Digi-Pack Pictures

When we filmed at the beach I took some pictures of the beach and a picture which was on the wall, we thought the big picture would look really good in our digi-pack as our music video is all about memories and remembering the past. We are thinking of using a simple image for our album cover of a beach but as a group we aren't a 100% sure yet. We think if we do use the beach image it will look really effective with the texts we are looking at using over the top. 

Black and White shots

We put some clips together which we have shot ourselves into a quick short clip showing some of our scenery shots, we put them in black and white because we think it makes the shots look more proffessional and it matches the tone of the video as we are showing a lonely, sad feel to it. When filming at the beach we took random clips of things we found on the beach like, rocks, grass and the waves so we had enough shots to match the scenery shots we had seen in Indie Pop especially Ben Howard's video where we got our main idea from with the scenery shots.

Overview

Over the past few months our group have researched into the conventions of indie pop video's, we have looked at specific music videos and took each video into consideration of what we want our video to have a look of such as, certain camera angles they use, scenery and even clothes they wear. We have also looked at way in which they promote themselves by CD's and posters and seeing how they make themselves iconic to their audience's so looked at these so we have an idea of how we are going to produce something like that for our project. I think with the amount of research we have done as a group we have gained a better knowledge of how we can make the right Indie pop video and making sure we have all the conventions of an indie pop video in our music video. We have made sure we have shown this throughout our blog with posts of costume idea's, location and props and made sure the story we are trying to tell is clear to everyone who will be viewing our blog and video at the end of the project. 

We eventually got to film after the weather being a issue a few times,  we managed to shoot part of our music video involving the beach location which is the main focus of the video, we managed to get every shot we wanted at the beach that we had shown on our storyboard, and the weather wasn't a problem on the day of filming. We were a lot more organised than we have been on any other task we have done as a group as we made sure we had everything we needed, we took extra shots to make sure we had got the right amount of shots and in case some weren't good enough we had extra. When looking back at the shots we took we were all pleased with the outcome and had plenty of shots to choose from and more of a variety to use in the final piece. At the moment we are waiting to shoot our next bits of the music video of the relationship, hopefully this will be shot this week but again because the weather has been really bad we are not sure we will be able to film where we would like to because it will be very muddy. This will allow us to then concentrate on editing the full film and getting a rough shot in for the end of the week, we want to be able to focus more on editing so we can see what the flashbacks will look like and if our idea will work with the beach shots we have already took. 

From the last project i can see by looking at my blog that i have wrote a lot more and have gone into a lot more detail with my post's. I have become more organised and prepared for planning and filming and made sure i have enough research to know where our music video is going to, with the amount of research i have done within the indie pop genre i can see what i need to include in our music video. 

Balloon Problem

We have had some problems with the editing software as it's a lot different to what we are used to using, we are using the effect called 'Leaves Colour' to make the balloon red while everything else is in black and white effect, we have had a problem with this though as it is making some area's of the clip red which isn't supposed to be such as, Catherine's hair and face. This is because on certain clips the sun has been shining and the effect is picking up on the light, we are trying to find a way to sort it out and if it doesn't work trying to find a way that we can still keep our original idea. 

Leaves Colour

Originally we wanted to use the effect 'Matte' on the balloon to make it red whilst everything else was black and white however, we can't do this because when filming it was quite windy and the effect doesn't work. The group knew that if it was windy that we would have to change the effect we were planning on using to find something that would be much better use to us. During this week we have been looking at our footage and playing around with them seeing how we would make the balloon red and the rest of the footage black and white, we thought we wouldn't be able to do it as we were having difficulties with finding a effect. Luckily we found the effect called 'Leaves Colour' we found this would be much better than the 'Matte' effect as the wind isn't effecting the balloon. We realised that the sun was shining on certain parts of the balloon the effect misses some of the red out of it but this isn't very noticeable and looks quite effective on some shots but with other shots of the balloon the sun is going to be shining in different directions leaving us with a problem of trying to make the whole balloon red without half of the red missing from it.

