Music Video: Editing Complete

Today we beat the deadline and totally finished editing our music video. However due to poor internet activity, we are unable to upload the video until after the christmas break. Once we return on Thursday 5th January, the video will be posted onto my blog.

Music Video: Another day of editing

As our deadline beckons we are taking significant strides towards completing our video.
Today our object is to complete the last minute of the song.


After several hours we achieved our goal and we have now just got to put our candidate numbers and other important information at the begging of the video.

Music Video: All layers are on and in time :)

After completing all of our filming, today our objective was to put all the footage on the timeline in Final Cut Express. By doing this we can put all the footage in-time with the music which will help us with the editing process.

It will be easy as we can use what we call 'the mountain tip' trick to easily choose between layers.

By pressing this button,

and clicking this button 

we are able to alter the importance and visibility of the image. By dragging the black line to the bottom, it removes the image. This also allows us to use interesting fades between sequences.

Music Video: Changes From Original Plain

While shooting our video we decided that we will no longer want to film several minor orginal ideas.
One of these was the car scene.
We felt that this idea would be too hard to film and that we would not be able to fit that scene into our video. Instead we thought we would include some more footage from our band scene as it fitted in more with the genre of the music.

No boys Vs Girls

In our story board, at the end of the video the boys were going to confront the girls, and then they were going to have a mass pillow fight. However, we thought it would be funnier if one of the boys would pretend to be one of the girls. At the end of the video the girls would become aware that a boy was in there mist.

Music Video: Filming the Band Scene

Today we finally managed to secure a time slot in the drama department to film our band scene. We have decided to include a band scene in our music video as it is a reference to the bands actually music talent. It is not widely known that two members of the group can actually play an instrument.

This has concluded our filming and we will now crack on with the editing process

Music Video: Editing

Today in lesson as we are unable to do some more filming today we decided to edit some of our footage, and get our footage into order.

Music Video: Organisation of the Group: Production Schedule Call Sheet: Band Scene 2

Below is the second Call Sheet for the Band Scene as due to events out of our control, we were unable to film on that day. We now have a day set in stone for us to film, and i have created another Call Sheet.

A2 Media Video - Production Schedule Call Sheet Programme Title: Booty Call by The Midnight Beast Date:  27th November 2011

CREW Camera:  Angela Chinnick Production Assistant:  Jake Williams Sound: Charlie Land Actors: Charlie Land, Rory Kennedy, Jake Williams Transport: N/A Props: Guitar, Xylophone,  Indie Clothing, Boxes

Meeting at: Robert Clack School – Room M3 Location Venue: Robert Clack School – Drama Department CALL DATE: 8th December 2011 CALL TIME: 1:20pm Transport: N/A INSTRUCTIONS: Make sure drama department is free, and collect the instruments from music department first

Music Video: Problems !!

Today we were meant to be filming our band scene in our school drama room. However there has been a breakdown in communication which has resulted us not being able to film due to a drama examination.

We will try to film at some stage next week

Music Video: Permission To Use Instruments

Today we were able to gain permission from our music department to use some of their instruments for our music video. To make the band scene more believable we require the use of real instruments. This also complies with the genre of our artist/song as most indie pop video's contain the band playing musical instruments. Unfortunately we were unable to persuade them to allow us to use there drum kit.


Instead of using the drum kit we will use a xylophone. We decided to use this instrument as it would look immature to use such a childish instrument, which corroborates with the style of the band and they fun nature.

Music Video: Permission to Use Drama Facility

In aid of producing out music video, we require a setting for which we can shoot our band shots. Today we were given permission by the drama department to use one of our drama classrooms. This will allow us to be able to film our band scene on Friday.

Music Video: Health And Safety Risk Assessment

Before we went out to start filming there are eight aspects of health and safety which we needed to consider, these are:

1. No filming in inappropriate locations
2. Check safety locations e.g. roads
3. Minimise risk of theft of equipment
4. 
5. When filming on location ensure teacher or responsible adult know where you are and have telephone number and when you will return
6. Check all equipment is working before you leave
7. Ensure you have permission for filming if necessary
8. Always film with at least one other person
9. Ensure you have the permission of those you are filming
   

Planning: Organisation of the Group: Production Schedule Call Sheet: Band Scene

Below is a Production Schedule Call Sheet. It has contains the same information as the Boys Scene one, i.e people needed, props needed, location and time.

As this is another major filming event, I believe that this will help us make the best use of the time available, and again, minimising the amount of human errors which could occur.

A2 Media Video - Production Schedule Call Sheet Programme Title: Booty Call by The Midnight Beast Date: 21th November 2011

CREW Camera: Angela Chinnick Actors: Rory Kennedy, Charlie Land, Jake Williams Production Assistant: Jake Williams Sound: Charlie Land Transport: N/A Props: Guitar, Xylophone,  Indie Clothing, Boxes

Meeting at: Robert Clack School – Room M3 Location Venue: Robert Clack School – Drama Department CALL DATE: 25th November 2011 CALL TIME: 1:20pm Transport: N/A

Planning: Organisation of the Group: Production Schedule Call Sheet: Boys Scene

Below is a Production Schedule Call Sheet to maintain organisation of our actors, locations, props and costumes. It contains which members of the crew should be at a given location, at a given time. It also contains a list of props which need to be brought to the location. By doing this, it gives us the best possible chance of completing as much filming as we can, and also minimises the chance of props etc being forgotten.

I do intend on creating one of these for each major event.

A2 Media Video - Production Schedule Call Sheet Programme Title: Booty Call by The Midnight Beast Date: 20st November

CREW Camera: Angela Chinnick Actors: Rory Kennedy, Charlie Land, Jake Williams Production Assistant: Jake Williams Sound: Charlie Land Transport: N/A Props: Cow Boy Hats, Toy Pipes, Sleepover clothes, Pizza

Meeting at: The Golden Fish, Dagenham, Essex Location Venue: Charlie’s House – 2 Joan Road, Dagenham, Essex CALL DATE: 24th November 2011 CALL TIME: 1:20pm Transport: N/A INSTRUCTIONS:  While at The Golden Fish, Order pizza for delivery at 2:30pm

Planning: Organisation of the Group: Call Sheet

Below is a call sheet which we created.

On this sheet it provides us with a schedule of who in our group should be wear, and what with i.e what props to bring, what location to be at etc. By doing this we thought it would be a good way to keep us on schedual, and keeps everyone organised with what tasks need to be done, who needs to be where , with what etc.

Planning: The Animatic

This is our finished animatic