Back at school :) JOINT BLOG.

Sadie: I am finally better and back at school so able to get more done with our media.

Today we have been focussing on our CD cover, we uploaded the pictures we had taken and decided to use our favourite image 3 times on instead 3 seperate images. We want our cover to be really simple but look effective.

Our first draft looks like this:


We're not completely happy with this as it is too plain and doesnt look finished but we do really like the image and having it repeated. We also really like the font as we want it to look like a signiture font. We had the trebel cleff on our drawn design in with his name and we really liked it but on the computer we cant get it to look right, if we could get a trebel cleff in the same font it might fit but we can't, so we would like to include it somewhere but just need to find an appropriate place where it looks good.

POORLYYYY :(

I just saw Daisy's Blog and as she said I have been really ill, in and out of hospital this last week and a bit, so this has been the first time i have been able to come on here but hopefully i am on the mend now and should be back in school soon. Joel might be able to be home this weekend so if i was better it would be ideal to get our final filming done but i'm not sure yet, will need to check with him and speak to Daisy about how our editing has gone and what we need to do etc.
Anyway thanks Dais (L) :) hopefully see you sooon!!

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Thursday 12th November

Unfortunately Sadie has been really ill recently so its been difficult to get alot done without her here.
This lesson I cut down the clips that we're using so we've got all the right footage to use. I also made each clip black and white.
Hopefully, next week, Sadie will be better so we can get on with some more work and make some progress :).

p.s Sades, GET BETTER!! (L)

Editing.

In our lesson we were able to upload all of our shots from last friday and were really pleased with them. We havent been able to properly start editing yet because we didnt have the track on the mac yet so didn't want to cut the shots untill we knew the exactly how long and where they needed to be.
We were able to cut the fades in and out off and delete unwanted shots. We will bring the CD in and luckily Daisy and I have some of the same free periods so we can do more editing in them and then hopefully this weekend film our final shots.

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Monday 2nd November

This lesson we put all our filming onto the Mac so we could import the shots and start on our editing if we had time.

We imported all of the video onto iMovie and shortened the clips that we needed to so we could get rid of any mistakes or any footage that we dont need.
We have also cut out the fade from the still shots of the glass emptying and the clock.
Over the next few weeks we will need to finish our editing and start on the outdoor filming.
We also need to start working on our ancillary tasks.

Friday 30th October

After school we went to Leicester to film all the indoor shots of Joel at his friends uni house.
Surprisingly, considering there were 3 young men living there, it was very tidy and perfect for our filming.

We started with the shots and close ups of the glass emptying on the kitchen worksurface.
We then took shots and close ups of the clock changing time.
After we finished these simple shots we went onto film Joel miming for the first verse in the kitchen.
Then followed the shots of Joel walking through the lounge, up the stairs and into his bedroom.
We then did the birds eye view shots of Joel miming on the bed and some quick shots of Joel playing the guitar.
After this we did shots of Joel walking down the stairs and back through the lounge and past everyone in the kitchen.
This last shot will eventually lead to the outdoor shots of Joel and his girlfriend which we will have to film in a few weeks when it is light outside and Joel is home from London.

Thursday 29th October

This lesson we put all our practise shots onto the mac.
Our shots came out well overall and we can now edit them properly and start applying effects.
So far we have cut all our shots down into the correct lengths that we need them and cut out any parts with mistakes in. We have also got rid of the fade effects that were automatically on the camera when we did our filming.

Also this lesson, we took still shots of our story board completed to put onto our blogs shortly.

Wednesday 28th October

Today we were given the opportunity to focus on our filming.
We were meant to be travelling down to London to film Joel at his University House, however we realised we were being a bit too optimistic and decided to film Joel at one of his friends houses in Leicester instead over the weekend when Joel is home.

Because we couldnt do any proper filming without Joel being here, we did practise shots at my house for the types of shots and camera angles we want to use for our final product.

The shots we did were:
Close ups on the glass emptying.
A close up on the clock changing time.
Up the stairs shot for when Joel will be going upstairs.
Birds eye view shot for when Joel will be miming on the bed.
A High angled shot out of the window for when Joel will be looking down to his girlfriend.
A Low angled shot up to the window for when Joel's girlfriend will be looking up to him.
A still shot with people walking behind so we can practise applying the speeding up and slowing down effects.

Filming.

This weekend we were able to get the majority of our filming done however not our outside shots. This was due to the fact I had work on saturday and prior commitments Joel had which was the reason he was coming home anyway. Most our video is inside so it was okay and we have plenty to edit in the mean time and then we will be able to film then ending part of our video in two weeks time when Joel will be home again.
The filming went really well and our location was perfect also being able to use his friends in the background was really good they fitted in perfectly and made us able to have a lot more footage.
Didn't come across any problems during filming, just need to put it on the macs and hopefully edit tomorrow.

x