Goodbye!

This blog is now closed. We have been signed off and our project is complete. It has been a tough journey, and we are both exhausted and exhilarated with the work we have produced. The project has been a great learning experience for all of us and we are thankful for having had the opportunity to do it! This is Group 2 signing off.

Joe, Anisah, George, Despina

To The Moderator

Dear Moderator,

This Blog belongs to:

Joseph Lane-4455
George Henry-4360
Despina Christodoulou-4195
Anisah Audu-4055

Thank you for taking the time to look around our Group Blog. At the top of the page, you will find links to our main and ancillary texts for the music video project. You will be able to navigate our blog using the labels list on the right hand side of the page. You will also find links to our individual blogs and the main Latymer Music Video blog (labelled 'Temporary Music Video Blog').

Our Group Blog chronicles all our group work during planning, research and production of the project and also is where a lot of group communication took place. Our individual evaluations and personal reflections can be found on our individual blogs, in the form of pictures, video and text.

We chose to produce a website and album cover as our ancillary products, which can be found at the top of both our individual and group blogs.

We hope you enjoy our interactive Blogs!

Regards,

Joe, George, Despina, Anisah

SIGNED OFF!

We've finally finshed all 3 tasks!

This is the music video:

The Album cover:

Click to go to the website:

Third Shoot Day

Today we had our third shoot in London. We met at 10am at Covent Garden Tube Station and had slow start, filming only a couple of shots in the first hour. We were trying to figure out where would be best to shoot and whether we were going to shoot reverse shots of lip syncing first. At 11 we decided that we'd film shots for the walking montage first, so walked around Covent Garden filming our actress in different outfits. After evaluating footage from our first two shoots, we knew what we wanted from our actress, and were able to direct her better - making our job and hers much easier.

We got about fourteen minutes of footage for the walking shots and then started to talk about the lip sync; where we were going to film it, what Liv was going to be doing, would it be static and all in one place etc.

So far

We didn't film at my house, as we wanted to keep the outdoors look. We went to Neal's Yard in Covent Garden, which had lots of colourful walls and look great on camera. We shot the lipsyncs again and we've nearly finished both the album cover and website. We hope to post the music video soon!

Group Progress

After our shoot on the weekend, we've watched the footage back as a group and tried incorporating it into the cut we already have. There are problems with some of the shots but we're continuing to piece together the video. If we cannot make what we have work for our piece, then we've arranged a shoot on Saturday afternoon. This shoot will be at Anisah's house which is a different concept to our orignial idea but the new approach seems like a good idea as a lot of the problems we've had outside won't be an issue if we shoot indoors.

We've also got another photoshoot planned for thursday. We'll be shooting in the Seward Studio again and have planned shots that we want for both the website and the album cover - hopefully this will be successful and we won't have to have any more photoshoots.

Lighting

We were unsure exactly how to maximise the potential of the lights we were given on our last photo shoot, and with a new photo shoot coming up today, we decided it would be best if we researched into exactly how three-point-lighting and other lighting techniques work, so we can really make our actress stand out. This video, although not the most high-tec explanation, was some help. We will also hopefully be getting some help from our schools' technichian.