A Trip To The British Film Institute

For a trip we went to the British Film Institute to learn about making music videos and to meet a music video director for a Q&A. The trip was great and overall I learnt a lot and cannot wait to try out everything I have learnt.

If the powtoon does not show up please use this link:

https://www.powtoon.com/online-presentation/dfYxKlQsbJL/british-film-industry/#/

Forest Shoot #2

Today we went for our second shoot at of forest location to film some more storyboard shots. We filmed both the beginning of the music video and the wondering around the location shots which were both planned on the storyboard. We also filmed both close-ups and long shots that both represent different messages and feelings. We plan to head back to our location once more to finish up all of our location shots. The link below is a glog containing all of the screenshots from our footage and why we chose to film certain shots:

http://lucysaunders240565c619c75011.edu.glogster.com/forest-location/

Risk Assessment: Forest #2

Before heading off to our location tomorrow to film we are required to write a risk assessment to show that we understand and acknowledge all of the risks present. We have identified these risks and the ways to avoid them.

Audience Research: An Interview With Jamie

For a deeper insight to how our target audience thinks my group and I prepared some questions to ask someone that falls into our target audience. We interviewed our fellow classmate Jamie and as she has never seen our project so far we questioned her about the genre and her thoughts on location, even though we have decided on a location. This way we would be able to see if it was suitable and if not we would work out another location.

Unfortunately I made a mistake in the editing process of the interview as the end text contains a small mistake as the filming process has already started and should read "when continuing to film and begin to edit" rather than "start filming and editing". Sorry for the mistake!

Practising Photoshop

In preparation for making a digipak I decided to practise editing images in Photoshop. I have briefly used Photoshop before however I felt like I needed a refresher in the basics. I took the behind-the-scenes picture we took at the forest, on top on a hill and I wanted to remove my group and I from the top of the hill and replace it will Noxa on top instead and then put one of the logos in the corner:

Simple yet it was good practise with removing one object and replacing it with another, adding some text and trying out the colour contrasts. It was overall good practise with Photoshop basics and it will help when I come to editing my digipak images.

Drama Room Shoot #2

Yesterday my group and I went to our drama location to film our first artistic scene. We decided a while ago that we wanted to use masks to display some of the themes that are introduced in the song such as the loss of of innocence. We had one white mask that symbolized innocence and purity and one black one to represent darkness and evil and the removal of the white mask in replacement for the black portrays this theme in particular:

All of the shots we filmed have a metaphor or meaning behind them and correspond to our storyboard. We decided to focus solely on the artistic shots rather than lip-syncing as we wanted to film our first artistic shoot. The image below is screenshots from every piece of footage that we filmed:

I also edited another edit but this time I concentrated more on effect such as lighting and slow-motion than the lip-syncing. I also added every shots that we filmed in this edit to showcase everything we filmed which is why some shots do not match the lyric or beat or similar shots are repeated:

Risk Assessment: Drama Room #2

As we will be filming in a drama room tomorrow with filming equipment and we had to identify the risks and figure ways around these risks. We have written up a risk assessment to show that we have identified the risks.

Forest Shoot #1

Today we went for our first scheduled shoot the in forest to film some of the shots that we had planned on our storyboard and animatic. Unfortunately everything seemed to go wrong (which we are going to blame on Friday 13th bad luck!) as the dress got dirty, it started to rain and it was freezing cold. However we did manage to get a few shots during the time we were there and we plan to return next week to continue were we left off. Here are some of the screenshots of the footage we got: