what i did

After looking at the feedback for the music video we knew we needed to film more for the final music video. On Monday the 14th we went to goals to re-shoot part of the bar scenes (i got permissions from the location the Friday before) Iesha filmed these shots as i have done most of the editing. On the monday i stayed after school as Iesha edited i worked on the back of the digipak, same on the tuesday. On wednesday i came in and edited the video and changed the colour correction on shots to make them fit in to the existing video. On the 17th I took it upon myself to film extra poker shots as they were needed for the final video. after school on thursday i stay and edited as well on the friday morning. by third lesson on friday we were ready to upload the finished version to Youtube. 

Progress

Wednesday december 12th 2012

 

i was in the media room for around 3-4 hours working on my piece of the narrative the bar scene, as well as starting to look at which pieces from the multclips were the best lip syncing that i could use in the video

monday 17th and tuesday 18th december 2012
we were going to film extra bits for the music video but our actors went home sick so this could not be done so i started work on the digipak designs

wednesday 18th, thursday 19th and friday 20th december 2012
i spent the first three hours of both wednesday and thursday in the room editing and most of friday editing until fourth lesson. i worked on both the performance and the narrative to try and make the video look the most effective. i changed parts of ieshas narravtive edit to fit the rest of the video which i thought would make it look better i added a slow motion bit and split the long narrative chunk in to two sections seperated by perfomance footage. I added effects to help the video look more old and westerny to fit in with the genre. from tuesday i had no contact with iesha so i done majority of the editing for the video.

 effects i used on the video to make it look more westerny/vintage

 slow motion part

then at the end when i was happy with the edit and got a bit of feedback from other students to see if there was anything major that didnt look right then i exported and uploaded it to youtube with a survey people could answer for me and when i got home i added it to social networking sites such as facebook and twitter, the only problem i had was when i exported it there was about three minutes of black at the end of the video as i didnt no how to sort this out and neither did the peolpe around me i left it and will change it when i get back after half term as well as anything that arises with the feedback

Problems

Friday  23rd still no actors Iesha said her brother could help but only after 3 but i said this was too late to film as it wouldn't give us the necessary time to film without being rushed. So after i contacting multiple people throughout the day my friend and their brother agreed to help.

Saturday 24th location one
This days was wet and windy at times and we went up to a location in Gravesend (originally meant to be London but majority didn't have the money to go) When i arrived and we were waiting for Iesha and the props me and my actors scouted out the best location for the shot. I did the begin shots of the shoot out before swapping and directing and encouraging the characters to keep upbeat in the cold weather conditions. 

After having no location (Ieshas job) on Monday the 26th of November I went round to the Brent Boys Social Club that evening and asked to use their hall and to take recces of the location. The hall look quite western and suited our video theme well so i arranged with them to film in the hall on Saturday the 1st December at 11 o'clock.

On Friday night the drummer from our band dropped out at short notice due to a family issue Iesha did not inform me of this but one of the actors I had asked. When i tried to contact iesha i got no response so i looked for a replacement. I was unable to find someone at short notice for the next day so after a discussion with sir we decided we didn't need a drummer and that we would work with just a guitarist and singer.

Saturday 1st on location the band were a little late but once there they worked well me and one of the actors brought the props to use such as the poker pieces, guitar, hats and bottles to help make the scene look authentic. I filmed multiple pieces of the performance and narrative shots as well as helping to give the actors and band directions on what to do.