No extra filming

Why we didn't do extra filming?

We have decided to not film more clips in locations around London. We came to this conclusion once looking over all the footage we have already and felt that we have enough clips to edit into our music video.

Instead we are thinking about adding effects and transitions over the clips in final cut pro. Whilst looking at different effects on final cut pro, one in particular caught my eye it was called 'Day into night' I think this effect would look good over some of our current clips as it gives a night partying feel to the clip making it appear in a lower light.

 

This picture is of the effect being used in final cut pro, it has made the clip look like it is much latter in the day when in fact it was taken in the morning.  

 

Possible Dark/Night filming

Night Filming

To go with the song title 'Waiting all night' we have been discusing film some night time clips to put at the the end of the music video. We think ending the musi video in night time would flow well with our music video as it shows the night time has finally come and our artist now no longer has to 'wait all night'.

We are thinking about filming in colourful places in london at night as we have very colourful clips throughout our music video.

Reasearching places we could film in we have found some possible locations:

• Westminster london eye 

• London china town

  •  london 02 

  •  Wembley stadium  

     

     

Over view of editing

How To Promote Our Artist And Song

How do we plan to promote our song?

It is essential that we create an album cover, posters and magazine cover or an article that incorporates our artists brand image and what she represents and her style of music.

This will help attract her target audience and draw attention to the song. Therefore we plan to show her blue/green hair, her bright coloured clothing, her hair will be styled the same way it has been throughout the video, either a nightlife background or coloured lighting for a background. 

All of these things we have included in our video so they link to one another and it promotes our song.

It wouldn't make sense for us to have an album cover, poster or potential magazine cover with dark clothing in black and white as that does not relate to our artist. 

What ideas do we have to promote our artist and song?

We plan to have various magazine covers that look a lot like the Billboard magazine covers that feature various musical performers. 
Magazine Covers are often given to performers who are current and popular as the editors of the magazine know that readers and fans will want to read about their idols.
Our artist, who we named 'PKaur Blue', is youthful and up and coming. This means that the magazine article and cover will feature things that relate specifically to the artist as people won't know a lot about them. 

               

This means that we will have shots that make her hair colour stand out.
As Jaya has dyed her hair another shade of blue, it will become apparent to the audience why our artist is named PKaur Blue and that she favours the colour blue. Little details like that will allow the audience to feel a bond and connection with their favourite artist. 

Throughout the video, we have continually used bright clothing and patterned clothing. Therefore our audience would expect that to feature in the magazine. 


 



In a typical magazine featuring a singer or a band. The performer or performers are often quoted on the things they like and their love life secrets. This keeps the artist apparent and interesting as the general public love a bit of gossip from celebrities as it makes them feel as if they are not so different to those who are famous. 

Possible Extra Filming

As we are not going to have our artist available for the coming days, the rest of the group are planning to film shots of different locations around the college that will fit in nice with our music video. We were planning on filming a wide range of different random location shots to fill in the gaps when the artist is not singing.
Some locations we may film are: Angel market, Angel station, friend street or possibly the canal.

Editing 24th november

Today we are editing the new shots we took last week into our rought cut edit.
Reviewing the shots we took last week using the strobe lighting, we thought that they were very successful as all the images were clear and once edited in will make our music video a lot more professional and successful.
In final cut we are try to match the clips to the beat changing each clip on the beat, so the video will run smoove. We are also trying to get the timing of the lip singing in sync with the backing track.

My skill development

During my AS year my blogging was very successful as I was able to use a wide range of different mixed media when blogging.
I was able to use the skills I learnt in my AS year when blogging this year. I am now able to use a even wider range of presentation sites, whereas in the AS year I mostly used prezi.

This year I used a spot light when filming and a much broader range of props. The spotlight was a major advantage as it has a very nice effect whilst filming. Additionally I also used the mic on the camera much more as we needed to pic up the sound of our artist singing, on first uses I found it difficult to pick up the correct sounds that we needed as the camera picked up a lot of the background noises. After filming with it regularly I was able to find a way in which we can clearly hear the vocals of our artist.
 

Reflection on progress

Reflecting on my progress

 

This year I have found the course much more challenging as there is a lot more group work with shorter deadlines.

 

I think I am at a good level but in order to achieve the grade I want I need to add more blog then that of the checklist. To do this I could blog 5-6 time throughout the week in order to keep my blog work up to date.

Filming 19th november

Our filming session today was very good as we was able to some base tracks.
Also we were able to act on our review of our previous clips that were of poor quality and re-filmed the clips using the college camera.
During this filming session we made the most of our spot light and filmed in a dark room in order to make the main focus on our artist.

