Production diary
(Photos to be uploaded in separate posts)
Monday 21st September
Before lesson we had separately thought of an idea for a song each to describe back to others in our group. We all came up with at least one or two ideas each which we the pitched to our group. These songs were all female singers without a music video. Soraya came up with a couple of songs sung by Lana Del Rey, Lucy came up with a couple including Eliza Doolittle and Issy came up with two songs, one 'Night owls, early birds' by Foxes and one by Meghan Trainor.
Once we had listened to all of these songs a few times and got a picture in our heads, we decided on the top two which were both Issy's songs, one being 'Night owls, early birds' and the other 'Walkashame' by Meghan Trainor. Also in this lesson we started to come up with ideas for these songs. At this stage we have flipped between the two songs a lot as we can see them both being potentially successful.
Tuesday 22nd September
Whilst Issy and Soraya created a short PowerPoint presentation to explain our ideas which we will later on present to the class for feedback, Lucy added to the production diary and typed it up from last lesson (21st September) On the presentation, we included our main ideas and a link to the video to let the class know the songs we are thinking of. After this lesson we had decided our best song choice was the song by Meghan Trainor.
Wednesday 23rd September
In lesson today we showed our presentations as a class. We did this to get feedback from other people and to see if they liked our song choice and ideas. We let them listen to both our songs and they gave us very useful feedback which has resulted in us changing the song back to the one by Foxes. We have changed back because people thought we had too similar ideas in the 'Walkashame' song to other videos by that singer as we used a lot of inspiration from her which meant our ideas weren't original.
The other song however was unique and we had more bespoke idea to go with, although some said it wasn't as good as the story line is vague and the pace is sometimes quite slow. Because of this we will have to re think about our ideas.
Thursday 24th September
In todays lesson we started thinking about our ideas and the song. We gathered all of our ideas and started to create an order to the storyboard. Lucy started to create a prop list and looked up prices for these items and where to get them from, for example glitter, glow in the dark paint, paper etc. Issy and Soraya are more of the arty people in the group therefore they began ideas and sketches for the storyboard and canvases we will use. Also, we printed a blank calendar which we all crossed off days we cant do for the media project so we could see when our ideal days for filming will be as it will take a lot of time.
Also after this lesson, we also did a quick lip syncing task. We used the green screen room to film each of us individually to see who was best at lip syncing and performing. Once we had watched these back we made a group decision that Soraya was the best for the part therefore she will be the main singer in the music video.
Also after this lesson, we also did a quick lip syncing task. We used the green screen room to film each of us individually to see who was best at lip syncing and performing. Once we had watched these back we made a group decision that Soraya was the best for the part therefore she will be the main singer in the music video.
Friday 25th September
Issy was absent in todays lesson but Soraya and Lucy started looking into the ideas for our video. Soraya started a mood board for costume, band names and location and Lucy created a mood board for lyrics and ideas for the video, this included the 'art' we will use in the video such as the paint, glitter and glow in the dark paint. We have created a different blog post for these mood boards. In the evening Lucy and Issy both set up cameras in the window of each of our bedrooms to film the sunrise in the morning, we did this to create a time-lapse for the projected images we will use in the video.
Monday 28th September
In todays lesson we went to the DT department in the school to ask for a large piece of wood to use for our canvas, we measured up a size we wanted and took it back to the media department for when we next use it. Also, Issy started the storyboard, Lucy added to the storyboard and Soraya added images to the mood board she was creating by adding photos of possible costumes for the video.
Tuesday 29th September
Monday 28th September
In todays lesson we went to the DT department in the school to ask for a large piece of wood to use for our canvas, we measured up a size we wanted and took it back to the media department for when we next use it. Also, Issy started the storyboard, Lucy added to the storyboard and Soraya added images to the mood board she was creating by adding photos of possible costumes for the video.
Tuesday 29th September
We discussed exactly what we were doing with the canvas as we now had the correct size. Lucy added to the production diary and started looking into locations where we could film our music video shots. Issy and Soraya added to the storyboard and looked at similar artists and bands to ours to see what costumes they wear, what image they have and what locations they use to give us ideas into what we could do.
Also in this lesson Lucy printed off blank 'face makeup templates' so Issy could create the makeup image for Soraya when we film. Makeup is an important thing to consider when filming as it will make Soraya stand out and look professional when filming. We need to think about it looking like the singer type which will then also need to match the outfit and 'look' of the band.
Also in this lesson Lucy printed off blank 'face makeup templates' so Issy could create the makeup image for Soraya when we film. Makeup is an important thing to consider when filming as it will make Soraya stand out and look professional when filming. We need to think about it looking like the singer type which will then also need to match the outfit and 'look' of the band.
Wednesday 30th September
Today was an inset day but we used today to continue with our task. Issy used this time to paint the canvases white at home so they were ready to use when filming, Lucy added to the production diary and looked at the other tasks and made a start to the research of font for the band name and finished and uploaded posts such as prop list, locations and costumes.
Thursday 1st October
In todays lesson, we emailed Mrs Moon, the head of the drama department to ask to use the drama studio for part of our filming. We also emailed the music department to use their drum kit as we need a drum kit for this performance shot in the drama studio. Lucy added to the production diary and Soraya and Issy continued with the storyboard. We also discussed the times we will be filming by comparing our school timetables to see when we were all free. We are hoping to film some performance shots within the next week in the drama studio during school time which we can hopefully use in our media lesson of after school.
