This is our second cut of our production. A lot has changed since the last cut, including more footage and more editing. We are in time with schedule and should be close to finish.

Production Diary 12

Last week we decided to film another cut of our lipsyncing track, as in the first one we didnt get much of the second verse, and also we felt it would add more variation to the video if we added ion another lipsyncing track. We decided on lipsyncing against a plain wall similar to Miley Cyrus's "Wrecking Ball" in recent culture. We did this out of our production schedule, but we planned to edit in lesson as usual.

The poem above is the one I read aloud to use as a voice over. We used a microphone to get the best sound quality. We did this in the style of Rihanna's "We Found Love".

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Production Update 11

The video we previously decided to delete we have changed our minds. We chose to add it back in as it helps explain the story between the two characters a bit more. After we edited it quite heavily, we decided it didn't look bad like we originally thought.

This was in time with our schedule as we plan to be editing our production in our lessons.

Production Diary 10

In the half term we filmed on a pathway behind the fields near my house. We will use this footage in place of the beach footage (unless we actually go to the beach). We filmed in cold weather, this is to make it look as if we filmed over a long time (as we started in summer).

This montage is a way of us showing a reflection period. It contrasts to the previous happy memories, we are now in a winter period aas oppposed to summer (shown through colour correction). We planned to be editing in our October lessons, so this filming was off schedule, however we did this in our own time/out of school, so was not a big strain on our editing time.

First Cut

Today we showed our first cut of our music video to the class. We were given feedback from members of our class, and from our teacher. We will go through this feedback today and then use it to make feedback (there will also be a post on feedback). Here is our first cut.

Production Update 9 - Filming our Lipsync Track

On Thursday after school we filmed out lipsync track in the drama studio at school. We used the same techniques as the first time we filmed in there. We used a projector with a video playing in front of me, to look like an overlay. It took us a few takes as the song is by a Spanish band, the lyrics are in English that isn't quite correct so we the lyrics were hard to get completely right. To make sure we had this covered we filled a wall with the lyrics printed out on paper behind the camera, to make it look like I was looking at the camera, whilst still reading the words. We also filmed from an angle to the side so we can vary our shots.

How I read the lyrics during filming.

However, we have had some troubles since then. We can't upload our footage to a site where we can share them so we can upload the videos into premiere. I would have to edit these clips in myself, although this is also a problem as I don't have a copy of our edit as of recent. To resolve this myself, Billy and Mollie will edit in our free lessons tomorrow before our lesson, which is our deadline.
At this point we are also missing shots of the beach, but we plan on doing these shots in the half term break as then we can all be free to go. Below are some screenshots from our videos that we filmed on the Thursday. We didn't film this on time as we planned to have finished filming by 15th October, however this was not a problem.

Production Update 8 - Editing in Class

 

Today I edited some of the shots in the mirror way that I practised at home. I tried to make it look like a kaleidoscope effect similar to the ones Billy had previously edited. I did this in my own time, however this has helped us keep to schedule in terms of editing in our lessons, maybe even ahead.

Practise Editing

At home I experimented with mirror effects and colour correction in Premiere Pro. I edited a few clips from our underwater footage and drama studio footage. After seeing how they turn out, we may use these or edit in similar ways.

Production Update 7 - Drama Studio Filming

Today we filmed in our school's drama studio, to make use of the projector (for overlays) and the lighting so we can achieve colour fills. We wanted to film shots that were stylisticly similar to those of ariana grande's "the way" or rihanna's "we found love". As when we filmed I didn't know the words to the song perfectly, we plan on refilming to get our lipsync track. However, we acheived what we wanted with these shots. We had planned to film today and we got all the shots we needed for the time being, therefore we are to schedule. Our last filming time scheduled will be the 15th.

