Filming 14/10/13

This is the date where me and my partner did a majority of our filming. The only thing we need to film after this date is the outside parts which are the chorus. We realise this is our first draft, and so we wanted to concentrate on the possible things that could go wrong and how we could improve them in our first draft. It also gave us a chance to realise what we actually need in terms of props and actors. I think some parts we will need to re shoot because of the fact we can simply do it slightly better. Some of the shots that we did were quite good and we will probably use the same angles in our real thing that we did in our final draft. 

When it comes to filming our chorus, we will be doing it outside and so the lighting will be a lot easier to control in order to see everything. With the parts inside the house we found it hard to keep the lighting the same but we think for a draft we did a pretty good job and we did learn about the importance of it.

When it comes to filming the last remaining bits we know what sort of angles we want to do and we know how to go about filming it. We want to film as many shots as we can, as that way we will have more choice to use when it comes to making the video. We are also using the draft to learn how to use Imovie, and get used to all the features that it has to offer. 

filming 9/10/13

We did the first part of our filming today, in order to make our first draft music video. However we didnt follow the schedule completly. Instead of filming the chorus bit forst we filmed the first part of the song. Thw feason for thisnis because the sun was quite low outside, and so because of that it would have been quite hard to film. We filmed up to the point where the first chorus comes in. We filmed a variary of shots and so when it comes to editing we have a number of shots that we can use and choose what we want.

We will continue with the rest of the filming on Sunday. The reason why we cant do it on other days is because of availability of me and my partner, but also because of the cost of petrol. Me and my partner during the week, would have to go from school to my house to pick up the camera, then to his house, then back to mine and then to school. This is a lot of milage, and that would cost a lot in petrol. And because we are both free all day sunday, we think we will be able to film the rest during the day. 

Storyboard on iMovie

This is our animatic of our music video. It is our storyboard with our song that we are using in the background. It is blurry but you can still make out what the story is. We used our storyboard to help us relearn how to use iMovie, and to help us learn the timings when it comes to editing our actual clips. We want the editing to be in time with the song and so following the storyboards the song gives a good idea of how we are going to use that. When it comes to filming our first draft we will look at what camera shots we said we would use, and try to follow it as much as possible. There will be some areas where we wont follow the storyboard because we have come up with a better idea. But this video above just shows our story in picture mode with the music in the back ground.      

Camera test

The camera that we want to use is a HD camera, and it is the camera that me and my partner from AS used last year for some of the shots. However last year we had some problems with iMovie actually recognising what we filmed and it sometimes didn't work. We wanted to use it for our music video as the quality of it was good compared to what the schools cameras are like. We were unsure whether the files that the video clips were to be in once filmed would be supported by the iMovie software, So if the way its saved is supported, and if it will play or not, once imported.

In order to see if it worked this time i filmed something over the weekend, so that in our lesson on monday we can put it into iMovie to see if it worked. I filmed our cat for a few seconds and saved it on to an SD card. Once we did this we put it into iMovie to see if it would work, and if the quality was any good.

This is the quality that the video came out with when we put it onto iMovie, and we are happy with how this went. We are now confident that the camera will work with iMovie, and so we have decided that we are going to use it for our filming. We know the software on the mac allows the way the videos are saved via the camera to be played, and so because of this we now have our equipment sorted.

We are pleased with the video quality, and think that we can use that to our advantage in order to get a good grade. We think we will have an advantage over anyone who uses the school cameras. The reason for this is because the quality of their cameras in nowhere near as good as the camera we will be using, and so because of that we think, that ours will look better, and more professional.