Weekend filming 24th November

Before
We are starting to now film for our final draft. Some of the shots that we used for our first draft we will be using for our final draft. These will be the shots that we think were best and that we can use for our final draft. In terms of what we are filming this weekend we will be filming the chorus bit (bit we are yet to film). We know what we are going to film as we are going to follow our storyboard. If we follow it well enough then it should be quick and the shots should be good enough to use.

After
We have managed to film all of what we want in order to complete our final draft. We are going to edit it over the course of this week and anything with we need to re shoot we will do next weekend and then hopefully after that we are done. We also managed to get some pictures which we could for our poster and digipak. With the filming we managed to not only do the improvements that we said we wanted to do from our first draft, but we also managed to film the chorus parts to our song. We were unable to do this with our first draft because of the weather. However we were able to do it on this weekend, and we managed to get a range of shots we can use for out final piece. When it came to the re-filming parts we had to make sure we cut out all of the mistakes that we made in the first draft. We think we managed to do that quite well and we even managed to film some new footage which we can put in for our final piece. One thing i noticed before we started filming is the fact that, during the beginning when the character is in bed, in the draft the lighting was quite bright, and i thought that that is quite un-realistic because it is more likely going to be dark due to the fact that the blinds will be closed. So we filmed that part with the blinds partly closed.  

We also did the pictures for the digipak and the poster. We had a problem in the fact that the camera we were originally going to use we unfortunately couldn't as one of the family members had taken i away with them. However the video camera that we were using also had the option to take pictures. So we gave this ago and spent about half and hour taking pictures in the hope that they would look good. We took all of the pictures outside. The reason for this is because of the the lighting. We were unable to take any inside simply because it was too dark and the quality of the images didn't seem very good. We had a target theme. We wanted to get the message across that on his lazy day he just wanted to listen or play music, and so a majority of the pictures that we chose are of the character (singer) and his guitar (a key instrument on the song). We also wanted to get the message across that music is the singers life, so whenever he goes on an adventure he will take music with him (guitar). It was hard to get the idea of being lazy across. Me and my partner both thought that if we use a picture of the character being lazy then it wont be very appealing. Although it is the title of the song the whole point of the poster and the digipak is to be eye catching and to attract the main audience to come and watch it. So that is why we thought doing pictures outside would be better, because of the fact that you have a larger variety of shots that you can use.