More editing

Okay so today we have done more editing. we had a few problems at the beginning of the lesson with clips etc, however we soon got around these by finding our memory cards and uploading our missing clips. Because we had renamed some of the clips we had difficult sorting through our memory cards finding the clips, so we had to filter through and look at each different clip. This lesson i have been helping Evie and Ellie edit, but i have been catching up on blogging as i hadn't written in a while. Originally i was thinking that Ellie was going to put clips on a memory card and to put it on my mac, however she put the clips i was editing on to Evie mac, i am happy with this but i would like to have my own section to edit together so that i know i have done a fair contribution. We need to film the last sections of our film - the girl parts. i suggested next week as possibility however Evie is very busy next week and feels that she wont be able to fit it in. so we will have to come up with a date that everyone can do and that is as soon as possible. i am free most weekends, only days i am bust are Thursday and Friday.

Editing

okay so we have done all of the filmimg of alec we need, and hes cut his hair now so filming him now is out of the question. we have uploaded all the clips we have taken at last...however we have no discovered that the mac likes to delete some of our clips. For example last week we came to edit to discover one of our clips was gone si we uploaded it off our memory stick no problem. THEN today we camr to edit and found that a lot of out clips were missing i would say about 12. we have come to the decision that me and evie will edit on our own makes (me mac 3 evie mac 2) by doing this it ill speed the process up because we will have our own section to look at. we will then merge our clips together on to the desktop that ellie is on.Because the make that ellie is using isnt behaving she has decided that she would prefer to switch on toa make that actually works properly because we are scared we are going to use more of our editing clips. ALSO ellie has her own macbook pro at home so we have discussed the idea of her getting final cut on it so that she is able to bring it in and edit on that. and it wont matter if she doesnt bring it some days because evie and i will have footage on our macs that we can use. on the other hadn i think there is a few more things that we need to film for the girl. e.g. outside but its very cold and snowy so we are going to have to make do with the weather although i think this will be a better effect for our film white = innocent.

• still need to scan in our story boards! they are in my folder oooooooops.
• start thinking about cover/poster/advert ideas so we can film the vynl at the beginning
• GET A GOOD MAC

Filming

Over the past 2 weeks we have been coming to my House on Sundays to film the parts with Alec our main character. The fist week we managed to film all the parts with books, some lip syncing shots and some general long shots. because we didn't have as much time as expected we didn't get as much done as we wanted to. The second week we managed to get far more thinks filmed, we managed to get all the shots involving leaves, which i had to go out and find then dry by hand as it had been raining. It looks very effective! we then managed to get all the CD shots. We thought that it would be better to attach the Cd's string/clear string and then dangle from bamboo sticks. This again worked very well. we managed to get More general shots that we will edit together to create the song. it helped that Alec wore the some thing he wore in our previous filming session as it shows we have thought about continuity.

Unfortunately Alec is now ill..suffering from an ear and eye infection to more filming at this moment in time is out of the question! As Evie has had to go up to Scotland for personal reasons me and Ellie have been left to upload all the footage we have been doing. Evie has given me the memory cards to upload. However when we went to do this yesterday we were only able to view a certain number of clips from the camera...we then put the SD card back into the camera to check that we had actually recorded our clips..turns out we have but the mac didn't recognise our clips. Due to this me and Ellie have waisted a lot of time trying to sort this out, we resorted to asking Mr canning to help us trouble shoot but he had to leave after the lesson so didn't have enough time to look at it. He left it to Sam to have a look, unfortunately he hasn't been back to us with the outcome so we don't know weather it has been successful. if we cant get it onto the computer then we are going to have some problems with re filming it as Alec is very ill and will not be well enough to film in time for the internal filming deadline we have set ourselves.

IMAGES TO FOLLOWWWWWWWWW

Meeting the critera

In the past few weeks we have been looking at different ways to present what we are feeling on our blogs. Mr Canning has given us a sheet of bullet points that our planning etc must meet. In our previous lessons we planned each bullet point briefly. To make it easier and quicker each person was allocated a point, unfortunatly we didnt get al points done as we went into a little too mcuh detail in the points. In todays lesson we came together as a group and presented our thoughts. We filmed each one seperatly in a discussion format. I feel it went very well and that we covered most of the points that we had to. We were also paired up with another group and we had to make notes on thier discussion, the had to do the same to us. We then discussed good aspects and bad aspects in my group of 3, we made brief notes and i will be posting my thoughts on thier blog ver soon.

Pictures from the past 2 days....

Evie setting up the camera ready to film!

A spot of blogging after a loooong day

Ellie setting up the camera for an ACTUAL scene!

