Addition to our locations? (Ellen)..

Today when discussing plans for when we will be filming over our long weekend we decided that we wanted another indoor location for our video. And because of our genre of UK rap we looked at more videos and saw that the use of a white studio was very common but before making it a definite location we'll be testing it this Wednesday.

Examples of videos that use white studios are

Fester Skank Remix:

Lean and Bop (by our original artist):

But because these songs have different themes to ours we want to test it out and make sure it fits in with the overall theme of our video and the lyrics. If it doesn't fit in the footage we get won't be used.

Blogged overview of todays editing

Today , we have reviewed the current footage we have and have seen what we need to improve on. In the lesson we have edited what we have at the moment and have identified some of the base tracks we have at the moment. We have realised that we have loads of Namco world footage but then again this is a good thing as we have loads of footage for the gaps.

Blogging update on filming (Samuel)

So far , the last time we have filmed was at half term. We filmed at Shoreditch as they had nice graffiti paintings which would have a positive effect on our video. However, we realised we only have a small amount of shot types and no close ups of the main artist S.Dot. Therefore , we plan to revisit Shoreditch and get all the missing shots that we need. On the same day ,  we went to London Docklands to film , however it did not go according to plan as on the spot we decided that we dont want to film there no more. The Tuesday after in half term , we went to Namco arcade and filmed many useful shots. This was risky as we visited Namco without asking for permission to film before hand , however our persuasive skills came in handy. We filmed there for around an hour and then we decided we had enough footage. On the same day , we filmed many establishing shots of the London eye and Tower bridge. We traveled to Millennium bridge , planning to film as this was one of our best locations but as we got there , we struggled to film as by passers kept disturbing the filming process and the lights kept shining in their eyes. Therefore we plan to either go there again at a later time e.g 9.30pm or just choose another location.

24 - Digipak ideas

I would like our front cover of the album to be one of the two above images. Firstly , the first image is a close up of the main artist with the synergy of the rings and glasses clearly seen. This would allow the audience to identify the main artist straight away and notice the synergetic items.

The Second image is of the artist and the feature , they are both wearing black clothing which matches our back and white theme. The rings are still seen however the glasses not as much.

I would like the back of my album cover to have the track lists of other songs and close u the main artists back hand with the rings on.

23 - Synergy Incoporation

In terms of synergy with the digipack , advertisment and website(soon to be made). The link between S.Dots glasses and multiple rings will form synergy which will be consistantly used. There will be pictures on the blog of the photoshoot that was taken in lesson of S.Dot and his rings. There will be close ups of his hands doing the prayer pose with the rings showing .

2nd November

As a group , we started filming at Shoreditch during the half term , which was our first base track. On Tuesday , we went to Namco arcade and asked for permission to film in which they granted. Namco was important as our genre is relationship based so we had to film the artists having fun as a 'Couple' or close to a couple. On the same day , we took a bus to millennium bridge ,  as we planned to film another base track there. As we tried to film , passengers repeatedly walked past and it was too busy to film. Therefore we were unable to film and plan to visit the millennium bridge to film again at a later time.  In todays lesson , we plan to review our shots and see what shots we are missing out on ,  we also downloaded our song through camtasia as the song is not on youtube and identified what we need to film next. On Wednesday we plan to film again at shoreditch to get the missing shots , depending on if the weather is as good as it was when we previously filmed.

As you can see the screenshots show some of the things we done in todays lesson. 

Technical run through (Ellen)..

During the holidays we went to our main location Millennium Bridge. We decided we weren't yet ready to fully record what we wanted and figured it was best to have a test run through beforehand.

We took a variety of tests shots practicing how to best angle the lighting and how we would get the best angles of our artists.We experimented different positions for them to be in and the best angles to get the scenery in our shot as well. 

Having done this means when we do come to film in this location we will know exactly what we need to do. Thankfully our artists having learnt the lyrics to our song made this whole process a whole lot easier as it made it easier to get a picture of what we wanted for our video.