Production Diary

This will be our production diary, written by Taffy. This group will be Taffy and Lauren Greene. We will be taking it in turns to do different parts of the project. We started planning our music video today, and we decided on the song by Ed Sheeran, called 'The City', we've had the idea of going to London, also different parts of London to film in different scenes of the music video. September, I began to create our storyboard today, me and Lauren both don't have much confidence in drawing, therefore this involved a lot of rubbing out and re-drawing. 26th September Lauren was not in school due to being sick, so Myself Jess and Amy did a video practice outside on the field, this was practising different shots such as Establishing shot of the setting, Medium shot of the character singing to the camera, close up of singer singing emotionally, tracking shot of singer from behind, furthermore a tracking shot of shot from front, High angle long shot of singer, Low angle shot of singer, Tracking 360 degrees around singer, Long shot zoom to close up and close up zoom out to long shot, lastly a shot of pan right across singer, pan left across singer. The first shooting day of videoing in London on October 1st was a challenge and a risk, however, it was a good day. We filmed some a lot of scenes in many different locations of London, these were Liverpool street (Brick lane), Embankment, Convent garden and Piccadilly circus also Oxford circus. The weather took us back a little as it was cold, damp and wet, however this then helped us with our set theme of the video being quite depressing and lonely. I completed the filming on the day, Lauren did some filming also. In addition to this as a team we worked very well against the weather, taking it in turns to hold an umbrella under the camera. We took many photographs in brick lane, down an alley with many old/vintage looking homes. The photos came out clear, we took black and white shots and photos in colour, I then used windows live to edit the photographs a little.

   

October 5th today Lauren did some more editing on our music video these edits consist different locations of London, lots of rain also shots taken on the bus and tube. Lauren has just been testing different effects of editing, such as fast forwarding. Further I completed the account for our artist 'Andrew Manning' Twitter also a Facebook page. This was fun due to choosing photos for the display picture. October 8th Lauren did more editing whiles I completed any additional blog work. October 9th I completed a 'Prezi' slide to explain our ideas and inspirations also the style we chose for our music video, in addition the 'Audience' we are aiming our music video towards. Further on October the 9th Lauren did some more editing and tried out various effects on the editing software. October 12th today, Lauren put together an 'out-take' video, this is to show all the filming which we aren't going to use in our music video, shots which didn't go as well, further videos we thought were funny and wanted to share with you. Through this lesson I worked on the theory side of the project, this was writing up all of the things that we took on the of filming. I plan to start the website for our artist next lesson, which will be 15th October, over the weekend on 13th and 14th October I will be completing any theory that I need to complete. October 15th Lauren completed some blog theory, and I also completed some blog work. On October 16th Lauren did some editing on our video for part of the video and I started creating the website for our artist, this was a new experience. We also came to a decision in this meeting that we would go back to London to get some night shots as they were not enough, going back to London will help us to get any new ideas across into our video, also as winter is here it will be much easier for us to film, as it will be getting dark much earlier. October the 17th me and Lauren both completed blog work and looked at are current music video and discussed what we could change or move into various places. October the 19th me and Lauren shared blog posts that we had completed. On the 24th of October in our lesson, we looked at other students music video, this was so that we could change parts in our own music videos, watching other students music video's allowed us to see what stage our own music video is at, and how we could improve. Me and Lauren then made a conclusion to go back to London to film any shots that we don't like in our own music video. On the 7th of November my partner Lauren completed editing on our music video, whiles I updated our artists twitter and facebook. We had planned to go to London on the 11th November, however our artist Andrew unfortunately can not make it. This means that we will have to go to London on another day. Friday 16th we are looking forward to going to a music video convention in London, this experience should be eye-opening and inspiring for our music video.Furthermore in this lesson I evaluated my own blog, this helped me to see what I could improve on. Friday 23rd November today Lauren is updating me on the recent editing she has completed. I will be creating a shooting schedule for our next filming day in London, this will be on Thursday 29th November. Further in my free lesson I completed some research on how to improve our music video when we next go to London. In addition I also created a risk assessment table and a schedule table. Monday 26th November I will be looking at the weather for the day we go to London, this will be this week. Lauren worked on our music video.