Plan for Shooting - Update

Unfortunately we are unable to film today due to our main singer suddenly becoming ill, therefore we will fall slightly short when it comes to the rough cut deadline.

Therefore we will hopefully be able to film over this weekend and therefore be able to conclude our filming entirely and focus on editing.

We will try to make up for this with working extra hard in the upcoming weeks.

PLAN FOR SHOOTING - 27TH NOV

Todays Lesson 26th Nov. & Plan for tomorrow 27th Nov.

ALMOST DONE WITH THE ROUGH CUT OF OUR VIDEO! 

YAAY

Just spending todays three hour lesson, editing our music video. Editing things like the voice of the singer and syncing it to the voice of the actual singer. 

The plan for tomorrow is that we are going to film around finsbury park, outside Jakub's friend, Joe's house and also Jakub house. 

26TH NOV - TODAYS LESSON

The final finishing touches are being put to our rough cut. This includes:

• Sharpening up the cuts
• adding effects when needed
• syncing up the music with the video

Me and Rahena will continue to update the blog to the best of our ability.

MARY'S FEEDBACK - 24TH NOV

TODAYS LESSON - 24TH NOV

More of the same today, Jakub has completed the rough cut more or less as is now going to continue polishing it up for the deadline on Wednesday. Samet and I will carry on with updating the blog.

GIF OF POSSIBLE DIGIPAK IMAGES

WHAT WE NEED TO WORK ON

19th Wednesday Nov.

Todays lesson, we are still editing our rough cut music video. Jakub is firing away editing it while me, devon and samet blog on our blog page; updating what is going on and what is yet to come. 

Our rough cut is due next week wednesday, so we only have about a week or so left to make our rough cut perfect. 

FEEDBACK FROM DAN

TODAYS LESSON - NOV 19TH

Today Jakub and I are working in together to progress with this project. Jakub will once again be working on the edit of the rough cut which is due in a week from today. I will be updating the blog today to the best of my ability.

Last lesson Jakub stayed behind at lunch to try and push the project onwards. The reason for this was that he had to start the editing process over again. This was because of the issue we had with the clips being unrendered. This could be considered a setback however what we have now edit wise, i would consider better than what we had before.

Hopefully today we can push on even further!

Carol Vernalis and our Music Video (samet)

Narrative-  Carol Vernalis describes her theory particularly with the narrative aspect, and she believes that the video is a response to the lyrics and narrative. Therefore, whatever happens on screen; visually, reflects on the choice of the lyrics from the singer. Our music video tends to reflect the lyrics of the singer in some manner as well, for example, the lyrics describes how the singer(actor) had met a girl and fallen in love with her and everything goes well with them but the girls cheats on him, in our video we followed the narrative and our actor Devon had a girlfriend but then he finds out that she cheats on him. One particular part which i would like to look closely is the lyrics saying, "until you disappeared with him, to have sex of course" over here we could understand that of course the girl had an affair with another person, and in our video we made a scene/shot where Devon finds out in a party that his girlfriend is cheating on him with another person as well. we have not quite finished our filming so i cannot provide images yet. 

Editing- Vernalis also claims that a convention of music editing is that the video may break conventions of continuity editing. For example, Vernalis says that in order for this to work the audience may see : Jump Cuts, Breaking the 4th wall and the 30 degree rule, slow motion and changes in pace. In our video we meet these factors brought up by Carol, except the slow motion effect as we chose not to apply it on our editing. firstly, we have many jump cut shots in our video, as the music has a fast pace and in order for the audience to stay engaged with the video; visually there has to be a rapid pace. Devon, our main actor in the video stays in contact with the camera throughout the video so as the theory points out we do break the 4th wall and our actor does keep eye contact with the camera this happens a lot at all the base tracks. Also, we do have changes in pace because, its a must as the audience has to find the video interesting rather than watching a steady pace and getting them bored. for example, the change in pace occurs when the beat drops in the music. 

