Saturday 10th Filming

We planned to re-film parts of the performance on Saturday. We met again near the pier in Tynemouth at 7am for the sun to rise at 7.30am. When we started to set up all of the band equipment, we found that we did not have a stand for the keyboard. Because we did not have the keyboard stand we were unable to film any shots that include the whole band or of just the keyboard.

Something that we needed to film on Saturday was the introduction part of the video. As last time we forgot to film something for this part of the video, so we had to use an photo instead. So we needed to film something for this part. We tried filming the whole band walking up to the performance, we filmed a range of different shots and angles. We are also going to be filming another type of introduction when we are filming in town, so that we have a choice to choose from.

We then decided that we would re-film some of the close-up shots of the band as the keyboard would not be seen in these close-ups. When we where trying to film these close-ups, the camera said that the camera had a low battery. We were able to film a couple of close-up's before the camera would not let up film because of the low battery.

We then had to stop filming as we were unable to due to the camera having a low battery. We didn't check that we the camera's battery to see if it was charged, so when it came to filming the camera's battery was quite low .

Week beginning 5th October

This week we have been planning for re-filming our music video. After getting the target audience feedback, there is a link below here to the target audience feedback that we got.

Target audience feedback 

In Monday and Tuesday's lesson, we talked about the improvement that we will be making to the final version for the music video.  We talked through how we are going to be making these improvements. Like how we are going to make the filming for the performance lighter and how we are going to get a range of the different shots and angles.We talked about all of the changes that we will be making for the final version of the music video.

We also got some target audience feedback on our advert. There is a post about this and you can access it by clicking on the link below:

Feedback on Advert

In Wednesday's lesson we checked what the weather forecast is for Saturday as this is when we are re filming  Below here is a link to a post that is based on the re-filming that we will be doing on Saturday.

Saturday Re-filming

Another thing that we did in Wednesdays lesson was we got some more target audience feedback, this is in the same post as the other target audience feedback post that is linked above here.

In Thursday's and Friday's lesson we worked out who will be what instruments to town ready for the re-shoot. We also got the band logo printed out on a A1 sized piece of paper and cutted around it into a circle that fit the face of the main drum, ready for the performance. We got the I version of the logo printed out instead of the whole Influence logo. When we were putting the logo onto the drum this time we made sure that the paper was all stuck down well. As last time the paper on the drum was not stuck down to well, which you could see in the performance parts of the video.

Another thing that we did in Thursday and Friday's lesson was we started to make our second version of our  advert, after we had been some target audience feedback on our first version. We used the feedback we were provided with to make the second version better.

This Saturday we will be re-filming some of our performance. Below here is a link to a post about the filming that we did.

Saturday 10th November Filming

Re-filming on Saturday 10th November

We will be re-filming the performance this Saturday, which is the 10th November. We are re-filming the performance, as it was to dark when we looked at the footage. We are going to be using some reflectors to try and make the footage lighter, as we are still wanting to film at sunrise. Last time the faces of everyone in the band cannot be seen on the shot where you can see the whole band. So we are going to be using these reflectors to be there faces lighter in these shots. We will also be filming some more different shots and angles, so that we have more shots to chose from when the final version of the music video is getting edited together.

We checked what the weather will be like on Saturday, this is shown below. The weather will be sunny. The sun will rise at 7.29. This is the same as last time. So will be meet up at around seven like be did last time.

For our re-shoot we are going to film at the same location as last time. The re-shoot will take place at The Haven in Tynemouth which is next to Priory Castle and inbetween the two piers of Tynemouth and South Shields with the sun rising inbetween. However, we came to the conclusion that we will not be filming on the pier like be planned to last time.

Target Audience Feedback on Advert

We showed our first version of our advert to some of our target audience. Our advert is shown below here:

The feedback we received from our target audience is shown below:

• The date is to large, it needs to be a lot smaller.
• Don't like the way that the text is shaped around Alex. 
• Background is really interesting.
• Effect that is on Alex is good, like this effect. 
• The fraying of "includes the single lousing touch and five deluxe edition songs" needs to be changed. 
• There is to much text on the advert, there needs to be a lot less text. 
• Maybe put the title of the album over the top of the logo instead of under it. 
• Needs to be more space on the advert, as it look to busy.
• Maybe add other band members onto the advert.  

