Editing So far ...

The group as a whole has all contributed in the editing and put forward their ideas. We have had a few disagreements in what affects t use when and where however we have solved these.. Another problem we have encountered is that we have not yet filmed the bill board and can not get on with that although this is not a major problem this can easily be overcome.

We have decided not to use the white room footage as the black room footage worked a lot better and looked a lot more affective.

filming today in black room

today we filmed in the black room. in the room we used a blue filter on a spotlight so that we could light up our star. we created test footage and then carried on to film our song. we positioned the light in different angles to capture different sides. we also filmed without the blue filter to see the brightness of the spotlight.

the roles today were
Lauren:music conductor & camera operator
Mel:performer
Rosie:camera operator & music conductor
Naomi:light technician

tomorrow we are going to film mel in the centre of cambridge trying to go about her normal business but as she is a celebrity, paperazzi make it very difficult.

Ideas from feedback

From our feedback from the class we have realised that we need to make some changes to our location shots in order to make the storyline a little bit clearer this will also add more interest into the music video as at the moment there is a lot of mel in the white room lip syncing to the camera.

Therefore we have decided to film in the dark room like we did the white room but his time have some lights maybe different colours to add some interest and vary the shots a bit more. We are also going to film some more to add in but we are going to film around Cambridge as a lot of our filming is inside and we would like to vary our filming. This is when we will be filming the news reader again as it was very windy the say we tried to film it. We will also be filming the billboard with the second fan in front as we have lost the shots of Rosie ripping up the tickets. So we are now going to film her bit in front of the billboard realising that the tour has been canceled. We are also going to add to the footage and Film Mel around Cambridge but in more discreet locations other than grand arcade and obvious places like that therefore we will be filming down the little cobble streets with boutique shops on them. We will also include Mel trying on expensive clothing and been watched and followed by paparazzi. This will then add interest to the video.

The filming of the dark room will be done in Thursday's media lesson and the filming around Cambridge will be done in Friday's lesson.

Feedback On Rough Cut!

S2 47 Texas - Tell me the answer


Positive Feedback

S2 46: Good effects of the camera flashing and good lip syncing
S2 45: Good camera angle from the beginning
S2 44: Love the paparazzi shot! Attractive Female Leads
S2 43: Good start shot looked right and Good lip syncing
S2 48: Paparazzi shots look cool. Good, Confident lip syncing and performances

Room for Improvement

S2 46: Maybe have a bit more of a storyline and less of lip syncing so it makes more sense
S2 45: Small camera flaw with hand appearing at side of one of the shots
S2 44: Some shots are a little too long
S2 43: More shots needed
S2 48: Two shots were Mel is laughing and smiling changes the mood of the video to a more lighthearted.

Feedback from Nick: Need to shot some more in the dark room

Order of editing

Order of editing to help writing coursework;
1)

Firstly we uploaded our footage onto Final cut.
2)

Then we lip sinked the music this involves putting the music to my actions and lip movements.We did this by finding the same point in one of our clips, and then you line the song and the clip up so they are together and it should hopefully lip sink to the music.

3) Then we will cut the footage, this involves getting rid of the areas we don't want and deleting them whilst putting the bits we do want in order on the timeline.

Filming

Firstly we decided to film the white room as we were at college and allowed to use the camera. Filming went really well in the white room, as the light was clear and it was easy to see facial expressions and movement on the camera. The only problem we had was that the cut on arm from drug abuse didn't show up well on the camera. So we had to redo it much darker, although it still didn't have the impact on which we wanted. We had to use a white sheet as the carpet was a dark colour and ruined the effect of all white. This was easy to do so there were no problems. WE tried many different camera angles and levels and played them back to see which place was the best.

The next day we all went to Mel's house to film the fan section and Mel getting out of the car. Firstly we filmed Naomi running into the room and ripping up the poster. WE had to shoot this a couple of times as the camera angle didn't work as it blocked the view of Naomi's face and what she was doing. Lighting was bright so it made it seem much more realistic.We only printed a few posters so we had to be careful not to end up without enough posters to get it right so we had a few test runs without ripping up the poster.

The next bit we filmed was Mel getting out of the car, this was hard to do as we were unable to move the car and so when we tried to pretend Mel was driving everything in the background was at a stand still. As it was a dark and cold day lighting wasn't very good but it was just about bright enough to come across clear. We also tried out using cameras from outside of the car. This wasn't very successful as there was only three people so it didn't look very realistic and there was no flashes but we will edit it all and see if it will work if not we just wont included it in our sequence.

We also filmed Laurens bit outside as she was a news reader, this we will have to redo as it was far to windy and her hair was flying everywhere and so was all our time sheets. we will have to try and fit it in soon before the weather gets really bad.

Finally we filmed Rosie as another fan. We struggled with this as we didn't just want her to have the tickets in her hand and for it to look predictable. So we tried her getting up getting the tickets and sitting back down. Once again we struggled with camera angles as it was so hard to get her in walking and then she would be sitting in the opposite direction. We filmed it a few times and tried to get the best angles.

Overall the whole rough cut filming went well, we tried our best and hopefully once we have edited it all it will be as good as our Thriller. If not we will just refilm the areas in which were not happy with in order to produce something bigger and better than before!

bruises

for the cuts & bruises on mel's arm we have used make up to convey this.
for example like this picture ( which is mel's arm)