Music video (Final draft)

Shooting Script Discussion (Liam Parkinson & Jacob Sanderson)

We have now completed our first draft of our music video using our shooting script. After filming and being in the situation we did change a few things on the shooting script. Although we kept all the locations and order of the shots, when it came to filming the shots we sometimes changed the camera angles or movements.

Original Shooting Script

Our reasons for changing this was that when we got there the shot was not exactly how we all visualised it, to get the most out of the shot we adapted and enhanced our shots in order for the best outcome.

One of the shots we changed was the Jamaica street one (Shot 14). The initial plan was to have a long shot of the skaters. We found this very difficult as there was also skaters we did not know at the park and kept getting in the way. Obviously we could not expect them to stop whilst we film our shot, therefore we decided to make the shop a closer medium shot. This still looked great when we went and reviewed the shot & probably worked better as it showed more detail of the skaters in our video.

Updated Storyboard (Liam Parkinson)

Below you can see our final adaptations to our storyboard and genreal plan for filiming our video.
The narrative and whole story of our video has stayed the same since the begining, a young boy who only cares about skating and pretty much doesnt want to grow up. Time seems as if it is moving quickly and he doesnt want to grow up. That is the basic story to our video.

After updating our first storyboard we decided to film john and his mother arguing about him needing to grow up and get a job etc. at the begining of our video as a sort of pre song introduction. We have now scrapped this idea and went with the original sunset start. This is because when we watched our clips we had of this scene we thought it looked very cheap and unproffesinal. Also we had scenes in at the end of john (our character) going to a job interview. Again we thought this took up way to much time in our video and when we watched it back as a group we thought it was quite depressing and boring, and thats not what this genre is about.

John preparing for job interview

Therefore, Once again we sat down as a group and discussed what we could do. We all agreed after conversation that we had lots of skateboard clips of john and his friends & amsterdam music festivile filmed by jacob on his trip away. We looked at videos from our genre once again and thought we would keep out whole story of wanting to skateboard and not growing up, but portray this in a way which is not boring and without scenes of acting out job interviews etc.

Interview scene which we took out

We drew up our storyboards again and this time, used 3 main points of attention Liam (The artist), John (the boy who doesnt want to grow up) & Johns friends (The skateboarders). We decided to use lots of shots of Liam lip syncing from various angles and quick shots alternating with eachother. This we agreed will keep the audience engaged, as it is a constant change and not the same scene for longer than 5 seconds.

Overall we now believe we have finally found what our video was missing and can begin putting it together and get the remaining shots we need in this last week ready to show our video with the class.

Completed Video First Draft (Liam Parkinson)

Today we completed are music video and have it ready to show to the class tomorrow for reviews. This is only our first draft and over the Christmas break we will each be creating our own video to our own specifications rather than 'a group'.

The editing was going really well and smoothly, everything was coming together well as Liam was familiar with the software through his research and mock work. We were about 2/3rds of the way through the editing and it all took a turn for the worst. I (Liam) was editing a clip in time with the beat and in order to do this I had to lengthen a transition. When I clicked the transition and changed the length I did not realise that there was a checkbox next to it saying "apply to all transitions" therefore we went on to compete the rest of the video making everything click into place. Then when it came to exporting the clip, Liam played it back and then we realised the lip sync and timings were not as we originally had them. It took us about half an hour to realise what was actually the problem. Then we figured out it was the transitions they had all been set to 1 second rather than the original 0.5.

Once this issue was resolved we went back and fixed the transitions and then our video was back to the way we wanted it to be.

We our all very happy with our video especially for a first draft and can not wait until the rest of the class see it and pass on their reviews. We can then take there comments on board and go back to the drawing board and get to work enhancing our video for our final draft.

Editing (Jacob Sanderson)

Today we are finally going to edit our video. We have now successfully imported all of our clips into iMovie so we are ready to begin. We have this whole day to put our video together so we are going to use our storyboards to place the clips that we have in the right places. We will be showing our first drafts in lesson tomorrow morning where we will receive feedback and then as a group we will decide on any necessary changes.

Day 1 of editing (Liam Parkinson)

Today we began our first day of editing, we had a set back as it took us a long day to actually get out clips from the phone we filmed on to the PC. This process took about 15 minutes and still we could not begin editing as we had to import the clips to iMovie.

When it came to importing the clips to iMovie the estimated time we were given was 7 hours. So we went for our lunch and left it and then came back to see it still wasn't done. We got on with some photoshop work and got to produce our album cover so no time was wasted doing nothing. Then once we had finished that the clips where finally imported and we could then begin editing. 

Getting to grips with the software was easy as Liam had used it before and talked the rest of the group through it. We are now progressing quickly and are on track to show our finished video to the rest of class on Friday. 

Artist Header/Logo (JacobSanderson/John Masters)

This lesson I used Photoshop to create our artists's logo/header that will be used on our poster and album cover. We have looked at DJ logos and headers and noticed that most of them are just the name of the DJ and they look mostly plain so I have created these two based on what we have seen from looking at similar artists.

Out of the two we have decided as a group to go with the bottom draft because we think that it is a lot better than the top and it stand out more because it is bold. John created the first logo and I created the second. As a group we have decided we will be using my logo.