Filming!

At the weekend, I filmed some more of the Needham lake scenes and the final flashback scene and the Christmas present scene! Hopefully this means all of our filming is complete, but we will see after editing. We are now currently uploading the footage.

We also realised that we had hardly any pictures for our ancillary text, so I took some! Here are a few of the pictures I took:

Editing!

During lunchtime today, I did some more editing.
We had a lot of gaps at the end of first period, and that really worried me! So I've worked a lot more on making it flow more evenly and come together more.
You can see that our footage has gone from:

to:

• The gap at the beginning is of the split screen, which we are going to do tomorrow's lesson
• The second gap is Dj giving me the necklace, which I will film this weekend
• The third, very small gap I think should be of a shot that follows Dj from behind as he runs up to me (as this is just before the 'just crash' bit). We don't actually have this shot, so I am going to have to go to Needham Lake and hopefully film it this weekend if we have the right weather!
• The final big gap, is another flashback which we haven't filmed yet, but shall film this weekend

So, the footage that we are hopefully going to get this weekend will be:

• The big argument scene, which results in Dj walking off to meet Sophie (my house)
• A shot from behind of Dj running up to me (Needham lake)
• I also think we need to go to Needham Lake again to get some more shots for the next 'just crash' bit. We need some more shots of us both really upset, and crying and stuff like that. It needs to be really dramatic as the song is really dramatic at the ending. We also need some more shots of us walking away from each other for our montage at the end as I don't think we have enough footage for this at the moment.

Hopefully we will be able to get this completed this weekend though. It is definitely possible, it just depends on the weather. So, fingers crossed the weather is good this weekend!

Filming

Unfortunately, we were unable to film the scene where Dj gives me the necklace, as the Christmas tree lights have not been turned on yet and seeing as we're going to film it in the dark, we need the lights to be on!
Fortunately, the lights are being switched on on the 30th, so Dj will come over next weekend so we can film the scene then! :) we will also film the argument scene then too!

Video blog!

This is just me talking about the filming that I got done today, rather than typing about it:

Also, I forgot to say (when I'm talking about the shots in the car) the reason I've decided to add these in, is because in the storyboard I often didn't anticipate the duration of each shot, lyric, interlude etc... and I'd rather have too much footage than too little! So if we can fit these shots in then we will :)

Change of plan!

Fortunately, it's reaaaally sunny today! YAY! So we're going to film the happy, young flashbacks today. And we're also going to film the scene where Dj gives me the necklace.
Next weekend we will film the argument scene, then all our filming will be done :)

Filming!

Filming hasn't quite gone to plan this weekend :(
I am over Dj's at the moment, and we have filmed his half of the split screen and him laughing on his phone. However, we were going to go outside and film the flashback where we are supposed to be young, happy and in love but the weather has been awful! It's been raining loads and the weather won't exactly mirror the emotions the characters are supposed to feel. I believe this will really affect our audience, as ultimately the message of them being happy and in love, will not be received.

So, next weekend. I have already checked, and it's supposed to be nice weather. So, I will film that flaskback then. I will also film the flashback where we have an argument at my house, and Dj goes off to meet Sophie. So, by next weekend all our filming shall be complete!!!!!!!!!!!

As you can see, Saturday is supposed to be sunny, which means we will be able to film the happy flashback scenes then :) and Sunday is not supposed to be sunny, which means we can film the inside scenes, where we have the argument then as the weather won't matter! :)

During next weeks lessons, we will have to perfect the split screen opening scenes, we will follow a youtube tutorial to acheive this as it may be challenging!
I've been looking online, and these videos seem like really helpful tutorials:

During next weeks lessons, I also think that we should really concentrate on the look we want our video to have. We already edited every image to make it appear 'softer' as some of the lighting was quite harsh, and we felt that the situation our chracters were dealing with was very delicate and sensitive, so we altered the brightness and the contrast to create this look. However, we haven't done anything with the cheating scenes other than made them black and white. I feel we could do something to all of the scenes we have to make them look better and have more of an impact on our audience. Hopefully we will receive some helpful feeback concerning this from our classmates who will hopefully comment on our draft that we uploaded in our previous blog post :)

Filming!!!!!!!

Unfortunately I was unable to film Saturday as the weather was really dull all day and it started to rain. However, I filmed today, and I think it went pretty well. However, undoubtedly some problems arose.

• Firstly, the camera didn't have enough charge so towards the end, a few of the shots were a bit rushed however I don't think it is going to affect our project too much.
• Secondly, I forgot to bring the list I had made that had all the shots I needed to get on it, so it was all based on memory, but I think I was able to get everything we need.
• And the biggest problem of all! There was a model boat competition at the lake. And the area where we previously filmed was completely swamped with competitors! So we had to re-film the entire 'present day' scenes on the other side of the lake. Although I think this has benefited us, as all these shots look so much nicer and better quality!
• A minor issue we had was that the part where I fall down just didn't look effective at all, so we had to change it. But I think it works so it's okay :)

After watching the footage, there were a few other problems. As the sun was behind us as we were filming; there is one shot where this is a complete silhouette of the camera on Dj's tshirt. We are hoping we could edit this out somehow! Yet this is unlikely and we may have to film this one shot again.

