7. Editing - Day 1

Today, Nana and I are starting to roughly edit the video together and we got nearly half of it done. We managed to plan out the scenes that would go beside each other. Also, we discussed how we would portray the flashbacks and if we would need to use any filter on them. As we proceed with the video, we will put deeper thoughts onto how we will illustrate those scenes. We also used the storyboard to plan out our scenes which was very useful for us.

Editing music video schedule

Monday: 11:40 - 12:50

Tuesday: 10:20 - 11:30

Wednesday: 13:20 - 14:30

Thursday: 11:40 - 12:50

Friday: 9:00 - 10:10

These are the free times/ media lessons Nana and I will use to edit our music video.

6. Shooting the video - Day 2

GOOD NEWS! We got all of our recording done yesterday and we have already started to edit our video! However, our male actor was unreliable so we managed to take the whole video without him, which came out better than we thought it would have. Instead, the main focus was only on both Nana and Imelda's love. To make it clear that she was cheating on him, we recorded scenes of where she was texting someone else whilst Nana wasn't in the frame. The shooting was really fun and I enjoyed spending a day recording with my friends.

Proof that I was there for the shooting. I recorded the whole thing :)

Weather

The weather for the recording was great we managed to get everything done. The shooting in the park was really nice, I think the lighting was perfect. There was no rain so we didn't need to cancel our shoot outside. When we recorded inside, the camera lighting wasn't enough so we definitely needed light from the outside and from the electrical light. The bathroom scene was also very successful, nothing went wrong. We made sure all the wires were away from the areas that contained water. Overall, everything went great, I cant wait until we start to edit the video together!

Bad news...

Our male actor said he couldn't make it to tomorrows recording session, so we are going to have to improvise and record without him, as the only day we can shoot is tomorrow. We will only have 2 actors and that will be Nana and a girl called Imelda. We hope everything goes as planned. We will first start with the park scenes and the flashbacks, then we will move onto the living room and bathroom scenes in Nana's house. I also heard that he has a really nice, large balcony, which will definitely be useful when we're shooting.

Team Meetings - 5

We couldn't record anything during the half term as our actors were very unreliable. But, we are planning to meet up tomorrow at 12pm. Depending if our actors show up, we have made a second plan which is to do a video with only Nana starring in it, so the video will be performance based rather than a narrative base like we originally planned to do and Nana will be the only actor in the video.

One of the Case studies I did over the summer holiday (Justin Bieber - Somebody To Love feat. Usher) would be great use for us because that video was all performance based. We could try and get some students from the performing arts block to do simple dance moves in the background whilst Nana lip syncs looking at the camera. This of course is just a back up plan incase our main idea doesn't work out.

Advanced Portfolio Researching and Planning the Moving Image Work