Editing Session 1
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Monday, 31 January 2011
Monday, 10 January 2011
Filming Session 1
Yesterday we filmed for the first time. Unfortunately Sophie couldn't make it, but she said that me and Amy should make a start on things without her. We reserved the entire day for filming, as we were unsure of the time frame it would take.
The first part we filmed was at my house, for the lines:
I'm just another thing for you to roll your eyes at honey,
You might have him but haven't you heard
...
Do you still feel like you know what you're doing
We decided on this part first as this was the only part Amy needed to be in costume for, so we wanted to get it out the way. This was our first time using the equipment properly - the new camera and a different tripod to our preliminary video. It took me a while to get used to the equipment, i accidently recorded the floor for a while, however once I got the hang of it the rest worked well. We closely followed my story board for this as it had been carefully choreographed for the teddy to be hit on "roll", and for Amy to be on the phone at "haven't you heard". We found it difficult to start on time and for Amy to walk and perform each action insync. We hadn't planned how her phone was going to ring at the right moment, so at the last minute I grabbed my sister and asked her to call Amy. We changed my sister's name in Amy's phonebook to "Guy" - Rhys' character's name. We knew it would be a small detail and would probably go unnoticed, but we needed it to be professional, accurate and to build a sense of realism in this scene.
Filming Amy walking down the stairs didn't work as I'd planned, however it ended up better. I'd hoped to track her walking down the stairs by using zoom on the camera, however, the camera went extremely blurry. Instead, I decided to follow her myself, downstairs and stopped as she approached the door. This resulted in bumpy, jolted camera work, which can in fact be good and look intentional in music videos - luckily!
Yesterday we filmed for the first time. Unfortunately Sophie couldn't make it, but she said that me and Amy should make a start on things without her. We reserved the entire day for filming, as we were unsure of the time frame it would take.
The first part we filmed was at my house, for the lines:
I'm just another thing for you to roll your eyes at honey,
You might have him but haven't you heard
...
Do you still feel like you know what you're doing
We decided on this part first as this was the only part Amy needed to be in costume for, so we wanted to get it out the way. This was our first time using the equipment properly - the new camera and a different tripod to our preliminary video. It took me a while to get used to the equipment, i accidently recorded the floor for a while, however once I got the hang of it the rest worked well. We closely followed my story board for this as it had been carefully choreographed for the teddy to be hit on "roll", and for Amy to be on the phone at "haven't you heard". We found it difficult to start on time and for Amy to walk and perform each action insync. We hadn't planned how her phone was going to ring at the right moment, so at the last minute I grabbed my sister and asked her to call Amy. We changed my sister's name in Amy's phonebook to "Guy" - Rhys' character's name. We knew it would be a small detail and would probably go unnoticed, but we needed it to be professional, accurate and to build a sense of realism in this scene.
Filming Amy walking down the stairs didn't work as I'd planned, however it ended up better. I'd hoped to track her walking down the stairs by using zoom on the camera, however, the camera went extremely blurry. Instead, I decided to follow her myself, downstairs and stopped as she approached the door. This resulted in bumpy, jolted camera work, which can in fact be good and look intentional in music videos - luckily!
Sunday, 9 January 2011
Iconic Image
At home one evening I shared a conversation with my sister about Taylor Swift, as she'd been to see her before in concert. She mentioned that she plays the guitar and usually does, and that she always has the number 13 on her hand. My sister didn't know why; so interested, I googled it and found out that it is because 13 is her lucky number. I told Amy and Sophie what I'd discovered and strongly suggested that we should feature it in our music video, even though it's subtle it is iconic and could be decoded by dedicated Taylor Swift fans. It's always good to have detailed aspects of music videos that perhaps not everybody would notice or decode with the preferred reading right away. It makes the video interesting to watch multiple times.
Iconic ImageIn order to compose a successful, believable music video, we recognised that we should use alusions to reference taylor swift. I googled her to see what would come up, but there was nothing very iconic that stood out. I then thought about her in her music videos to see how I'd picture her. I pictured her with curly hair and in a white dress. I then googled this and realised that she is primarily dressed in a white dress. I made sure that I shared this with the others and added it to a costume list. I ordered a white dress online (right image) as I didn't have one already, and I made a mental note that I should curl my hair for the video. Featuring these two subtle costume ideas should transfer the iconic image of Taylor Swift to our audience.
Organising filming sessions
In order to organise dates and times in a way that we can all comprehend easily, I decided it would be a good idea to do things in a typed up format. Therefore, as we all have each other on Facebook I created a message to get the ball rolling. We had discussed details of dates, times and locations in class, but with all three of us coming up with a muddle of reasons as to when and why we can't do things, and with exams and revision being important to factor in, it hadn't really be very useful. By using Facebook, we selected the day with no problem and a time followed even more easily. It was a successful way of organising ourselves.
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