Thursday, 17 December 2009
Friday, 11 December 2009
27/09/2009.
Today we began planning our video. we decided to go for a You Me At Six song called If i were In Your Shoes. We went out to look for some abandonned buildings on the second part of the lesson with a still camera. We went out to old trafford where Andy knew the locations of some abandonned building. When we got there we thought it was way too dark, there was no power supply anywhere and no room to fit a car in because we thought we could use the headlights from the car as an alternative.
Today we began planning our video. we decided to go for a You Me At Six song called If i were In Your Shoes. We went out to look for some abandonned buildings on the second part of the lesson with a still camera. We went out to old trafford where Andy knew the locations of some abandonned building. When we got there we thought it was way too dark, there was no power supply anywhere and no room to fit a car in because we thought we could use the headlights from the car as an alternative.
29/09/2009
We failed to make progress on the previous lesson. We then decided to have a chat about scrapping the song and choosing a more retro-like song because everyone was doing the same modern genre. After a few intense minutes, we decided to change the song and do Crosstown Traffic by Jimi Hendrix. We all came up with really good ideas as we listened to the song more often. One of our first ideas was to go out and get close shots, medium shots and zoom shots of traffic around Manchester city center. For this we needed a sunny day. However, the day we planned it on was dark, cloudy so we continued to plan and organize a plan for shooting the next time we had Media Studies.
We failed to make progress on the previous lesson. We then decided to have a chat about scrapping the song and choosing a more retro-like song because everyone was doing the same modern genre. After a few intense minutes, we decided to change the song and do Crosstown Traffic by Jimi Hendrix. We all came up with really good ideas as we listened to the song more often. One of our first ideas was to go out and get close shots, medium shots and zoom shots of traffic around Manchester city center. For this we needed a sunny day. However, the day we planned it on was dark, cloudy so we continued to plan and organize a plan for shooting the next time we had Media Studies.
29/09/2009
Today was a perfect sunny day as we had hoped for. we took out the cameras and tripod and all equipment nessecary for shooting. We walked to town to make sure we didnt miss anything intersting like going over the Loreto bridge which allows you to shoot some great shots of fast moving traffic from the bridge. We didn't wait till we got to town before we began filming. Instead, we filmed as we went along. There is this great view from a bar looking all the way down on Oxford road which has a slope and gives a perfect view of all the traffic giong to and from Manchester. We collected atleast 30 minutes worth of footage.
Today was a perfect sunny day as we had hoped for. we took out the cameras and tripod and all equipment nessecary for shooting. We walked to town to make sure we didnt miss anything intersting like going over the Loreto bridge which allows you to shoot some great shots of fast moving traffic from the bridge. We didn't wait till we got to town before we began filming. Instead, we filmed as we went along. There is this great view from a bar looking all the way down on Oxford road which has a slope and gives a perfect view of all the traffic giong to and from Manchester. We collected atleast 30 minutes worth of footage.
01/10/2009
Today, we handed the raw footage over to Sam. He put it up on the Mac and onto Final Cut Pro. Our plan with the footage was to keep it in sync with the intro of the song which is really fast paced. We got the first ten second edited but the cuts didnt really seem as upbeat as we hoped them to be. Then sam suggested we should make the cuts twice as fast to give it that upbeat feel to it. we did that and we giot exactly what we wanted. But then we all thought it looked too modern and decided to set the contras up and give it sepia tone to give the illusion that it was filmed in the late sixties and early seventies. It was perfect...
Today, we handed the raw footage over to Sam. He put it up on the Mac and onto Final Cut Pro. Our plan with the footage was to keep it in sync with the intro of the song which is really fast paced. We got the first ten second edited but the cuts didnt really seem as upbeat as we hoped them to be. Then sam suggested we should make the cuts twice as fast to give it that upbeat feel to it. we did that and we giot exactly what we wanted. But then we all thought it looked too modern and decided to set the contras up and give it sepia tone to give the illusion that it was filmed in the late sixties and early seventies. It was perfect...
06/10/2009
Our lesson today began in the afternoon straight after lunch. We got together at lunch to set up the drum kit, guitar and bass to begin filming band shots. We filmed it in the theatre which is equipped with lights and sound. A dark light was set to give it a mise on scene of a gig. The shots we needed were collected. we got still shots and some hand held shots too. especially on the drum kit to emphasise the power and loudness of the instrument.
Our lesson today began in the afternoon straight after lunch. We got together at lunch to set up the drum kit, guitar and bass to begin filming band shots. We filmed it in the theatre which is equipped with lights and sound. A dark light was set to give it a mise on scene of a gig. The shots we needed were collected. we got still shots and some hand held shots too. especially on the drum kit to emphasise the power and loudness of the instrument.
13/10/2009
Editing in the previous lesson took alot of time as we could not produce a sloppy piece of work. Whilst Sam continued editing, me and Andy went back to the drwaing board. We came up with the fantastic idea to make the video really phsycadelic by having a funky background on the green screen whilst we dance around as if we were on acid. The plan is now set for the next lesson.
Editing in the previous lesson took alot of time as we could not produce a sloppy piece of work. Whilst Sam continued editing, me and Andy went back to the drwaing board. We came up with the fantastic idea to make the video really phsycadelic by having a funky background on the green screen whilst we dance around as if we were on acid. The plan is now set for the next lesson.
15/10/2009
Sam edited all the way throught the lesson today and we helped him out by telling him what to do and giving him ideas. We were not allowed to use the green screen during lesson time as this got in the way of people who were constantly waling in and out of the room. We stayed behind to film with the green screen. As we were setting up, we saw a green blanket which had a slightly darker tinge to the green screen itself so we had our doubts. we thought that if we wrapped ourselves around it it would give the illusion that our heads were floating. As the song played, we sang along to it to make lip sinking easier for Sam. filming went succsesful.
Sam edited all the way throught the lesson today and we helped him out by telling him what to do and giving him ideas. We were not allowed to use the green screen during lesson time as this got in the way of people who were constantly waling in and out of the room. We stayed behind to film with the green screen. As we were setting up, we saw a green blanket which had a slightly darker tinge to the green screen itself so we had our doubts. we thought that if we wrapped ourselves around it it would give the illusion that our heads were floating. As the song played, we sang along to it to make lip sinking easier for Sam. filming went succsesful.
Tuesday, 1 December 2009
Media Technologies
in our media production we used a variety of different technologies. we used a video camera, greenscreen, and mainly the final cut pro editing software on the Mac computers. the green screen was used in our video to create the floating head effect used in the first verse of the video and in the chorus where the lyric "cross town traffic" was played, we also used them at random intervals in the video to keep the viewer interested. final cut pro was the editing software we used to create our video. it had various effects, shot transitions and various other features helping to make our music video more professional. we used various effects on our music video to make it look more interesting to the eye of the viewer and to give it the style that we wanted to give it which was retro 60s style with a modernised touch.
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