Video Construction

Monday 11th April 2016

To begin with the video we first transferred all our videos to the computer and placed them into Sony Vegas Pro which is the software we'll be using to edit this video. The first thing we went through was syncing up all of the lip syncing shots so that we'd know what room we had to play with afterwards. This took a fair bit of time but we decided it was key to get the lip syncing down as then we wouldn't have to work on it later on.

Tuesday 12th April 2016

Today we added in a large portion of the footage as we had a lot of spare time. Doing this let us get a general overview of what our video will turn out like, this was beneficial as we were able to chop and change shots where we see fit. We also played around with colour curves and the saturation of the shots to fix where it was too dark or too bright.

Wednesday 13th April 2016

Today we had a bit of a rejig with the footage in order to make it tell the story better, this is because when we looked over what we had done already we decided that it was a bit all over the place in terms of the story and this clearly isn't what we wanted our video to do. We also decided it would be good if we made the entire video desaturated as it's supposed to convey a sad message which black and white does well at. 

Monday 18th April 2016

Today whilst editing the video we realised we were beginning to start lacking on footage, we decided it would be beneficial to make some of the footage last longer in the video and so just added bits onto the end of certain parts. This helped and added on 15 seconds of extra video which is quite a big chunk of time considering the length of the overall video.

Thursday 21st April 2016

Today we had unfortunately ran out of original footage for our video and so required more in order to complete the video. Knowing this we planned out times in order to shoot more and therefore finish the video. Overall this was just a minor blip and could've clearly been a lot worse had we ran out of footage the day before the deadline.

Friday 29th April 2016

Today the video was finished but looking back at the storyboard, We've noticed that we've essentially made a completely different video. We we're going to stick to the storyboard but when we started to film we found out soon that finding space for all of us to go out filming together was ineffective and so we decided to change the idea completely. Despite this change to the shots we still stuck to the basic story line. We also feel that changing the shots and angles from our original plan has actually helped our video appear a lot more unique and overall better.

Photoshoot

Twitter Page

We decided to create a Twitter profile for our artists as we know that it is one of the most efficient ways of getting an audience due to it's interactibility with fans. Using this social media we are able to update fans on what the artists are getting up to on a daily basis with photos or videos. It's also a very useful tool as we are able to make use of hashtags trends where users will also be able to see our profile and tweets and take a look at the page if it appeals to them.

https://twitter.com/BlaylockLucy

Facebook Page

Using Facebook we were able to easily promote the artists by adding new photos or videos and even dates for tours and/or album releases, such as the release of their new Digipak as seen as the header. A long with this I added to the event section dates for upcoming tours/gigs so that fans can book tickets easily. After this I connected the Facebook page to our website and Twitter page so that fans can keep up to date by following all forms of social media. With the use of Facebook our artists were able to simply grow their fan base through communication with the fans, we also knew that our target audience would be using social media such as Facebook and Twitter and so this makes it much simpler to connect with them.

https://www.facebook.com/Lucy-Blaylock-and-Danny-Reginatto-1089017987835215/timeline

Filming Diary

Filming diaries 


1.
For our first filming session we mainly were practicing for when we start properly filming. We kept all our filming in our sixth form common room after school so it wasn't too busy.
We filmed the two actors laughing and sitting together, we are hoping this will be for the beginning of the video where we show the actors as being friends before the dynamics change, we had the actors talking and laughing in the sixth form common room, had them walking down a corridor as if they were coming back from a lesson, again laughing and talking together, them we had them walking out the door but the male actor holding the door open for the female actor, we are hoping to contrast this with a later shot of the male actor walking straight out of the door and shutting it on her.


2.
For our second filming session we mainly practiced lip-syncing for certain parts of our video. We wanted to see what the actor’s skill level was for lip-syncing before we started to film.
We filmed the actors in front of a white background; we gave them a few lines to lip sync and tried out lots of different ways to make it as realistic as we could. We tried them singing the lines to make it more like they are actually singing it. This method worked well and we are hoping to use it when we start properly filming our lip-syncing parts.


3.
For our third filming session we had a few lip-syncing parts for our female actress. We did all our filming in front of a white wall for this particular part.
We filmed her lip-syncing to a few lines of the song, we chose these lines as they are the more important lines and we felt having her sing them in the video would put more emphasis on the lines.
We experimented with lots of different angles and positions to find ones that worked well in that particular shot and I think we did this well.


4.
For our forth filming session we had a few lip syncing and solo acting parts for our male actor. We did all our filming in a quiet area where there was not much disturbance.
We filmed him lip-syncing to a few lines of the song, we chose these lines as they are the more important lines
and we felt having him sing them in the video would put more emphasis on the lines.
We experimented with lots of different angles and positions to find ones that worked well in that particular shot and I think we did this well.


5.
For our fifth filming session we had a few parts where our male actor was sitting outside. We did all our filming on a road close to us where he was walking alone.
We filmed him walking outside alone as this part would be put right at the end of the video where they had gone their separate ways.
We experimented with lots of different angles and positions to find ones that worked well in that particular shot and I think we did this well.


6.
For our sixth filming session we had a few parts where both our male and female actors were sitting and walking outside. We did all our filming on a road close to us where they were walking both together and alone.
We filmed them walking outside alone as this part would be put right at the end of the video where they had gone their separate ways.
However we also filmed them together as this part would be put nearer the beginning of the video.
We experimented with lots of different angles and positions to find ones that worked well in that particular shot and i think we did this well.

Before and After photos

To create the album cover we mainly used photoshop due to a wide range and variety of features that are able to be used when designing and creating. A long with this we used a website (http://vectormagic.com) which allows you to automatically turn images into high quality vectors, the reason we did this is so that our cover will have a unique look to it as opposed to the same, generic covers artists make.

Before:

After:

As you can see the images now look slightly cartoonish which we thought came out well in the cover and poster and added something different to our production.

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