Group 6

Thursday, 1 November 2012

Planning: Filming Schedule Update

After some discussions as a group, we have decided the final days that we will be fully prepared and available to film the available days (circled in green). On the 4th November, we will film in two locations: New River Walk and Brick Lane. On the 6th and 8th of November, we will be filming during collage hours, in the exterior locations. The reason we had to postponed the Thursday was that one of our group member had to attend an important event. The Friday and Saturday were the days that we previously discussed that we were unable to proceed in the filming. I have learnt to be more organised in planning our production scheduled and will do so while editing the music video, in order to meet the deadlines successfully.

Thursday, 25 October 2012

Planning: Checking & Blogging

Here are a few pics of me checking over my blog and seeing if there needs any adjustments and so on. This will help me write a reflective blog and see what I need to improve on what I need to do to make my blog post evaluative and informative towards our music video.

Production: V log on progress after 1st filming session

Planning: Target audience Interview: Analysis of Artists

Filming: Reflecting back on first day of filming

Our first day of filming our remake music video went smoothly. Our group were lucky that the weather began to clear up, which meant we were left with a good amount of time to complete one location shoot.

As according to plan, Nabilla our artist wore a bohemian style outfit with an edgy look, which consisted of her wearing a full length maxi skirt, a knitted jumper and leather jacket.

Our filming didn't take no less than 2 hours to film, I expect we will get better with time in each location as it took some time setting the camera up, and for our artist to get into character. Firstly, we began filming with our artists against a brick wall, with her singing the entire song. As part of our equipment, we were introduced to using a speaker which played our song on full volume, so that it will be easier to edit and the lip syncing will match the song. Our first shoot against the brick wall went relatively easy, each member of our group performed vital tasks.

Our second shoot, was using the camera in a hand held style following Nabilla J swirl around the lamp post, being ditzy and having a fun time. We played the full length of the song from YouTube which meant our artist had to stay in character for almost 4 minutes each time we began filming. Our third shoot, was quickly taking some footage of the Paget St road sign, which we felt would be a good idea to put in our music video also.

While filming, our group faced difficulties in terms of the battery power being used up. Despite being given a spare battery, once inserted that was also low. When filming again, I will make sure both battery packs that are given to us have been charged and ready to use.

PRODUCTION: DAY ONE: PAGENT STREET

Day one of filming was a total success! We managed to get to the location on time and had enough time to film. The costume selection for the day was brilliant, since Nabilla J was not cold (it was a mysteriously warm day in Britain). We finished filming within in 2 hours and filmed all that we planned to. The only fault we had was one of our batteries died mid way of filming - but luckily, we weren't too far from college so we just quickly ran back and collected another battery. We are happy with our filming so far and hope this good vibe continues throughout the whole process.