Photography studio shots

Today we had taken shots of another location to film on for our music video. This was the photography studio, again, in college, where we had intended to shoot one of our scenes, sticking to our storyboard and previous planning.

Editing day 2

During today we had spent our time in the Editing suite, the Mac's to edit the footage we had got. We had used Photoshop to do so, and firstly had to make sure that our footage had been converted correctly, and in the best video quality settings. 

Day 2 (Olympic park)

Today, as planned, we hada visited olympic park, one of our locations to record one of the shots for a scene in our music video. We had found areas with good lighting and a good backdrop for use in our music video.

Checking weather forecast for Day 2 filiming

I Had to ensure that the planned day for shooting the video was okay to film on and the weather was not too bad. So i planned ahead by cheking the weather forecast for Sunday, this upcoming weekend.

Olympic park photos

Today we had visited one of our locations, prior to the filming at this location. We had been there to check whether we could get good shots here and had assessed the areas of our location which we were to film at

Editing Day 1

During today's lesson in media, we had begun on editing for our shots we had taken. So far we had been able to reshoot our shots for the studio, and we had now had one of our scenes which we could work with. We started matching up and synchronising the audio for the music video with the lip synching shots we had got, and cut parts of the music video, keeping only the parts we wanted to keep in our production

Day 1 filming (Re-shoot)

We had to reshoot some of our studio footage for this particular scene, as when we had filmed this originally, the quality of our shots had not come out quite as we had expected, which we discovered when trying to edit the video in FinalCut pro. We decided it would be best if we had just re-shot these scenes and make sure the quality is of a standard which effectively, we could work with.

Initial Editing

We had initially began to edit, using photoshop, in this lesson. However, we had encountered some problems. We discovered that the shots we had got for our music studio scene, had not come out as we hoped, and so therefore we had to reschedule a day to shoot this scene again

Day 1 filming

During this lesson, we began to shoot some of the scenes for the first parts of our music video. For this we used the music studio/booth as a scene in our video, as our storyboard we had planned earlier helped us to do so and get the right shot types and angles we needed for this particular scene.

Music studio shots

 Today, we had got permission to film at one of our potential locations, and had taken photos of the location that we would use. This was the music studio at college which we had  put to use.

Portfolio checklist for pre-production work

During this lesson we went through a checklist of all of our pre-production work for our music video production, ensuring that all of these areas had been covered, completed sufficiently, and that they were submitted to the correct places, or updated on our blogs.

Completed Storyboard

For our completed storyboard, we decided to change some of ideas midway, to just a performance based music video as demonstrated. The reason for creating a storyboard for our music video, is because it provided us with a basis to follow which would act as guidelines for us when filming. and editing. This would make things much easier or us, allowing us to be organised, and just making things easier for us in general. 

Creating storyboard

During this lesson, we had to create a storyboard for our music video production. This had to be a general overlay of how our music video would go. Alongside a basic sketch, we wrote a brief description of what would be going on for each scene. We had ideas to create a music video with both a narrative, and a performance base to it.

  

Getting clearing permissions (for filming on location)

During this lesson, I had requested clearing permissions for one of our locations (St Pauls Cathedral rooftop) by contacting themselves directly via email, however we were not able to get clearing permissions for this location, therefore we had to take a compromise on shots for this location, and decided to use a different location for these shots in particular.

Talent release forms

Before filming, we first had to complete talent release forms, for any actors/cast that would be involved or performing in our video production. They had to sign and give their consent to taking part in the filming of the production. The reason for release forms is a part of health and safety procedures. However, as we decided to change our music video to an only performance based video, only one of our group members had to sign the talent release form, which saved us some time.