Filming So Far

So far we have filmed the opening sequence of our music video.
Shooting took place at a member of the groups house to allow us to gather the shots we needed, whilst shooting we took into account the angle of the camera, mis en scene, and lighting etc.

In addition to this we also shot a few seconds worth of film in the school hall, as in our storyboard auditions take place and we believe this was a good setting for these shots.

Although we got the shots needed for the opening of our video as a group we had a discussion and decided that the shots were not good enough to uses, therefore making us film them again. This will help us in the later stages off filming as we know no the level of shots expected and will not settle for shots of a low quality.


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Storyboard... Lumby Producky

Lumby Producky Storyboard

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We created a storyboard in order for our filming to run smoothly. By having a storyboard, it will give the group direction and guidance during filming and also editing. We have covered all aspects included in the video, from the time of each shot to the next and the movement with in the shot. In addition to this, we have also included the type of shot and how we could edit once the filming has finished.

As a group we then discussed who we would actually use for the characters in the video, and where about's the shots will take place... Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

Editing

Editing our music video was the most challenging part of our music video as many people would find when using a new software for the first time. We took more shots than needed when filming so we had options when editing, also gave us freedome to experiment with angles and cross cuttng with angles/scenes. Keeping to the beat with your edits we found is a very important factor as not doing so will make the video look out of place and have no real flow, effecting not only the video clarity but also the narrative. We have also attempted to keep the lyrics in sync with the actions of the artist, just to add to the effect of the narrative and give it a more thoughtful/professinal feel.

When it come to getting used to software in this case Final Cut Express it takes some dedication and time in learning how use and experiment with the software. As a group we have spent a lot of time on Final Cut so that we were ready to edit our music video to the best of our ability. We have found many useful effects that we have used in our peice however look not to over use effect as this would not show our real skill or potential of what we are able to do on final cut.

Editing Lip Sync

When editing our lip-sync task (preliminary task) I found that the software such as final cut express cut is easy to use once i got the hang of it. When firstly reading through the instructions it made the software look somewhat complex and it was clear a number of stages had to be gone through in order to simpley edit a few seconds of film, however when i started using it i found it was not difficult at all. We made all the cuts we needed and made the sound in time with the video to make it seem as real as possible. After we had put all our cuts in and put it all in line, we tried out all the effects to see how they would help us for our final task. We found that some of the effects didnt really do much but others will come in handy in our music video. I feel I have learnt all I need to know on the software to create a good music video and overall I am happy with the progress out group is making.

Preliminary Task

For our preliminary task we filmed a varitey of shots to practice for our final piece and I feel as if it was a success however improvments can still be made. We used Final Cut to edit our filming and we all had a go at the software to get used to it and get a feel for what we would need to be doing as a group for our final peice.

We added the music to the video by importing it to Final Cut and it was easy enough to work out by our selves without any problems caused my importing etc. We then had to do the more complex part which was alining the sound to sync with our mouths/ movements to make it look real, after a bit of work we got it to look as realistic as possible.

During the filming we knew we had to actually sing the words out loud as we felt otherwise once finsihed it would not look realistic, so we did. We can see that it looks respectably realistic so we will use this technique in our final filming.

Overall we got a positive response from our prelim task, getting around 1000 veiws on youtube, clearly displaying it was a good attempt at a lip sync, with ofcourse its comedic values.

Filming

For our first day of filming, we decided to go to a group members house (chris) due to his house having a lot of space to film. We started out by renting out a HD camera from our Media department and then began. We got to 'the set' and then we got or main character B Money (played by ben) changed, ready for filming. We then filmed our opening 10 seconds in a first person style and this took a few takes and adjustments as we wanted the first approx 10secs to all be one cut. Althouh adjustments did have to be changed to our storyboard due to factors such as setting and spur of the moment ideas i feel it still provided as a guide and a benefited in giving us a sense of idea of what we was looking to capture.

After a couple hours of filming, we went back to school to upload what we had filmed onto the Mac's and see how it looked in sync with the music. As a group we felt that the filming was a great success, and we got a lot of good footage taken today.

We plan to film again this weekend and make sure we carry on this positive vibe, and good work.