Video Pitch

Today the class showed there pretty much finished music videos to our own class and a BTEC group so that there could be more opinions. They all pretty much liked our video and loved the editing techniques that we used but some didn't understand the ending but this was intentional as we wanted the audience to be able to interpret the video for themselves.

Our Music Video!

Here it is, the final cut of our music video for "Dark Paradise"

Editing Complete

So after several weeks of editing and a week before schedule, we have finally finished our music video!

Once we have uploaded it to YouTube it will be available fo your viewing pleasure!

Nearly there!

With some help we managed to work out how to do the fading away segments. It involved a lot of cutting up and layering and changing the opacity etc. but it's done! Now all there is to do is to make sure everything that isn't a flashback is in monochrome and all the lip synching is correct and that we have a very good music video!

Editing

Been editing away for the last few days, sorting through what's usable from the first shoot and using most of the second. Have also sorted out most of the lip synching, just the fading and layer to do next!

First Day of Editing

So today we are going to upload our video footage and start editing. Can't wait to see how it all turned out!

Pictures from the reshoot

Reshoot! P.2

So today we reshot are music video. I think it went rather well and that we got everything that we needed. Another reshoot isn't really an option so this has to be perfect.

Tavel Information

The two actors will meet me outside of college and we will all get the 357 to our location. The weather looks good, so fingers crossed it's second time lucky!

New Location

Most of our graveyard scenes are fine and don't need to be reshot so we aren't going back there. Due to time and connivence we have decided to shoot in a new location, Hollow Ponds, a forest near our college. It has various scenic settings that will be good for a backdrop. The reshoot is planned for this Saturday in order to meet our deadline for filming.  We will use all the same actors, costumes and props for continuity purposes.

Reshoot!

After reviewing our work we have decided to reshoot certain scenes from our video as they weren't up to standard. Key things we have to reshoot are the lip-synching and forest scene. One of the main problems we faced was the camera shaking due to a light-weight tripod. Also there where some very unflattering shots of the actress that can't be used. Some of the filming that we've done to edit later hadn't been shot properly so that has to be reshot as well.

First Day Back

So today is our first day back, we are going to look at our video and see about any edits that need to be done and if there's a need for a reshoot.

Pictures from the Set

These are some pictures I managed to take in between filming today.

Wrapped Up!

We finished all of our filming today. Hooray! We shot everything we needed to shoot and are ready to go and edit! Today was met with various complications (rain) but that was to be expected.

Filming Day!

Today is day 1 of filming, we are all really excited. I'm bringing a suitcase with me! It has my tripod, camera, spare camera parts and a lovely thick coat in case the weather goes bad (which will most likely happen.) Hopefully we'll shoot everything we have planned for today so that we can be ready for tomorrow.