Soraya created a twitter page for our band and Lucy created a page for Facebook, we all have access to these accounts so can make them look really professional and can take turns to keep them up to date.
Friday 2nd October
Today was a very productive and creative day but not actually directly towards our music video. We used the whole day focusing on filming by doing a performance task as a big group with other media students with the help of Pete Fraser and Jake, they came in to talk to us and to give us tips to have success with our music videos. They listened to all of our ideas and said something they liked about the idea and what they though we should consider changing. They liked our idea as they liked the illustration involved and believed we could make it successful. However they suggested thinking about locations and how to make it look professional.
The activity we then did in the afternoon helped us a group to gain confidence and knowledge to perform and film performance. Jake is the director to many successful music videos so it was really helpful to listen to his ideas and the way he films. We got to learn how he films certain angels in the video which was also really good to find out.
The activity we then did in the afternoon helped us a group to gain confidence and knowledge to perform and film performance. Jake is the director to many successful music videos so it was really helpful to listen to his ideas and the way he films. We got to learn how he films certain angels in the video which was also really good to find out.
Monday 5th October
In todays lesson we did our first photo-shoot. We changed into different outfits to see what was best for our groups image. Once we had decided on an outfit each we started to take photos of the group inside against a white blank wall. Once we had started to take these photos we realised the lighting wasn't great and made us look pasty so we went outside and used a brick wall instead which was a lot better because the natural light gave us a lot better quality images. We used a camera on a tripod and just filmed us then we took screenshots after for the photos, in our next photo-shoot we hope to use a better camera that is more meant for photos as filming it wasn't giving us clear photos. We managed to get some good photos despite these small problems and have uploaded them separately to our blogs.
In these photos we used Soraya as the main person in the middle as she is the main singer and Issy and Lucy were next to her or slightly behind.
Tuesday 6th October
In todays lesson we did a second photo-shoot, we took more time on this as we used our free period first as well this meant we had the time to carefully decide on photos, lighting, costumes and makeup and had enough time to take many photos which looked a lot better as we had better lighting in the green room. We didn't use any props apart from a chair for the individual photos and we wanted the photos to be indie-pop like so we wore dark colours and had less 'girly poses'. We have all presented these photos on our own blogs to show which ones we all liked and thought were best for the social media sites. Lucy also created an instagram page today which will be similar to the Facebook and twitter pages. All three will have updates and new photos we take to inform the people who are interested in the band.
As well as this, Issy worked on the steal-o-matic for the blog, Lucy added to the production diary and Soraya added to her blog. We all had a look through the photos we took in the photo-shoot and discussed which ones were good and which ones were best in terms of the theme.
Wednesday 7th October
In todays lesson we worked individually towards the editing for the Robbie Williams task which involved adding the videos and music to premiere. We sorted out videos into ones which were best to use and got ones of all the angles we took. We used the whole lesson to do this and continued with the filming for our music video after school. As well as this, Lucy added to the production diary and added to her blog, Issy sorted the time lapse video out and put it onto YouTube and Soraya started looking at CD album covers.
Thursday 8th October
Today we made a decision about changing our music video. We sat down as a group and said that we need to adjust something in our plan because we were a bit confused to where our video was going. We decided that we needed to know exactly what our group was and who was in it because all three of us thought we were being different things, Issy wanted and thought we were a band where as I thought it would be best if it was just Soraya because it seemed to be that we were a band but it was mainly Soraya therefore the theme was a bit muddled for the group.
Finally, we came to the decision that the band was going to be changed to just Soraya, this means we will have to change certain things in the video such as no performance with drums. Although this will cause problems like changes in photos and albums etc. but this will be good for us because Lucy and Issy are now available to film instead of using a tripod.
After making this decision, Lucy added a post to the blog about these changes and added to the production diary whilst Soraya and Issy changed the storyboard because we now need to change certain shots in the video where it was going to be the band performing.
Friday 9th October
In lesson today we discussed what shots we need to get next time filming which was going to be after school today. This footage will be of just Soraya with the projected images in the drama studio. After this we decided to go and film out in the school field because it was a bright and dry day therefore we could make the most of good natural lighting. We went right to the back of the field in the school grounds where there were a few trees. Soraya performed using the tree and grass around her whilst Lucy and Issy filmed her by the use of the tripod and camera.
After school, we stayed for a couple of hours both in the media classroom and the drama studio. We used the time in the classroom to blog and then we took all the filming equipment to the drama studio to film. Luckily a friend of ours Luke knew exactly how all the lighting worked in the drama studio therefore we adjusted the lights to make the background have a hint of purple when Soraya filmed. Again we used a tripod to film and we took 2 cameras to get different angles. After, Lucy took home one camera to film the sunrise on Sunday morning and charged it up.
Sunday 11th October
In todays lesson we worked individually towards the editing for the Robbie Williams task which involved adding the videos and music to premiere. We sorted out videos into ones which were best to use and got ones of all the angles we took. We used the whole lesson to do this and continued with the filming for our music video after school. As well as this, Lucy added to the production diary and added to her blog, Issy sorted the time lapse video out and put it onto YouTube and Soraya started looking at CD album covers.
Thursday 8th October
Today we made a decision about changing our music video. We sat down as a group and said that we need to adjust something in our plan because we were a bit confused to where our video was going. We decided that we needed to know exactly what our group was and who was in it because all three of us thought we were being different things, Issy wanted and thought we were a band where as I thought it would be best if it was just Soraya because it seemed to be that we were a band but it was mainly Soraya therefore the theme was a bit muddled for the group.
