Filming Session 5 (Abdul)

Editing Session 6 (Abdul)- Colour Grading

Editing session 6 (Jamal) / Evidence of editing

 In this editing session I checked over the footage and made sure everything was okay before rendering.
 Upon inspection I saw that the performance shots weren't in sync with the music. This wasn't a major problem at first due to the fact that I knew what had been editing was a rough cut and didn't need to be perfect until our final edit.
 So I exported the footage and showed the teacher in order to get feed back so we can make improvements.

Filming our outro (Jamal)

Filming our outro we used a shoulder rig and a chair. This was so we could track the characters without losing the stability of the camera.

We successfully filming this and was successful at making the movement of the camera stable.

Blogging Health Check 2 Reflection

Editing Session 5 / To-Do List (Abdul)

Reflecting on today's editing session, I think we are on our way to make a rough cut as we are still bringing all our clips that we need together.
To do list:
-Timelapse re-shoot at London Bridge
-Add in the 2 timelapses at Oxford Street
-Add bmx clips including Go-Pro footage
-Re-shoot happy office scene

Blogging health check 2 reflection (Jamal)

Choosing the instrumental for the narrative

AB- Music video narrative research

Editing Session 4 (Abdul)

Rough Cut Feedback (Teacher)

Narrative Editing Organisation (Abdul)

Pink- house
Green- Park
Blue- BMX
Orange- basketball

Evidence of editing

Full Rough Cut

Rough Cut 30 secs

Blog Audit Reflection

AB- Avicii Levels inspiration

Lesson on colour grading video (Jamal) pending ...

Editing session 3 (Jamal)

Filming session 4 (Jamal)

Firstly we started off the day by buying a balloon from a card shop. The balloon alone filled up with helium came to five pounds, and we didn't get a black ribbon so we attempted to colour in the white ribbon we were given to match the rest of the video. Instead of colouring it in we chose to use Devon's shoe lace.

During the filming within the office, we were able to get one of the teachers to star in the video as a happy office worker. All in all the filming within the office went well, however one shot was ruined when we later discovered that it wasn't straight and it was slanted. this problem was quickly resolved when we discovered that we could rotate the frame so it would appear to look straighter. However in doing this we had to zoom in a little which cost us a slight dip in quality.

Editing session 2 Colour Grading (editing) pending .... (Jamal)

We are editing our music video so that our performance footage has more vibrant colours and feels warmer compared to the narrative. The narrative clips are going to be edited so that the colours are colder and less vibrant to overall emphasise the fact that the person in the narrative is depressed and unhappy due to his job.

Problem whilst filming the basketball sequence (Jamal)

Whilst we were filming a handheld shot for the basketball sequence, Abdul (One of the group) is seen in the background leaning on the tripod. This was a clumsy mistake that could have been avoided if we took the time to review what we had filmed, and checked over the footage. Maybe then we would have seen our mistake and could of re shot some shots that had blatant errors in them. Because of this mistake I need to cut out all the bits of footage that Abdul is seen in, which happens to be more than a 3rd of the handheld basketball footage.

Editing Session 1 (Abdul)

Third Day Filming (Abdul)

Our third day filming was very productive once again. We got multiple amazing panning shots and generally shots where Jamal is performing. Unfortunately we weren't able to do much more so we came back another day to film fast moving action sequences of Jamal playing basketball and incorporated a good low angle foot shot. However we were unable to take pictures of the fourth day.

Update on smoke situation (Abdul)

Due to the difficulty of getting smoke in most of the scenes and the cost of the smoke which was £8 each for one good canister was very expensive. Moreover, having only one take to succeed in that shot did seem quite an expensive risk and one we wasn't willing to take. Even though the concept was really good, we decide to divert from it and instead only use balloons which was also quite expensive at £24 in total.

Bus base tracks (Abdul)

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Blog 37: Reflection of progress

In reading the targets et out for me in the reflection i have taken into account that i need to manage my time more appropriately in order to secure a successful grade in my media course work.

I also need to use a wider range of technology when uploading my research/planning and productions posts. I feel as id i diverse my range of technology when posting blogs i can get a higher mark for the blogging side of the course work.

Second Day filiming (Abdul)

On day 2 we did 4 of our base-tracks on the tube and went all the way to Amersham which is outside London. We did all the performance base tracks with Devon. No TFL worker stopped us and we did manage to record successfully.

What went well was we did record a lot of different angles in the one setting creating multiple base-tracks. We did get many tracking shots which we hopefully plan to match cut together.

What needs to be improved is that we need to take shots of Abdul and Faris holding balloons. We were going to fill them up with helium and shoot on that day however the helium unfortunately leaked and ran out.