Half term filming...

Today I did my part of the filming. We decided we would share the camera time equally in the half term for three days each. I decided to film a friend along with her boyfriend to focus on more of the positive shots. As well as this I decided to do some close ups of some stereotypical things from a relationship e.g. photos and gifts. I decided to use these as a metaphor, for example I tore up the photos and filmed some dried flowers to represent the ending of a relationship. When I was filming the positive times I decided to use a local park as my setting, it was a sunny day which coincided with the theme and I used the park and maze to film separate shots.

Practice Task...

As Emily wasn't here, instead of doing a major group work task, me and Katie decided we could get on with the practice task. We decided to do our take on the task set and instead of four faces in one screen, we decided to use the four boxes to make up a face. As the introduction we filmed a sequence of shots, with each one being closer to the face of the actor. We edited this in free periods/lunch.

Monday....

We only have two lessons this week but today we are consolidating ideas and getting a general view of what is happening and what will happen. We have been taking meeting notes every week which will be uploaded soon. We were shown the A2 media studies 'get ahead' blog today and, have decided to think about doing a couple of video blogs, this should be relatively easy on the macs camera and then just uploaded. We have to do a practice sequence this week to remind us of camera techniques and software use. This will be uploaded once we have edited and finished.

We have decided to split the camera time we have in half term equally between us, we are going to film our individual ideas and any inspiration. I am filming in the first 3 days of half term, then Katie and then Emily. Once we have emptied our SD Cards onto the Mac we can go through and decide what we can keep, work on, or lose.

John Legend...

John Legends viseo for 'Ordinary people', was really good inspiration for ideas. The video is a shot on a white background throughout but still keeps the video interesting by having different couples acting out different scenarios. We liked the simplicity and the cinematography, its use of close ups and panning shots etc.

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Inspiration we have found while researching...

Although this inspiration may not be relevant to our final video, these were videos that we all liked and could possibly help our ideas, some are contemporary and others a bit older...
Sia - Breathe me, the picture flicking effect using stop-motion, good for memories or ellipsis.
Kesha - Take it off, the fluorescent powder used, good for fighting scenes if appropriate insead of actual violence or emotion in relevant colours e.g. red - love or anger. We were going to use this if we had decided to film Hide and Seek for the representation of dust.

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Blogs...

Todays lesson was really just a chance to check our blogs and talk through some ideas. By Friday we hope to have made a decision and hopefully we can start filming ideas from our lyric notes. We still have one more week til half term, and although we are behind, we have given ourselves enough time through that week to discuss and plan for filming and preliminary tasks in half term.

Preliminary task and Friday's lesson...

We decided to include a CD cover and a Magazine advertisement as our preliminary task. We will be able to get pictures while we are filming.
Today we put the audio onto macs and listened to the three seperate tracks that we had. We were not able to use a one of the recordings of Hide and seek as the piano was too loud in comparison to Lara's voice we tried to use software to correct this but couldn't in the end.
We know have to make the decision of whether to use the first few verses of Hide and Seek or use the recording of I don't believe you which has recorded well, we just have the problem of filming ideas etc.
We are behind on our plan but it doesn't matter as we have booked a camera for half term and have each others contacts so once we have done the difficult bit of planning our video and storyboarding, we will be able to film over half term and maybe into the next week, just so long as we have started to edit in that week.

Recording, Changes and Decisions!...

We managed to get our recording done today. Although we didn't get a full recording of Hide and Seek, Lara had chosen a song by Pink - I don't believe you that she thought we would like. We decided to research this song on friday and it looks like we may choose this as our final song. Here are some of my ideas.>>

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We decided...

When we looked at each others notes the most popular song was Hometown Glory by Adele, we all agreed it had good imagery and we could do a lot with it. We had also got a lot of inspiration from the original video although we didn't want to copycat it, we preffered it to Hide and Seek.

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Our ideas:

Our other options....

Back up plan....

Just in case the recording plan didn't work, as we also didn't know if the sound quality would be good enough to use in our video, we decided to choose another song and brainstorm it just in case we had to change. We decided on a few:
Hometown Glory - Adele
Sophia - Nerina Pallot
Speeding cars - Imogen Heap.
Over the weekend we decided to print the lyrics out, and note down some ideas for one or all.
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