Finally, we came to the decision that the band was going to be changed to just Soraya, this means we will have to change certain things in the video such as no performance with drums. Although this will cause problems like changes in photos and albums etc. but this will be good for us because Lucy and Issy are now available to film instead of using a tripod.
After making this decision, Lucy added a post to the blog about these changes and added to the production diary whilst Soraya and Issy changed the storyboard because we now need to change certain shots in the video where it was going to be the band performing.
Friday 9th October
In lesson today we discussed what shots we need to get next time filming which was going to be after school today. This footage will be of just Soraya with the projected images in the drama studio. After this we decided to go and film out in the school field because it was a bright and dry day therefore we could make the most of good natural lighting. We went right to the back of the field in the school grounds where there were a few trees. Soraya performed using the tree and grass around her whilst Lucy and Issy filmed her by the use of the tripod and camera.
After school, we stayed for a couple of hours both in the media classroom and the drama studio. We used the time in the classroom to blog and then we took all the filming equipment to the drama studio to film. Luckily a friend of ours Luke knew exactly how all the lighting worked in the drama studio therefore we adjusted the lights to make the background have a hint of purple when Soraya filmed. Again we used a tripod to film and we took 2 cameras to get different angles. After, Lucy took home one camera to film the sunrise on Sunday morning and charged it up.
Sunday 11th October
Today Lucy went to Galleywood common early at half 7 to film the sunrise, however it wasn't as good as we hoped because it wasn't filmed on a tripod and the clouds covered the sun towards the end of the filming. We could do this again to get better footage by taking a tripod and making sure there are no or little clouds at the time of day. Also today we all went to film in town at the graffiti wall. We chose this location because it goes well with our arty and background based video. We got some really nice shots here as the lighting was great as the sun created nice shadows and made Soraya look even clearer when filming. We filmed here for around 2 hours which gave us plenty of good footage to work with later and at the moment we don't think it is necessary we re-film anything we got, although if we do need to, the location was easy and relatively quick to get to.
Monday 12th October
Issy was absent this lesson but Lucy and Soraya added all the footage we got on Friday and Sunday to premiere and edited the best shots together. We also downloaded the song 'Night owls Early birds' to the computer we will edit on and added this music to the premiere programme we will use.
Tuesday 13th October
Monday 12th October
Issy was absent this lesson but Lucy and Soraya added all the footage we got on Friday and Sunday to premiere and edited the best shots together. We also downloaded the song 'Night owls Early birds' to the computer we will edit on and added this music to the premiere programme we will use.
Tuesday 13th October
Today we used this lesson to plan what Lucy and Issy can do the next few lessons because Soraya is going to be away for a week. We discussed everything that needs doing in order to be ready to film when Soraya is next here. We realised we need to plan making the backgrounds on the canvases so we thought that once Soraya goes, Lucy and Issy can use this time to create these backgrounds, these will be the fire and eye boards which will take a lot of time therefore we will not waste time in lessons and after school as these need to be ready when Soraya gets back. Also in the lesson Soraya created a presentation of digi-pak of similar artists so we had ideas for ours and Lucy and Issy created a PowerPoint on similar websites of other artists also to gather ideas for ours.
Wednesday 14th October
In this lesson we spent the time catching up with blog work such as the production diary, similar websites and digi-pak and started planning the boards for next lesson. Lucy started looking at images of eyes to print off for the eye canvas whilst Issy finished off the similar artists websites.
Thursday 15th October
Soraya was absent again today so myself and Issy started planning the board for the fire background. We went to the art department in school to get some tissue paper in the colours of red, orange and yellow and started discussing how we would present the board. We wasn't sure whether to fill the whole board or just create one flame but we decided the fill the whole board. At first we planned on using the tulle material Lucy had bought but we decided the tissue paper worked a lot nicer as a whole piece on the board so we may use the tulle material for another time in the video with the use of a fan which will make it flicker to look like fire.
Friday 16th October
This lesson and after school consisted of carrying on with the fire background as it needs a lot of detail and time spent on it. We also had help from other people in the class; Max, Marcus, Sophie and Olivia. We created this board but tearing and sticking tissue paper to look like little flames which worked really well, especially the different colours of red, orange and yellow. However we still haven't finished this so we will have to get more tissue paper to finished off the final part. Lucy also got some more images of eyes to print which took a long time as we needed different colours, sizes and types.
Saturday 17th October
Lucy attempted to film the sunrise again this morning but it was less successful than last time because it was too cloudy therefore the sun was blocked. The first filming of this was a lot better but we may still need to try a couple more times to capture a perfect sunrise.
Monday 19th October
Wednesday 14th October
In this lesson we spent the time catching up with blog work such as the production diary, similar websites and digi-pak and started planning the boards for next lesson. Lucy started looking at images of eyes to print off for the eye canvas whilst Issy finished off the similar artists websites.
Thursday 15th October
Soraya was absent again today so myself and Issy started planning the board for the fire background. We went to the art department in school to get some tissue paper in the colours of red, orange and yellow and started discussing how we would present the board. We wasn't sure whether to fill the whole board or just create one flame but we decided the fill the whole board. At first we planned on using the tulle material Lucy had bought but we decided the tissue paper worked a lot nicer as a whole piece on the board so we may use the tulle material for another time in the video with the use of a fan which will make it flicker to look like fire.
