing. I plan to bring attention to the shot in the evaluation, it combines mise-en-scene with the perfect setting to bring attention to the obvious initial message in the song.

Group Discussion (To do list)

After editing the majority of our music video, we have had a discussion about the shots we are missing and we have decided that we need to film the following shots again.

• In pub
• Ice cream in face-"what we have we share" aged film grain
• "Caller ID"- shot of phone
• Facebook chat/text - "i've gotta tell you something"
• "dont forget your home" alternative 
• another "knowing you are close"
• alternative choruses

Showcase

After showing our video in a showcase to our whole class, we asked our audience to fill in feedback forms.  Here our some of the responses:

After looking at our feedback the consensus was that we need to shoot some more footage to fill the gaps and to make sure that we don't use footage more than once. We also decided that we need to use more of the old style film as people really liked the quaint style and the home made aesthetic. 

Editing

Today I stayed after school to do some editing of our footage. I worked on getting the shots at the right time for the ending and I edited all of the footage to create the old film grain effect where needed. I'm going to upload the specific footage to youtube so that my group can look at it and see what it looks like.

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

Group Roles

Jennie- Playing the artist, makeup/costume, Editor

Toby - Playing artists boyfriend,Props, Director, Editor

Ashlie- Playing extra, Director, Editor 

Sasha- Extra, Director, Editor, camera man  

We are all going to take it in turn to film the footage and take pictures so that we can all contribute.

Our Final Storyboard

Here is our final storyboard that we will use whilst filming our video:

Lip Syncing Video

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

Story Boarding

Here are me and Jennie at work storyboarding sasha took the picture and he also help in storyboarding :

We are listening to the track on my laptop create the story board so that it is precise and so that we know exactly what to shoot and when. It may happen that some of the shots once filmed aren't to our liking and don't work with the video so we may have to improvise or have another meeting to discuss alternative shots.

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.

Story Boarding

Monday 29th November
This lesson we finished story boarding our music video using pictures we drew on post-it notes to show what we want on the particular shot with how many seconds it lasts for. We came up with a narrative for the video which is about a teenage girl whose boyfriend leaves her and that she goes through different emotions but feels safe at home. This whole situation will relate to our target audience, teenagers as at this age, that sort of stuff happens, breakups, love, emotional changes, which will make the video and song more personal.
This story boarding gives us more of an image with what the video will be like which at the moment, seems really good and we think it will be hard as we have lots of shots, but successful.

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.  

Ellie Tanner - Home IDEAS

As a group we sat and listened to Ellie's track. We made notes of our own ideas as we listened and then we   discussed our own ideas and brought them together and here is the our final treatment/ idea:

The concept is about a young adult female that has had an argument with her boyfriend and we see various stages of her relationship with her boyfriend, and we see her in places where she feels at 'home'.

Our Chosen Track

After having a meeting to discuss which of the 5 tracks to use, we have decided on Ellie Tanner's 'Home'. We felt that this song has interesting lyrics that will give us inspiration for our ideas and it has various changes in tempo. The changes in tempo will enable us to show different types of editing such as edits in sync.

We are going to have a meeting during our next lesson to listen to the track and brainstorm ideas.

Sasha came up with some good idea's about a narrative which could go with the music video which was of a couple breaking up , and there journey though this

Deciding On A Track

We have been able to get permission from Ellie Tanner, www.myspace.com/ellietanner, to use her music for our video. She sent us 5 of her tracks to choose from. We are going to have a group meeting, so that we can listen to the tracks and decide on which one to use.