What went well was the strobe lighting that we had as a background. It helped to create a atmosphere and brought the clip to life.

 

 

Feedback On Footage.

Feedback and New Ideas.

When we looked at the new footage, the quality was not what we expected and the lighting was poor because there was too much natural day light covering our artists face in the shots.

As a result, we decided to compare this footage and our old footage and came to the decision, along with the help of our media teacher Mary, that we were better off editing our very first set of footage.

I think the ideas of our second set of filming was good but we weren't prepared for the lighting in the background and the bad quality.

This means we need to film more shots using a lot colour which works well with our artists brand image.

Due to lack of timing, and our rough cut is due next week, we are going to film in the photography room on the plain white wall and local streets and parks to get as much footage as we can.

We plan to film a lot more base tracks and location shots so that we have a lot more choice of footage to edit. As we only have about 4/5 base tracks.

We had the idea to film several shots in the photography room of different coloured nail varnishes, different coloured shoes, different coloured drinks, different coloured sweets, different coloured jewellery etc. 

We know that the lighting will be a lot better in the photography room as they have professional lighting in the room and we have lights from the media department. 

Because we are filming some in college, it saves time travelling which means we have more time to film our base tracks as our song is 4 minutes and 40 seconds long. 

Do more panning shots of:

 

filming revisions

       filming revisions

for our next filming session we need to change everything we have done so far,we have to do this due to the quality of the alternative camera not being as good as the college camera which we have been restricted from using.Also a couple more base tracks and shots of scenery.

plans for wednesday: Re film all base tracks

                                   get a variation of different shots
                                 
                                  new camera angles
                               
                                  different filming locations
                 

Reviewing our footage

Reviewing/Editing out footage

After reviewing our clips on our editing session, I noticed a lot of the clips where not filmed in good enough condition due to using a different camera.

We established the footage the where good and separated them from the poor quality ones. I decided that we should re-film some of our shots using the college camera on Wednesday 19th. I have wrote a list of the things that we need to re-film and the props that we will need to bring in.

 

Whilst editing I also noticed a lot of the shots where shaky due to the uneven surface in which they were filmed. With these shaky clips we planned to use slow motion edits as the lighting was very good despite the shaky camera.



album cover ideas

 

Using a online album cover maker, I attempted to make some possible album cover for our single waiting all night by P-Kaur Blue.

To give the covers a more professional look I decided to include some common logos that are usually on album covers e.g. parental advisory and o legal stamp.

When making the album covers I thought it was vital that our artist name and the name of the song was clearly therefor I wrote it in a big font so fans will be able to notice our artist clearly amongst others. 



Above is one possible album cover we may use. On this cover I focused mainly on our artist blue hair as this is what she will be known for and straight away fans will know it is P-Kaur's album without even having to read the title. additionally I also wrote in blue in order to keep with the theme as I thought this baby blue colour worked well against a black background.

This cover was slightly different as our artist name was much more larger and noticeable on the cover. I decided to use a image of a blue rose and blue lipstick as I thought it was a power image against a black background. This also focused on the colour blue which a synergy for our artist.

This is a image showing how I edited the image through a online website. What worked well was the colour of the hair against a white background, these to colours bring a very bright fresh look on the cover and this is how we want out artist to be viewed by our target audience.

This Album I think was successful but had a few problems as the text did not work well against the background which meant it was difficult to read. What worked well was the black and white effect with the petals being in the colour blue, this really stood out and gave the cover a very professional feel.



Reflection post 11th november

synergy in proudction

Editing 12 November

Today we began further editing our rough cut edit and added a few more base tracks. We found it challenging attempting to make the backing track and the lip singing in sync, but overcomed this by changing the shots where the lyrics and the lip singing did not sync.

 

Twitter up date

Our first tweet to our fans keeping them up to date on our filming of our music video.
The tweet shows our filming session on the 5th of november, we are aiming to keep tweeting different things on our twitter acount in order to keep our followers interested and up to date on all our makings of our music video.

Currently working hard on our new music video! pic.twitter.com/8FyvajtkMd
— PKAUR BLUE (@PKAURBLUE) November 12, 2014

skills development

Bad things about filming on the 31st oct

the location in which we filmed did not have a smooth ground which made it really hard to keep the camera steady when walking; especially if Shannon was walking backwards with the camera-

As we were filming outside the lighting in many of the shots were different which would have made it very difficult to edit in the future. 