Friday 16th October
This lesson and after school consisted of carrying on with the fire background as it needs a lot of detail and time spent on it. We also had help from other people in the class; Max, Marcus, Sophie and Olivia. We created this board but tearing and sticking tissue paper to look like little flames which worked really well, especially the different colours of red, orange and yellow. However we still haven't finished this so we will have to get more tissue paper to finished off the final part. Lucy also got some more images of eyes to print which took a long time as we needed different colours, sizes and types.
Saturday 17th October
Lucy attempted to film the sunrise again this morning but it was less successful than last time because it was too cloudy therefore the sun was blocked. The first filming of this was a lot better but we may still need to try a couple more times to capture a perfect sunrise.
Monday 19th October
Today Soraya didn't make it in time for the media lesson or going back to Issy's to film so Lucy and Issy stayed in media and after school to finish the fire board background and started editing the footage we have got so far. Lucy spent the whole two hours finishing the fire board which has taken around 3 hours to complete. Issy also helped with the board then the last 20 minutes Issy went onto the computer and onto premiere to start editing. Issy got all the recent footage together and added the music.
Tuesday 20th October
Todays lesson was spent filming Soraya with the fire wall which we did outside the classroom on a brick wall. We used chairs and a table to put the board on so Soraya could be seen right with the board. It was good where we filmed this because it was bright as the sunlight shone on the wall and it was slightly breezy therefore the flames we created flickered in the wind which made it look just how we wanted it to. We managed to get a good few shots of Soraya performing and singing against this wall which we then added to our premiere.
Wednesday 21st October
Having our media lesson then lunch straight after today was helpful as we started and finished the background of the eye wall in this time which involved filling the wall with ripped newspaper which will be then filled with eyes printed from Google. The newspaper layer took about 2 hours to complete as we wanted just the black and white print as the background without any images or colour from the newspaper. We covered the board with the print then began to stick the eyes down. Lucy found the eyes and added them to a word document and printed them off. Issy photo-copied these sheets so we had 5 copies of each page, this gave us enough eyes to cover the board. All three of us cut out these eyes which sped up this process which meant we could use the next hour to stick all the eyes down.
Thursday 22nd October
We used this lesson to finish the eye board so we were ready to film after school in primmer assembly hall. When it came to filming, we came across a problem that we couldn't use the hall until half 4 because detention will be held there until that time. We used this time to finish last details on the eye board and we filmed outside as the sun created nice colours with the leaves and the trees. After this we went into the hall to film with the lights and stage. We used the stage lighting to create a dark but spot light in the hall, we had Luke to help us with this as we didn't know how to use the lights where as Luke knew. This was great as we got some really nice shots with this lighting. We had the lights focused on Soraya and the eye background and then we had a go with the fire wall as we had it there so we thought we would quickly make a shot in case it came out better. One problem we had was that Soraya wore plain basic clothing as she would then stand out in front of the backgrounds but this didn't then look good when we had a go with her on the stage as the colours were to similar to the curtain behind her which made her look blended in with it. Overall, we got some nice footage and images that we took whilst filming are shown on our blogs separately to show our layout which we had in the hall and how Soraya performed.
Friday 23rd October
Today we got our footage so far together including shots we got from last night filming in the school hall. We added it all to premiere and Issy started to edit the first few seconds of the video. Whilst she did this Soraya continued with the digi-pack editing and research. She started looking at the photos we had already of her in the green room to play around with album covers. Lucy helped by looking up photos of other similar artists such as Ellie Goulding and added to the production diary and made some blog posts through slide share about the backgrounds and walls we have created for the video as we wanted to show how we made them as it took a long time.
Sunday 24th October
Today (half term) we went to Issy's house to film. We filmed in her garden as it was nice weather and we needed the space and somewhere outside to film the paint wall. We chose Issy's house as she has a large garden and it was easy for us to all get to and she already had the wall painted white at her house. This meant we could easily get there and set up at the end of her garden. We used a bench to put the wall onto which raised it up so Soraya could stand in front of it. We used newspaper to cover up the fence and the bench so we didn't get paint on them. Soraya wore plain clothes so she stood out in front of the white and paint and we covered the wall with this paint to go with the lyrics in the song 'Paint the roads on these walls' we also chose to do this as it goes nicely with our theme to our song which is arty and creative whilst making all our own backgrounds to make it look unique.
We had a few slight issues when filming as we forgot to get a camera and tripod from school on the last day before half term so we had to try and get into school but we couldn't access the cameras as they were locked away in the classroom. Because of this we luckily had access to Sorayas camera and tripod which we used to get some good shots. We spent a good few hours setting up and filming at this location and we hope to use the board again to get some more good footage.
Monday 2nd November
Todays lesson we had a half way evaluation lesson. We filled in some forms to rate our skills about each group member, we believe we have worked well as a group but each of us have different areas to improve which in this lesson we discussed. Issy continued working on the website whist Soraya worked on the digi-pak. Lucy added more to the production diary and what we did each tine filming by adding posts onto the blog about creating the backgrounds and the layout when we film.
Tuesday 3rd November
To go with our half way evaluation we watched some presentations from the classes from last year on what they presented in there lesson. We are going to be doing the same task therefore we needed to see what they did well and what they needed to do better. This meant we could plan and start our presentation to our class. We hope to film a lot of our presentation to make it interesting. As well as this we looked again at our individual tasks such as the website, the digi-pak and the production and filming diaries.
