Time Management Update

Photos from our filming session on Tuesday 25th November:

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Video of the week

My video of the week is by British boyband One Direction 

I have chosen this music video as I think it is unique to others that I have seen before. One Direction are part of the pop genre, and this music video reflects that. I think it is interesting how they have filmed the video from the perspective of the girl who is the 'date'.

Filming Progress

Unfortunately, we are not able to film today on Saturday 22nd of November as Aaron, (the male love interest) had to change his plans and is now busy. Subsequently, we are now filming our remaining narrative scenes on Tuesday the 25th of November during lesson time. 

Scenes we aim to film:

• Jewellery shop scene
• Bus scene (couple break up)
• Poster scenes
• Castle scene
• Whitcliffe flashback

We did however film some more performance sections of our music video on Tuesday, the 18th of November.

Photos from our filming session:

Hollie practising the lyrics:

Filming the close up shots (referencing to the use of Andrew Goodwins theory, and his argument that the artist has many close up, full frontal shots of themself:

Hopefully, we aim to finish the majority of filming on Tuesday, however we will still need to film outside of lesson time to ensure we have a sufficient amount of footage.

Time Management Update

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I am also going to ask for permission to use the drama studio during lesson time tomorrow. Hopefully, as it is almost always free this will not be a problem. 

This is the poster that I have created in order to 'promote' Hollie as the artist during the narrative, highlighting her upcoming show.

We have made a few changes to the narrative of our music video, which are as follows:

• The ending and break up of the relationship will be signified by Aaron (the love interest) waiting at the bus stop for his bus to University, thus meaning the relationship has to end. 
• To show that Aaron (the love interest) knows about Hollie's show, we have encorporated a narrative scene where by Hollie and Aaron will be seen putting up posters promoting her show.
• This then links to Aaron (the love interest) walking into Hollie's show at the end of the video, even though the couple have broken up.

Video of the week

My video of the week is by the artist Ed Sheeran called 'One'

I have chosen this video as whilst the entire video is performance, I think for our own music video we are aiming to film similar performance shots, including the close ups and medium shots.

Peer Review

We also conducted a peer review where by another group in our class viewed some of the footage we had taken on Tuesday 11th of November.

Here are the questions that were asked and also the responses on good aspects of our clips and also ways to improve:

Question 1: Were our performers convincing? Why?

Question 2: Did the narrative relationship look believable? Why?

Question 3: Do you think we have used a variety of shot types? Is this effective?

From this I have learnt that our actors in our music video looked believable, (e.g, looked happy, in love, a convincing couple) however an area to improve may be to focus on taking some more extreme close ups and close up shots of the couple.

Performers and Casting

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Filming Progress

1.  Friday the 14th of November 2014

My group and I have planned to film during lesson time, however, through our Facebook chat group Louise has said she is unable to come in tomorrow to film as she has a cold. As a result of this, I will be filming the majority of the performance scenes shot in the college drama studio. This may be a challenge for us as it may be harder to fix lighting, prop and location aspects of the scenes as well as filming.

Time Management

Preparing To Film

My group and I are preparing to film during our Media Studies lesson tomorrow on Tuesday the 11th of November 2014. We are also scheduled to film on Friday during lesson time and we have also arranged to meet in Ludlow on Saturday 22nd in order to continue filming, as lesson time will not be enough.

We have been using our Facebook chat group in order to communicate and ensure all participants are available to film.

However, we have encountered a problem as Aaron, who is scheduled to play the role of the male love interest has been injured, but we are hoping he will be able to participate tomorrow.

We have arranged to meet on Saturday 22nd of November in order to film some more scenes.

Test Shots

A video of Hollie, who is acting as the artist in our music video practising lip syncing:

Time Management Update

My group and I have finished and posted our animatic, and I have finished and posted my blog post on locations today. I aim to post my blog post on costumes, props, hair and makeup on Monday, thus leading us to be ready to start filming on Tuesday. 

We also created a Facebook group between the three of us, in order to be able to communicate and manage our time better.