Below is an image of the how we have been using the 'Leave Colour Effect' 

Behind The Scenes

These are the behind the scenes photos from our shoot the other week, we took a few extra camera's to capture some photos to show the behind the scene shots and to show what we got up to. 

Filming

We filmed on the 11th of November and the weather was perfectly fine except for a bit of wind, which made filming a little bit harder because the balloon was moving all over the place. We brought the story board with us so we made sure we got every shot that we needed including extra ones so we had extra shots incase we didn't get what we wanted. All the equipment was fine untill the second video camera battery died but luckily we had another video to capture the shots we needed, we also brought some other little cameras to catch some behind the scene shots and took some photos, we also brought two red balloon to make sure the other one didnt blow away or pop that we had a spare one with us.

When looking through all the other shots we did we noticed we didnt do a lot of variety of different camera angles such as, pans, close-ups and long shots. To make our video have more different camera angles we will use more shots when shooting the reminsicing shots we will use a lot more shots to get our video to a higer mark.

Filming Delay

Unfortunatly we were supposed to be filming today but our friend Ryan Hawkins is very ill today and didn't feel up to filming for us, we wanted to film the flash backs of the relationship. This will not put us behind on our filming because we are still planning for our shoot on Sunday 11th for our beach shots, which is the majority of our film.

Call Sheet - Sunday 11th November

Time to Meet	9:45 on Sunday 11th of November. We will be getting the 10am bus.
Location to meet	Durham Bus Station.
Location	South Sheilds
Description of Location	The location we are using in South Shields is the beach near the ammusements. It's is very near a lighthouse, pier and an old ruin of a castle which will all be used in our scenery shots. The beach is very clean, and there are plenty of sand dunes and dainty places looking onto the beach that we will be able to catch some fantastic shots in. Be prepeared as it will be cold.
Group	Sarah Hewitt, Catherine Kirk, Kelly Senior and Ellie Snowball
Characters	Catherine Kirk.
Props	A bag of red balloons, a few will be filled with helium before the day of shooting the footage. String will be needed, to tie the balloon. The balloons without helium in them will be used as a back up plan.
Special Instruction	Bring warm clothing jackets, hats, gloves and scarfs. It will be very cold, so wrap up warm. We will provide a towel for Catherine Kirk during shooting. Also please bring some money if you wish to buy food and drink whilst we are filming, there are many

Alternative ideas

We have decided on an alternative location in case we can't film on the beach because of the weather or travel. We have decided that we would use the same location that we are using for the second filming which includes the boy, we think this would still fit in with the theme and would still look as good as the beach, the location has interesting spots which would look good when filming. If we do shoot at the same place where we are planning on filming the reminiscing scenes that they don't look too similar to the shots of the girl on her own, we want it to be clear to the audience about the different scenes we are trying to show.

Call Sheet x2

Time to Meet	3.20
Location to meet	Framwellgate School Durham
Location	Fields in Newton Hall
Description of Location	The location is near a little bridge which goes over a train track and is near some fields which we want to the couple to be sat on doing different things together.
Cast	Kelly, Sarah, Ellie, Catherine and Ryan
Characters	Catherine will be the main girl in the video and is the focus throughout the song, Ryan is the boy in the parts of her reminiscing on her relationship.
Props
Special Instruction

StoryBoard

Filming 11th November

Because we couldn't film on November 3rd we have rearranged for the 11th, this is easier for us all as we are all free and when we checked the weather forcast it is supposed to be sunny which is what we want for us to get the best shot.

Filming delay

Unfortunately, we couldn't film on the 3rd of November due to the weather. We had checked the weather forcast and the weather was supposed to be bad for South Sheilds, we didn't want to risk traveling to South Sheilds with all the filming equipment and the weather being bad, we have decided to rearrange filming for sunday 11th as this is easier for the rest of the group, hopefully the weather will be good!