Production Update 6 - Filming Underwater

Today we filmed underwater out our local swimming pool. We used two cameras, one provided by our teacher which was an underwater; the other a normal handheld camera in an underwater dslr bag. We tried to achieve similar cinematography to the xx's "chained" or rihanna's "diamonds". We will use these shots as overlays and some in the opening sequence. We were very lucky in having this location, as we feel it creates a fantastic look and creative ways of filming. We had planned to film today, therefore making us on schedule, we filmed near our school making it easy for us to then take back our camera (which we borrowed) and upload our footage.

Production Update 5 - Final Edit of Field Footage

Here is the final edit for our field footage. We added in light leak in final cut. We also used overlays, and colour correction to add warm tones and interesting stylistic features. Billy did this in his own time, so he could bring this into class so we could add it into the video together, this helped us largely in terms of time keeping.

Production Diary 4 - Editing our Field Footage

 Recently we have also been editing our cowfields footage. We used final cut pro to edit. Our main focus when editing was the colour correction, as we shot on quite a bleak and grey day. As these need to be represented as fond memories, we used waem tones and cool tones to brighten up the scenery. After this we plan to film our underwater footage in our local swimming pool. In terms of filming we have enough for the moment, however need much more for example the lipsync track, we are however on schedule and plan to film on the 14th.

Production Diary 3 - Filming With Max

We have also been filming in the local park called the priory. This is another significant location for our memories. We filmed with Max to shoot the old couple scenes. When filming we used an iphone in a kaleidoscope case. This was to experiment with the way we are shooting and to add to our effects. However we feel like we may have to re film this footage as the shots we got weren't very good quality (as we used a phone). Above is the video of some edited footage from the day of the shoot. We did this during our double lesson, so we could use our scheduled time for filming.

Production Diary 1

This is the footage that we filmed on our Tuesday lesson last week. We filmed in the local park, to get footage of Max and I. I feel this footage was not succesful as we filmed using my phone to get the kaliedoscope effect. As we did this, the footage isnt that good quality. However the way we have edited so far is quite asthetically nice, so we may refilm or keep this. We had actually planned to start filming in September, and are therefore slightly late, however I feel this will not affect us greatly and will still be able to keep up.

Locations

The locations we wanted to use are to reflect the storyline of revisiting old memories. We used places you would imagine a child to visit whilst growing up. For example the beach or fields where you can visit with family. We chose to also film in the pool to film underwater, so we can use interesting mise en scene. Our lip sync track will be filmed in our school drama studio, so we can use a backdrop and creative lighting.

Characters

As we got feedback to stay with our inspiration from Lana Del Rey, we decided to use her as outfit inspiration. As she often wears quite basic clothing, this would be easily achieved by us. We also feel like this type of clothing would appeal to our target audience.

Production Timetable

Shot List

• Fade from black
• Medium long shot of waves crashing onto rocks
• Dissolve to shot of Ellie walking bare footed along wet sand
• Dissolve to extreme close up of hair in wind
• Dissolve to over the shoulder shot of Ellie looking out to sea
• Music stars
• Close up of water
• Close up of water dripping into water
•  Close up shot of Ellie jumping into water
• Medium close up shot of Ellie underwater
• Extreme close up of Ellie’s feet swimming underwater
• Extreme close up of Ellie’s hands underwater creating bubbles
• Extreme close up of bubbles
• Close up shot of Ellie and hair underwater
• Medium close up of Ellie in studio lip synching
• Shots vary from above shot (medium close up, close up different angles)
• Fade to white, Ellie and Max are seen running through a field with light leaks
•  Medium close up Ellie and max are seen from behind sitting in a field
•  Fade to white
•  Kaleidoscope effect medium close up of Ellie with studio lights
• Fade to white home footage of Ellie as a child with light leaks
• Ellie and max seen walking hand in hand by river with light leaks
• Fade to white Ellie is lip synching in drama studio
• Close up of Ellie underwater overlaid with shots of Ellie lip synching
• Fade to white Ellie catching Max doing drugs on toilet seat light leaks
• Ellie and max seen arguing light leaks
• Ellie seen storming off light leaks
•  Ellie seen lip synching with kaleidoscope
• Ellie seen underwater 30.  Fade to black