Filming

Due to the fact I didn't film in one of the days i completely forgot to include it in my blog. I organised Ashlee to meet us in are media room where all of us have are lesson last Wednesday. At first we were all going to go out and watch the filming, however I realised that it would just be a waste of time having us all there as we had already discussed they we just wanted Ashlee to lip sync the whole song in several different locations. As Sam and I are the main two editors I asked if Becca and John were willing to film Ashlee whilst Same and I were editing. They were both happy with this and I asked if they could get a shot which involved some kind of woodland or garden and her singing infront of a white wall and make it this one a close up. I felt comfortable leaving Becca and John by there selves to film Ashlee as they are both very creative.

When John came back i looked at the lip synching shots and instead of a white wall he used a normal brick wall, this still looked very nice and when i asked him out of interest why he had changed from using the white wall he told me it was because the white wall was old and was losing and gaining different colours. I have since looked at the wall and have seen that John was right and he had done very well to use a different wall. Small things like that make a video that looked home made look a lot more professional.

Edit 4

I came up to media to see John and Sam working on are project they had separated some of the video up with different shots of are artist doing different things and singing to the camera. This has increased the quality of are music video my only worry is that no one else is willing to stay after school and means that we are running out of time as i do not feel confident enough to edit by myself and also think it would be unfair on the group if I was to make mass changes by myself without asking them. Saying this however afterwards Sam and Becca and I did carry on with the video and make some more seconds up.

Third day of filming

The third day of filming was done on Wednesday morning in one of are media lessons. Ashlee told us she was no longer available for filming due to other commitments that had come out of the blue. However we knew that there needed to be a reason for the argument without being able to use Ashlee. I came up with the idea that instead of having Ashlee walking past and seeing Sam (are actor( and him not seeing her. Instead we would have close ups on Sams face expressing stress and worrying at something he had seen (which was Ashlee walking past), whilst Sam was at the pub with another girl. I put this to Sam who made a few changes to what i had drawn and told the rest of the group who agreed it was a good idea.
This filming went very well and took only about 30 minutes to do. I did most of the camera work and directing. My main problem was that i wanted Sam to look like he was not meant to be with the women i think this worked well with the close ups.
This is all are filming done now and all we need to do is finishing editing and then the video will be done.

Video Showcase

Are teacher organised are whole class to watch films and fill in pieces of paper in order to see what they thought of it. Overall we got very promising signs even though are video wasn't fully complete. They did however say that the direct address sometimes didn't use as much emphasis as it should have done and also sometimes the film used up to many shots of one specific area without it changing leading to boredom in the audience we therefore have decided to change this slightly and John and Sam have told me they will start tomorrow period 1 and then i will come up and see period 2 and 3 as unfortunately have another lesson period .

EDITING BAD NEWS

We left are computer on whilst we went to break and came back to find that the bit that Sam worked on so hard has been moved by somebody! He has had to redo it wasting precious time. He has once again done a very good job, however not as good as he had done before!

Although very annoying it has taught us a very important lesson that we must remember to save are work as younger children can always go into the media lessons and ruin your work.

Editing two.

I felt that we were falling a bit behind and wanted to edit more. However at first Sam wasn't happy with this as he wanted to edit in order as we didn't know exactly where that bit should start. Normally I would of agreed with him but as we are on a short time scale I persuaded him to start now. We put the argument on with Sam doing the majority of work and then asking for my opinion as to what we should or checking that he was doing it right. I am happy with the final product and so is the rest of the group!

Second day of filming

We have had to cancel two days of filming already due to the fact one day Ashlee was Ill and another because two of are group realised they were unable to flim on the day I had organised and confirmed with them. This is why it was so important to film today. I had made sure my house was free, however Ashlee offered to use her house; we decided to take her up on this generous offer as in music videos like this the house are normally grander and Ashlee lives in a very nice detached house whilst mine is a council house.
Bad news was that Sam found at he was working at half 4 and therefore meant we only had an hour and a half to film the shots of the argument. At first we worked very hard and Ashlee and Sam were acting very well; however after a while it became tedious and the actors were making mistakes so we kept on having to re-film bits. However on the whole we felt the acting was of a very good happy and we were finished well before half 4.