Feedback on Rough cut

In last Thursday's lesson (25/10/12) some of our target audience watched our rough cut music video, we then asked them to fill out these feedback from, that are shown below here. So that we could get an idea of what they liked, what they think could be improved or changed. As this will help when we are re-filming for the final version of the music video. The feedback forms that were filled in are shown below here, to see them bigger click on the images and they will be made full screen.

The main things that our target audience said that we should improve on is the following:

• Not to film in the drama hall, find a new location for these parts. 
• The lighting in the performance parts.
• Performance needs to be more in focus.
• Alex hitting the chairs over in the drama hall, as the chairs are clearly school chairs.
• Video needs to be more fluent.
• Jack needs to learn to play the song on the keyboard better. 
• Try not to shoot into the sunlight (performance)

We will be improving on all of these things that have been said above about the improvements. That our target audience thinks that we should on for the final version of the music video.

We got some more improvements from some more of our target audience:

• Jack needs to have a stronger performance on the keyboard. 
• No smiling, when should not be.
• Make more of the black and white in the video. 
• Shorter frames. 
• Less running in the streets, there is too much of this.  
• Less stairs
• Re-shoot the shots in the drama hall, with a spotlight and the rest of the lights of. 
• When they are in the circle they need to whisper and move in on Alex. So it like they are closing in on him.
• Change the photo at the start of video.
• Needs to have more mise-en-scene. 

They also said some things that they liked about the rough cut of the video:

• They said that they liked all of the scenes on the metro.
• That the performance scenes are good, but need to be less dark. 
• Alex is good main character in the narrative.
• Narrative is good, really like the idea of the people turning grey.
• The punching of the glass. 

Week beginning 22nd October

At the start of this week we started to edit and put together our rough cut of our music video. As the rough cut has to be finished and handed in for the 24th October, which is this Wednesday. We have also been starting to design and make the digipack and advert.

We started a bit of work on the digipack last week, and this week we have the front cover for the digipack, this may be the final version or may not be depending on what our target audience think about this cover. On Monday we started to make the advert. The digipack and advert both have to be handed in on Monday 3rd December. We have started making this now so that we can go through a couple of different versions before we have to hand them both in. Below here is a link to a post about starting to make both of these, which also has images in off the advert and the digipack:

Digipack and advert making

Here is two other links that are for the advert and digipack front cover:

Advert

Digipack

We have been spending a lot of time on editing together the rough cut of the music video. As this was due in this week, on Wednesday. We have also done a post that is about use filming and editing to the rough cut for the music video, this is linked below here:

Rough cut filming and editing

Below here is also a link to the actual video of the rough cut:

Rough cut music video

On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday we were editing together the rough cut for the music video. We were also starting to make both the advert and the digipack. On Thursday in the lesson we watched other groups rough cuts and they watched our. We then got feedback on our rough cut from the other groups in our class. There is a link here below that is for the feedback that we got from our rough cut from our target audience:

Feedback on Rough cut

In Friday's lesson we started to plan out what we will need to re-film for the final cut. Through watching through our rough cut music video and choosing what we will be re-doing and what we will be keeping. We also start to think about if we will be changing any parts of the music video.

Filming and editing Rough cut

Over the week beginning the 15th October, we filmed all of the narrative, for the rough cut and on Saturday 13th October we filmed the performance part of the music video. These was posts done that explain what filming we did, there are links to these below here:

Performance filming

Monday and Wednesday narrative filming

Thursday narrative filming 

We started to editing together the rough cut of the music video after we had finished filming. Before we could start editing we had to convert all of the videos that we had taken. After we had converted all of the videos, we started edited the videos through putting together the music video through choosing which videos we needed to use and which parts we would be using. When we were putting the music video together we used our storyboard to make sure that the video was coming together the way that we wanted it to.

When we were putting the videos onto the timeline, we found that we had not filmed anything for the first ten seconds. So we had to use a image that we had taken when we were filming the performance, so in the final cut we will be making sure that we have something filmed for the first ten seconds of the music video.