Chapter 20: Final Music Video

I have officially finished my filming. Several tweaks were made to the video compared to the animatic. I felt that i could do a lot more in the narrative than what I had planned and is shown in the animatic. I added more shots to the video to create a sense of timing and accuracy as well as an upbeat and interesting narrative story that could be interpreted widely by its target audience, thus giving them a deeper meaning of the video and the sense of a connection between the band and them, personally.

The final product is shown below;

Chapter 19: Filming Finished, Editing Started

I am now currently working on two aspects of my coursework, the editing and the digipak design. I aim to get most of the editing done by the end of next week and so I will be updating this specific entry for the next few days. Editing will be done on Final Cut Pro and the digipak design will be done on Adobe Photoshop.

I began by looking through the footage I had taken and began to put them in order, trying to stick to the times for each shot I have been able to do this without importing the music so far. This, however, may cause complications further on in the editing process. I am also considering changing some of the shots as during filiming i was able to get some good shots that weren't in the storyboard.

I began to find it difficult to fit the shots without the music and so I imported the music and began to cut the shots to the beat of the music. I found that some of the footage taken had a lot more going on and so I have begun to incorporate other footage to the video to make it flow more. With the additional footage used, I am able to create an effortless story line. The editing process is a slow one and it is taking time to incorporate all the original shots that I had planned and the comparison with the actual footage taken. This means that more footage is used in the music video yet giving the final video to be more solid and unique.

Chapter 18 - Filming & It's Complications

After spending two weeks on filming my music video I have now completely finished filming and will begin editing next week. Whilst filming I came across several problems that meant that either changes had to be made to the story board or the settings for certain scenes had to changed. Most of the problems I had were with the mise en scene; outdoor scenes had to be filmed quickly and at the right time as we are coming up up to christmas and day light was minimum.

One of the scenes that was meant to be recorded in the lower light was difficult to film as the camera struggled to make out the three actresses walking towards it and so that shot had to be changed to be a scene walking down the main street.

My main issue was the time of year that I was aiming for. When looking at the story board we find that there are lots of shots that include the sun and so we struggled to get shots with the sun (especially when weather had been extremely bad). The outcome for this was to change the time of year from summer to winter.

Chapter 17: Cast

When it came to casting, I found it difficult to get three females that suited the specification precisely and so I had to settle with three girls that were the closest to the spec. Even after narrowing the field down massively, I still struggled to find three girls that fit the spec, until I stumble across three girls who was exactly what I needed for my video.

Sian Scott:

Daisy Kelly-Fletcher:

Tamaryn Smith:

These three girls are currently staying at the Boarding House at Thomas Adams College while they are studying their A- Levels. This tiny bit of information about the girls indicates that these girls are about 17 years of age, this is the precise age that I was wanting. The reason I was wanting my actresses to be this particular age is so my music video would target the younger audience and attracting a larger audience.

When it came to the appearance of the three girls, there were a few complications, as they didn't fit the specification for each of the characters but after spending three days with them, I quickly decided that their individual personalities made up it.

Tamaryn Smith is known to be the more educational one and is always found reading books or doing coursework, while Daisy is the more outgoing one of the three, she is seen running around and always chatting to people. Sian on the other hand is known to be a quiet person but when she is with her closest of friends, she becomes a giggly and funny character. These points alone was the reason why I chose the personality over the looks.

Spending several days with these girls before recording has made me begin to think about certain aspects of my music video. I also began to think of the narrative of my music video and decided that I am going to make my video more of a general view on friendship.

Chapter 16: Digipak Design - Planning

At the moment, the Temper Trap have three album covers that I will be considering to manipulate into my Digipak design. These album covers are shown below. Each of the albums are very dissimilar to one another and have very distinctive images that portray the style of the band.

I have become very attracted to the first album cover and so what I intend to do is incorporate the pixelated effect and the title and the way it has been presented. As the band are very indie and down to earth I will use a photograph that I have taken that will portray the band and their music. I will be creating a 3 panel digipak that will portray The Temper Trap's individuality.

Chapter 15: Shooting Schedule

Above is a very brief guideline on what I will be aiming for each week. I am hoping that the the filming may only take one week but i have spread it out to two weeks just incase it takes longer to film certain scenes, (as some of my scenes depend on the weather). I aim to edit my music video through the duration of two weeks, ( depending on how long the filming takes, so it may turn out to be three). I will need to have the basic layout of the music video before I add the graphics and special effects. After completing the final music video I will then need to introduce my final designs for the Digipak and the Magazine Advert. Once these are all up the blog I will then evaluate and get feedback from fellow students and teachers from the college before touching up on any other blog entries that may need tweaking. I aim to get this all done by the second week in December and so I am rapidly working towards this aim.

Chapter 14: Risk Assesment