Camera movements and Framing-  Carol Vernalis states that establishing shots are definitely one of the key camera  features of a music video and are used frequently in a music video as well as close up shots. we have many types of shots in our video for example, close ups, long shots mid shot, low angle, panning and etc. for example, in the beginning of the video we have a close up shot of Devon's face to start the video and where he sings the lyrics. we have a low angle, where Devon walks down the stairs and the camera is looking up to him, also when he leaves his house door the camera follows him from the side whilst walking to practice the panning shot. 

Diegesis- Plot - Diegesis is the world of music videos and Vernalis says how it would be explained and revealed slowly as the video progresses. In our video we meet this claim and as the narrative explains how the person finds out their girlfriend cheated on them by having an affair. In our video we have we stat with Devon singing to the music and getting ready, travelling to the party and they drink get drunk and he finds his girlfriend with someone else. 

FILMING 16TH NOV

On Sunday 16th November we filmed in Tufnell Park and in Haringey by Manor House. We had originally intended to film the day before as stated before in a previous blog however there were issues with meeting on that day, so we postponed for a day. At Jakub's house in Tufnell park we filmed the scene where Dirty Devon discovers that his girlfriend had cheated on him with the wonderful Jakub himself. This involved getting shots of the girlfriend and Jakub together and shots of Dirty Devon knocking on the door. We then left for Manor House so that we could get shots of me leaving the front door of Jakub's friend's house which we used to get the roof shots a few weeks ago.

Overall we did well with the time we had. For next time shooting we aim to finish all the filming off for good now as we only have the ending scene to do from now. 

17th Monday Lesson

In today's lesson, the whole class is editing again. 

We are all at the stage where it's all about editing and filming bits we didn't do yet or need to reshoot again.

Jakub is busy editing while the rest of us are busy uploading blogs. 

So all in all, everything is going well! 

TODAYS LESSON 17th NOV

In todays lesson we plan to further the progress in the editing. What we need to do is:

• Get the majority of the second verse done.
• Put the new shots from this weekend in to the pile of other clips we have.
• Sort out the rendering issue with our clips

It also helps that we are in the editing suite as we can make full use of the equipment and facilities. 

THE PITCH

Complication with editing

Since we have filmed our music video on jakubs own camera, it has been difficult editing on a computer that has a software that is programmed to allow the college cameras be able to edit swiftly. 
We have been having to render every bit of editing that we did and it has proven to be taking up too much time. 
Luckily, we have had some help from the technichians and we have changed the format around. So hopefully, we wont be having a problem with rendering every two minutes! 

MY PROGRESS - DEVON

Since my cause for concern i have improved drastically. I am now much more enthusiastic about coming to media as i now know Im on track.

Things i have improved on:

• Blog is up to date.
• I have excelled at reaching my blogging targets. I was asked to reached 45 blogs by the 7th Nov, i had 51 on that day. I was then asked to reach 55 blogs by the 17th, i will have 56 once this blog is posted.
• Filming is a regular occurrence.
• Communication with other group members is good.
• I act on feedback given to me by teachers and peers.

Overall i am happy with my level of work in and out of class and hopefully i can maintain this throughout the year from now on.

Todays Lesson 12th Nov.

We are using the three hour lesson to edit our music video; adding in what the things we filmed over the past few days. 

There are some improvements we need to make and also need to add in more scenes; but all that will happen on another day. For today, editing the things we have. 

Absence (samet)

Im sorry i couldnt attend to todays lesson because i was ill but if my group could leave me some notes on our blog of any tasks i have to do or blogs i need to post i could do it 

FEEDBACK FROM DAN

After Dan had watched what we have put together, he highlighted ways in which to improve it. One thing that he highlighted was that the video was throughly based around one character and pretty much every shot had Dirty Devon in it. He said that we should add variety to the contents of our shots whether it be another character or even another item or location.

For inspiration as to how we could improve it, he showed us a music video by John Grant called "GMF".