Practice shoot - Day 2

sooooooooooo, today was out second day of filming. Evie stayed at mine over night which was lucky because we were able to have a relitively early start and plan things up. We could'nt get hold of Ellie so we decided to start putting the set up, we then found out she would be getting the train and would need picking up around three. A few hours later we got a phone call saying that she was unable to make it due to lack of trains and buses! Me, Evie and Ellie discussed that it would be better to get the basics done over half term while Ellie was away, and when she comes back to upload it onto the macs..see what we have...see what we need..and then go from there. By doing this atleast we will still have done some form of filmimg done over half-term, and by splitting it Ellie will still be a part of the filming which we want her to be. Anyway..Evie and i got a head with the filimg, the shots we practiced were close ups of faces and different expressions, the movement of the books next to the characters, hanging of the CD's. We also came to the conclusion that using sheets will make it harder to film because of creases etc so we would much rather use a wall as the background. However if out other location falls through then we could still use this as we know we have concent to do so. After packing up we thought it would be a good idea to film the old record player, howerver Evie came up with the idea of waiting until we have designed our poster/CD cover because we could link it nicely with these and really round of the presentation of our film. Overall...i feel it has been a very successful weekend with some highs and lows, we have figured out what will work and what will not!

To do for next week:
-PAINT WALL WHITE!
-organise character
-more clothes
-make-up
-lighting
-boards?

Practice shoot.

This weekend i have arranged for everyone to come to my house where we can discuss camera angles, props, costumes, lighting, backgrounds etc. As Ellie is going away it is essential that we have cleared everything with her and make sure that she is happy with all the arrangements. Originally we had planned to film on saturday, however due to s few complications we felt it best do get all storyboarding and discussions done and out of the way. The only bit of filming we have done today (saturday) is filming some dates to fit in with some of the lyrics in the song. we have also figured out how to put the dolly together and use it. Tomorrow will be an early start as we have to ensure we cover all aspects of the filmimg process so when it comes to filming we know exactly what we are doing and do not waste time. However if we need to do filimg after term we will do so but it means we will not have as much time to edit and make sure our edits are smooth.

Peliminary Task

This week in out practical lessons we started work on filiming for out peliminary task. Our teacher showed us a video of a group of students from another school. He then asked us to get into groups and film a number of shots where they would all link together in some way. I was put into a group of two with Ellie, and we managed to get the filming done in one day wich was very good. We then planned to get the editing for the task done in the next lesson. T he editing took longer than expected as there were a few issues at the beginning of the lesson regarding SD cards, however once they were uploaded onto the macs we started straight away. I hadnt really done this kind of editing before but luckily Ellie had done some for her video last year, so i watched her do it and managed to pick it up. Unfortunatly i didnt manage to get all the editing done in one lesson but did manage to get the majority of it done. We will have to finish it off when we get back to school, it won't take long to do now i've got the hang of it.

Peliminary Task

In our 2 practical lessons we have been asked to film a small peliminary task. I was put into a group with Ellie,and we had to film a small clip where we edted 4 clips together onto one edit. All of the clips had to interact with eachother in someway. We thought the best way to do this was to turn out heads (down, right, up and left) To do this we used out selves alternating who was in the clip, so we are in 2 each. We planned it so we got the filming done in one lesson and the other lesson was used to edit the clip together. I had never done this before so i found the editing alot harder! but because ellie had some experience we soon picked it up. Our clip will soon be finished but becuase there was some difficulty at the beginning of the lesson uploading our clips we lost a small amount of time. We will deffionatly have it finished after half term as it will take no time at all to finish off.

Organisation

So far we have...
- A clothes rail
- A selection of books/clocks
- Costumes
- Location
- Main characters
- Cameras booked
- Sheets/boards
- Lighting
- Heating for location
- Concent to use location

Still to get...
- An old record player
- Vynil
- More clothes?
- Face paints/ make-up
- plants?

MIND MAAAAAAAAP

Location

originally we had planned to use a garage of some sort to place boards in and film, however this idea fell through due to lack of tidyness...i then came up with the idea of using a wall in my house as we are re-decorating and would be able to paint it white, this idea is'nt looking too good as we are knocking a wall down in our house and there will be too much dust and noise. I have found a location close to my house that we would be able to use but it will be cold and we will have to use a mixture of sheets and boards to create our background. i would prefer it to be against a wall but if we cant find a suitable location before saturday then we are going to have to use this location. At least we have somewhere to film!

Storyboard

Here are the storyboard that we have put together to create our film. We will use these each time we film new footage so we know exactly what we need to film, how we need to film it and what it needs to look like.

Research into The Ting Tings and The Shout Out Louds.

