How We Have Turned Things Around... We Hope.

As you know we have had a few lumps and hurdles to jump in order to achieve something that was destroyed. This has been a challenge as we adjusted our music video once and then it became shambles as footage wasn't to the standard we needed. We then discussed as a group that this wasn't going to work as the footage was poor and only some of the shots would have made sense, if they were included within the film.

We all sat down and discussed things over and said that this obviously wasn't ever going to become a video so we came up with a couple of ideas, as a group, instead of just throwing our heads down. We have came up with the idea of making it a social event, as the lyrics are based on the same thing, we didn't really need to change the message within the video, we just needed to change how the message was going to be put across to the spectators.

We have captured some footage of Ryan and myself socialising in the park, kicking around a bottle pretending to play football. This is the new lead up to the message of the story, where Ryan see's his "Love" walking with her boyfriend.

Editing Footage

Today, we started to edit our footage that we captured the other day. We have cut out the main bits that we needed, to add to our previous footage. We looked at the footage from the recording of the park, Ryan and myself, pretending to play football and having fun. We have captured the main parts of our footage that we needed, but we still need a bit more footage to continue the storyline and we need it to fill in some time that we need.

Lyrics to the song

These are the lyrics to our song that we will be using and basing a story around -

Verse 1

Hey girl why you standing there,
Seeming like you do not care,
Get on your feet lets have some fun,
We'll go round and round,
When i say wait you'll say right now,
See now you're having fun, lets go 4 3 2 1!

Chorus

Allow me to have this one sir,
Move aside and let me take her,
I'll show you a real good time,
And then you'll wanna be mine.

Verse 2

Jump like it's just begun,
There's nothing that can't be done,
Time to live all your dreams,
Forget the ones that could of been,
Somethings should be unleft,
Somethings should be unsaid,
Now it's up to you,
There's nothing left we can do

Chorus

Allow me to have this one sir,
Move aside and let me take her,
I'll show you a real good time,
And then you'll wanna be mine.

Middle 8

See now you're having fun x5
Lets go in 4321,
4 3 2 1 !

Chorus

Allow me to have this one sir,
Move aside and let me take her,
I'll show you a real good time,
And then you'll wanna be mine.

Allow me to take this one sir,
Move aside and let me take her,
I'll show you a fucking good time,
And then you'll wanna be mine.

From these lyrics it's clear that the female character in this story is already in a relationship and is already dancing with a different guy. Throughout the song, the other male who is interested in her is determined to get her by insisting that she would be happier with him.

Footage That Went Horribly Wrong.

5th November - our group organised a recording period at a hall we had rented out for that night. First, we arranged and positioned the band, and filmed different shots of them individually. We captured a variety of shots of the band separate from the crowd shots. After we had recorded the band shots we then got people to enter the hall to continue with our work.

However, we did have some major problems when we where filming. Firstly, unfortunately, I could not attend due to an unexpected family emergency. Secondly, people turned up with alcohol, which normally means bad news and we were right as most people ended up getting drunk and out of control. This wasn't very helpful as we trying to organise people for there performance and get people to act as extras. Plus, even though most people turned up from our facebook group - people invited people who invited people, therefore we thought that we were going to have quite a crowd. However, the capacity of people was not enough. Due to the lack of people, we where unable to record some scenes, involving are two main characters meeting through the crowd. Ontheotherhand, we still managed to get some shots with a party atmosphere. The video below shows why we could not use this.

15/11/2010 Shooting Lesson

Today we found out that the previous footage we had filmed had not been transferred onto the PC. We didn't want to let that get us down, so we grabbed a camera and tripod and went straight outside to film again. This time we made sure that the footage was saved onto the PC by saving it into the media departments folder. We are really pleased with what we recorded today and next lesson we will be logging each individual shot if everything goes to plan. Hopefully we don't get any more interferences, but if we do, we will find a way to improve it just like we did today.

How there was a slight confusion...

