Progress Report

This week after filming we have been busy getting everything together to make our final video. Doug has been editing the fottage together with help from Dan, with two people working on the editing it helps make the video better because more ideas are getting raised. We have had some problems with the footage as Doug started creating the music video at home then carrying it on at college, however the computer couldn't recognise the file. This meant we had to start importing the files again into Final Cut, although each time you import a file the clip has to  be rendered. With the higher size clips the longer it takes to render, at one time it took 40 mintues so this was taking up a lot of our editing time. This has set us back a while and off schedule, but over the next few weeks we hope to catch up.
 After filming last week we asked the band to record the song so it would be easier to edit and the sound quailty would be better. However when going to get the song they hadn't recorded it because of a mess up with the studio. We have now set a new date to have it ready for us by the start of next week, and sorted out a time when the band can record the song together.
While sorting out these problems I have been making sure all our paper work is up to date such as the storyboards, shot lists and location sheet are all done and correct.

Day of filming

Today we did the filming for our music video, we had planned to start filming at 10.30. We had a few problems to start off with as one of the band members didn't get into college untill 11, however this did give us time to get some of the individual shots done of the others first. Our location didn't really stand out because we were just in a standard room however we might be able to do something in the editting and add some effects to make it stand out more.

 Another problem we had, we forgot to ask the band if they had a recording of the song they wanted to do, and they didn't but this wasn't a problem because they will be recording that next week and get it to us as soon as possible. Normally when you film a music video you play the recorded verison of the song and the band mime to the song and in the editting process you lip syinc the song with the filming. We will still do this it will just be a little bit harder to get the clips to fit with the filming. Once we had all the band members we started looking into how we wanted the video to work. We came up with the idea of the band walking into the rehersal and setting up their equipment and plugging in their guitars and getting ready to play their song.

Scott was filming all the footage, Doug was directing all the shots and I was making sure we had all the equipment to hand and all the band members knew what they were doing. Unfortunately Dan couldn't make the film as he was unwell.We had individual shots of the band and now we needed to do the shots of setting up, for this we did over the shoulder shots of the band walking into the room, and then another shot on the other side of the door of them coming into the studio. We also did close up shots of them plugging in their equipment. We then began filming the song a number of times each time changing where the camera was. On one of the takes we used the dolly, this is like a tripod however it's on wheels so you can move the dolly around while getting steady shots.

 The good thing about this band is they are easy to get hold of so if we wanted to get some more footage I think this would be easy to do. However if we did this again I would make sure we had a list with us of all the different shots we wanted to use, and got some more footage of the band messing around as this is what their fans would want to see.

No Band!

This week our band Forest have decided they can't do the music video anymore, as they can't all be free for one day as they all have exams and coursework to do. Instead of us trying to waste time to get the band together we have decided to contact other local groups.We have now had to search for some different bands. I have been looking at some local events and local gigs to find some bands I could contact. At a radio station where I volonteer, we have an unsigined chart this is where local bands enter a top 5 chart of Cambridge and see if they can stay in the top 5. From this I have contacted some bands and got response from the band called The Varsity that we could use. They were free later that night to film, however Scott and Dan weren't in college so they wouldn't have be able to film. It was also late for us to book equipment and know what sort of filming we wanted to do. We also wouldn't of have time to look into the song and think about shots for the music video. We have kept this band in mind incase anything goes wrong. We also asked at the college music department if they knew of a band we could use, they sugested a band called The post. They have rehearsal sessions on a Friday morning so we thought we would use this band as they are easy to get hold of and we can make the music video about the band and their rehearsals. Tonight we will be planning what shots and angles we will be doing. Also searching into the song and to see when to use particular shots

Equipment cost

Today I looked into how much it would be to hire a camera for our filming. We are alowed to use our college camera's but if we were doing it without the college we would have to think about a buget and cost of equipment. I looked on google and found a website that lets you rent out equipment, they had good prices however you couldn't rentout equpiment for just one day. Although this could be good if we forget something when filming we wouldn't have to worry not having the equipment long enough. Instead of using a large cannon camera we found a Canon 5D MKII this still gives high quaility footage just a smaller camera. This was £75.00 for 3 days this is a lot cheaper than other video cameras and this camera is meant for shooting short music videos.
We also thought we would need a tripod to get steady images of the band. We made sure we were looking at the right tripod to fit the camera this was £30 for 3 days.Also for our camera to work we would need a memory card when you hire the camera you get a battery and charger and a 8GB memory card however this might not be enough so we looked to see how much a  card with a bigger memory would be. We went for the highest memory card we could find which was 64GB.To make sure we would have enough space for all the footage this was £18.00. In total this all came to £123 for 3 days of filming.