In our first meeting we discussed what types of genre of music we thought would workwell looking back over our three song choices each. This was when we picked our favourites from each persons choices. We then came to decide on our final song choice of `If you can afford me' by Katy Perry. We all decided on the song quite easily which was good as meant we could get straight to work. Once this was decided we started out with a few different types of ideas and annotated these arround the lyrics.
Meet 2:
We then realside that one of the first things we would need to do is work out where in the lyrics we would cut shots to get a good idea how our video would work. Using my iPhone we played the song over and timed the shots this took longer than we thought as it was quite fiddly so had to be carried on until the next meeting.
Meet 3:
In this meeting we got together to finish off our shot timings. Completing this meant we got to start our story board. In this meet we did the first 10 shots and ths took us a while as it meant we had rediscuss first ideas and come up with certain final ideas. Another thing that took the time was deciding where lots of the shots would be.
Meet 4:
We meet to complete more shots from our story board thsi lesson we still only continued anotehr 10 leaving us on shot 20. At this point we had discuss our idea of having our artist in differnt outfits as different types of social group like the skater and and the more rock chick version.
Meet 5:
At our last meet we discussed wetehr to stick to our original idea for having different types of the artist for the chorus' at this meet we decided to stick to this idea as it would stop our chorus from becoing repetative to keep people interest. As our idea became firmer in our head the story boarding became easier meaning in this meet we got from shot 20 - 40. In shot 15 we use show that were using a model of a bank which we smash, after looking for a model of a bank on various sites and being unsucessful in finding them we decided a piggy bank would give an equally good effect.
Meet 6:
We carried on deciding on our shots and locations and drawing our storyboard from shot 41 to shot 53. After thinking about our original idea of having the girl gothic we decided props would be quite difficult and we diddnt want the star looking to depressed as it wouldnt be as interesting. We decided if we had the star as more of a rock chick than a goth we could use the interesting prop of a motorbike and have the star looking quite sexualised at the same time.
Meet 7:
In this meet I started to film the first half of our story board to shot 52. This taught me to be careful not to lean and block the light. I was then shown how to capture footage from the camera to the editing software and how to cut the shots up and put them back together in time with the audio doing this I got up to shot 16. While I was doing this Ellie and Shelagne carried on with our story board up to shot 79. We hoped to finish the storyboard by next lesson.
Meet 8:
I carried on with the editting up to shot 26. The girls finished the storyboard so filmed the rest of the shots, however these came out to wide and would not match with the first 26 so we filmed them again to get a better qaulity storyboard.
Meet 9:
Unfortunatley when we came to this meet our footage had been filmed over so we had to video our storyboard for the third time. We then captured this straight onto the software as we learnt to always save it to the software so it wasn't lost!
Meet 10:
In this meet I showed Ellie and Shelagne how to use the editing software so we could all work together to edit our storyboard. In this meet we managed to get up to shot 34 as the girls picked up how to use the software easily.
Meet 11:
This meet as we could all take it in turns to edit we managed to get lots more edited finishing on shot 69!
Meet 12:
During this meet we finally managed to finish the editing of our storyboard. While shelagne cut together the last few shots me and Ellie decided to go and practice my lip syncing. We did a few different shots of this so I could get a good idea of how it would look best. Then we captured the video of the lip syncing to the computer, here we unlinked the audio of our video and added the Katy Perry track.
Meet 13:
We meet in one of our frees so we could make sure the lip syncing matched with track in the background. When we were satisfied with this we set up a youtube acount so we could upload the video and embed it on our blog.
Meet 14:
In this meet we uploaded our storyboard to youtube and then also embeded this onto our blogs.
Meet 15:
In this meet we decide to plan our filming schedule. We got all of our time tables together including Joe who will be acting in our video so we could see when we had free lessons and would be avaliable to film. We then put this data into a table on microsoft word so it was clear for us to read. We then decided we need to discuss when we are free of a weekend and after school for extra filming time.
