Final Video

We have finally finished our video completely, after having to correct all of the lip syncing and some video transitions. Here is our final video:

Progress Report

We have now finished our rough cut of our video and will put it up on youtube to gain audience feedback on things we can improve and things that are successful. We are also showing our rough cut in assembly on monday. The results will be shown in my evaluation. We will now begin to start on our digipack, and advert. Here is our rough cut video.

Video Editing

In today's lesson we carried on our editing for the music video. We began viewing youtube tutorials to help us gain certain effects in our video. This helped us a lot and made the editing process quicker and easier. We are well on our way to finishing the video now, we just need to do some final touches, and add different transitions.

We watched a tutorial on youtube to show us how to do colour correction in our music video. We wanted to use this tool, as many of our shots vary in lighting which doesn't portray a very professional image. We watched the tutorial and worked on our video simultaneously, so we knew we were on the right track. We had a very successful outcome, and are pleased with our shots.

Progress Report

In today's lesson we uploaded all of our footage onto the iMac's using the log and transfer option on Final Cut Express. We then started editing our video. We first put all of our performance shots in place to match the lip sync, and then started adding our narrative shots.

Progress Report

We drove to Audley End house with all our equipment and camera ready to film. However, when we got there we were unable to film due to shortage of staff for supervision. This meant we could no longer film in the chosen location. But we realised we could not waste a whole day and we needed to film- luckily we had a back-up location at Little Easton Manor. We filmed some of our shots at Little Easton Manor, and then filmed the rest in and around Newport, as we realised lots of the locations were desirable and fit with our narrative and genre. We used the HD Camera to film all of our shots, and changed the sound and colour settings accordingly. We managed to get all of our performance shots finished, and majority of our narrative shots. The last few shots we needed to do were shots of our boy in the video. We arranged to do this tomorrow.

Progress Report

All planning is up to date, and Shot list's are finished. This will enable us to film successfully tomorrow, and any alterations or changes will we record and post up after filming tomorrow. We aim to start at 11.15, and finish by the end of lunch (2.05)

Progress Report

In today's Lesson, we have rented out our Camera, Dolly and Tripod ready to film. We have decided to film on Friday (9/11/2012) 3rd and 4th period, as well as lunch-this will give us a good stretch of time to get most of it done. In class we finished our shot list, and storyboard on final cut express-this will help us when we start filming.

Progress Report

In today's lesson Rosalia and I decided on specific location's in Audley End garden's and a selection  of various shots we want to do. We constructed a big spider-diagram on sugar paper to present our Shot and Location ideas.

Location Planning

After much thought, Rosalia and myself have decided we think it would work really well if the majority of our shots were around Audley End Garden's. We believe this links to the country conventions of nature, and the outdoors. However we also believe it links to existing similar Artist's, and having a colourful production with flower's creates a feminine video, attracting our target audience. We are also thinking of having a few shots of our Artist in front of the house, and at the back of the house by the fountains.

This is the back of Audley End house. In the photo you can see the big fountain, we are thinking about doing a lot of shots in this area. 

This is another part of the Audley End Garden's were we would also like to film, as we think having our Artist walking along the path would create the innocence, girly and angelic image we are looking for. 

Progress Report

Today we all picked out our genre for our album covers. Our album cover theme is Country and Western. Although at first I was a bit apprehensive about this genre, I have since researched and found a lot about Country and Western, and I believe it holds a lot of connotations and symbolises many things. We are in the process of creating and constructing our shots and deciding costume, makeup, lighting etc. All our choices are based on the above research and analysis of current and past Country and Western album covers, and Country and Western conventions.