Diary 27/02/2013

These are my final music video tweaks that I want to address before the final submission date. I have worked so long and hard on it now that I need it to be as good as possible to get the grade I feel I deserve.

FINAL MUSIC VIDEO TWEAKS

1.       Light at beginning needs to be all white.

2.       Cutting used at the beginning needs to be duplicated for the train station with Nick.

3.       Opacity level switch has affected visibility of Narrative – It makes them darker? Band overpower them as the performance is darker.

4.       Ruby walking through park – Cut better, Make footage BLACK AND WHITE and possibly contrast 0.2

5.       Second smashing sequence needs to be BLACK AND WHITE and contrast possibly 0.2

6.       Ruby + Nick walking together on grass – Cut better (B+W is perfect)

7.       Final clip needs to fade to Black and White faster.

Diary 05/02/13

I am lucky enough to be one of 500 fans to posses a ticket to their intimate gig in their home country; Wales.
I am going to use this opportunity to get some pictures of the band and see how they act in an environment full of die-hard fans. I will also keep an eye on their personalities on stage, how they carry themselves, and the type of outfit they wear and how they wear it in conjunction with their style.

Diary 31/01/13

I am drawing to the end of all the research and planning.
All that is left for me to do is finish the filming, editing and analysis parts of coursework.
I am determined to have all three finished in the next 3 weeks so I can go over my blog and double check everything is as it should be for the final fortnight before the deadline.

Diary 29/01/13

I recently went to film the 'Destruction' part of my music video. It took hours of lanning and preperation, ages to pack up the car with equipment and travel to the location and even longer to set up all the equipment. When we were finally ready to film we set up the camera only to find that somebody had taken the tape out of the slow-motion camera. I decided to film in 50 fps instead so I could slow the footage down halfway and still have HD footage. We filmed for 4 hours and spent another 40 minutes clearing up and a further half hour to pack the car up agan. I began the editing of the 'Destruction' part of my music video and from the 4 hours of footage was able to incorporate fewer than 10 seconds of footage. I am not going to let this get me diseartened as I am a perfectionist and determined to achieve the best quality music video I can.

Diary 20/12/12

Coming up to the holidays I have made a list of everything I have left to complete. I intend to get all the grunt work done by the end of the holidays including the majority of my filming so that upon return all I need to do is tie up the loose ends and start my evaluation.

Diary 04/12/12

Today our teacher has chosen to use the carrot rather than the stick. He has urged us to have either '1st shoot + mag ad', '1st shoot + Digipak' or 'mag ad + digipak' ready by the beginning of Thursdays lesson and if we do we will be awarded with a cake. I dont feel I will be able to meet this deadline due to other subject exams but I'm sure I will make significant progress.

Diary 26/11/12

I found this video for the effect I'll be using in my magazine advert.

Diary 15/11/12

I have been working on my digipak for the past couple of lessons and I am finding it quite difficult as every time I feel I'm getting close to my preferred design I get a comment that shows that my digipak isn't giving off the right impression. I need to work on it more but keep in mind my deadlines.

Diary 08/11/12

I realise that I will need a few choice pictures of a band for my Digipak and Magazine advert but the ONLY band in our school is already being used by 2 other students and they're very difficult to get together because one member goes to another school and the others all have jobs. I feel that they may be unwilling to be in my magazine also so I am considering a few different options to fix this problem.
1. I form a band with the right look for my music video even if they don't play the instruments
2. I use other musicians from the year and form a band which probably won't suit the style.
3. I try and find a local band from another school or older and convince them to help me out.

Diary 06/11/12

I was looking today at all that remains to be done in order to get my music video planned, researched and then finally filmed before I can edit my final product and I need to speed up. I am adressing this issue by planning to stay behind in school with some other friends to get feedback instantly and churning out post after post of quality material in order to be able to shoot in the next 2 weeks.

Diary 18/10/12

I have realised today that my music video is not very prop heavy as it relies on the context and song to convey the storyline. Unlike a short film a music video generally doesn't need alot of props.
However I would like to include props to show that I have considered every eventuality and covered all possible potholes in my storyline, ensuring that it flows effectively.

Diary 11/10/12

Today our teacher posted an evaluation of our blogs so far telling us what we have and haven't done. This is indicated by a green 'y' or a red 'n'. I took a picture so I can refer back and see what I need to work on next.

Diary 10/10/12

Today I applied my newly created production logo and updated all my planning documents. I have saved them as templates so I can create multiple copies with small changes without losing the work I've done so far.

Diary 2 09/10/12

I have found out a way to overcome all the aforementioned technical difficulties I've had at school on the past. KiesAir is one fix which I found but the schools wi-fi often has issues which stunts me from doing my work. I linked my blog and phone to my google+ account which updates automatically every hour from my phone uploading all pictures and videos I take and download. This means I can click upload a picture on a post and select "From my phone" and everything shows up with no issues.

Diary 09/10/12

Diary 04/10/12

I have decided recently that I will definitely be incorporating a prelude to my music video. A story that might give the audience some idea of the story before the actual song kicks in.
I've been brainstorming ideas and I think that the prelude will tell the story of how the main character is in love with the girl inmy music video but can't have her for some reason.

Diary-2 27/09/12

Today I am thinking about how I can develop my research into the target audience for my music video. I feel that the audience is the most important element when creating a media product as they are the ones spending their hard earned money on it. In this case, with music, the audience can be very specific. I am going to create a questionaire, asking lots of different people within my target audience, what they like, who they like, where they go in their spare time and so on. I will also record their responses on camera so I can refer back to it whenever I need to. I feel this will give me more of an insight on how to effectively encode my music video in a way that will be successful with the target audience.

Diary 27/09/12

I've been having even more problems with the school computers. As this is where I do most of the uploading side of my work, and organise it all on my blog, I expect that I should be able to access what I need to in order to do everything time efficiently and not waste my time faffing around trying to copy files to my computer.
I've had to resort to using something called Kies Air. It's a program on my phone that connects to a computer or even another smartphone through wi-fi connection. You simply copy a URL address which the phone tells you and it connects to your phone allowing you to access all information from E-mail adresses to pictures and videos. It's helped me greatly however it's very slow and time consuming to set it all up.

Diary 26/09/12

I just got home from shopping in Central London where I was looking for 2 things.
One; possible locations or landmarks to use to signify different things in my music video.
and Two; Any possible props or costume to use in my music video.
I stumbled across a perfect pair of shoes for my genre of music video; heavy metal.
I bought them as they were not very expensive and they are just what I need.

Diary 25/09/2012

Today I took a video of a possible location that I wanted to use in my school to accurately show a camera movement that I envisioned while on location.
However, I've found that Blogger does not allow people to upload videos via mobile, only pictures.
This is very frustrating as I will have to wait until I get home to upload the rest of my Location search.