Meet 16:
In this meet we worked on our blogs so we were up to date and not having lots to do at the last miniute. We then decided to cut up our storyboard and organise the shots by location so we know what needed to be recorded when. We hope by doing things like this our filming will run smoothly and we wont miss any shots out.
Meet 17:
We started to plan what we were going to do for the first shots of our video, we then decided that the easiest shots to start with would be those set in our school drama hall. Then we had to discuss the costumes and props that we would need for this so were ready for shooting. We planned to film this on the upcoming Thursday.
Meet 18:
It was the thursday we had decided to film so we went to ask the drama department if we would be able to borrow the drama hall that evening. However the school was holding the annual careers convention which meant the room was in use so we wouldnt be able to film. This made us realise we should probaly check locations more in advance.
Meet 19:
In our Media lesson we decided that we would film the shot that was against the lockers as it was the only shot in its location. We already had the props in school as we meant to film the night before. We did my make up and got the actors we needed before we started to film. Ellie and Shelagne were filming as I am in the video, we did quite a few takes for this shot as we were still getting used to bringing everything together. We then captured this to the computer and decided me and Shelagne would film the motorbike shots with her Dad's bike on the Sunday.
Meet 20:
I had all my make up done by a friend studying make up at college. Then me and shelagne meet at the libary in Ongar so we could film our motorbike shots with a nice background. We were very lucky as it was a beautiful day, although we had to take this into consideration when deciding where to exactly place the bike. We decided here to use the prop of the leather biker jacket to add a different effect to the shot. Filming went really well with us doing 3 attempts of each shot meaning we would later be able to pick which one's looked the best. We managed to get the shots we needed while taking photo's for evidence on our blogs in about an hour.
Meet 21:
We arrived in our Media lesson and captured our shots to the editing software, at this poit we couldn't wait to edit our shots to the music and see how well they had come out. Overall we were very pleased with how the setting and props looked for this section ad how the lip syncing fiited in with the vocals of the music. Here we also uploaded the pictures of the shoot to the computer and all our blogs.
Meet 22:
In this meet we showed our first section to others and decided that for this section there wasn't much variety in our shot types as we were keeping them all quite long to include the bike. Luckily me and shelagne had filmed one of the shots in a close up aswell to see how it looked so we are going to use this instead. Today we also began to start up our star's myspace account.
Meet 23:
Today Ellie and Shelagne made a filming schedule, this will be useful as we do need to plan more advance for our filming.
Meet 24:
We decdied that with the weather this day it would be best to film the shots that are inside at my house. We were going to film the shots that are in my room however we decided to change this shot from the orignal in our storyboard as we didn't feel it worked. When we arrived at my house we filmed these shots over a few times, but when watching them back on the camera we decided we wasn't happy with the lighting. Next lesson we are going to try and change the contrast on editting.
Meet 25:
As we caputured the shots from my house on the computer the lighting actually looked a lot better. We decided to just edit the shots to the music and then when the video is completed we will see if we need to change the lighting. We looked at our free schedule and decided that tomorrow we could film during and after our double media lesson. In the first hour we organised props and borrowed a skatboard from a boy in our class. In the second hour we will go to the skate park and start to film.
Meet 26:
We got ready to do our filming and headed to the skate park at king georges. We had a bit of a disaster as we forgot the tripod so had to go back to school and get it. Other than this the shoot was alot of fun. I had to try and practice on the skateboard which made us all laugh alot. We managed to be quite lucky with the lighting although it was quite cold. We varied our shots from the storyboard a bit although keeping the main ideas. Luckily we finished our final shot just as it started to rain. We also made sure we took lots of pictures that we could use for our digi pack and myspace acount.
Meet 27:
We captured all of our filming from the day before onto the adobe premier software as well as uploading the picture we took from the shoot. Then me and ellie began to edit the video although we diddnt get it finished as we spent lots of time getting the lip syncing in time.
Meet 28:
I came back in a free lesson to edit some more of the skater shots I managed to put them in the right places however we will still need to go over these more closely.