As this music video is based around one character, it shows how to effectively incorporate other characters, locations and items into our music video to add variety and make it more engaging for the audience.

SATURDAY 15TH NOV - FINISHING FILMING?

On Saturday we hope to finish our filming by getting the last shots to end the music video. In these shots we plan to get someone to play Dirty Devon's girlfriend who cheats on him with someone else.

What we need to do for Saturday:

• Sort out the issue of who will play the girlfriend
• Sort out who will play the guy she cheats with
• The location for the filming

Filming on Saturday 8th Nov.

Saturday was a close call! We done all the filming we needed to do just before it started pouring down with rain. 
We arrived at Jakub's friends, Joe's house to shoot the party scene. 
After we arrived, Joe took us down to the basement to set up the camera equipment. 

I was put in charge of taking photo's during the course of that day; so i did exactly that. The moment i got the camera, i started taking photos of devon and jakub getting ready for the music video. 

Camera Set. 
Singer Ready. 
Off We Went. 

We continuously shot the party scene until we got it perfect. 
After that, we went outside and filmed 'dirty devon' singing on the street at the bus top. 

We went back to the house and waited for it to get a little dark outside so it would be right for the particular scene we wanted to film. The scene is when 'dirty devon' approaches the party house and knocks on the door. 
Filming and taking photo's of that part was very funny indeed. 

We needed an extra person to act out opening the door to 'dirty devon' and joe was up for it.  Filming it was a mission but we did it. 
We wanted the point of view to be from joe and so we had to put the camera in front of him in order to show what he saw. 
The position Jakub, the camera man, had to get into was hilarious!  

We also shot a part where 'dirty devon' is in the living room, singing. A little furry friend called Bonnie decided to jump into the shot when we were filming which was quite funny.

We then moved down to the garden where we did another base track. It was dark and 'dirty devon' was cold but it had to be done. 

Finally we shot one of the last base track which was on the roof. The roof was as flat as it can be and it was perfectly safe for us to film. We just made sure that we didn't go anywhere near the edge. 
The night arrived, as we continued to film on the roof. But then, Rain! It poured down with rain like never before; luckily we were content with the amount we did on the roof. 
It was so funny watching devon and jakub getting through the high window to get on to the roof and coming back after filming. Some great pictures were captured!  

The Journey home was wet and soggy; not pleasant at all. 

No Pictures Uploaded Yet. Will Do Soon.

FILMING PICKUPS

Yesterday afternoon, Jakub came round to my house to film anything we needed to reshoot for the first verse of the song. We had established beforehand that two parts of what we had filmed already needed to be redone to a better standard.

The first shot we had to reshoot was the shot of Dirty Devon coming down the stairs. The problem with the original shot was that at the start i was standing still, which stopped the flow of movement in the whole piece which is a key element to what we are trying to show. When we reshot this, we made sure i walked into it so that everything flowed nicely.

The next shot we had to reshoot, was the shot of Dirty Devon leaving his house. The problem with the original shot was that the lighting in the porch was too dark and this meant you couldn't see what Dirty Devon was saying. When we reshot this, we got closer to the door from a different angle meaning that we would see Dirty Devon when there was natural sunlight on him. This meant that we could now clearly see him and all his actions.

Todays Editing and plan

We have spent the morning edit the rough cut to our music video. Jakub has edited most of the clips. there are still some shaky bits such as the lyrics not being sync with Devon our singer, but no worries, we will perfect it all very soon.

We have planned to finish our filming on Saturday (8th Nov.). We will meet at 2 o'clock and start filming as soon as we have arrive at Jakub's friends house.
The party scene for the music video is what we need to film.
After that, on a monday or a tuesday (10/11th Nov.), we will go to Devons house to reshoot some bits of the scene that has gone wrong. 

