Composition

My group and I decided to start placing some of our footage onto Adobe Premier Pro CS3 today so that we had an idea of how it would look. We chose to do this so that we could see how much more footage we needed and to see whether the footage that has been taken goes well with our chosen song, Red by Daniel Merriweather. I have included images below of my group and I working on the new footage that we have taken on the video editing machines:

Footage

Today, my group and I decided to upload all of the footage that we had done during the Christmas holidays. We were previously unable to do this as we didn't have time to upload the footage on the first day back. Due to this, we had to wait until all of the cameras that we had used to shoot out footage were free again so that we could upload it onto the video editing machines.

Filming - The O2

On Friday the 23rd of December, my group and I decided to go up to the O2 in Greenwich to film. We chose to use this place as we had a specific shot that we wanted to create. We wanted to create the shot where someone was remained still for a certain amount of time so that we could speed up everyone around them by using Adobe Premier Pro CS3. We thought that this would be an effective shot as it can show the passing of time.

Filming - Hall Place

Yesterday, my group and I successfully filmed more footage for our project. We have managed to gain a couple of shots which we will upload onto Adobe Premier Pro CS3 to play around with once we get back to school. We have planned to have another day of filming tomorrow to ensure that we can go to different places and have more footage that we can play around with. I have included some photos below that were taken on our most recent filming day:

When filming these scenes we took the mise-en-scene into account. We believed that the theme of love and romance could be portrayed in these scenes with the romantic walks in the woods and walks across fields.

Artist Shots

Last Thursday we successfully managed to take several shots for our artist shots. We have taken a variety so that we can use them in our ancillary tasks too. I have included some of the images that were taken below:

We chose to do our images like this because from looking at previous examples of artist shots we were able to understand the common conventions. The first image is similar to the image taken of Daniel Merriweather (below) as we have made our lead singer, Peter, clasp his hands together. However, we have chosen not to make Peter have eye contact with the camera as we thought it may look more effective. I do, however, believe that now from looking at the image it may have been more effective if Peter had been looking at the camera so that the target audience felt more involved when looking at it.

Changing of Ideas

From changing our lead singer from Kyle to Peter we now have to reshoot the footage that we have already taken. This is because one of the shots that we took includes an image of Kyle and me in a photo, this now needs to change to an image of me and Peter. We will still be following the original narrative that we had created as we believe that if we were to change this we would be wasting valuable time.

From deciding that we need to reshoot, my group and I were going to reshoot today. However, after sitting down in our lesson and talking about it we decided that we were no longer going to film today as we needed to plan exactly what needed to be done. From doing this we have now told each other when we are free to film in the Christmas holidays, what we are going to film in the Christmas holidays and where. I have included an image of the new production schedule below that we hope to follow:

My group and I are still going to shoot our artist shots today though as we feel that this will benefit us well. From knowing that the artist shots are taken we would then be able to, individually, develop our print work ideas with the images that we have taken.

Shot List Remake

Due to the change of cast, my group and I had to change the shot list. We had to change the shot list because our previous lead singer, Kyle, was written in it whereas we need to now change that to Peter. I have included an updated version of the shot list below: