Location Report/Props and Costumes

Location
The majority of our scenes use generic backgrounds such as a white wall or a low wall by a bus stop. These backgrounds are easily accessible at college because they are so basic so we don't need to venture far to film. Because the backgrounds are so simple the video won't look like it was filmed in college and make the editing process easier to edit out .

Props and Costumes
Guitar

Paper cups/string

Photographs
Clothes typical of the 'indie' fashion for the band members

Average everyday clothes for the actors

Music Video Survey

Music Video Survey
We carried out a survey asking people what they like to see in a music video and these were the results.

skills i have learnt so far

Skills I have learnt
From the story of The Maccabees `first Love` video and creating the shot lists. I have learnt how important planning and prep is in terms of achieving successful end products. Teamwork is also vital when creating a music video I’ve learnt that as a team we can benefit each over singularly as well as haring our experience and ideas with one another. Co-operation is key when working as a team as our team has worked co-dependably as well as a group to ensure that tasks are completed before the deadline.
Watching other indie music video has allowed me to identity key aspects in terms of iconography and conventions. Its also taught me it helps to watch a video repeatedly in terms of analysing. Story boards are a fundamental aspect when planning a video, as it will help break up the narrative structure and use of different camera shots and angles when filming. The types of shots should also been taken into consideration so you know what needs to be done and in what time frame. Experimenting with different video camera helped me to learn different techniques that will help me with future projects. Having a go a lip-syncing was important to add the edge of realism to, but it was also a difficult task to get right because you needed to remember the timing of the music and how each shot would look when added to the music. Taking to many shots can be time consuming when in editing process so the key is to have more than the minimum but not to much. We ended up filming a number of times to make the video look as realistic as possible.

Wednesday 7th December 2011

Wednesday 7th December 2011
We managed to edit the video as a whole, but they are still a few tweaks to make the whole video run in time with the music. Also we need fill in gaps that are missing this means we have to go back to the footage we upload prior to editing and see if there is any feasible footage we can use to include, if not we will have to film again. Hopefully this is not the case as we have plenty of extra footage.
We showed our video to the rest of our class who gave us feedback on how we could improve our range of shots, included extra transitions, and fill in the gaps. We have taken in to consideration what needs to be done to improve our video as our aim is to produce a well-directed music video for our coursework. Getting feedback for further improvements and adjusting the visual aspects of the video in order to improve the quality of the video.
So far we feel as the video has been a significant improvement on our first draft but hopefully with our feedback we can make even further amendments to gain extra marks.

Progress over the last few days.

Progress over the last few days.
Since filming, we have no begun editing. We upload our footage on to final cut pro, this will be the software we will be using to edit the whole of our video. We have found that the lighting, quality and variety of shots have been improved since our first draft. The idea of using college as a location as a setting made it easy to re film any changes that arose in postproduction but it also gave that authentic look of studio rooms which was used in The Maccabees video. At this stage we have edited roughly around 1.38 minutes and we still have around 2minutes left to edit. Once all the clips are in order and in sync with the music, we will then edit the finer details such as lighting, contrast and the colours of each shot.

update on video

Update on Video
As planned in our schedule we begin the process of filming as of tomorrow. We have planed what will be need to film from last week in order to be fully prepared for the start of this week. Our list consistent of:
 Costume to be worn
 Various props
 Booking the camera and tripod
 What roles we would need to undertake
 Also make sure everyone knew why filming would commence

Filming:

Filming:
 The start of filming, we decided to film in chronicle order, we quickly realized that this would be impossible to accomplish as the video it self has no chronicle order/ structure within the Maccabees first love video.
 Next Stage of filming was to sort out want needed to be in each frame and shot and how we would incorporate this into our final product. But most importantly was can we used similar techniques to The Maccabees.
 One of the major problems that we had while filming was the inconsistency with the timing of the music and the lip-syncing not matching together at the exact time in unison. Re-filming and finding the right speed of music quickly and effectively resolved the problem.
 After resolving the issue with timing and music our next step was to form a mini narrative that could be included within our production, so that the narrative it self could tell a story but easily relate to the music video as well.