Research and Planning: Editing Update

When editing our video today we came across a problem which was that our lip syncing wasn't matching the music and we were unable to match the two. We also discovered we don't have enough performance as we thought we had, to overcome this problem we may need to re-shoot our performance. I feel our editing towards the narrative is going successfully because I feel it's show conventions on our Indie Genre. This is shown through the use of costumes, storyline and props. Due to the time consuming element of editing we wish to next edit on Thursday 29th November in order for us to reach our deadline.

Research and Planning:Editing Update

Today we have started to edit our video on a software called Final Cut Express, we shared out the editing equally to allow each member of the group to take part in the Editing Process. So far we have done edited around about 40 seconds worth of the video. Whilst editing the video today it made me realise it's a time consuming element which may effect time management schedule. As a group we have decided to schedule in extra editing time allowing us to reach our deadline.

Research and Planning: Time Mangement

 Here is an update on what we plan to do in the upcoming weeks of this month:

Research and Planning: Filming Update

Today we have finished our filming and now our next stage is to capture and edit the video. We hope to start capturing our footage on Wednesday 21st November and then begin editing on Monday 26th November. I feel overall filming has gone well but I feel we may lack performance and may need to film extra performing scenes. We shall make this decision when editing the footage.

Research and Planning: Filming Update

Today's filming session was within a single media lesson which limited our time. Within this time we filmed the rest of our performance and narrative. We have now completed all the performance filming which allows us to focus on finishing the narrative part. I am very happy with the completion of our performance as I feel we have covered different angles and I'm happy with the lip syncing performed by the casting. The location surfaces were quite wet again but we took this into account and took precaution while filming. Our last filming day is on Monday 19th November and I feel very confident we will complete all our filming on that day.

Research and Planning: Filming Update

Today's filming consisted of performance and narrative. The weather today started off raining in the morning and in the afternoon it started to clear up. As it had be raining before we arrived at the location we went through the health and safety to allow us as a group to understand any hazards or potential dangers we could of encountered on when filming.  Whilst driving up to the location we decided to shoot some extra footage of the journey as we felt the scenery of the autumn leaves and trees fitted our Indie genre to the song.  One problem we encountered on today was shooting the performance scene in the car, we found it difficult for the camera to stay on the dashboard whilst driving. Our solution to this situation was to place the camera on a level part of the dashboard and to use lots of white tac enabling it to sit perfectly while filming. Today we have filmed parts of the performance, finding the perfect camping location and selected narrative scenes. We filmed the start of the song and the chorus today and we included different angles within this scene which took quite some time as we had to keep repeating the song. We filmed selected parts of the narrative as we took some time on the performance part.  I feel our filming was successful today even though we didn't film as much as we anticipated. I feel we filmed a good amount of the performance and narrative I feel we are on schedule with our filming and feel we will finish filming on 19th of November.

Wednesday 14th November is our next filming day, on this day will shall be filming the rest of our performance and narrative scenes. Again I have taken photographs whilst filming representing the camera set up and shots.

Research and Planning: Filming Update

Today we have started filming our narrative part in our double media lesson as we have completed our storyboard and we had a full understanding on what is needed to be filmed today. The weather today was perfect to film as it was a sunny and dry day which limited the health and hazard risks as the ground surfaces at the forest location were safer to walk on as it wouldn't' be slippery. Today we filmed Matt packing the car up, filming the journey, arriving at the location and unpacking the car. I feel today's filming has gone successful as we filmed the scenes we wished to film, I feel we have had no problems with today filming which has allowed us to complete filming on schedule. We next plan to film on Monday 13th November as all members of performers and casting are available. I have taken photographs representing the camera angles and shots we have used within today's filming.