Meet 29:
We were going out to film the allsorts shots, this meant me and shelange had to do my make up and get me ready in school. Then we pulled up outside sainsburys and went to get some cherries after asking permission to film in allsorts. As we went into allsorts we brought the milkshake and cupcakes. Then we found out our camera had low battery so we had to be quite efficent about filming and not waste time. We also managed to get a few photos that would be a possiblity in our digipack.
Meet 30:
We uploaded the photos and captured the video footage to our editing software. Then we took turns to edit it while uploading the pictures to our blog. We had just editied our allsorts shots into the right places when the system crashed without saving our work so we had to start the whole process again. We now know to save while we are going along!!!!
Meet 31:
We had our media lesson before lunch so we decided to go to my house and film the for me shots against my wall as we thought the pattern would look much better and when we tested this we decided we were right. We had the for me shots as a variety of close ups and mid shots. After filming these we decided to film the shots of me and the bar. I'm quite pleased with how well these shots came out given the amount of time we had to do them. I also think that both the backgrounds look effective.
Meet 32:
During our media lesson we captured our footage from the day before on to the editting software. We then cut the for me shots so they were spereate and decided which ones we prefered and began to position these. By adding these shots in it filled up a few gaps of song which we were happy about. We decided that next we would film the shots of me on the horse so Ellie araanged for use to this on Saturday.
Meet 33:
Unfortunatly the owner of the horse was no longer avaliable on sunday so we have had to postpone these shots for a week. We decided as we are about half way through our video that we should get some feedback. This made us realise that we need more movement of shot as well as having a variety of shots without me in them including establishing shots of where we are filming. . From our feedback we also decided we needed to build Joe into our shots more so he does't just appear in the end of our song.
Meet 34:
We decided that in this meet we would go to king georges and film the car shots and add joe to these so he is waiting for me by the car. These shot were going well although unfortunately the camera ran out of battery. While we were all still avaliable we went to school and charged the camera whilst filming the smashing of the piggy bank shot. This was a lot of pressure as we only had one piggy bank so one chane to do it. Luckily this all went to plan!
Meet 35:
When we captured the previous nights footage we were all really pleased with the smashing of the piggy bank especially when it was slowed down. The first car shots were good however we will have to refilm them because of the camera dieing. Me and Ellie began to look through all our pictures to decide what would work well on the digipack whilst Shelagne did our stars facebook. The fact we had taken lots of pictures made picking a good quality one a lot easier so we were all happy about this.
Meet 36:
Today we filmed our shots in the drama hall. This was alot of fun as we got to through our monopoly money around although it took us extra long as all the money had to be sweeped up again and again. We decided to do a shot of the camera moving around so our video appeared kess static.
Meet 37:
Me and Ellie got ready to go and film at her friends stable for the horse shots. When we got there it was quite a foggy day but we decided to film anyway. We filmed lots of different shots as we diddn't want to have to go back. However we had a disaster as we filmed pover some of our drama hall shots. Other than this the filming went well and we got lotrs of shots.
Meet 38:
We meet up in the media room to capture all our footage. The horse shots seemed really light so we are going to fiddle around with these in editing to get a better quality.
Meet 39:
Today we spent lots of time editting as we had lots of shots that were just about and it was making it hard work. We also began to start our digipack looking at template fonts and thinking of some alternative track ideas.
Meet 40:
After looking at the complete part of our video with the shots and locatios we syill had to film we decided that our video might appear to be quite jumpy from place to place. This made me come up with the idea of using the patterened wall as more of a feature in our video and have these shots as continous the whole way through and stringing our video together. We decided to film these shots straight away at the weekend. This lesson I also set up our myspace account picking a back ground with colours and sweets as I feel this represents our artist well.
Meet 41:
The girls arrived at my house and we began to move the furniture in my bedroom so we could film against the wall. Then we picked four different dresses for me to wear so we had a variety of choice. We made sure that we overfilmed so that we wouldn't have to come and move all the furniture again. As we were going to use these shots throughou the video we decided just to play the song and have me singing and dancing for the duration. We did this twice in each outfit.
