rough cut !

our rough cut still has not been posted onto the blog, it doesnt seem to want too!! we will keep trying as obviously it is important to see progress made throughout the making of our video.

jade

half term

the others plan to shoot at granchester during the holidays however i am unable to attend as i am away all half term. =(

jade

Progress..

Today we are placing clips onto the time line and arranging them in many different orders to test which looks best. its very difficult as it can look very jolty when we skip from one band setting to another, therefore we came up with the solution of placing other random clips in between every band shot, for example lions and other animals shot on the day.

jade.

editing:

we have started editing, and we have encountered a few problems along the way. first we had trouble lip syncing because you cant hear the song on the actual clips because it is very windy, so we had to lip sync the clips by looking carefully at when i start to sing and read my lips!
the second problem we have encountered was a small glitch in the footage where our video begins, the clip begins, and then starts again. we have overcome this problem by deciding to change clips for the opening scene of the song, and this has also filled a gap at the start that also made our piece look more unprofessional.

same song ... different version..

the song that we used to film our piece with was a completely different tempo to the song that we were issued by college. last lesson we tried to get the song that we used from my ipod onto the computer so we could lip sync our piece properly, but we were unable to do this, so we just had to mess about with our footage and put it in the order we want, and then lip sync as soon as we can get the same song uploaded onto the computer. we now have the correct song version, so we can now proceed with lip syncing our shots, and editing them into place. happy days!!

this is a screen shot of us editing the scientist part at the end and beginning we chose to do this first because we don't yet have the right song on final cut to the one we did the filming with so the lip syncing doesn't match.

Lucy

more annoyances :(

Our rough cut still hasn't been uploaded on our blog yet, this is because we left about half an hour of footage at the end of our piece by accident, this means it takes really long to upload to the blog, and for the past 2 lessons there hasn't been enough time for our video to fully upload so that is the reason for our rough cut NOT being on our blog yet. We have tried on more than one occasion to upload our rough cut, we are hoping to get it uploaded onto our blog as soon as possible. :)

problems :(

we have had a slight set back with our song, in that the song we used to film with is a slower pace to the song we were issued by the college. this is hindering the progress of our editing because we cant lip sync all our clips properly yet.
to overcome this we are going to have to put the song on a new CD, and then bring that into college and use it for the song that will be used in our final piece.

Another problem we have come across is also to do with lip syncing, and it is that when we filmed it was very windy so the waveforms aren't clear, this makes it much harder to lip sync because it means we have to sync the clip to the song by ear and eye.

risk assesment

reply from Linton zoo

our reply from Linton zoo was:

O.K. we look forward to meeting you all then.
Regards
Kim Simmons

Reply from Cajun dance party

this is the reply we got from cajun dance party:

Thats great we'd love to see it!
Thanks so much for choosing our song,
let us know when its finished!
cdp x

markscheme for level 4- excellent!

The production is well planned, with evidence of organised use of time and equipment. the candidate has devised an appropriate brief (assessments objective 8) as the starting point for research into similar products and a potential target audience. the use of actors, settings, props and technical resources is efficiently organised to allow the project to progress. where time-based , media are used, prior scripting and/or storyboarding is strongly evident. for print or ICT- based work, drafting is evident.

Traget audience

We will compose a questionnaire in order to establish our target audience, this will enable us to see what gender, age etc enjoy what type of music genera, which will allow us to construct a video matching peoples likes and expectaiotions....

the questionnaire is :

1. Are you male or female?

2. How old are you?

3. Whats your most remember able/ favorite music video and why?

4. What would you expect to see in an indie music video?

5.Do you like performance based/ narrative/ abstract/ dance videos?

6. Do you think an indie video should be all male, all female or mixed?

7. Do You think it should all be filmed in one location or a mixture?

8. Do you think you should be able to relate to the character in the video?

9. Do you think the lyrics should match the action going on in the video?

10. What time period do you think the music video should be in?

our email to cajun dance party

Hi we are media students from Long road sixth form college and we are currently creating a music video for a song of our choice and we have decided to use your song amylase.

If you would like a copy of the finished version let us know and we will send you one and we would appreciate feedback on your thoughts and oppinons.

Thanks
Hope you like it.


Jade, Lucy, Patrick & sam

Shot list

0. clock close up- show 3 o'clock
1. Establishing shot of the science lab
2. 3 scientists ( the 3 band members) mixing chemicals- medium shot
3.close up of the chemicals
4. chemicals react and explode
4.5 clock close up but speeding round showing time change.
5. *a fading special effect to show the changing of mental state*
6. establishing shot at the front of the zoo
7.band members in animal masks
8.close up of drum being played
9.establishing shot of band playing at botanical gardens
10.close up of the keyboard.
11.a combination of zoo animals
12. close up of guitar
13.chess board
......
(no particular order yet but shots included are:

• walking backwards through the crowds
• paint fight
• build up to hay fight
  we will be filming these from different angles in order to give variety within our shots).
  ......
  25. (roughly) botanical garden shot
  26. hay fights
  27. chess board|
  28. another instruments
  29. random running or crazy things?
  30. keep of the grass
  31. back at lab- scientist dirty and burnt, scruffy hair..shocked faces
  32. clock at it few minutes past 3..showing little time pass.
  33.hi-5ing laughing scientists
  
  jade and lucy