Meeting 4/3/14

Today we could not add any more film as we are waiting till Friday to film out final scene of the video. So today we decided it was important to do the colourisation of our opening scene, we where unsure on how we will create the transition between the sepia tone in the housewife shoot and the brightness of the London shoot. We decided to experiment with the colourisation by reducing the saturation on the beat of the music and the pace of body movements, however when watching it back we realised that the transition was clumsy and simply looked like the lighting had changed. We have to review this again when we next edit.

28/01/14

In today's lesson we continued our editing. So far we have edited up to the first chorus for our song. Editing is going really well, when an issue arises we all talk it through and decide as a group what to do. One of our main issues at the moment is trying to decide where to put the number scenes. We wanted to use them to do a countdown to the paint party, but we weren't sure if they should all go together or separately between different lip-singing shots. We thought that the clips should go together as it would make more sense that way. The next decision was whether these should go building up to the first chorus or the second. We decided that the first one should be used for more London shots and then build up the numbers for the second. If this doesn't look right when we have added in our paint-party shots that we can always move things around.

Ideas for Costume: Drama Studio

Group Meeting: 20th January

Today in our media lesson we uploaded our footage from the London filming. We then watched the footage back to review it. We also uploaded all our footage so far to Premier Pro and organised it all into separate bins, so we can easily find it for example, Opening, Tower Bridge, London Eye, Fillers, Numbers. etc.

We thought our footage was good and we thought about when to film our powder paint scene, and the spacey stuff in the drama studio.

Another thing we thought about was the issues we had during the London filming.  I don't feel that my performance was as strong as it could have been, so once we start editing we want to go do some more pick up shots etc around London. Also during the power scene we want to have a dance routine or something as we have noticed alot of this in our research of pop music video, its also part of Goodwins theory,  that music and visual link. Also we thought it be beneficial to discuss and practice my performance before shooting.

Group Planning: Test Run of Powder

Today we did a test run of the flour. We discovered:

• It is a very difficult substance to work with- the particles made in difficult to focus, we will need to stop and check that the shot isn't blurry in the real thing. Also finding a way of covering the camera and equipment.
• If we shot the powder we would need to think about dedicating an entire day due to clothes getting covered. Also we need to make sure we have a shooting schedule so that no shots get missed as we will be changing clothes often, making sure we are organised and locations have areas to change etc, is also important. 
• We also need to make sure the powder shots are close ups so that we can see them well enough.  

Group Meeting

Today we have been developing our storyboard and have come across some issues with development. We are certain on how much narrative we want to use and we only really want a narrative at the very beginning of the song. Our biggest issue is the fact that we want to make our video very much like the original. We want to have it disjoined and not really any narrative to the actual core of the video.

Our biggest problems are

• Agreeing on the amount of narrative we want to use
• Trying to figure out what order we want the shots in
• Completing a storyboard that we all agree on

Group Mood Board

Here is our group mood board that we created together with a combination of all our ideas. The key themes we have gone with is:

• Bright Colours
• Paint Dust
• Soft Grunge Fashion 
• Neon Colours 
• Locations 
• Opening/Initial Ideas (Housewife) 

Group Meeting

In Friday's lesson we discussed our deadlines and created a schedule. We also created a list of things that we need to do as a group.

Our calendar- Cozi

In order to help us create a more detailed schedule we are using an online calendar "Cozi" which can be used as an app and on computers meaning it is very useful. We are each going to enter in our events, so that it is easy to see who is busy when etc.

We also have a Facebook group chat that we can use to post ideas and chat about work when we are not in lesson.