Diary Entry: Tuesday 8th November

Today is the day of our performance re-shoot because as highlighted in the rough cut we didn't have enough angles and we didn't make our performance look different enough to other groups. This time we have borrowed a projector which we are using to project the sunset footage, which Me and Laura made stronger this morning by altering the brightness and the contrast, behind the band on a white sheet.

Throughout the afternoon Me and Alfie completed and then exported the sunset footage which we will be using to project whilst Laura gathered leaves and all four of us gathered props and equipment for tonight. I made sure that the new band who don't all go to our school were still ok to film tonight, had remembered their guitars and where wearing the right thing. During period 5 I went home to pick up my laptop from my house to use with the projector. As I was leaving my house to head back to school we got a message through from our second guitarist saying that he could no longer make tonight so I rang our backup guitarist, Matthew Fairrie, to check that he was still up for stepping in. When I got into School I consulted the rest of the group with the problem and we decided on ringing other band members, Drummer Matt Harris and Basist Sam Taylor, if they could bring in an extra top so that we could make Fairrie look more Indie. Matt Harris replied saying he would bring a shirt for Fairrie to wear and The Guitar problem was sorted by my sister bringing her electric in for Fairrie to use in whilst filming. 

We got the Drama Hall at 5 o'clock and everyone was there on time we used the help of two lighting experts in the form of Dan Shaw and David J. Robinson as well as our Media technician Mr Convrey helping us set up.  We filmed using multiple angles including various close ups of Jonny singing, the whole band and individual close ups of each band members instrument.  When filming we had three cameras so we could film multiple angles at the same time, therefore three of us were stationed at a camera each time and the person who wasnt was then in charge of starting the sunset projection. After each take we swapped around to make sure that everyone had an input into the actual filming. Me and Laura also used a trolley thing which was in the drama hall to use like the dolly to get smooth movement shots of the whole band.
As a whole I think that everything went well today because of the band members knowing what they were doing, all looking the part and fitting in with the indie/alternative genre. The most obvious improvements that we have made this time are having the lead singer singing the right words at the right time and having an increased amount of angles, as well as making it tie in with the narrative by using the leaves.

Diary Entry: Wednesday 2nd November

Today we don't have any lessons so we used one of our frees that we have together, period 4, to get on top of filming. We filmed the running shots of the Homeless man in full Tea Party costume aswell as well as him finding his hat and tighing his shoe laces. For each scene we shot we used a variety of angles and ways of doing it so we would have enough footage to use for the final music video's fast pace editing. The location choices this time were more in fitting with our music video and the specific character as we chose a small field close by to school because of it's golden fallen leaves, and the wagonways pathway/backtrack due to its link to roughness and nature linking to the character. Both locations add to the video's unique and quirky vintage vibe of the video which act as like a build up to the extravagent tea party at the end of the narrative.   

At the end of the day I returned the camera but not before I retreived the footage from the camera and put it onto our hardrive.

Diary Entry 30th September

Today we have two lessons together. In the first lesson: Iona continued to finish the stoaryboard by completing the images whilst Alfie coninued to scan in the completed stoaryboard sheets, cropping them to use in the animatics. Laura has been continuing to gather audience research footage for the audience research mini film but moving onto looking towards our ideas of the stoaryboard and what our audience like. I have been struggling with technological issues with premiere however once the footage managed to load and I managed to edit and finalise all of the footage up until the band logo research. Then in our joined free I put all of the extra footage about stoaryboard and our ideas onto the hardrive, so I could add them to our mini film the next time we came to work on it. Once I had finished I went and helped Iona draw and colour a page of the stoaryboard. In our final lesson we all helped complete the stoaryboard whilst Alfie scanned the completed ones into the computer. By the end of the day we only had one page of the stoaryboard left to colour for Monday which Laura took home.