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(02/02/11)
More Filming
Today we have organised two more filming sessions. Sophie unfortunately has a psychology exam over our double lesson on Wednesday, so me and Amy are taking the entire morning to continue filming in her bedroom, and hopefully outdoors in the field as it's becoming sunnier.

(07/02/11)
Overall, today was productive.

(08/02/11)
Filming Session 2
On Wednesday morning, the weather was unfortunetly far too cold to film outside, especially as the clips were supposed to take place during the summer. My costume for that involves purely a thin white dress - so it was a no-go. Instead, we continued recording in Amy's bedroom, and managed to complete filming footage for the lines:

She looks at me like I'm a trend and she's so over it
I think her ever present frown is a little troubling
Sophisticiation isn't what you wear or who you know
Or pushing people down to get you where you wanna go
But no amount of vintage dresses gives you dignity
She's not a saint and she's not what you think she's an actress, woah
She's better know for the things that she does on the matress, woah
Ha ha
 
That Wednesday afternoon, Amy had a free period so she went to the media department and transfered our morning's recordings to our designated imac work station, so that the footage was ready to convert and import early the next morning and we could focus more on editing rather than all waiting for the data to transfer - wasting time.The next morning, me and Sophie converted and imported the videos to Final Cut Express. This ended up taking the majority of the lesson as the files had combined with our old files so we tried seperating them again, and converted and imported some, before realising we'd missed some vital footage. Then, we decided to start from fresh and convert and import all the files so that none were missing. This was more thorough but time consuming. By the time this was done, we only had time to view the videos and begin cutting and editing a few lines, and not to the standard we're aiming for.Just these eight lines took approximately four hours to produce. We had to reconstruct the mise-en-scene to look identical to how it had been at our previous session; details from which dresses go where, to my hair being curled in the same way, etc. This took long enough; then figuring out how to transfer our ideas to reality wasn't all smooth. We had planned for the line: Sophistication isn't what you wear or who you know, to take place infront of the mirror, with a sequence of jump cuts to create the impression that the outfits are changing in sync with the music - a post-modern idea in the hopes that it's preferred reading would be that the main character is trying on different outfits; adhering to the stereotypes and ideology of gender - females are forever trying on clothes - materialistic society.




Thursday 10th however, it turns out, is being used for A2 drama rehearsals and performances so it's unavailable to us being media studies students; meaning that we'll be set back another week.In order to keep things going and continue making progress, we have agreed once more to continue filming at Amy's house on Wednesday 11th to hopefully finish off our need for that location. If the weather is warmer, hopefully brighter, and more promising, we will take advantage of it by changing our plans to film the diary footage over some open fields situated near by to mine and Amy's houses. Our next filming session had been booked for later that day after school, Thursday 3rd February, however as Sophie at the last minute could not make this session, and there was a chance that we may not be able to access the lighting needed for an ideal construction of our "live performance" footage we decided to postpone it until the following Thursday.