Wednesday 4th November
In todays lesson we did another photo-shoot as we decided we needed a lot more photos for all our social media accounts, our website and our digi-pak. We used the green room in school to have a good lit room which we used Lucy's camera to take photos. With help from Luke and all members of our group we got some nice photos to work with which we can edit to add to websites and our blogs. With this photo-shoot we played around with the lighting and we had a lot of images of Soraya flicking her hair back and forward as this looked really nice and it fit well with out theme of indie pop, our inspiration for this was Ellie Goulding as she used similar images on her digi-pak.
Thursday 5th November
Todays lesson we filmed an interview for our presentation, Issy filmed Lucy being the interviewer and asked Soraya some questions about the music video and what was coming up in the music video. We added this footage to premiere and created a MTV style interview. Issy added this video to YouTube and made a sneak peak video of what was coming up in the music video.
Friday 6th November
Todays lesson we took the time on the presentation. We created a prezi to show the work we have done on websites, social media and the interview which we will be showing to the class. Also today, Soraya finished the digi-pak, Lucy added more to all the social media sites which included images from recent filming and photo-shoots and Issy finished the presentation. We also presented our work to the class and showed everyone our ideas so far for our video, we showed our interview, social media sites, the digi-pak and the website we have produced and we also showed a sneak peak video of our work so far which will contribute to our final piece.
Sunday 8th November
From around half one in the afternoon until about half three today we went back to Issys house to film the paint scenes in her garden again. Luckily the weather was okay as it only rained a little bit and it was cloudy but we still managed to film with good natural lighting. We filmed for these two hours and got some good footage. Our separate blog posts show images and more detail to how we captured these shots.
Monday 9th November
Today we continued with our individual tasks. Issy edited the music video on premiere and will continue to do so the rest of the week. Issy is working on the first few shots of the song and adding text to the first shot as the song and Soraya is introduced. Lucy added to the website by adding some more photos to the gallery and added to the events page. Lucy also started creating some items for the store for merchandise such as phone cases, mugs and bags. Soraya carried on with the digi-pak and added to her blog. Soraya has been looking at different images and colour to add to the album covers.
Tuesday 10th November
We used todays lesson again to work on our own tasks. Issy continued with editing the music video ready for the first draft, Lucy created some phone cases on vistaprint for the websites store and Soraya looked more into text on the digi-pak.
Wednesday 11th November - Friday 13th November
This week again we carried on with our own tasks. Lucy added to the website which now has events up and links to these venues aswell as more images on the gallery and merchandise personalised and up on the store. Lucy has been creating many items that will be available for purchase on the website by the use of vistaprint, these products include mugs, phone cases, bags and lanyards. Issy edited some more of the video which is coming along nicely and Soraya added to the digi-pak. All three tasks are coming along well and we have all been adding to the social media sites such as the twitter, instagram and Facebook pages.
Monday 16th November
Today whilst editing Issy thought we needed some more extreme close up shots so Lucy went to film Soraya lip syncing which Issy then added to the video. As well as this we all continued with our individual tasks. Lucy added to merchandise and the production diary, Issy added even more detail to the editing and Soraya added more detail to the digi-pak by creating the CD cover and the CD design itself. We have all taken these own tasks as we have all got strengths in the things we are doing. Lucy has the strength of writing up detailed descriptions to what we have been doing and is better at research and the website, Issy is the best at editing so has been editing in detail to produce a really good edit and Soraya is the best at designing things to has had the job of creating everything to do with the digi-pak.
Tuesday 17th November
Todays lesson we looked at the work we have done so far by looking and giving feedback to each individual task. Issy showed Soraya and Lucy the editing so far and we decided it looked good but we should either re-film or remove darker shots. Soraya showed the digi-pak and it looks really professional and Lucy showed the website and the store and merchandise is looking really good but needs to be finished.
Wednesday 18th November
Today we decided that Lucy and Issy would change tasks, Issy had been working on editing for the first half of the song and Lucy is now going to finish the editing of the second half of the draft. Soraya is going to continue the digi-pak as she is nearly finished and is doing a great job of it. Issy is now doing the website and may add more to the merchandise. With editing, Issy had done the whole of the first half of the song so when Lucy took over she will be doing the second half and adding extra effects such as adjusting contrast and brightness.
Thursday 19th November
Lucy carried on with editing, this involved asking people for feedback and adjusting these changes. For example Miss Brookes said at the start a couple of shots needed to changed as they used the same location after each other which defeated the look to our video which uses many different locations. Lucy also added another 30 seconds to the video which includes the chorus. Issy created some more features to the website which includes some return buttons on the store page. Soraya added some more to the album cover, this involved adding a CD design which looks great as it uses the paint background from filming.
Friday 20th November
Issy added some more features to the website such as more images for the gallery, Soraya added more colour and re-arranged the look of the digi-pak and Lucy added more footage to the video and added some effects. So far the draft only has about 30 seconds left which includes the last chorus so we only need to finish this and add effects in order to finish the draft.
Monday 23rd November
Today Soraya was absent from the lesson but Lucy and Issy changed back to our first tasks, we decided Issy was more suited to the editing and Lucy was more suited to the website so we swapped again so we were back to our original tasks. Lucy carried on with the merchandise and added to the production diary and Issy continued with editing and looking at the less effective shots in the video. We decided as a pair that we both preferred the exterior shots and Mr Amato agreed so we thought it looked best if we removed the interior shots as they don't look as crisp and detailed.
