Sunday, 30 November 2014
Reflection on rough cut review
We got very high reviews from our class as seen in the video. Only a few shots were out sync. We filmed the ending already so it just needs to be all put together to finish off the video. Blogs are going good, next up is creating some interviews with the artists and then developing a digipack we should be up to date on everything.
Quick update
Just a page I was working on with the first part of the draft and some behind the scenes photos of the me. With how far we are with editing.
Site
Saturday, 29 November 2014
Social Media
We also have Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, youtube... We have sportify! to keep in touch with our target audience.
Youtube - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires
Youtube - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires
Friday, 28 November 2014
Blog Review: Problems
One
of the hardest things I have found in A2 is managing my time with the blog
work. To me, the coursework is structured more differently than AS as we started
it from December and finished it in March. Consequently, I had a lot of time
to regularly update my blog as I did not have a lot of work to do that was non-media
related.
Therefore, although I may sometimes lack detail in some of my blog post, I believe I can upload small things every now and then, allowing my blog to be updated on a consistent pace.
However,
now that I am in A2, rather than uploading posts consistently, I have a lot of
huge time gaps in between the posts I upload. Due to the current work I am
doing outside of college, I have not been able to spend a lot of time at home
or outside media lessons to do my blog work. However, after receiving advice
yesterday (27/11/2014) from one of the media staff, I have realised it is
better to upload and record everything I do during lessons as the blog is marked
through the level of detail and your time management.
Therefore, although I may sometimes lack detail in some of my blog post, I believe I can upload small things every now and then, allowing my blog to be updated on a consistent pace.
Thursday, 27 November 2014
Rough Cut Feedback Response
Overall, our feedback of our rough cut was positive, such as the violin scene, the framing and the focusing in and out of our shot. However, there was some small mistakes such as the lip syncing in the second verse as the female artist is out of sync and sings a bit too quickly. Also, we have very little shots of the violinist which is shown a bit in the intro of our music video and a minimum on the hook/anchor. We would address both these problems by:
- Correcting and perfecting the lip syncing on the second verse. Therefore, we may have to change the speed of some shots to match the lip syncing.
- Add more shots of the violinist in the end of our music video which were planning to do so as our narrative was structured this way.
- Also, I believe there is too much similar shot of the female artist in the second verse therefore I believe we should include some narrative to balance this out with the performance.
Blog Update: Rough Cut Feedback Response
I decided to re-blog this as it originally was a written post and because the part of the blog work is marked on ICT skills, I wanted to present it through presentation, also I decided to tag it as group since I believe this is how we all addressed the issues rather than me.
Tuesday, 25 November 2014
Sunday, 23 November 2014
Final notes about filming and editing
Filming the music video has gotten to the point were i have taken the song out of my playlist because I have heard it too many times. But it is still one of my top 80 songs. The filming process has been long but I have learnt a lot about filming such as how to always get the perfect shots when I film as not to waste film or a perfect shot. I found it easier to have more than enough camera recordings because when it comes to editing i need all the shots I can get.
Editing was difficult because I was not to a certain degree used to the final cut pro to be used on such a high level. I'm a perfectionist so the music video had to be good so therefore the editing had to be solid. The rough cut deadline is coming up and we have not a lot left to film i am feeling confident about the music video.
Editing was difficult because I was not to a certain degree used to the final cut pro to be used on such a high level. I'm a perfectionist so the music video had to be good so therefore the editing had to be solid. The rough cut deadline is coming up and we have not a lot left to film i am feeling confident about the music video.
Production: Organizing film and Editing
Organisation is really vital in order to make the music video come alive therefore we message each other through Whatsapp to keep up to date to know what we are filming.
Notice
Some of my behind the scenes videos and images were not uploaded because I forgot I had filmed them. I have posted them all so now we should be more up to date.
Thursday, 20 November 2014
FILMING: Day Two Review
(I realise this blog is uploaded a month after second first day of filming, however I spent most of the time collecting the footage and presenting it.)
Link for better layout: http://app.emaze.com/1196887/filming-day-two
Link for better layout: http://app.emaze.com/1196887/filming-day-two
FILMING: Day One Review
(I realise this blog is uploaded a month after our first day of filming, however I spent most of the time collecting the footage and presenting it.)
Tuesday, 18 November 2014
Nawd Filming Day 5
Filming was very straightforward with Thaomy acting, me recording and Tahmina making sure the shots we took were perfect. Only issue was with us getting the background full of houses out of the shot because it would ruin the whole feel of what we were doing. (quiet close to a bunch of flats)
I developed a kind of check before I film kind of attitude as not to waste memory on the camera.(we take a lot of shots.)
So to summarise a very successful day, very cold and technical.
Monday, 17 November 2014
Sunday, 16 November 2014
Friday, 7 November 2014
EDITING: Feedback
After editing our intro, we decided to get feedback from a different media teacher who does not know what our music video is about.
Post-Production: Introduction
Since we could not film, we started to edit the footage that we have which was quite long as we had to upload the footage on the video drive and constantly render whilst editing. Below is a video, of how we initially feel about media and our coursework after coming back from half term where we filmed 75% of our music video.
Wednesday, 5 November 2014
Tuesday, 4 November 2014
Monday, 3 November 2014
Reaction to progress grade
So today was the dreaded progress grade day. Well im not upset about my grade but it wasn't what i expected.
Im not sure if i can tell you what it was so i will just describe the grade. Its not the super amazing one or the second place but also amazing one its the one just slightly under which is still good but you should have done better.
At first i was like well looks like this year wont be so fun but luckily my teacher gave me tips on how to improve and hit the higher tier margins so its not all bad news.
One of the main issues was the time management between blogs. I explained it underneath this blog and will try from now on to maintain the blog to perfection in order to get the main grade i want.
I think i'm happy with the grade; id be lying if i said i didn't want to get full marks in everything.
So from here till the next blog review i will try to make as much progress as possible and stay on-top of things.
Production: Organising Film Fail
Below is an email conversation to show that our group will not be attending one of the media lesson to edit as we had to film instead.
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Our group arranged to film on Monday 3rd of November, 9 to 12 in the morning. However, due to the heavy rain we were unable to film.
Explanation of absent + update
After i did my pitch with my group there was a small amount of lag time between my posts. This was mainly due to the filming and other work i needed to catch up with. "Fear not the work is done and will be posted soon".
So what was i doing the past 7 days you ask?
Filming my music video of course. Being the main artist is a lot harder than i expected. Singing a song more than 20 times fully is very tiring and time consuming.
Filming during half term was more difficult than you would expect. The -1 hour of daylight saving you would have thought was a blessing but was just an indication that the hours light is out are way less. (this is media so i wont bore you with science) But if i have to.
Im bad at maths also so this means only around 6 hours of filming a day. (Don't judge me waking up at 11 is a must)
So between the 7 days 4 of these were used for filming; theres a lot of footage.
Most of the information and reaction to filming will be posted on the next few days but i will say one thing. You can never have enough days of filming.
Will be covering how i felt about filming and what i did in those particular days in the next few days.