How our video will differ from the orginal

Skills Development

My planning for the A2 year has been completely different from that of the AS year. The planning for my music video has been much more challenging as it is a very open task which we have full control over the making of, choosing the right locations has for the song has been a very difficult process. Reflecting back on the previous year I knew in order to make a successful video planning played a vital role. The advantage of having a clear detailed plan is that it prevents confusion amongst the group and also allows us to keep track and on top of our work. During last year not all member of my group contributed to the making of our video which made it difficult to keep to deadline, due the the work load not being shared out equally. My group this year are very motivated to working hard on the making of our music video, this has helped the vitally as we are now able to keep track of our work and still have enough time to improve things where necessary.

Finding the right locations was very difficult, as last year we only filmed within the college itself. Furthermore choosing the right costume for our artist was very important as it helps the audience relate to the artist and also show who the artist actually is.
As there are multiple possible locations in London that we could film we decided to write the best ones down and then narrowed the list down also keeping back up locations in case some were unsuccessful. 

synergy in productions

For synergy we decided to use Jaya's unique blue hair colour. The hair colour will be seen in most of our clips in our music video. We decided to use this as our synergy is it is something that really stands out and is very memorable for our audience. I have added some images showing examples of how the hair will look, also a screenshot of a clip from our footage in our music video.

good things about filming on the 31st oct

When filming on this day we completed half of the filming we needed for the whole music video. The weather was good which worked in our favour as the song is a summer anthem so it would be quite odd if the footage seemed cold and wintery. Here are some shots i thought were good-

I liked this footage as it is colourful and interesting to look at. it is eye catching and represents the feel of the song which is what we wanted.

We got to film 6 of the base tracks we needed on this day-

walking base track from the left

walking base track from the front

still base track from the front

walking base track from the right

still base track from the right

still base track from the left

We also got some random shots that we could use as there is a lot of instrumental in the song-

New video idea

As footage was not what we had pictured i have come up with a new concept in which i think will make a better video.

Carol Vernallis

Facebook post

Here are some images of our Facebook page with new photos we've uploaded in order to keep our fans updated on our music video. 

These are pictures taken during our filming session on Goswell Road where filmed 2 base tracks that will be edited into our music video. 

Changes in Filming

copyright clearance 2

My first attempt of copyright clearance was not successful so i searched and found another email to send to:

Positives of filming on the 5th

We were able to film two base track in the Goswell road estate. The weather conditions were clear and did not effect us when filming.
We were able to use the our props of scarves successfully as they brought a lot of colour and energy to the clip also work well when Jaya was lying down with them surrounding her.

copyright clearance

The song that we have chosen is: Waiting All Night.

problems with filming on 5th

During our filming session the the 5th we incurred few problem. we originally planned to film a birds eye view shot, but found this very difficult to do in our location as there was place which had a good enough angle in order for the shot to be successful and for us to get a good angle.

Furthermore as we filmed on grass we found it difficult to film one of our base tracks. This was because it required Daniel to circle around Jaya whilst filming going close the back. The grass was very uneven and slippery and made Daniel lose his balance a number of times throughout.

3 Videos That Have Influenced Our Video.

Wilkinson ft. Talay Riley - Dirty Love

As a group we were immediately drawn to the creativity of this music video and decided to try and incorporate some of the shots into our own video. We thought it was effective that they had dark backgrounds and bright make up or clothing or props. We particularly liked the silver balloons in a blank room. It grasped all of our attention and we decided that we were going to try and mirror the balloon shots. 

Meghan Trainor - All About that Bass

This is another video that had a substantial influence on our ideas for our video. We liked the shots where Meghan Trainor, the artist in this song, was laying on various pastel colour fabrics and the camera was at a birds eye shot as she sang. We figured this would make quite a nice base track except we would no be using pastel colours, we would use various other colours. We went to a near by park and placed several coloured pieces of cloth as Jaya lay on it and sang.

Sigma ft Paloma Faith - Changing

This video has been our biggest inspiration as the colours and setting goes with what we were all initially planning. The graffiti in the background doesn't clash with her costume but highlights it even more. We filmed in Brick Lane and Jaya wore a bright aztec patterned top and she has bright green/blue hair but it didn't clash, it made it look more 'awake' as we filmed during the day. Paloma Faith is known for her eccentric hairstyles and clothing which we decided to also mirror. 

Filming 5 november

Today we did some filming in Goswell Road Moorgreen estate.
During this session we filmed two base tracks as well as filming in multiple camera angles such as close ups, mid shots and long shots. We plan to edit these shots into our music video as they are full of colour and are very unique to the shots we have previously taken.
Here are a few pictures taken from our filming session today.

how rudimental promote through they're website

Costume, Setting, Location in Music Videos.

Copyright Clearance of our Chosen Song.