Review of previous lessons..

In the last three lessons our group have been getting on with filming but we have not been able to do loads in each lesson. The reason for this is that one of our main locations is in Bury St. Edmunds which we have to drive to and from when filming, which means this lessens the time we have for filming every lesson. However, we are usually able to get everything done that we have planned for each lesson. For example, in the first week we had an idea of using the skatepark for one of our locations. By filming here it meant that we could use various different angles in our shots. When we arrived there Ella had an idea that in one of our shots we should be walking up to the people in the skatepark and then take their bikes or skateboards after them so it shows that we are being different and having fun in order to get ready for the weekend. Unfortunately, we did not get this bit of our idea filmed but we got some good shots of people on their bikes going up and down the ramps. We will go back there and definitely get this idea done.

When we got back to school we thought that this was a good location and that maybe it would work better if we went their at night and used the lights in the skatepark for our source of light when filming at night. Because we thought this would look better we went back to the skatepark one night where we were able to  film more people on their bikes because there was more people there at night than in the day. Whilst filming we also found out the use of night mode of the camera which helped us a lot when filming. Also, this night we were able to go and get some shots of lights and we were able to play around with the focus on the camera so the lights go out of focus.

During the lessons we have either been filming or we have been putting our shots onto the computer so we can find out what pieces we have done from our storyboards and what we have not. From seeing what he have not done, this gives us an idea of what we have to do and allows us to come up with a few new ideas to piece our music video together.

Here is a quick clip on how we think our music video will begin but we are not totally sure whether we want this clip or another one so that will also be something that we will all discuss in our next lesson..

Unfortunately the quality of this clip isn't as good as it is on final cut express but it should be clear as to what it is and which part of the song it goes with.. Another idea that we could use for the first part of this song is that we could get loads of people together with our red american style cups to hide the drink, and we all put our cups up together and say "cheers". I have an idea that we could do which is go to a beach and all say cheers with together with our drinks together and then we run off towards the sea. Or.. this could be situated at a party or near a bonfire so them shots can link into the next shot. The only problem with this shot is that it looks as if it should carry on round the roundabout to go in time with song, but I think that this shot is effective as it is and it suits the mood that we want our video to be about. For example, the sun represents being bright, which can be linked to us having fun. Whereas, if we had a shot of it raining then this would feel like the music video would be a sad song.

Next Media Lesson.....

Thinking ahead, during our next media lesson we were thinking of trying to get a bit more filming done. As our music video is a concept, we have a very diverse set of shots which we hope to add in to again add the aspect of what we feel is 'fun' and 'free.'

For example we have the silly shots of us putting cones on our head just to show we dont care about what we are doing or who is watching us..... this will be easy for us to get the chance to film this as there seem to be several cones lying about at school so we can use them for parts of our video. Another random shot that we hope to include is hopefully trying to find a bunch of pidgeons on the ground which we can all just go and run into yet by doing this, it will be another good way of including a mroe variety of shots such as a 'worms point of view' shot where we could leave camera on floor so we are able to watch the pidgeons fly away. Yet we could edit the footage to make the it into slow motion to portray that sort of superior we have over them, however its another way to show our facial expressions having a good time just messing about with friends.

We have two other shots which we could also film tomorrow which purposely relate to Goodwins theory of matching the visuals to the lyrics. For exmample Rihanna sings "got my Ray Bans on and im feeling hella cool tonight" which we would include one of us having a close up shot of  our ray ban sunglasses on, however we were hoping to a shot of the sunset in the evening so its between the time of afternoon and evening to show we are still outside yet we are getting ready for 'tonight.'

The other shot is the other match with lyrics "got a drink on my mind and my mind on my money" where by we have bought fake money that's actually cerviettes which we will cut up and throw about and direct address it to the camera as if we are throwing the money on it, to show we are free because we have all this money. However, we were also thinking of when it comes to the editing process that we add a mind bubble into the persons head showing the money therefore literally showing that money is on her mind.

Hopefully we are able to get the majority of it all done what we have planned for tomorrow :)

Last Media Lesson

In our last media lesson we thought we should go out and do some more filming, therefore we drove to a field where Sophie keeps her house which we were hoping we could film some more of our shots that just show the random concept of our music video. However, we were planning on running round the field so the horses could chase us, as we just wanted to add a few crazy footage to show us having all a fun time. We did eventually get a few shots of the horses running about however we did give up on the idea so instead, we placed the camera on the tripod in the set position we wanted it so we could all be in the shot. Once we got that set up,  we went running away from the camera onto the rest of the field doing the random skipping/jumping/running around trees etc as we wanted to portray the element of being free and having a good time as its the weekend....to match the lyrics of the song.

Once we got back to school, we went round our sixth form, and placed the camera infront of people so we could get footage and lip syncing of different people saying the continuous verse in song which is "yeah yeah." We thought this would be a good idea as first of our we could show how we have the different elements such as lip syncing yet we filmed the different people from various angles, such as from down below, long distance shot, close up, over shoulder shot, and other random positions such as facing backwards and looking towards the camera and looking to and back from the camera.

We managaed to get it all on the mac ready for us to continue filming on our cameras, then eventually once we have enough footage, we are able to start editing.

We feel we are keeping on top of things, and being organised as to when we are going to film and what we are going to film so we are able to know how much time we have left and how long we think it will take us to film the rest of our music video.....