Filming - Thursday 13th December

The filming today had many more problems that we had to overcome and didn't go as smoothly as yesterday. We planned on filming the whole performance area of the video today, and we managed to do so, but there were a number of hindrances. There were many problems that we did manage to overcome.

Firstly, we were not allowed to borrow the drums from the school's music department which we had previously been promised. We had to get the drums that I had at my house to the school. Those drums weren't as good as the drums we could have got from the school but they were good enough to use. Secondly, when we arrived back with the drums we found out that we had been kicked out of the drama room that we were going to film in because we had waited to long to film and there was a club that had that location booked. Luckily, our school's main hall (Boothroyd hall) was available to film in and it was close by so it wasn't too much trouble moving all of the stuff over. We were also unable to get a mic or a mic stand but we just decided to leave this out as it wasn't too important.

Editing - 6/2/13

Today we finished all of the rush cuts and have put everything in place and in order.

There are a number of things we still have to fix before our music video is finished. We have to make sure the aspect ratio is correct on every clip. We must make sure every clip is properly in sync. We must add effects to make the video look better. We also need to make sure that everything is the way we want it and that there aren't any alternative clips that are better. It's now all about adding the finishing touches.

Editing - 5/2/13

Today we carried on editing the video as we went. When we got the bass narrative part we ran into a problem where one of the shots lasted too long so we wanted to speed it up. We created a video explaining our problem and how we solved it:

Peer Feedback - SMART Target

Ryan and I showed what we had done so far to the rest of our group in order to receive peer feedback. They set us a SMART target which was to add some effects to the narrative part of the video in order to differentiate it from the performance. We were going to add effects on the shots after we'd finished but we decided to try it out beforehand since they'd suggested it to us. We tried experimenting with different effects to see what could make the narrative look more 'dreamlike' without going over the top. We tried many different effects but have yet to find the one we want to use. At least now we know what not to use.

Editing - 29/01/13

Today we started structuring our video and adding in our narrative. We're working through our video chronologically as we believe that this is the easiest way about going about it. At the end of the lesson we are a minute into editing the narrative. What we have been doing is adding in the narrative in the order that we want and then cutting it away at certain points in order to add performance. So far we are just doing rough editing to get it in the right order and to get the structure correct. Once we have done this we will go back and polish up all the shots, add effects, etc.

Editing - 23/01/13

Ryan and I have been editing our music video for a few weeks now. So far we have been syncing our video of the performance with the audio. It is taking quite a while because we are trying to sync up 16 video tracks as accurately as possible. One problem with this process is that each time we sync up a video track we have to render the video which takes a few minutes each time. Despite this problem, we are almost finished and will move on to adding in the narrative and editing the performance soon.

What we have left to do as of Tuesday 8th January before we can edit

So far we have all of the footage from the performance and most of the footage for the narratice. Unfortunately, due to circumstances we were unable to film the footage for the bassists part of the narrative and still have that left to do. We are currently in the process of arranging the location for this. We also have to film one more part of the elevator shots where they all get out of the elevator at the end of the video. We have to arrange two more days for filming for each of these parts.

Also, this isn't required before filming, but we also have to take pictures for our digipak and we will have to organise a day to do this.

Filming - Wednesday 12th December

Today was our first day of filming and with a member of our group missing we decided to film one of the shortest, easiest parts that required the least amount of people: the drum narrative. Prior to today I went to the drama department in the school and asked if we could borrow the drama green room. We decided to use this room because we needed a relatively small room and it allowed us to  give the drum character a costume that fit; which was wearing props. While we were in here we found a costume that looked like a cleaner's jumpsuit which we used to make him stand out even more compared to the other three members of the band. We managed to film everything we set out to today plus more. The filming we set out to have complete was the part of the narrative where the singer enters the drummer's room, meets the drummer who is dancing with a broom and takes the drummer out of his room. We filmed this much quicker than we had planned and so we decided to use the rest of our time filming the scenes where the singer and drummer get in the elevator and some of the shots that take place in the ele.