Editing

I have started to convert the clips, that we filmed yesterday, so we can use them in the editing of the music video. We are going to review over the clips so that we can choose the ones that are best suited and that will work best into the music video. Once we have chose them we can begin to construct the beginning of the music video.

9th December 2013 (filming)

Journal:

Today we went filming in our lessons for our music video. We went to danson park and filmed several shots, these included one of the signs that we needed for the intro; our jump cut; tilting to the light (which we changed to one person); point of view spinning shot; band spinning; walking past and away from the camera and a point of view shot on our shoes. We still have more shots to take in danson park as we wouldn't of had enough time to do it today, but we know now exactly what we need to film as we have been ticking off the shots as we go along. The weather was quite good today and it looked very autumny which heightened the portrayal of our indie genre. As we were not able to film in London the other day we have planned to do this at the end of December or beginning of January as it will be a lot emptier. We are going to start editing in tomorrow's lesson so I am very happy with the overall outcome of the beginning of the music video filming. 

CD designs

I am trying to come up with different ideas for my CD cover as I am unsure what to use. I have coloured in the background a similar colour to the background of the front cover. I have also cropped out an image of flowers that are on my top and pasted them into the CD round the edges. This makes is seem quite indie and the use of flowers also portrays this. The fact that I used an image from my clothing also portrays this. I am going to get feedback from my teachers and see what they think about it.

Digipak Editing

I have updated my digipak as the colours were not matching very well and there wasn't much consistency. I have changed around some of the pictures, for example the back picture with our heads together is a really strong image and I think that it needed to be seen more. I have changed the typography on the back cover as it was quite hard to see and i have kept it the same as my advertisement to keep consistency throughout. I still haven't decided on an image for my cd cover as I need to make sure that it stays consistent throughout the whole digipak. 

London Research

I have researched into the locations that we are going and the trains that we would need to get in order to get there. We can get to charing cross from bexleyheath and a lot of the locations are walking distance from there. We can get the Waterloo line to go to Big Ben and the London Eye and the northern line can take us to Piccadilly Circus or Lester square. Camden Town can also be reached from these places so we will probably get a travel card so we can travel all around London. 

All the places that we need to film in are permitted and it's legal in the places we need to so this is very helpful as we do not need to get permission from the police. 

We have decided that we still wish to continue on going on a tour bus as this is an easier option for filming and it wil also allow us to go to different places. 

Filming research

I have looked at some websites to research into the day for when we go to London to film our music video. As we are going to London we have to make sure that we take plenty of shots and that we are happy with everything in the shot as it will be difficult to retake the shots again. The idea of getting a tour bus is so that it would be easier to film and it will also allow us to go to different locations. The idea of using the location of London makes it seem quite indie as some of the places we are going to hold the connotations of indie/folky/rock within them. 

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