The Ting Tings are a Manchester and London indie pop duo composed of Jules De Martinoand Katie White They formed in December 2007 while based at Islington Mill Artist Studios in Salford. They have released four singles on their current label Columbia Records UK, including the single "Thats not my name" which charted straight at number one in the UK singles chart on 18 May 2008.The album We started nothing was released on 19 May 2008 and charted at number one in the United Kingdom. The album has now sold over 2 million copies, with a further 4 million singles sold worldwide. Their new single, "Hands"was released on October 11 and their new album, which is yet to be named, is due out in early 2011.

The Shout Out Louds -  Are an indie rock band from Stockholm Sweeden.The band's original name was Luca Brasi but changed their name when they found out that another band had already used the name. All members have been friends since they were young. The band has toured extensively throughout the world in support of their debut album "Howl Howl Gaff Gaff" Their second album, "Our Ill Wills" has been released in Sweden and debuted in North America on September 11, 2007. They have also released several videos from their various singles, the majority of which were featured on either TV Guide's "M-Vids" or AOL's Music on Demand services. The band's third album, "Work", was released on February 23, 2010.

Research and inspiration for our music video.

We have chosen to look at the ting tings to base our main characters on during our music videa  This is mainly because of the mixture of both genders. We feel that it would balance it out and would allow us to create some interesting scenes. To make it obvious that our characters are linked to this band we will have to ensure that we find filling actors with similar stature and features. Ellie or Evie would be happy to play these scenes as they both have blonde hair. We are considering who would be suitable to play the male part, although we havent currently found someone yet. We need to ASAP!

brainstorm and planning

Here is our planning for out music video, we are going to try and stick to it as best we can so ensure we don't leave anything too late and that we are ORGANISED!

Show me something new -Shout out louds

OUR song

We had a selection of songs lined up to use for out choice, we short listed a few songs that we felt would represent what we wanted in the video. We wrote to 3 producers in total and as we heard from 'Bud Fox Management' first we took the opportuity to get out song sorted so that we could start planning and brain storming out ideas.

As a group we have decided to go ahead with contacting the producers of the band 'the shout out louds' with regards to using thier song 'show me something new'. We felt that this song was well fitted to out task as it had the right tone - Happy and uplifting. We felt that the lyrics with in the song offered us many opportunities to link out video qith the lyrics.

Surprisingly the managers of the band 'Bud Fox Managment' got back to us with in 30 minutes of sending the message, the message recieved was very brief and to the point but none the less still clarified if we could use thier music. Here are the series of emails that were sent:

e-mails sent and recieved

Ellie,

Many thanks for your message and good luck with your project. A wise choice of music!

Sadly Weekender Records has closed down in the UK but I have forwarded your request to Shout Out Louds manager Filip in Sweden. Hopefully he will respond directly to you. Otherwise you can e-mail him yourself at: Filip Wilén

Best wishes,
Justin
(former Chairman Weekender Records)

On 23 Sep 2010, at 11:35, Eleanor BROWN wrote:


Dear Weekender Records UK,

My name is Ellie Brown and I am an A level student at Saffron Walden County High Sixth Form. For my Media Studies coursework my group members and I have the task of designing and producing an amateur music video. I am writing to request permission to use a song by the ‘Shout Out Louds’ as the stimulus for the project. The songs we are deciding between are; ‘Show Me Something New’ and ‘Fall Hard’. The ideas and material will be completely our own, but we would love to be able to use either of these songs as the base of our project. The video will not be used for promotional or financial benefit, it is only for our A level coursework and will be shown only to the examiners and possibly other media students within the sixth form.

Thankyou for your time, I look forward to hearing from you.

Ellie Brown


Re: The 'Shout Out Louds'
Filip Wilén [filip@budfox.se]
To: Eleanor BROWN


thats ok


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Filip Wilén | Managing Director
Bud Fox Management
Saturnusgatan 13
224 57 Lund, Sweden
Ph. +46 46 13 81 20 Mob. +46 705 34 35 10
filip@budfox.se


Represents:
Lykke Li | Shout Out Louds | Anna Ternheim | Johnossi | El Perro Del Mar
Björn Yttling (of Peter, Bjorn & John) as producer / songwriter

Introduction to A2 media

For out media studies project this year we have been asked to develop a music video in small
groups. The video must be approved by the management team for us to use, we must also not use any of the original ideas from the music video to put into ours. With this in mind as a group we decided to choose a band that were less established so that it would be easier to get confirmation as soon as possible. It would also benifit us as less people would use our choice of song resulting in more original ideas. When brainstorming our band ideas we decided that the best genre music would be alternative/rock. We felt that this offered a much wider scope on how to film, we could also look at previous videos from a variety of artists to see how they filmed thier own videos, what colours, props, angles, singers they used in thier videos.