Meet 42:
We captured the shots from my house on to the edittig software. We then discussed wether or not the four costumes would make these shots more cofusing so we may just stick to one outfit as we still have many shots for this. The outfit we went for was the pink dress as these shots came out a lot better.
Meet 43:
We began to cut the shots and postion them in the gaps of our video. This meant it was really starting to fill up which we were happy about. However we decided that we must redo the drama hall shots as its obvious where it is and looks extremely unprofessional. I continued working on the didgi pack deciding on the names for our songs. After discussing the first image we had for the digipack and what it looked like we decided on a new idea that would be to have the lyrics written on a mirror.
Meet 44:
After our decision to change our idea for the digipack we went to my house and took lots of pictures of me so we would have a variety to choose from. This went well although it was hard getting the right angle with the mirror to avoid having the camera in the reflection.
Meet 45:
We uploaded our photographs and began to remake the back of the digipack. When doing this we realised that the words didn't appear very clear. Then we came up with the idea to zoom right in and trace the eyeliner with the paint tool. This made the writing very clear and gave a good look as well.
Meet 46:
Today we spent lots of time testing out different contrasts in our horse shots however none these seemed to do anything to save them. We then realised that we would have to re film them or fill the gaps with shots we already had. We were really gutted about this as we had spent a lot of time filming them.
Meet 47:
Today we refilmed the horse shots, it was quite bright however lightly raining. Due to the earlier set back with the horse shots we needed to film anyway. Luckily the rain was really light so this diddn't effect our shots although we had to keep wiping the lense. With the weather conditions the way they were we were lucky enough to see a rainbow and even get it on film.
Meet 48:
We captured these horse shots to the software and they were a much better quality than the ones before. As we cut these shots and added them to the music video we also added the shots of the rainbow as our video has girly fun look to it this shot worked really well!
Meet 49:
Today all of our shots were positioned making our video look complete however we still had to swap the drama hall shots as the rest of our video is in well thought out locations and these shots look very unprofessional. After discussing what we could add in the gap without being very repetative we decided to use a shot from each outfit at my house and one of the poses that I was doing.We was happy when these shots were in as they didn't look out of place and our video was finally finished.
Meet 50:
We had to render our video from the editting software and then upload this to youtube. Once the video was on youtube we took the embed code and put the video on to the blogs. I then typed up a questionnaire for our audience feedback before playing the video to others.
Meet 51:
Today we showed our video to other students and filmed while they watched and then answered our questionnaires. I was quite happy with the outcome and that lots of people had positive things to say about the video. We then captured this footage and each picked which evaluation question we would do and decided to all work together on the audience feedback question.
Meet 52:
I wrote the answer to my evaluation question at home and began thinking of different ways in which I could have this. I then decided it would work well if I placed the whole evaluation on to a prezi account so I began to learn how to use this adding my evaluation question straight onto it.
Meet 53:
In our next media lesson I said that I would do tyhe audience feedback question whilst the others finished their evaluations. I wrote out a script that I could then be filmed saying so we could use the audio alongside the footage of people watching our video and add audience comments to the end. Once this was captured I began to edit it together.
Meet 54:
Me and Ellie stayed after school to work more on our evaluations as ellie's was also goingto be a video meaning it took more time to edit.
Meet 55:
We looked at shelagne's powerpoint today and decided that it was quite boring and needed more pictures. I finished editing the audience feedback question and rendered it before uploading it to you tube and then to the Prezi.
Meet 56:
Me and Ellie stayed after school again to finish Ellie's evaluation and so I could make changes to shelagnes powerpoint. I then tried uploading the powerpoint to prezi as a video or file however it doesn't take this type of file so instead I had to upload the video to my slideshare account and then copy a link to this onto the prezi. I also added more pictures around my evaluation question.
Meet 57:
Ellie finished her evaluation question so we then rendered and uploaded it to you tube meaning it was ready to go on our prezi. Once all evaluation questions were uploaded onto the prezi me and Ellie decided to add our finished video to it aswell in the centre so it could be watched on the prezi as well.