Editing...

We have also imported the new footage of Lewis singing the whole of the 'Hold On' song. By having this it now means we can sync it to the actual song. However we foudn this slightly difficualt and we didn;t get very far as the computers kept freezing once we had uploaded. But what we ha dodne looked really effective and fitted in with the song as well which was good. We now need to carry on with this next lesson in order to make it fit perfectly and also so that we can edit other parts of the video around it.

Editing...

Lee has done most of the editing as he knows what he is doing whilst i have been watching and developing his ideas as well as giving my own opinions on what should be changed or what could have been in place of some of the other things. I have learnt a lot about Final Cut just by wtaching Lee and feel that next lesson i should be able to help him edit, so that he could give his opinions and his suggestions instead for a change.

As Lauren and Sarajane re-filmed our singer (Lewis), Lee has managed to incorporate some of his original footage of his singer into our video. Even though he has the words in his hand, i think the way the footage has been editied and where it is also not a too long clip works really well with our video. Even though Aaron (Lee's singer) hasn't been used greatly i feel that by having both Lewis and Aaron in the video it creates differentiation as it is an outtake of Aaron checking out a girl walking past where as Lewis is singing and not taking any notice of what could be going on around him, as this is not seen on the video.

Lee has also included a lot of split screening which he has now taught me how to do. It is of charlotte and steven, but one from the view point of charllotte which has been mixed and the other from the view point oof steven which has been mixed. This has been done in two different parts of the screen.

As i have not really done any of the editing my ideas have been quite useful as it means that whilst helping Lee with editing, i am also learning how to edit as well by watching him. My ideas have been to crop things a bit more and then to contrast with a different shot and with something on a diagonal angle. This could also give the meaning of the song in some parts, or at leas tthe way in which we interpreted it.

Editing...

We have editied about 18 seconds of our music video so far. We have found this quite difficult as a lot of the computers have been freezing when the video has been playing therefore to try and get the lip syncing sorted is hard. However we have tried edit different parts together and to leave the lip syncing until the computers are fixed. We have used many different effects such as: Cropping, moving the images so that they are on a diagonal angle. What has been edited so far i think is really good as it all flows together, it goes with our target audience and it also fits to the beats of the music. However i think there are also a fe wthings that could be improved on such as: Lewis singing as we could get lots of different angles of him, which could then help the video as we could have jump cuts of of images with lewis singing in between so each time you saw it would be of a different angle.

Overall so far i think our idea has come together, rather than how we thought it would turn out in the beginning. We have developed our ideas, which means that our original is not the same, it has been completely changed. But i feels this works and prefer this idea to the original.

Filming for new music video

So far for the filming we have filmed Charlotte and Lee getting up showing an alarm going off and how charlotte gets up as she is on time but lee rolls over and goes back to sleep showing how he misses her when they are supposed to meet up. This i feel has really helped as we have filmed it so that we could possibly use split screen for this part of the music video or possibly even other effects such as: cropping it to put it with other clips such as showing the alarm clock going off.

Editing...

So far Lee and I have done all the editing. We have managed to put the music into Final Cut and have now started to edit our clips. We have changed the angles so that they are diagonal and have dropped some of the clips as well. I felt that this was a good idea as it makes the clips more interesting and helps to give us new ideas for the new clips which we will be adding in.

I am happy with the editing so far as even though i am not sure what i am doing on Final Cut i have been watching other people and picking things up slowly so that i can now start to edit myself as well. As i haven't been editing i have been given my ideas and opinions on how i think it looks so far and whether anything could be improved on.

Filming...

I think now we have finsiehd filming as Lauren and Sarajane have filmed Lewis singing, over two days as they filmed in two different locations. Other things can be filmed but at the moment they are not definately needed. As we have been editing we have also realised that somethings can be re-shot such as: the smiley faces against the bin as they need more mise-en-scene. Also therefore this could be a long shot showing the surroundings.

Filming and Editing so far...

We have nearly finsihed filming as there are a couple of things that we could film in order to make our music video better, such as filming a group of people walking in a place like sutton high street and then editing it so that it becomes fast, but however this is similar to the original video. I like the footage we have so far, however i feel that a couple of things could be re-shot like Lee and Charlotte walking down the road together as i feel that this could have been filmed with a better angle and made slightly more interesting. If we did film anything else it wouldn't take that long as we know what we want to do and how we want it to look like.

What i don't like about the music video is that at the moment it seems to look quite boring, however this could change when we start to edit and put everything we have together.

