Filming finished

Last night I filmed the rest of the footage that we needed, after Jess filmed the introduction scenes, I filmed the 'whatever happened to' scenes and now I have finished filming the rest of the video. I spent lunchtime today and one of my frees editing for 2 hours. This enabled me to get the video into a rough complete edit, but there are still a lot of tweeks to do. Next lesson I will show Jess how it is coming along and will edit some more using the time of the lesson.

After showing Jess, she is pleased, but thinks that we need a few more shots, I agree completely, with some drumming or bass shots the video would flow a lot more and generally appear much more professional.

Filming almost done

Now we have almost completed all of the filming and are halfway through the editing process, we thought it would be a good idea to update the blog!

Halfway through editing we noticed that we could do with a larger variety of shots, we focussed so much on the beginning of the music video and using all the jump-cuts and fast to-the-beat shots, that we sort of neglected the rest of the video. With parts such as the 4 screen split section, we have not got the footage we need, and have developed our ideas to have multiple shots in each split rather than prolonged single shots that would get boring.

Almost all of our shots are filmed inside. We did this to connote the underlying meaning of the narrative, that the protagonist is trapped in a world of work and is unable to get out of it into the open world.

Some quick research for the Ancillary tasks...

Being caught up in the frenzy of trying to get all the filming and editing done on time, along with the various different problems we ran in to along the way, I had almost forgotten about the Auxiliary tasks. With the DVD cover in mind, I started researching into the Pistola Kicks life-style and came accross an interesting interview, along with a picture I have already uploaded, which could be used on the DVD cover.

One of the questions on the interview caught my eye, and really shows the emotion put into the Pistola Kick's songs. Its about life, and life experiences. This could help us when creating the DVD cover and Magazine Advert.

Where do you get ideas for the lyrics?

Joe: We tend to just write about everyday things, really. Just life and experiences, things like that.

Here is the picture I came across.

This could be very helpful when thinking about ideas for our own DVD cover. The lighting connotes that the band are in darkness, depression almost. And the 'light at the end of the tunnel' could be their music, how they live, and get through every day life.

Filming/Editing/Rough-cut

Today I am aiming to rescue our work that we did before the Christmas break. We almost finished our rough edit, when all of the work on Final Cut Pro that we had done, 'went offline'. If this can be helped, I am also aiming to finish all the filming this week and over the weekend. Once that is done, we will be able to focus solely on editing, perfecting the different cuts and techniques we are using. Furthermore, we can then start work on the Auxiliary tasks, such as the DVD cover and Magazine Ad.

Weekly production notes

We have not uploaded any of our production notes that we have been making. Every week since the start of the project we have been recording our aims and the deadlines for those aims. Here are the production notes that we completed on a weekly basis.

As you can see, during some weeks we did not meet the deadlines we set ourselves, therefore we had to carry the same items and aims onto the next weeks work.

Another problem

After creating our (very) rough cut of the music video, all the footage we had suddenly went 'offline'. At some stage we forgot to save all the clips onto the computer, so we were editing from the SD Card memory, when it was taken out, all the footage went offline. Hopefully we can get around this by just saving the clips to the computer.