Production : Skills Development (EDITING)

I learnt loads of new editing skills during the making of our music video. The editing skills that I learnt vary from what I did at AS, because last year we didn't have to sync the footage to the sound track. 

In the last few weeks, I've further developed my editing skills. (shoutout to Attilla for helping me brush up my editing skills.) 

I have learnt how to; 

• Sync the footage to the actual song clip

• To add appropriate effects and transitions to the footage 

• Make clips appear lighter/darker

• Add text to footage 

• Fade out the audio

• How to render the music video & what rendering means

The skills that i learnt so far in media are very useful, because it allows me to participate in the editing of the music video.

Production : Reflection

After the long process of making our music video we have FINALLY finished filming.

                       

We had to re-shoot a few pieces of footage due to lighting and shaky camera work, however we got there in the end. Although we were not able to re-film certain bits that we didn't like, we had to substitute with other pieces of footage because it was TOO cold to endure another day of filming outside.

Locations that we filmed in include;

• London eye
• Southbank
• Tower Bridge
• London bridge
• Shoreditch park
• Canal in angel
• Brick Lane
• The media room in college

Skills Development: From AS-A2

This year I believe I have put a lot more effort and thought into planning this production. I have been more organised and focused about meeting blogging deadlines, planning when to film, coming to workshop at least twice a week and getting editing done. I have definitely structured my work better and have been organised and known exactly what I wanted to video to look like. I have also been dedicated through the cold horrible weather.  


During A2 I was able to use a lot of different uses of ICT for my blog.
We created social media pages where people could track our progress and see what we've been up to and behind the scenes of our music video.
I have taken on bored my feedback and have acted on it as I want to do as well as possible to make my blog as good as I can.

Below I have a picture of what my teacher has said for feedback which has motivated me to do better.

Production: Skills development

This year, I have taken a different approach to planning compared to last year. This year we have been much more spontaneous in ideas and since it is a music video it requires more creativity (in my opinion). 

However, this doesn't mean that our work was totally unstructured  and left down to spontaneity. Before we actually started filming, we created a timetable on time toast which we intended on following religiously to get our work done in the most efficient way. Making the timetable was the easy part, however following it was a different story. We had to edit the timetable multiple times due to work/lessons and life in general to perfect it and to make sure we were all available on the time slots in which we intended to film. 

Also, making a timetable for filming was a really different expirience because we planned on mostly filming during our spare time which isn't something that we did at AS, because our thrillers were mostly filmed during lesson time.

Also, during the production of our music video, we created social networking sites such as twitter and instagram. This has some similarities and some differences to what i did at AS. This year, we created a group twitter account to tweet parts of our timetable (when and where we were going to film for example), to keep the teachers and "fans" updated. However, last year we created a twitter account to promote our thriller to our target audience.

The group instagram that we created helped to promote our upcoming music video. We reguarly uploaded pictures and short videos so others are able to follow our journey of createing the video.

Production: Rough Cut Feedback

            We are all very happy to hear such wonderful things about our rough cut.

Outline of improvements needed before final deadline

This video explains our improvements needed before the final deadline. On Monday 25th November 2013, Group 16 went out to South Bank (London Eye, Big Ben etc) to re-shoot certain scenes. We all feel that our re-shoots were not successful as we filmed in the night and we were not able to see the singer (we even used the special camera and our iPhone torch to help but it still didn't work). 

Running out of time as the deadline is getting closer and closer, Katrina thought of a creative idea to film in a class room where there is a projector. We used the projector to project the lyrics of the song whilst the singer was singing in front of the words. The outcome of this was really good and we are all satisfied and cannot wait to add it to our music video! :)

sh*t always starts from a lack of communication

Communication is a key factor towards the making of our music video as we all need to co-operate with each other. Using Whatsapp Messenger, we have created a group chat which enables us to chat to each other. This is very useful as we are able to plan filming days and discuss any issues.