Friday 30 December 2016

Filming in greenwich - Production Blog 7

We have gone to Greenwich and we have filmed some shots at night so we can use them in the opening scene and middle scenes. We filmed many various shots so we can use some extra shots and we used the shots to replace the gang scene as this looks much better. The shots look more higher quality in greenwich as it looks wealthy and suits the hip hop genre. I will now use these shots and edit them into our music video and us eat for the final music video.

The shoot went well and we all agreed on this as the wether was great and the lighting in greenwich was good as well, therefore the shots came out amazing.

Tuesday 20 December 2016

Schedule to refilm our next shots

We still have many more shots to refilm and I want to film some shots in Greenwich. I wanted to cut out the shots of the gang scene and replace it with shots of just the artist in Greenwich. The gang scene I feel doesn't suit the genre and doesn't suit the lyrics and as the director of the music video I decided I no longer wanted the gang scene, but I needed to make sure my group was happy with my decision and they all agreed with me.

We have decided to film the greenwich scene at night over the half term and Then i will cut out the old shots and import the new greenwich shots which hopefully look a lot better.

Reshooting the first shots - Production Blog 6

We have now re-filmed some of the shots so we can replace the shots we didn't like in our first draft. We filmed the new shots on a Hill in Thamesmead and we took variety of shots of the artist 'King J' such as close ups and long shots as well has scenery shots of he city and town. We filmed many shots so we can use these if we ever need them. The weather was great and the shots came out well. All thats left for me to do is to edit the shots into the video and enhance the colour and stabilisation.

The shots were filmed by James and me, Jacob was starring in the shots and Thomas helped with the Costume and behind the scene support with lighting and photography aid with the equipment.




Tuesday 13 December 2016

First Draft Music Video Feedback

We have now received feedback from our class and teachers on our first music video draft and they have given us some points on how we can improve the video. Most of the feedback we received we already knew about but some of the feedback revived was new to us and it help us decide on what we can do to improve it for our final music video.

The main way we can improve the music video is to improve the cinematography. We decided for our future shots  that the main cinematographers will be me and James as I have many skills in photography and cinematography and we shall be using my camera. For the future shots we will now use my camera and my filing equipments such as my dolly and monopods. The shots were very shaky but we can fix this by stabilising the shots with editing and using a new camera with auto-stabilisation. A lot of our viewers also suggested to change the ending of the video as it ended abruptly and therefore the narrative wasn't clear in the video. We were also told that the studio shots were very long nd made the video boring so my group and I will fix this by filming some more extra shots.

Our artist was very out of sync as when he was signing he naturally opened his mouth for a long time and it looks out of sync and Jacob also didn't know the lyrics very well and therefore this was shown in our music video. We have now told him to practise further and hopefully improve in the final music video.






Friday 9 December 2016

Confirmation for Reshooting

My group and I have confirmed and planned to reshoot some scenes of our music video over the christmas holiday. The whole group and I aren't very busy over christmas and therefore we can film many scenes and shots which can then use for the video to improve it and make it look better and more professional.

We will keep some of the scenes such as the party scene, some shots of the artist and the car as well the music studio scene. Most off the outdoor scenes I felt lacked in quality, was shaky and the lighting wasn't very good and therefore as director of the music video I decided I wanted to refilm all the shots I did not like. 

I also wanted to change the location we used to film these shots. I decided I now wanted to take out the gang scenes and replace it with high quality and more professional shots in Greenwich and the Hill in Thamesmead where there is a a great view.

Friday 2 December 2016

The First Draft of Our Music Video Is Done



This is our first draft of our music video. I feel that it still needs developing and a lot of the shots need to be improved and refilmed. We will be showing it to our class and teachers who will give us feedback on how we can improve the video for our final.

Thursday 1 December 2016

Final Draft Complete - Editing Process Blog 3

I have now completed the editing for our first draft of the music video. I will upload it to YouTube and we will then show it to our teachers and class mates who will give us feedback and inform us on how to improve the video. My group and I both know that the video still needs some work to get done such as editing and filming to still do, but we had to rush the first draft in order to meet the school deadline to hand in the video so we couldn't fully complete it. However we will improve the video for our final video.

Filming one last extra scene - Production Blog 5

We needed to film one more shot which was a very short shot of one of the actresses in our music video. We filmed a close up of the girl from the party scene who plays the character of the girl the artist likes. The shot will be used in the scene where the artist King J lyrics say "The girl he wants don't seem to want him to" and this is where the audience will see a close up of the girl so they understand the narrative of the music video.



All thats left for me to do is to edit the shot into the music video and then do some final edits and colour changing and then the first draft should be complete.