Plans for our background

As half our group had started to edit our video footage I began thinking about photos we could take for our album cover. As i was listening to the song i heard 'I'm a one way motorway' and this is when i thought that perhaps a motorway as our background would look good. Jacob then suggested that only having one lane of the motorway would be better. This was my favourite idea for an album cover and one we could quite easily use. We will obviously have to go to a bridge to take this photo and at a late time to get the exact picture we want.

Fourth Day of Filming

Yesterday we filmed for the fourth time in our third location. We used the red lion pub again which offered us good lighting last time we were on set. We knew that this time we were going to film more handheld shots which we immediately did. The first to film was group member Alex who was getting up close and personal with the band. At first this seemed like a good idea as we were able to direct around the group getting the shots we wanted. However upon looking at our footage on the computers we discovered that by filming as we went along we didn't film in order of the song. We instantly had the time consuming problem of having to pull clips of our video from all over the timeline on final cut. This wasn't our biggest problem however because we had lots of footage to edit for our final video but my main concern upon seeing the footage for the first time today is that we have missed out some parts of the song and there are times where there is some back room clutter ruining the shot. Although we have these problems i feel we have enough footage to start editing and building a base for further footage to come. With only three of us in the lesson to see the footage we have all agreed that we wold have to go back this weekend to get some more footage to improve on what we already have.

Video Mood Board

These are some shots from live performances that i thought were pretty good and would consider using in my music video.

Album Cover Mood Board

This is my mood board of album covers I like.

Editing Practice

The snapshots below are some shots of me practicing editing of Final Cut, the software we plan to use. These snapshots are taken from clips of our third day of filming and many of them contain effects that are available on Final Cut. Some of these shots are effects I like but won't use because they wouldn't suit our music video.

Fourth day of Filming

On Tuesday 23rd of February we have planned to go back to the red lion pub, where we were for our third day of filming, to film hopefully for the final time. We have booked the same room and have planned to improve where we went wrong last time by bringing extra lights and extension leads which would give us more freedom with our lights. We aim to get all our remaining filming done today and edit for the next few weeks to meet our final deadline on the 31st of March.

Photo's of Location 3

This pictures are the images taken on our third day of filming at our newest location. This is the basement stage of the red lion pub where several bands perform every week. The image below shows our band performing but it also shows the shadow's in the background which was our biggest problem while filming.

This is a shot of our lead singer performing and the band practising behind. Once again you can just see the shadows in the background but our singer is very well lit along with his instrument.

This shot below is of our drummer during filming. The lighting on this shot was brilliant and the reflection on the walls helped to reflect this light the way we wanted it which was an advantage of this venue.

This is a shot without our main light on and we did this to see what it would look like with just the red and blue colours shining on them. The colours were a nice effect but the band wasn't lit enough so that they were clearly seen by the video camera.