Began editing

Today we began to draw everything together and start editing. Once we brought everything together and took away the shots we did not like, we had to began the long, challenging task to get everything in sync. The most challenging was the guitar, whereas the vocal sync was faily easy because the clips had the song in the background from the filming, however when we filmed the guitar scenes, I was playing the guitar whilst listening to the track on an ipod through headphones. However after a lot of patiences we managed to hit the nail on the head.

Filmed Town park scenes... Again

We went out to film a second time after battling our failures and everything seemed to go as well as the first time so we were pleased a second time in a row with the shots we had filmed, with good weather and in the correct dress!

Filmed Scenes at Town Park

After checking the weather forecast we set out to the town park and filmed some crucial scenes. We both felt that the session went well and were pleased with the shots we had created. However later that day when we were checking everything we had so far, we noticed that the costumes were different from the town park scenes to the one of the actress at the house. This mean we had to reschedule to film the scenes at the town park with the same outfit as before. Something which seems so simple set us back a long way.

Evaluation Questions

Today we were given our evaluation questions, these are:

1) In what ways does your media product develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

2) How effective is the combination of your media product and the ancillary tasks?

3) What have you learnt from audience feedback?

4) How did you use media technologies in the research, planning, construction and evaluation stages?

Shooting Some House Scenes

Today we filmed some scenes at my parners house. We agreed that the best thing to do was to film each line of the song in different locations and then pick out the best ones that we would use. From previous experience we know that you can never have enough shots and its possibly better to over film as you don't know what you could find when your editing.

Weather

We set out today to film some shots at the town park, but when we arrived the weather took a turn for the worst and haulted our filming with some rain showers. This was so agrivating and disappointing but it was not suitable to film, this taught us to watch the weather forecast more often!

Mirror and Instrument shot

As the drama studio was free today and we had our filming equipment to hand we decided to attempt to film a few shots. We tried to film as many different shots as we could within the space of time we had, using different angles and shot distances, however it was a lengthly process with the need to keep checking over each one, on top of that the light angles needed to be changed every so often to ensure that there were no shadows.

We thought it may have been a good idea to use a mirror, so we hunted around for one and upon finding one, we layed it on the floor and began to set up the shot, I got into position ready to play the guitar while my partner layed on the floor trying to get the camera out of the shot but with me in the shot. We film it but after reviewing it, it didn't seem to have the effect we wanted it to so we filmed over it.

Location Hunting

Today was the day to find a good location to do some filming. We thought for a while where we could go and we decided about a local place called "Gibberd Garden". It is supposed to be a beautiful area with great scenery, we thought this would be perfect.

During our filming time we took a trip down there, about 10 minutes drive away, only to find that it was closed for the winter.

We had to rethink our strategy and with time against us we thought we would create something with the best we had which was our local town park, it had some aspects which could be highlighted as looking quite nice.