Editing

So far, me and Emma have edited about 50 seconds worth of our footage. We feel we are progressing at a good pace and plan on filming the rest of our footage in the next few days.

However, we did come across some problems during our editing of the shots we had filmed, for example in our stop motion of Steve standing in front of the calendar, we noticed that the last shot was very dark in comparison to the previous ones, something we didn't notice during filming. Therefore, we decided to edit it to make it black and white to emphasise that the day was the most crucial, the anniversary of her death, of which our video is based around.

The Happy Couple :)

As we've stated before in previous posts, Abbi and I want the relationship between our characters to be believable. And we thought the best way to do this is to let Steve and Chloe have fun in front of the camera, so the audience can see how much fun they have together. And in them having fun in front of the camera, we found some natural shots of them being themselves together. The outcome of these photos is what we wanted, with a happy mood coming from them. I think we need more pictures and possibly some natural videos. But i think we might stumble across some natural videos in our out takes, where they're both having a laugh together.

Photo's whilst doing filming

Here are a few of our photos that Abbi and I took whilst filming and some props we used for our Mise-en-scene.

The filming so far has gone really well, we had to bring in lamps to make the room lighter and move a few bits and bobs around to make the room more like how we think our main boy character would be.

We've spent a bit of money on our props, but it's all in the name of making our music video realistic.

Our new main character...

Here is our new main character Steve Taylor. Abbi and I were lucky enough to find a boy main character in such short notice.

Fortunantly Steve has the style that we wanted our original actor Jack, has with the quirky indie style. He also is friends with our girl character Chloe Smith, so it wouldn't be awkward for them when we wanted them to be close in the filming of our music video. 

Change Of Male Actor

Due to a clash in filming schedule's we have had to change who is playing our main male character.

Jack was not available for when we needed him to film so Steve Taylor is now playing the main character role.

I think this will make us be more prepared next time and to sort schedules out earlier on in the creating process to avoid clashes and unavailability.

Filming Schedule

Tuesday 19th October

• First scene - alarm clock
• Sock stop motion
• Pan of room scene

Friday 22nd October

• All scenes in boy's bedroom
• Calendar stop motion
• Down the stairs and leaving house scene

Friday 29th October

• Moving figure stop motion
• Outside shots
• Girl on bed scene

Monday 1st November

• Ending scene with balloon
• Solo shots of male character

Thursday 11th November

• Re-film sock stop motion, use shoe instead

Tuesday 16th November

• Re-film of Steve solo shots in town

Friday 19th November

• Re-film stair shots with Steve
• Party scene
• Additional stop motion

Stop Motion

Today, we did a practice of filming our stop motion sock scene. We got about 10 minutes of footage and managed to easily edit and cut it down to make it appear as if the sock was crawling along the floor. However, we did not have enough time to transfer our footage from our Macs to the other computers so we could gain internet access, but we plan on doing so when we are next in school.

I think it was very beneficial for us to do this as we got a feel of what it was like to film and how specific the timing and shots need to be for when we record our actual video.