Also, there was one shot with someone really noticeably in the background, but they are right at the adge of the frame, so if need be, we can just crop the frame.

Filming tomorrow!

Tomorrow, I am going to film at Needham lake again, to reshoot some of the scenes we forgot to film the first time.

Thankfully it isn't going to rain:

So hopefully we can get the majority of our filming done! And only have a few flashbacks left to do :)

Filming!

Last night Amy, Dj and I went to our friend Sophie's house and managed to film all that we needed for the shots where Dj is cheating on Amy. We went straight from school as we had to do some shots outside and we didn't want it to be to dark, however by half 4 it was nearly pitch black so when editing we may have to change the brightness on some of the clips we did outside. We filmed several shots of each thing we needed just incase we spot something during editing that isn't that good. 

No filming!!!! :(

I just got up to go to Needham Lake, to film in the sunshine and when we got there and got the tripod out, the bit that attaches the camera to the tripod was missing! My dad was with us, and he tried to attach the camera to the tripod himself but it just wouldn't stay. So annoyed!!!! But, I'm hoping the weather is good next weekend and hopefully we will be able to film again next Saturday!

However, seeing as there is no way to attach the camera to the tripod, we can't film any of the flashback scenes we were going to try and get either!

I will go and get a new tripod for filming at Sophie's house tomorrow though, so at least we will get some filming done before Tuesdays lesson.

Split Screen Problems!

During todays class, we encountered a problem whilst editing and we found that for the whole of the 'intro' clips where Dj and I were getting ready to meet each other; all of these clips should have been filmed with him over to the left of the frame, and me over to the right rather than in the centre of the frame so that we could crop half of the clips and join them together; to create a split screen effect. Unfortunately, we aren't going to be able to use any of the 'intro' footage we had previously filmed and will have to film all of these clips again. We will try and film some of it again this weekend, and hopefully we will be able to edit the 'intro' next week. For now, we will edit the Needham lake footage that we filmed last weekend!

Importing Footage

In todays lesson, we have begun importing the footage that we recorded over the half term, and once we have done that, we will begin editing!

We still have some shots that we need to get, although we will do this this weekend.

Filming tomorrow as well!

Tomorrow, I think Dj and I will try and film some of the flashback scenes just so that we have less to film next week.
I think that in order to make the love the Girlfriend and the Boyfriend characters felt for one another, is to have many intimate close-up shots of the two together. I feel that the Miss Dior Le Parfum advert starring Natalie Portman shows the sort of intimacy I want to capture:

There are many intimate extreme close-up shots of the couple in this advert; they are very simple and quick shots yet they have a very lasting impression on the audience:

After watching the advert/seeing these stills; the audience can easily identify that this couple are happy and in love. Seeing as this is the impression we want our audience to have during the happy flashbacks in our music video, I think it would be in our favour to use similar shots in our music video as it would result in a stronger narrative and a stronger connection between our audience and our characters. Therefore, Dj and I shall film some shots similar to this tomorrow! The shots will either be used as an actual flashback scene, or possibly at the end during the montage scene where there is just a montage of present day and flashback scenes.

Filming, again! :)

Today Caroline, Dj and I met at Needham lake to do some filming, it was really, really windy and cold which made it quite difficult, but we proceeded with our filming.
However, we are a bit unsure of some of the shots due to how windy it was seeing as our other shots (that we filmed earlier on in the week - which are supposed to be the same day in the music video) will most likely look different! This may/may not be an issue, although Caroline and I have decided to begin editing next week and just see whether continuity is an issue for us and if so, we will film again next week :)
Now, all we have to do now is the flashback scenes! The majority of our filming is done!!

More Filming :)

Today I went over Dj's and filmed his half of the split screen intro. Now I have filmed the whole of the first 30 seconds of the song!! :) Caroline and I are either meeting up Saturday or Sunday this weekend, to do some more filming.
Unfortunately, we haven't been able to film as much as we would like this half term as I am working every day, and last Saturday it was raining. So we are a bit behind on schedule, but the footage we have so far is good, and fortunately, we only have a little bit that needs to be filmed outside, therefore the weather won't affect us too much! :)

Filming... Finally! :)

Dj was round mine today, so we were finally able to get some filming done! :) I set up the camera how I wanted it and then he recorded my parts for the first 30 seconds of the song!
Tomorrow I am going over his to film his part of the first 30 seconds of the song; so by the end of tomorrow we will have the whole of the intro filmed! :)
Unfortunately, we were unable to film anything that involved the two of us as there was no-one there to film it, although we will hopefully meet up with Caroline soon to film the flashbacks and the present day scenes. :)