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.

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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.