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.

Capture List

Here is a capture list we have made, we will now capture the footage and begin to edit. This makes the task of going through the footage easier as we will have captured only footage that we want.

To Do, Week Beginning 1st Nov 2010

1. Make capture list
2. Capture
3. Make a rough edit(s)
4. Troubleshoot after watching edits back
5. Download and upload song
6. Talk to John about hiring his house
7. Get Liv in for rehearsals 
8. Work on album cover and website
9. Book seward studio for photo shoot

Positives and Negatives from the Second Shoot

Positives from the day;
- We worked out some good shots for this section of the video
- We made good use of the colours of the surroundings, and some of the footage looks really sharp when played back

Negatives from the day;
- Our actress didn't know all the words to the song
- We forgot to bring speakers to play the song through, and we had to use phone speakers which weren't loud enough
- The location wasn't ideal, we thought it was more scenic but you couldn't really make London out in the background

Second Shoot Day

Today we had our second shoot, we all met at 9am at Alexandra Palace - our location for the day. The shots we were taking today were for the lip synch sections of the video. The weather on today's shoot wasn't as good as the day before, the sky was grey and it was really windy which wasn't ideal, but we still shot for three hours, getting some good footage. Again we had the problem of not having asked filming permission before shooting at Ally Pally, not knowing before hand that we had to do so, but once we explained to security that we were students filming for school, they allowed us to stay.