Editing Day 2

Me and Tahir were controling most the editing as we had general knowledge and somewhat knowledge of editing in the past.

Tahir used our idea of having a quick opening sequence and made a rough draft edit of the video.
 We used Final Cut Pro as we had more knowledge of using this software for the opening sequence.
We both sat down and edited the first few seconds of the music video. We then brough the opening sequence to college.
We showed our teachers and peers and gained relevant feedback which will then be of benefit to us. We knew that this was only a rough copy just to show of some of our ideas on screen.

We know that we will have a much better final copy!

Case Study 3 Adverts

These were the case studies of 3 CD adverts which I used, analysed and inspired to create my own.

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Case Study 3 CD covers

These were the case studies of 3 CD covers which I used, analysed and inspired to create my own.

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Editing Day 1

Our whole group sat down together and planned all the editing. As I was particularly keen on adding a 'out of the box' type of editing and flow to the music video, I showed the group 'urban' music videos which had specific editing techniques which appealed to me.

I had one main intention behind my head; "to make a music video which is unique and has a different touch to it". We watched quite a few more music videos together so we were sure that everyone was on the same boat; this meaning that everyone would be happy with the editing and specific parts of the editing. We all came to mutual agreements with specific techniques we propose to use.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EqK9cDBlsM

Main elements and editing techniques which appealed to me from this music video was the fast cuts and movie flaires used within the video. I also liked the different angles used and how a minor narrative is also used to help connote some of the messages given out by the artist.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ODblkqpW7o

Main elements and editing techniques which appealed to me from this music video was the camera movement and the typography. It came across very intresting and appealing the way the camera moves around and gives it the 'urban' effect to it. I loved the fact that the typography was used to stress specific words.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02nuD4qRKUk

Main elements and editing techniques which appealed to me from this music video was the camera movement, the typography, as well as the editing. The typography in this video causes a wow responce from the audience. However, I realised this is very ambitious to use in our music video as it would take ages to render. I loved the slow and quick cuts and other transitions used. It was visually appealing; the use of the colour correction.

EDITING TOOK US 3 WEEKS FOR THE FIRST PART

Camera Issues Day 4 Filming

We faced camera issues today. As a group we have faced many obstacles and have overcome many. Today problem was that the camera were booked out fully meaning no cameras were left for our group to use. 
This meant we had a great deal of problem, this is as we now had one less day to film and we had a lot of filming still to do. After speaking to the media technicians, they told us that the cameras are all taken by students and will be returned on 12/11/12. 
Due to cameras being all booked, we had to move to plan b and discussed with our teacher the best possible solution to overcome this. We came to a decision to film after the deadline but early that week as the cameras are going to be returned on Monday. However, we want to ensure we can get as much as filming possible as soon as we lay our hands on any camera.

Filming Day 4

We had a final session of filming. This was just to gather some of our actors and do extra footage for backup reasons.
We wanted to stay well guarded and prepared incase we did not have enough footage or if we did not like each footage.
We also did random shots which we propose to use for effect and to keep the music video intresting. We recorded birds and other views of buildings and skyline types so we could add it to our music video.
We did shots on the way from college as well as in Stratford.

Filming Day 3

We filmed a few shots in college and around college. We did this as we did not take our opportunities to film in our other location (Ilford) which we proposed to do so. All our main actors were in college which was an excelent opportunity. This meant that we could take varies shots and film an argument in different parts of the college. We ensured that we chose locations within the college which seemed believable and seemed like a home or other istitution rather than a college.

We also did a behind the scene footage which we propose to use later on and not within the music video itself.