Tuesday 24th November
Todays lesson Issy showed Soraya the editing so far. They continued with the editing and added more the last few minutes of the song. Lucy added some more products to the merchandise on the website by using personalise websites such as funkypigeon.com and vistaprint. So far we have a couple of mugs, a phone case and now a t-shirt, we hope to create a few more products for the website. Issy has now finished off the editing final draft order, we now just need to add effects, recieve feedback and add improvements from the comments we will get. Lucy started collecting some feedback and started typing it up on 'emaze' whilst Issy started adding effects on the video and Soraya continued the digipak.
Wednesday 25th November
At the start of the lesson, we got together as a group and watched the video, we agreed we all really liked the first draft so far. We then gathered both Miss Field and Miss Brookes and 5 other people from the class including two from another class working in the room to get some feedback. Getting feedback from the two students who are in another media class was really useful as it was really good to hear there comments as they are both really good media students. All the feedback we got was really helpful as we got specific shot feedback rather then the whole song which will really help when adding improvements. With this feedback, Lucy carried on creating the emaze presentation and Issy started adding effects to improve the lighting and brightness.
Thursday 26th November
Issy and Lucy used their free to add posts to the blogs. Lucy added to the production diary and Issy looked at the digipak and added most updated images to her blog. In lesson Soraya completed another digipak image and now she has just a couple more to do to finish. Soraya has taken a lot of time and effort for each image therefore they all look really nice and look nice together as they all have the same colours and themes. Issy added final effects and filters to the music video and Lucy added to the website, the website presentation and the production diary.
Tuesday 20th October
Todays lesson was spent filming Soraya with the fire wall which we did outside the classroom on a brick wall. We used chairs and a table to put the board on so Soraya could be seen right with the board. It was good where we filmed this because it was bright as the sunlight shone on the wall and it was slightly breezy therefore the flames we created flickered in the wind which made it look just how we wanted it to. We managed to get a good few shots of Soraya performing and singing against this wall which we then added to our premiere.
Wednesday 21st October
Having our media lesson then lunch straight after today was helpful as we started and finished the background of the eye wall in this time which involved filling the wall with ripped newspaper which will be then filled with eyes printed from Google. The newspaper layer took about 2 hours to complete as we wanted just the black and white print as the background without any images or colour from the newspaper. We covered the board with the print then began to stick the eyes down. Lucy found the eyes and added them to a word document and printed them off. Issy photo-copied these sheets so we had 5 copies of each page, this gave us enough eyes to cover the board. All three of us cut out these eyes which sped up this process which meant we could use the next hour to stick all the eyes down.
Thursday 22nd October
We used this lesson to finish the eye board so we were ready to film after school in primmer assembly hall. When it came to filming, we came across a problem that we couldn't use the hall until half 4 because detention will be held there until that time. We used this time to finish last details on the eye board and we filmed outside as the sun created nice colours with the leaves and the trees. After this we went into the hall to film with the lights and stage. We used the stage lighting to create a dark but spot light in the hall, we had Luke to help us with this as we didn't know how to use the lights where as Luke knew. This was great as we got some really nice shots with this lighting. We had the lights focused on Soraya and the eye background and then we had a go with the fire wall as we had it there so we thought we would quickly make a shot in case it came out better. One problem we had was that Soraya wore plain basic clothing as she would then stand out in front of the backgrounds but this didn't then look good when we had a go with her on the stage as the colours were to similar to the curtain behind her which made her look blended in with it. Overall, we got some nice footage and images that we took whilst filming are shown on our blogs separately to show our layout which we had in the hall and how Soraya performed.
Friday 23rd October
Today we got our footage so far together including shots we got from last night filming in the school hall. We added it all to premiere and Issy started to edit the first few seconds of the video. Whilst she did this Soraya continued with the digi-pack editing and research. She started looking at the photos we had already of her in the green room to play around with album covers. Lucy helped by looking up photos of other similar artists such as Ellie Goulding and added to the production diary and made some blog posts through slide share about the backgrounds and walls we have created for the video as we wanted to show how we made them as it took a long time.
Sunday 24th October
Today (half term) we went to Issy's house to film. We filmed in her garden as it was nice weather and we needed the space and somewhere outside to film the paint wall. We chose Issy's house as she has a large garden and it was easy for us to all get to and she already had the wall painted white at her house. This meant we could easily get there and set up at the end of her garden. We used a bench to put the wall onto which raised it up so Soraya could stand in front of it. We used newspaper to cover up the fence and the bench so we didn't get paint on them. Soraya wore plain clothes so she stood out in front of the white and paint and we covered the wall with this paint to go with the lyrics in the song 'Paint the roads on these walls' we also chose to do this as it goes nicely with our theme to our song which is arty and creative whilst making all our own backgrounds to make it look unique.
We had a few slight issues when filming as we forgot to get a camera and tripod from school on the last day before half term so we had to try and get into school but we couldn't access the cameras as they were locked away in the classroom. Because of this we luckily had access to Sorayas camera and tripod which we used to get some good shots. We spent a good few hours setting up and filming at this location and we hope to use the board again to get some more good footage.