After we had imported everything we weren't sure on how to edit it as we didn't have the track and also as we needed to go through all our footage in order to decide what we liked and din't like. In the end we mostly agreed on what we liked such as there was a shot of a smily faced model against a silver bin looking happy. We liked it as it made a change to what we had got in the beginning and as also as we had changed our idea, it fitted in with that to.

We have also added the track to it now which means we can start to edit it to the beat of the music. By having the music it means that we can also see what fits well and what doesn't and how we could possibly make it more intersting by using the effects on 'Final Cut'.

We started to put things on the time line such as clipsthat we thought we could edit without the music and we also played around with these such as we managed to change the a clip so that it was seen diagonally and we also managed to crop this picture so that there was a greater focus on the smiley faced model. We also editied things so that a clip could be cut in different places so that when it was played it jumped between all the differnt shots quickly.

Overall i think that the music video has come together as the project has progressed. I felt that at the beginning of this it was very slow moving and that the song was not motivating us as we found it hard to come up with different ideas as we were trying not to copy the original video. I think however that once we have started to eidt and we are seeing that it will look good then we might feel different about it. I think the work we have done though is up to the same standard as everyone. Most of our effects will most probably come from the editing.

Clothing

The two main characters will need to be different as only one of them will be seen in flashbacks.

Lee- needs to have brightish clothing so that it will show up in the falshback

Charlotte- will need to have darkish clothing as she is grieving the death of her boyfriend, but will need bright clothing for the present day shots, as her life is turning out ok.

Props

For this music video we would need the items listed below:

• Camera
• Tripod
• Picture
• Tape
• Necklace

What we still need to do!!

As some of the computer were being slow today we decided that we were going to sit down as a group and talk about what we still need to such as the things we need to be re-filmed. We decided that we needed to film Lewis in a different location and from a variety of different angles and shot typoes as most of them seem to be close ups, also so that we include more of this footage into our music video. We also thought about re-filming lewis as we have uised most of our original footage but Lee also said that he wanted to film a dancer and to aslo film some more of the smiley faced models. As we had changed our idea half through we need to finish the storyboards, so to break this down we each took on a separate role, rather than leaving it all down to one person.

shooting schedule for new ideas

This is the shooting schedule for the new ideas of my music video. We have stated what we are going to shoot when, with who and what props and costumes we need.

New version storyboards 6-10

Above are the last 5 storyboard ideas for the music video.

New version storyboards 1-5

As a group we had decided that we needed to change our idea for our music video, as our first choice had no meaning and didn't fit with the song. Above are the first 5 storyboard ideas.

Shooting Schedule

This is the shooting schedule for our ideas. We have planned who, when, where and what we are going to film and also if there is any extra information that we need to check.

Storyboards 6-10 original storyboards

Storyboards 1-5 of old ideas

These are the storyboards for the music video. We have decided on this as it will reach our targeted audience and also fits in with our genre.

Storyboards

For our storyboards we found it hard to come up with different ideas and we think that these ideas should be portrayed. We also found it hard to draw out how we wanted the shot to look as we kept changing our ideas. In the end we decided to draw what we wanted to see when we saw the shot and whether would look effective for the audience or if we could make it more effective by editing when we had actually filmed the shot. Most of our shots at the moment are long shots, so therefore we need to change some of these to close up, extreme close-up etc. So far our storyboards fit in with the lyrics of the song rather than what we wanted the video to be like.

What I would like to use

In this music video i would like to use a variety of different shots such as: extreme close up, close up, mid shot and establishing shot.

I would like to use close up and extreme close ups so we can focus on the actor's facial expressions to make more of a connection with them.

Midshots to show more body language, something which is often seen in Music videos.

Establishing shots are used to show the surroundings of characters, usually seen in rock videos, which is a small part of Hold On.

Who is in our video?

With our original idea none of us wanted to be in it,so we thought that we could get other people to be in it for us. However this became quite difficult as not many people wanted to do it either and then we had the problem of all us being free at the same time.

As the idea has now changed we have decided that Lee is going to be in the video, as it means that we can film during media lessons and we all tend to have be free at a similar time.

Changed storyboards

As a group we found the song we had chosen was difficult to follow the storyboards as we had interpreted the song with a narrative. We have now decided to change this and include some different effects to make the video more exciting. We have done this by using different effects such as split screening, different colours such as black and white, with the other half of the screen in colour. We have also changed the type of shots we are going to use as we are now using more close ups and extreme close ups rather than all the long shots we had before.