During period one today, I made rough key notes for each question of our evaluation and jotted them down.

During period two, I edited the rest of yesterday's material. This took the entire hour as there was a lot to do.

Then, in period three I went through each edit and colour corrected it all, mainly by warming the colours and adding more in the way of brightness and saturation. This gave it more of the intended summer tone.

There were two parts I wasn't happy with, so having conferred with Amy I deleted these entirely - they were unsaveable - and replaced them with other material.

Some parts could do with some effects, so I added "strobe lighting" to a performance part, and cut up a running part into three sections. One; played as normal. The next piece I put in reverse, by putting -100 in the speed editing box. The final piece I cut again, and added the last bit in so that my character jump cuts to the foreground of the screen. This makes the running part more postmodern, and interesting to watch. It also compliments the song's pace better.

In class today I confirmed tomorrows plans with Amy, Sophie and Kelsie and answered questions about details I'd thought about and worked out at home. Everything is good to go! We just need to collect the camera tomorrow, I need to sort out my costume tonight so that it's ready to put on and go through exactly which parts we need to film.

This lesson we also looked through our video so far and tried to add a bit. None of the footage so far had an ideal clip for the extended "woah" before the final chorus, so I suggested filming a close up/extreme close up there and then in the lesson so that we'd have that and nobody would know that it was spontaneous as my uniform wont show if done correctly.

I went to the technicians and asked for a camera, they then refered me back to my teacher who needed the camera for ten minutes so we started to set up our Myspace page. When she'd finished with the camera me and Sophie took it outside whilst Amy chose to continue with our Myspace page. I grabbed my iPod from my car so that anything I'd mime would be in time with the actual music, guessing the timing probably wouldn't be a very good idea and would be difficult/verging on impossible to get insync when editing. Sophie asked if we should go to find a spare classroom, which we could have done, but I figured that it would be time consuming. The weather was idealic and we were surrounded by greenary so I suggested that the mise-en-scene would be more interesting and suited to our genre where we were. So, we settled on some green bushes which could be decoded subconciously by our audience as jealousy. I then said that perhaps we should record the entire song incase any other lines haven't worked out for us so we did this. I had a bright blue, summery scarf on so i wrapped this around my school shirt's collar to make sure that it wasn't showing. I checked with Sophie that the shot was close enough for it to not notice and she reassured me. We then recorded the whole song, including the "woah" part three times to be safe.

Finally we went up to our classroom and transfered the videos to our 'editing station' whilst Amy showed us what she'd done to our Myspace page. She didn't know how to edit the profile as it has all changed since we used to use the site, but I managed to work it out quite quickly and showed her how to do it. We then watched through a tiny bit of the footage me and Sophie had produced. The colouring was very bright and summery, with well-suited mise-en-scene and animated facial expressions, however I'm worried that the filming wasn't zoomed in quite enough and some of my uniform shows. It does seem quite subtle though, so we can study this in more detail in Wednesday's first lesson.

Today we found out that instead of Friday as our showcase deadline, it would in fact be Wednesday period three, so we only have the one hour on Wednesday to edit! I plan to ask Amy to simply transfer whatever we record tomorrow onto our computer during her morning registration to save time, and I might try to work on editing throughout my period one free, depending on how the room is being used.

Once I got home today I got stuck into editing my album artwork straight away. I completed what I set our to do on Picnik and added a black "wall" in Paint - which goes with the diary/girly/animated theme I'm going for luckily. (Finished image: right)

This is of course not the completed album cover, I have to add the other half first, as well as the text and the diary/cartoon style scribbles. It will also have to be the correct size of an actual album cover, and I'm going to have to design the back cover and an optional spine too.

This lesson I also found out roughly from Sophie and more acurately from my teacher, that the album cover is not supposed to be for Taylor Swift, but in fact for our fictional singer's name, which we hadn't realised at all. This entire time we had been pretending that I was Taylor Swift. Luckily nothing has to be changed, other than my name in the album artwork and Myspace page. My actual name is Emma Langschied, which is quite long, complicated and in no way catchy, so we've decided to shorten it to Emma Lang. This is the new name we'll refer to the music artist as.

Today neither Amy or Sophie were in our lesson, so I planned to play around with Photoshop to practice for my album cover. However, our teacher told us that next Friday our entire video needs to be completed (roughly), all the way through without gaps. So, I decided to go through our music video instead to see what needed doing, and although Amy had said that we have nothing left to do until we next film, there were plenty of lines I could still fill in, so I did. I didn't change anything we'd previously done, except the timing on one part because it was approximately one frame out of sync, I just added fresh new bits to it. This made quite a difference with few gaps left up until closer to the prom scenes that we haven't filmed yet. I did also add an effect to a new "live" performance piece I added - strobe lighting. It kept coming up as unrendered, but each time I rendered it, it would work so hopefully it shouldn't be a problem.

Due to acedemic review day on Wednesday, we said that we couldn't film until next Wednesday during our double free, all together. However, with the firm deadline being Friday, and us being physically unable to film everything in one day, we're going to have to film before this, and probably even use the double lesson on Wednesday for editing the new footage in time for Friday's deadline. This does probably mean that we won't all be able to record together, though I'll do everything I can to make sure that we're all present at the final few filming sessions. We also have to bare in mind that the closer we get to the deadline, the more booked up the cameras will be, and as we've been using the new cameras, there are only two to choose from. Assuming Amy and/or Sophie are in school tomorrow, I'll be able to talk to them both togther in our period five theory class to get them thinking about it, and to get the ball rolling once again.

Today instead of editing, me and Amy went through each section of the video and print screened it, so that I could email the still images to myself and look through them properly, checking and analysing the mise-en-scene and colouring, to see if it all gives off the desired effect. Sophie worked on her blog during class, so I'm about to add to the group blog tonight to update it a bit.

Again, me and Amy continued editing today. We managed to master colour correcting so we went through - mainly the parts in Amy's bedroom - and colour corrected that so that everything from each location matched. We're still going to go through and brighten the saturation of everything, but at the end or we'd probably be wasting our time if we did it now. We also began to look through crucial effects to link the fight scene - me pushing Amy into a pile of dirt - to me then waking up from my dream "She had to know the pain was beating on me like a drum", to make it obvious that the fight was in my dream and not real. After several effects and having trouble rendering, we still didn't find the ideal one, so we're going to come back to it.

Today me and Amy continued editing whilst Sophie added to the group blog. We're definitely getting there, over half of the song has footage cut and placed roughly correctly. It's definitely going to need a lot of tweaking to get parts dead in sync, and the colouring right, and we'd like to use obvious effects to make the audience conscious that they're watching a music video as opposed to any other text. But first, we need to continue to get everything roughly in place before we can make things work.

I edited in the other lesson
- in sync again
- new chair bit
- bed bit
- not happy with that

Tomorrow I have a free period at the same time the other A2 media studies class has their lesson. Apparently, the editing station I use is always vacant during this time so I might go to their lesson and edit a couple of things and try to get the odd frame more in sync, as although Amy and Sophie think it's fine as it is, I still think it's a little bit out. I won't change much, and I'll make sure I remember what I've changed in case Sophie or Amy don't like the alterations. I might also try to experiment with new transitions and effects as we've been purely altering the speed of clips so far, and cutting.