This media lesson we managed to get a lot of exciting and interesting filming done ready to edit. We went out to bury and managed to set up the tripod and camera facing towards a few steps where we positined ourselves outside the corn exchange.
The reason we did this was from some influences from other music videos where we have seen mostly bands doing it, positioning themselves on different steps and then stop and start the camera (cut the camera) so we all change places and carry on doing this so we can a variety of different positions on the steps so once we get round to editing it we can speed it up so it becomes flowing shots of all swapping places.
We also went to bury bowl where they have those different arcade games such as the dance matts and driving games, boxing and basketball games which we all had a go on. We managed to get various different angles such as close ups, over the shoulder shots, wide shots, feet shots when we were on the dance matts, then hopefully when we get down to editing it, we will reverse the shot of the sophie boxing to give it a little more affect. We will add all of these shots in more urbam colours such as yellowy or maybe tinting of pinks, blue and bright colours to show the club effect as thats what we may do at the weekend.
Monday, 20 February 2012
Friday, 10 February 2012
Previous media lesson....
So far we have just been putting our music video together, editing all the footage we have. As our music video is a montage of random and abstract shots, we have decided to just set out our video into small parts of footage all added together as a whole so its a very quick, busy and fun music video of how we live our lives to match the lyrics of the song being about the weekend.
As it is random we have a lot of different locations and props to show what we involve in our lives so we have gone out of school to collect more of our footage, such as singing to the camera, skatepark, fields, or in the car to get a handheld camera affect and as it was snowing a few days ago, we went out and did a lot of throwing of snow, lip syncing with the music and managed to roll a big snow ball which we will eventually change once editing to speed it up etc.
The music video is coming along, we just have a few more gaps where we still need to film but we have thought of different ideas such as split screening of us all singing the words, and tinting of the shots to show more of a dance/club genre feel to it. We also are planning to film people in our sixth form dancing in the social forum where we will get a high angle shot from the window where we are able to film them so show the urban feel in our school, yet just a fun way to get other people involved in our music video, to show how school and friends are a big part of our lives
As it is random we have a lot of different locations and props to show what we involve in our lives so we have gone out of school to collect more of our footage, such as singing to the camera, skatepark, fields, or in the car to get a handheld camera affect and as it was snowing a few days ago, we went out and did a lot of throwing of snow, lip syncing with the music and managed to roll a big snow ball which we will eventually change once editing to speed it up etc.
The music video is coming along, we just have a few more gaps where we still need to film but we have thought of different ideas such as split screening of us all singing the words, and tinting of the shots to show more of a dance/club genre feel to it. We also are planning to film people in our sixth form dancing in the social forum where we will get a high angle shot from the window where we are able to film them so show the urban feel in our school, yet just a fun way to get other people involved in our music video, to show how school and friends are a big part of our lives
Tuesday, 7 February 2012
In last weeks lessons, we managed to get some more filming done. We went to the skate park where we fortunately found two bikers who were already there who let us film them, where they were able to show us some of their skills and tricks that they can do. We only managaed to get some footage of the car weaving in and out of the bins on the school field so now we have put that on final cut express, we have increased the speed so it becomes more quicker and effective.
We have also filmed outside of school, so we could get a variety of shots at night time as it was very dark at this point. We went to the skate park again as we could show the street lamp lighting elaborating the more urban effect, especially due to the setting and the graffiti.
We have also filmed outside of school, so we could get a variety of shots at night time as it was very dark at this point. We went to the skate park again as we could show the street lamp lighting elaborating the more urban effect, especially due to the setting and the graffiti.
Thursday, 2 February 2012
More filming...
So far we have managed to as a group put the start of our music video together, Ella and I spent a lesson matching up the lip sync to correct position so that we could see where we had specific clips for, this left us with gaps in which we could fill in with other shots in which would then link the video together. Charlotte and Ella then took the time to fill in the games at the beginning of the song, ordering some shots so that the beginning flowed. Today when we looked at the footage we realized that we needed a few more shots for the next part of the music video. Therefore we spent the lesson completing some filming. We stayed within school and chose some specific actors/actresses so that we could ensure that they would be committed and would be able to do as they are told. Our idea was based on the scene from 'High School Musical' where people are all within a social environment and end up breaking into a dance. We took this idea and remade it into our own. the setting in which we chose was the school social forum as we felt that this would allow people to sit casually and act normal, this worked well as people were spread out but not too far apart. Whilst there we took individual close ups of each person so that we could see the connection between them before they began dancing. After this we set up an angle in which we could see everyone and had Harriet initiate the dancing, she began and the others followed resulting in the group dancing. This worked really well and the actors were very enthusiastic. We decided repeat this so that we had more footage to choose from. In addition we used different angles to show variety and to add specific effects. After we had completed this we chose to film some more lip sync with Harriet as she was keen to do so, this allowed us to have further footage.
Friday, 20 January 2012
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.
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.
Sunday, 8 January 2012
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 :)
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.....
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.....
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