Final Cut

We are know longer using Imovie, and we have changed to final cut. I have never used final cut before, but you can do lots more effects to our footage then in Imovie. This could cause a problem as i do not know anything about final cut or how it works, this could delay editing as we are not sure how anything works.

Filming The Smoking scene

We filmed jack smoking outside the school, at first you could not tell it was jack as we just did extreme close ups on his cigarette and mouth, we then zoomed back to revel his face we will probably not use the zoom out as it would be more effective if we did not see who was smoking. We filmed him standing straight on and then side ways. We will cut between both to create a different effect to the everyday footage.

filming The Tv scene

Even though this scene is very small and will only last about 2 seconds at the most, this scene was a little hard to film as we had to try to lesson the reflections of us in the TV, So we had to try and get rid of all the light, that could be reflecting shadows onto the TV. We managed to lesson the reflections but you can still see them. But over this blank TV screen we will import footage of insects that we have found online.

Adding Our song over the top of the footage

We found the music that we are using on a music download site, we then downloaded the music on to Emma's USB. From their we saved the music into our file on the mac. We then made a cope of the music and added this to our footage on final cut. We then made sure that we saved this so we don't lose anything. However we are having trouble finding away of playing the music on final cut, as when we try this now, we do not hear anything, we are also finding it hard to brag the music down onto the footage, but this problem will be solved soon, as we find out other things about how final cut works.

Uploading our footage and saving

We uploaded our footage, we made sure our tap was wand back to the start, so we import all of our footage. This was the first time we had used final cut, at first it was hard to work as we were not sure what to do or anything, but i asked Andy Brag for help, we told me how to import on to final cut and how to have save. Our first time trying to save we could not as their was a problem with this but the next lesson this was solved and we did the whole process again and this time we could save.

Filming the Band

We finally got around to filming in PDH. We also got the instruments and a smoke machine, however the people we originally intended to use in the band did not arrive, so we had to improvise and use mainly girls and Steven. Also, the smoke machine did not work out how we intended, as it did not stay on the floor, instead rised above the band so, the camera couldn't see some of the faces clearly. This did not create the atmosphere we were hoping for.
Also we found the song online and used this to help the band to know where they are in the song. Also it helped the lead singer to lip singing along to the song.

We filmed the song all the way though in one position, this will be used as the base for our band scenes but we will be cutting to close ups and different angles as well. We filmed these after we filmed from the front, but because the camera was hand held this caused problems, as our footage is very shaky. Although their are small bits we can use within this. But we will film the band bit again at a later date making sure that the camera is steady. also we will set up three cameras all around the band so we will get still footage from different angles, at the same time we will be using a hand held camera which will allow us closer shots and experimental angles and shots.

Filming

Yesterday we filmed the lift scene and also the street/ car scene.
I used the fig rig to do this as i wanted to show the movement of the characters, as well as moving around them to get them from different angles. I thought this would be effective. The only problem with filming was i forgot to inform one of the members of my group which meant he was left here. So i had to film on my own with the people helping/ playing the different characters.
I got most of the filming done in 45 minuets, as i was focusing on the main story boarded scenes, once we had all of these I got other footage which could also be used as part of our music video. When i got back to school i started to upload and look back over the footage, some one the camera work was a bit bad as the camera was not still but their are lots of other bits we could use. As well all are clips are going to be short and up to other things so it might not matter that much as we can use bits where the camera is not moving.

Charlotte you are missing a lot of important work here. Your analysis is not analysis. You have not embedded video that you have talked about. You must work harder on your blog.

MCU

Tables

Again this is the other half of the table that shows all the information that i have gaverd about each genre.

tables

This shows all the information gaverd from watching the 3 music videos of each genre. The table is split into different catagries and for each i filled in the relavent information for each genre and music video. As you can see from the information gaverd that each genre have different codes and conventions that are shown again and again in each music video from that genre.

Power Point for Sugar Water

categories of editting

Spatial= concerns film 'space' (setting location and relation between manipulation of different points through similarity different and development.

Continuity editing produces " analytical" space via an establishing shot followed by smaller range (mid shot).

Audience will infer a "connecting relationship" between shots or "spatial coexistence".

Cross cutting (parallel editing) can emphasise action taking place in separate places.

Temporal

Concerns time of action and contributes to the plot's manipulation of story time- order duration and frequency.

The order of presentation of events can be manipulated changes in story plot relations which interrupted 'temporal' order.

EG flashbacks (to past events) increases story knowledge and flash-forwards.

Duration of story events within the plot can be altered via use of ellipsis.

Punctuation shot changes eg dissolve wipe and fade signals omission of time.

Empty frames eg figure of interest seen moving our of a frame, cuts to empty frame where figure moves into it

Cutaway eg a shot events in continuity only shown 1's

Tool for building tension and expectation often to show explosive action.

Graphic match= linking of shots by graphic similarity.

Graphic continuity

Graphic Discontinuity = plays with juxtaposition of placement of focus figures contrasts with colour and footage types eg super + vs and dn

Rhythmic= rhythm of the music and the same duration of clip, shorter the clip length, make the clip longer ( more relaxed).

Analisying The Music video called suger water

In this video the screen is slit in half and one side everything was being rewinded and the other side is left to play normally. This is then switched and the side that was rewinded is now going forward and the opposite for the other side. But on this side everything is made clear and the video becomes easyer to understand as well as being able to read the title of the song on the window. I thought this was a very effective video but i do not think it would work for our song.

Three music videos that are cheap

We have looked at cheap music videos, and we saw that even with a low buget we still can have an effective music video with everything we would like in it. The music videos were from three different types of genre and they each looked very different from each other. One of the videos was montarge as it did not have a story line. Another had a story line which showed an image relating to the song, we took this idea and put it in our music video.

Analising music videos

For research we had to analisy 3 diffrent music videos for three different genres.
This helped us find the codes and conventions for each genre. EG indie music videos are offten set in wearhouses and the main fouse is the band and them playing their instroments, we took this information and put this into are own music video.

Picking the song

We origanly picked the band we are scientists and the song nobody move nobody gets hurt. But a memeber of our band did not like this song so we changed the band and song to the one we have now which is placebo nancy boy. This still fits with are genre but a little different.