Confusion and Interference on Prezi

Research on Digipak Task

I have been searching for a variety of digipaks and I have seen how many different designs there are. I have focused mainly on the ones that have two or three slots as we will not have the time or materials to do more than this, but with the time that we have we are planning to make our design great. Here are a few designs that I have been looking at:

I have analysed this design over and over and the design is brilliant and the colours really grab your attention. This design is, unfortunately, to difficult and time consuming to make as I personally think that this design would be a great example as it has amazing colours, is four folding, has a list of the songs, a small briefing and much more. I especially like the way that they have formed and combined two of the fold outs to create one image as this shows that they have thought thoroughly on how they wanted to design this Digipak.

This Digipak is simple, but yet so effective. It has just two fold outs, one fold out for the CD and the other side is a design of the inside of a car. From this picture you can't really tell who the artist is or anything but, the design tells me that the songs are either fast and adrenaline rushing or music with a beat, but lyrics are to do with a type of motor vehicle or pop rock.



This 3-sleeved digipak is a more complicated design than the 4-sleeved, but not a simple as the 2-sleeved. Although this isn't the simplest idea, it is however the best, in my opinion. The reason I think this is the best digipak is because this will show that we've put a lot of effort into it, the digipak shouldn't take forever to complete and it will show that we are trying our best and are trying to manage our time well. This task that we have to complete, contributes towards our coursework grade and therefore we are going to put all of our effort into our coursework, into the short amount of time that we have. Within this 3-sleeved digipak, we can contain images of the band, use and create images from the lyrics that are sung and also, we can have a colour to represent the mood of the song.

Hesitations...

We have had some slight trouble uploading our footage onto the site and each of our blogs, but we uploaded them yesterday and started to work on them straight away. We have edited some of the footage in the time we had and for now that is all we can until we return to college on Monday as none of us have the software at home... which is a bit unfortunate, but we will be straight onto it and start editing as soon as we get into lesson.

We all our going to have inputs on the footage and the way in which it will be edited. We all have some great ideas on what effects to use and what footage should go where, so there will be discussions during the editing phase in addition to throughout everything else.

Shots We Know Are Being Used.

The shots that we captured during college, in college, are the shots that we are definitely going to use within our music video. The reason we are using these shots is because they give the spectators an idea that there are messages within the music video, not it just being a band playing. The main storyline within the film is typical boy sees girl and likes what he sees and tries to impress. We have some shots that I have already spoken about in the last post, (the shots of both boy and girl getting prepared and trying to impress).

The reason we are using these shots and messages is because the lyrics are based around partying and asking a girl to dance. This is the reason we chose to perform and capture in a hall, and basically have a party, to capture the scene we needed.

The shots that we recorded during and within college, are shots of Ryan (boy) acting as if he has just seen the girl walk past him and he is shocked and looks up in a complete gaze, Morgana (girl) walking past and acting embarrassed and giving a shy and timid smile, which creates the link and feelings between both characters.

Been Filming... Sorry.

So here I am once again updating you all on the activities we have been doing for the past month. We have been capturing most of our shots by tripod and handheld camera, but also we have used the camera by hand to create a spectator effect. We hired out a hall to capture the main event but due to some particular circumstances, it didn't go according to plan. The shots that Ryan and myself captured were okay, along with Morgana and Nicole capturing the same shots but from a different perspective. We captured an all round shot of the hall, giving us a chance to use this to fill in some gaps and become part of the music video. The shots we captured on the evening were not really usable, the only shots we recorded that were, were the shots of the band. The only shots that we will be able to use are the shots of each member of the band and this is due to the fact that the singer was not able to attend the event. We have captured the shots that we needed, shots like the expression on the boys (Ryan's) face, and both characters, boy (Ryan) and girl (Morgana), preparing for the event and trying to impress.

Storyboard

We have created a storyboard that contains the majority of our film but we have made some adjustments. We haven't followed the storyboard completely due to the face that our footage had been changed a couple times due to footage not being to the standard that we had hoped. Also, we combined the ideas within the storyboard within our film. We have made the message as clear as possible, all we have done is improved our footage.

We have come to the conclusion that our third storyboard idea was our most appropriate for our topic and message within the story. I will shortly have an image of our storyboard posted.