Monday 2nd November
Todays lesson we had a half way evaluation lesson. We filled in some forms to rate our skills about each group member, we believe we have worked well as a group but each of us have different areas to improve which in this lesson we discussed. Issy continued working on the website whist Soraya worked on the digi-pak. Lucy added more to the production diary and what we did each tine filming by adding posts onto the blog about creating the backgrounds and the layout when we film.
Tuesday 3rd November
To go with our half way evaluation we watched some presentations from the classes from last year on what they presented in there lesson. We are going to be doing the same task therefore we needed to see what they did well and what they needed to do better. This meant we could plan and start our presentation to our class. We hope to film a lot of our presentation to make it interesting. As well as this we looked again at our individual tasks such as the website, the digi-pak and the production and filming diaries.
Wednesday 4th November
In todays lesson we did another photo-shoot as we decided we needed a lot more photos for all our social media accounts, our website and our digi-pak. We used the green room in school to have a good lit room which we used Lucy's camera to take photos. With help from Luke and all members of our group we got some nice photos to work with which we can edit to add to websites and our blogs. With this photo-shoot we played around with the lighting and we had a lot of images of Soraya flicking her hair back and forward as this looked really nice and it fit well with out theme of indie pop, our inspiration for this was Ellie Goulding as she used similar images on her digi-pak.
Thursday 5th November
Todays lesson we filmed an interview for our presentation, Issy filmed Lucy being the interviewer and asked Soraya some questions about the music video and what was coming up in the music video. We added this footage to premiere and created a MTV style interview. Issy added this video to YouTube and made a sneak peak video of what was coming up in the music video.
Friday 6th November
Todays lesson we took the time on the presentation. We created a prezi to show the work we have done on websites, social media and the interview which we will be showing to the class. Also today, Soraya finished the digi-pak, Lucy added more to all the social media sites which included images from recent filming and photo-shoots and Issy finished the presentation. We also presented our work to the class and showed everyone our ideas so far for our video, we showed our interview, social media sites, the digi-pak and the website we have produced and we also showed a sneak peak video of our work so far which will contribute to our final piece.
Sunday 8th November
From around half one in the afternoon until about half three today we went back to Issys house to film the paint scenes in her garden again. Luckily the weather was okay as it only rained a little bit and it was cloudy but we still managed to film with good natural lighting. We filmed for these two hours and got some good footage. Our separate blog posts show images and more detail to how we captured these shots.
Monday 9th November
Today we continued with our individual tasks. Issy edited the music video on premiere and will continue to do so the rest of the week. Issy is working on the first few shots of the song and adding text to the first shot as the song and Soraya is introduced. Lucy added to the website by adding some more photos to the gallery and added to the events page. Lucy also started creating some items for the store for merchandise such as phone cases, mugs and bags. Soraya carried on with the digi-pak and added to her blog. Soraya has been looking at different images and colour to add to the album covers.
Tuesday 10th November
We used todays lesson again to work on our own tasks. Issy continued with editing the music video ready for the first draft, Lucy created some phone cases on vistaprint for the websites store and Soraya looked more into text on the digi-pak.
Wednesday 11th November - Friday 13th November
This week again we carried on with our own tasks. Lucy added to the website which now has events up and links to these venues aswell as more images on the gallery and merchandise personalised and up on the store. Lucy has been creating many items that will be available for purchase on the website by the use of vistaprint, these products include mugs, phone cases, bags and lanyards. Issy edited some more of the video which is coming along nicely and Soraya added to the digi-pak. All three tasks are coming along well and we have all been adding to the social media sites such as the twitter, instagram and Facebook pages.
Monday 16th November
Today whilst editing Issy thought we needed some more extreme close up shots so Lucy went to film Soraya lip syncing which Issy then added to the video. As well as this we all continued with our individual tasks. Lucy added to merchandise and the production diary, Issy added even more detail to the editing and Soraya added more detail to the digi-pak by creating the CD cover and the CD design itself. We have all taken these own tasks as we have all got strengths in the things we are doing. Lucy has the strength of writing up detailed descriptions to what we have been doing and is better at research and the website, Issy is the best at editing so has been editing in detail to produce a really good edit and Soraya is the best at designing things to has had the job of creating everything to do with the digi-pak.
Tuesday 17th November
Todays lesson we looked at the work we have done so far by looking and giving feedback to each individual task. Issy showed Soraya and Lucy the editing so far and we decided it looked good but we should either re-film or remove darker shots. Soraya showed the digi-pak and it looks really professional and Lucy showed the website and the store and merchandise is looking really good but needs to be finished.
Wednesday 18th November
Today we decided that Lucy and Issy would change tasks, Issy had been working on editing for the first half of the song and Lucy is now going to finish the editing of the second half of the draft. Soraya is going to continue the digi-pak as she is nearly finished and is doing a great job of it. Issy is now doing the website and may add more to the merchandise. With editing, Issy had done the whole of the first half of the song so when Lucy took over she will be doing the second half and adding extra effects such as adjusting contrast and brightness.
Thursday 19th November
Lucy carried on with editing, this involved asking people for feedback and adjusting these changes. For example Miss Brookes said at the start a couple of shots needed to changed as they used the same location after each other which defeated the look to our video which uses many different locations. Lucy also added another 30 seconds to the video which includes the chorus. Issy created some more features to the website which includes some return buttons on the store page. Soraya added some more to the album cover, this involved adding a CD design which looks great as it uses the paint background from filming.
