Group: Progress update

We filmed our footage at Alex's house which was our final location, this footage is now in our timeline and Alex and Sam are in the process of editing this footage, while Adam is working on some after effects techniques using a tracking footage effect.
In terms of our progress with editing, our timeline is fully filled and even 'overflowing' so we are able to increase our cutting rate very easily at the moment. We are in the position of being able to choose only the shots that we like and not really needing to find shots to put in. We still need to refine some of our clips to ensure they cut at the correct time. We have some subtle work to do on ensuring the lip syncing is perfectly in time but this should hopefully not take too long.
Adam has nearly finished his work on after effects which has been very time consuming and 'fiddly'. Once Adam has completed the footage manipulation in after effects we can put this in to our time line and it will be fully filled and very nearly fully edited.
All of our print work is now finished however we will have a look at each others individual print work to see if we think there are any improvements to be made.

Group : Progress update

After filming some more footage we now believe we have everything we need in order to put our video together. Alex has begun to edit our main project and put the recent footage onto our timeline, however we still have a bit more footage to incorporate which we need to take of off the SD card we filmed on. Sam has been editing some footage for the beginning of our production, which uses a stop motion effect to show the name of the artist and track to be implemented at the beginning of the track, where as I have been editing clips in preparation for after effects. In terms of our current progress on after effects we have managed to finish the basic concept, however now we just need to recreate it with a number of different pieces of moving footage which our artist will be holding.

Group: Call sheet and Risk Assesment for filming

Date: 28/11                            Location: Bedroom

Meeting Time: 5pm                 Group: 3     

    

Crew & Cast Contact details:

 

John Jones

_____________________        

Adam Howland

_____________________        

Sam Hawkins

_____________________        

Alex Wallace

_____________________            

 

 

 Props & Equipment                               crew responsible

 

Camera

Camera track

Bin bag of clothes

Whiteboard

Lighter

Pictures of Martha

 

 

Location	What is the hazard?   Think about road safety, filming at night, potential damage to equipment	Who/what might be harmed and why?   Think about who needs to be aware of the risk	How will you reduce the risk?     What steps will you take to ensure that the risk is lowered?
Bedroom	We are using a lighter to burn a picture, someone could get burnt	John, as he will be holding the burning picture	We will have a bucket of water next to John to put the picture into after its burning if it gets too close to his hand.

 

Group : Progress update

• During todays lesson I have begun to edit some of the footage for production. I have incorporated one of our stop motion techniques into the footage through using a tracking motion on after effects software.
• Furthermore, we have also progressed in our editing today, as we were able to assess our qualitative feedback from the rough cut in order to improve aspects of our production.
• We have also begun to plan shots for our shoot which will take place tomorrow, as well as put up the call sheet and risk assessment ready in advance.

AW: Printwork digipack

Firstly  I got my original image which was a screenshot from our project

 

I then added a motion blur of 12 pixels

Before pasting over a layer of light effects, and setting it to a hard light blend at 70% opacity

 

I also added a gradient map below this, at 80% opacity and hard light filter

 

I adjusted the curves at this point as the image was getting unclearer and darker the more layers I added over the top

 

I also added a large triangle of yellow into the top corner, and set it to 'lighten' blend mode as this corner of the image looked very bland, and it also added a different colour other then the red and blues we were using already.

This then gave us our final picture which we used as a panel on the back pane of our digipack

 we also repeated a similar process with two other images, using different blurs, blend modes and gradient maps to create slightly different effects

Group : Rough Cut Feedback

• Todays lesson we carried out a rough cut of our footage in order to assess the effectiveness of our current progress for our music video. Therefore we were able to gain lots of helpful feedback in terms of aspects which are effective in the music video and aspects we can improve on/ideas we can incorporate into the production.
• Some of these ideas were that we should remove some of our footage and replace it with stop motion animations, as well as having an after effects shot in there which is A* grade. Adam has been working after school and at lunchtimes to help create a really cool effect where it looks like our performer is holding a load of pictures, when in fact he is moving holding a blue screen. We will use this as an element of our work, so it looks like he is carrying the stop motion images in his hand.
• In terms of the qualitative feedback we have gained, we do have aspects of our production in which we need to improve. For example in terms of the beginning shots of the artist walking into the video, we either need to make the cutting rate faster, or ensure that we re film it with some moving images, rather than a static one.
• Furthermore, there are aspects we still need to film, which is why we have planned a shoot this week for Thursday, 28th November, in order to fill in the missing gaps within our footage. This will consist of shots within and internal location (bedroom).
• We did show our tracking motion ideas to everyone in our rough cut feedback, and overall they really liked the idea and thought it was very effective, so therefore we will also need to consider filming some more shots of the artist holding a clipboard in order to create more similar shots of this standard.

Group : Shoot review

On Friday 22nd we filmed some other aspects for our production in Tunbridge Wells. The shots consisted of John Jones holding a clipboard of which we are using in order to incorporate various effects via aftereffects editing software.

After practicing some effects using this footage we are pleased with the outcome, due to the fact that the footage allows us to incorporate various editing effects and techniques within our production so in terms of that we can be fairly experimental in what we do with the footage. I have been currently testing out an effect on aftereffects in order to use a tracking motion, so that instead of holding the blue cardboard we edit it to hold a moving picture or a much larger image.
I believe in terms of the location we used for the shoot it works very effectively within our production shooting in this alleyway location, due to aspects such as the graffiti in the wall reflected within the shots. Furthermore, the fact we took several of the same shots was a reliable source, as it gave us several clips to then choose from should we notice and problems in each of them.