Analysis of digipak which relates to our genre

Random Access Memories is the fourth studio album by french electronic music due Daft Punk.
 I have chosen this Digipak to look at because the genre of Daft Punk's music is similar to ours: Disco and Electronic. even though our music video isn't in the genre of electronic, the music does involve a sense of disco as it takes place in a house party and the genre is drum and bass. For example, in one of the singles, in this album the tune 'Lose yourself to dance' the genre is disco and funk, and hence our music video isn't only targeted at young adults and its also targeted at those adults who 'live young' and keep up with the new generations music trend. the music video in this music is at a disco and it involves many people dancing and the artist wearing flash and attractive clothes. i though this related to our music video as our music is targeted to get people dancing and the video would be at a house party. Also, in our video our artist 'Dirty Devon' has his hat which is symbolic for him and in Daft Pun's videos and Digipak we could see his 'helmet' as he always wears it during his music videos as well. 

Example of house party music videos

I have found this Video randomly while examining music videos which involves house parties, because our music video would also be set at a house party
 One thing which is really obvious in this video is that because the music involves a fast pace and rythm, so there is an extremely high number of shots. i think the reason being for this is that even though the music is a partying music when the audience watch the video they shouldn't get bored because the music's rythm is fast and if the video involves a low number of shots it wouldn't match the music.
Also, in this video the shots have great editing with effects and the movement of camera, because when we think about it people in the party is going to be drunk so to reflect the narrative where people are hyperactice and full of energy the camera has to be constantly on the move and make the audience see a variety of shots in a fast pace rather getting them to concentrate on small things.
In addition, the use of special effects has also a positive effect as it does seem interesting rather than a plain mainstream video.

ANALYSIS OF PREVIOUS STUDENT WORK

12. Kimberley, Cindy, Quddus, Joyce from 283goswell on Vimeo.


The editing in this video clever. When the tracks drum line comes in the editing is very quick yet slick. It uses the snares in the drum line to match the in and out motion of the editing. this is contrasted to the slower parts of the song where the editing is much slower as well. This was all done to contrast the chorus from verse clearly.

The setting for the video is appropriate. The fact its shot at night emphasises the night time theme of the song. The skate park was an excellent choice of setting as well because it adds to the youthful, urban vibe of the song.

In front of the first wall of graffiti, there is a total of 4 base tracks from different angles against that wall, a base track of the dancer, 2 in the tunnel, 3 in front the second graffiti wall. In total that makes around about 10 base tracks. This allows the group to add a variety of different shots from different angles when it comes to editing.

LETS CELEBRATE 100 POSTS!

This one goes out to all the haters who said we would never make it!

Editing and that

REFLECTION POST - DEVON

Welcome to Devon's reflection hour, with your host Devon!

In this episode we will be discussing the current issue of 'Cause for Concern'. Unfortunately, according to the media department, i have not been up to scratch with my blogs. All 45 of my blog posts (soon to be 46), have been labelled as not detailed enough and infrequent.

To address these issues i need to get into the habit of blogging everyday. if i do this, i wont need to worry out being behind all the time. Also i need to find the motivation and time in my 'always busy' day to add depth, detail and content to my blog posts.

I think the reason i struggle with frequently blogging is the fact i see it as a chore, and due to the fact i see it as a chore, i am easily put off doing and in turn this is probably why my blogs lack detail. Unfortunately, many would consider this an illegitimate excuse for not working, therefore i have to pull my socks up.

Anyway, you have been a wonderful audience! i hope to see you next time when you tune into Devon's Reflection hour

First day of Editing

Today is our first day of editing and even though we haven't completely finished our filming we decided that starting our editing today would help us save time, as we cannot film right now because our our next filming is going to involve filming at a staged house pary; which obviously cant be done at daylight, also, we wouldn't have enough time. 

Reflection Blog

So far i think have improved with my blogging tasks and knowing that was way behind people in my group and class, the rapid increase on the number of blogs has helped my grade to go up as well. i was told by my media teachers Mary and Dan that my progress wasn't really good because of my blogging, so i thought that i had to concentrate more and develop my blogging and i beleive that it has happened and it should be consistent

Potential images for the Digipak/Album Cover