Friday 20th November
Issy added some more features to the website such as more images for the gallery, Soraya added more colour and re-arranged the look of the digi-pak and Lucy added more footage to the video and added some effects. So far the draft only has about 30 seconds left which includes the last chorus so we only need to finish this and add effects in order to finish the draft.
Monday 23rd November
Today Soraya was absent from the lesson but Lucy and Issy changed back to our first tasks, we decided Issy was more suited to the editing and Lucy was more suited to the website so we swapped again so we were back to our original tasks. Lucy carried on with the merchandise and added to the production diary and Issy continued with editing and looking at the less effective shots in the video. We decided as a pair that we both preferred the exterior shots and Mr Amato agreed so we thought it looked best if we removed the interior shots as they don't look as crisp and detailed.
Tuesday 24th November
Todays lesson Issy showed Soraya the editing so far. They continued with the editing and added more the last few minutes of the song. Lucy added some more products to the merchandise on the website by using personalise websites such as funkypigeon.com and vistaprint. So far we have a couple of mugs, a phone case and now a t-shirt, we hope to create a few more products for the website. Issy has now finished off the editing final draft order, we now just need to add effects, recieve feedback and add improvements from the comments we will get. Lucy started collecting some feedback and started typing it up on 'emaze' whilst Issy started adding effects on the video and Soraya continued the digipak.
Wednesday 25th November
At the start of the lesson, we got together as a group and watched the video, we agreed we all really liked the first draft so far. We then gathered both Miss Field and Miss Brookes and 5 other people from the class including two from another class working in the room to get some feedback. Getting feedback from the two students who are in another media class was really useful as it was really good to hear there comments as they are both really good media students. All the feedback we got was really helpful as we got specific shot feedback rather then the whole song which will really help when adding improvements. With this feedback, Lucy carried on creating the emaze presentation and Issy started adding effects to improve the lighting and brightness.
Thursday 26th November
Issy and Lucy used their free to add posts to the blogs. Lucy added to the production diary and Issy looked at the digipak and added most updated images to her blog. In lesson Soraya completed another digipak image and now she has just a couple more to do to finish. Soraya has taken a lot of time and effort for each image therefore they all look really nice and look nice together as they all have the same colours and themes. Issy added final effects and filters to the music video and Lucy added to the website, the website presentation and the production diary.
Friday 27th November
Today we all completed many little tasks, Lucy finished and published a few presentations and albums from photo bucket, Issy finished the first draft of the edit and Soraya finished and published the first draft of the digipak. Once we add a couple more things to the website this will leave us with first drafts for the website, the video and the digipak ready to receive feedback next week.
Monday 30th November- Friday 11th December
These lessons we continued with our tasks to complete final drafts. We all helped with each task but mainly Issy focused on the video, Soraya focused on the digipak and Lucy did the website. We have also all contributed to taking more photos in the green room to edit to add to social media, the website and the magazine. Also in this time, we have received a lot of feedback from another, teachers and the class, this has helped us change certain things on each task and has helped to know what else needs doing. We will now submit our final tasks after changing final features to make sure we are happy with them. We have kept our blogs updated including the production diary and images we have taken through photo bucket.
We have also finished, filmed and uploaded the storyboard video to YouTube from premiere which has a voiceover added to it. We have also completed editing the lip sync task which just needs uploading to YouTube then our blogs.
Monday 14th December and Tuesday 15th December
Monday we did not have a lesson but we continued adding the voiceover storyboard and lip sync to YouTube then our blogs. Soraya also added some feedback to a presentation and Lucy updated the production diary.
The remaining lessons of this term we made sure all our music video work was up to date, this included making sure all final drafts were complete and we added all the needed material to our blogs. We are now ready to start the evaluation after Christmas.
Monday 4th January-8th January
These lessons we continued with our tasks to complete final drafts. We all helped with each task but mainly Issy focused on the video, Soraya focused on the digipak and Lucy did the website. We have also all contributed to taking more photos in the green room to edit to add to social media, the website and the magazine. Also in this time, we have received a lot of feedback from another, teachers and the class, this has helped us change certain things on each task and has helped to know what else needs doing. We will now submit our final tasks after changing final features to make sure we are happy with them. We have kept our blogs updated including the production diary and images we have taken through photo bucket.
We have also finished, filmed and uploaded the storyboard video to YouTube from premiere which has a voiceover added to it. We have also completed editing the lip sync task which just needs uploading to YouTube then our blogs.
Monday 14th December and Tuesday 15th December
Monday we did not have a lesson but we continued adding the voiceover storyboard and lip sync to YouTube then our blogs. Soraya also added some feedback to a presentation and Lucy updated the production diary.
The remaining lessons of this term we made sure all our music video work was up to date, this included making sure all final drafts were complete and we added all the needed material to our blogs. We are now ready to start the evaluation after Christmas.
Monday 4th January-8th January
This first week back involved us choosing the evaluation tasks between us and working on them during the mock exam week. We got on with our own individual questions and this left one more to complete between us, this being the feedback question, we have divided this question into three relating to our past tasks. We have all used different methods to present our questions. Lucy has used premiere to edit a video talking about the visuals in the planning, research and filming, Soraya created a powtoon and presentation and Issy has created an 'emaze' presentation including many images and text.
We have all been working towards the feedback question too by receiving lots of feedback from other people including those from our target audience. We have collected this through filming/interviews, focus groups, survey monkey questionnaires and presentations such as emaze.
We will continue this editing and presentation work into next week for the deadline.
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