Ending Scene

Filming (1)

Yesterday we had our first day of filming, in total there are 50 video clips, a lot of them having mistakes in them but we managed to get all the shots we planned to film and I have started editing them on Premiere Pro.

Premier Pro Editing Test

I edited some of the time lapse footage to see how it could look once it's in our video. I used a circle which was feathered to create a vignette effect. I also tested some colour correction to make certain colours (the sky) stand out more than the darker colours, I then also desaturated the footage leaving it with a dulled colour look.

Student Advert Analysis

This is an advert made by a past media student, looking at it I can straight away see some things I would do differently. The images are quite low quality so I'd ensure those were higher, the text is also hard to read due to how small it is and the colour of the background/text makes it even harder to read.

Another thing that I would change it the layout of the advert, the text seems to be all over the place and doesn't flow very well, I do however like the idea of the image, with the microphone being left on the floor but I feel like this is an advert aimed at people who are already fans of the band as if it was aiming at new fans it would show images of the band so they can see.

The Script #3 Advert Analysis

This is a poster advertising The Script's album, #3. As with most male bands, there is one person, usually the lead singer, who is seen as the figurehead of the band and most advertising is based around them, as seen in this advert where Danny's head is the largest and the other band members are layered over the top of his head.

In this advert, there is a 2/3 split, where at the top of the page the band's name and the name of the album are displayed, the image of the band members is directly in the center of this advert, making it the first thing that you see and specifically, as his image is largest, Danny is the first band member that you notice which impies that he is the lead singer.

At the bottom of the page, there is information about when the advert is due to be released and a link to their website. I like this advert as it is simplistic and to the point, there aren't any quotes from reviews or anything trying to promote how good the band is which keeps it clean and for that reason I would assume this advert is directed towards people who are already fans of The Script as opposed to the advert aiming to attract new fans.

Time-lapse Footage

Today I was able to film some of the time-lapse footage which we will be using as a filler in our music video. There are a few more scenes we want to have in time-lapse format but this is an example of one of them.

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Production Schedule

We will split up our shoots into the different scenes so we're able to complete multiple scenes on one day, these are the things we will be filming together:

Shoot 1)

• Cafe Scene - Where both Renatas and Rosie are sitting in a cafe at the window, a bus goes past (which we will then edit so that Rosie disappears as it goes past)
• Train Scene - We will film them on a train together, we will be able to do this while on the train when we're on our way to film other scenes (such as outdoor filler footage and the cafe scene)
• Outdoor filler footage (walking in a park) - He/they will be walking in a park, he will also be singing whilst doing this.

Shoot 2)

• Indoor filler footage (singing) - He will be singing with a guitar, singing whilst sitting in a chair and singing for the initial line of the song where the camera will move around him.
• Fireplace scene - Here he will be burning photographs of them together in the fireplace, here we'll also get footage for the transition into the train scene.
• Fight scene - Only their bodies will be in the scene and we'll make sure their body language makes it clear that they're fighting.
• Bonfire Scene - They will be sitting around a bonfire with some friends, we will need to get footage of them sitting apart from each other  noticing each other and then sitting with and laughing with each other.
• Ending scene - They notice each other from across the road and go their separate ways.

Shoot 3)

• Time-lapse filler footage - Time-lapse of clouds moving across the sky, busy streets (both cars and people), trees and their shadows moving.

By Dean

Name Selection

Luke - 3 votes
Eric- 0 votes
Luka - 0 votes
Lewis - 0 votes
Jayson - 1 votes
Jordan - 1 votes
Taylor - 2 votes

Green - 0 votes
Black - 1 votes
Grey - 2 votes
Hayes - 2 votes
Wilde - 1 votes
Drake - 0 votes

In the end we chose to have 'Luke Grey' as our frontman's name considering it suited well with Renatas as a person.

Animatic

Emma drew out pictures to have in our animatic, I then scanned them into the computer and edited them using Adobe Premier Pro to get everything in time, this is a rough outline of how we plan for our video to look. Some things may still be edited as they will look different when using actual footage and things may have to be changed, but for now this should give a general idea of how the video will look.



Update 16/04/15:
We have had to replace a few scenes with different things, most of them are still the same concept but are just done differently. We are changing the beginning campfire scene to them being in a park when they meet as we couldn't find anywhere that the campfire would look good and don't have enough people available for it. We're also changing the cafe scene, instead of a bus going past and her disappearing we will have them sitting together in a restaurant and the camera will pan between them both, eventually she will be gone.