Make-up footage

Today we decided that we should have some more footage of make-up being applied and a few other shots so the girls went into the college toilets and filmed some footage. Rachel was applying make up to her eyes and Alice to her lips - there is also a clip of rachel,back to camera, taking off her top which would be useful for our project as in most things now 'adays' sex appeal is one of the biggest selling points. You can see evidence for this in most music video's now and two artists that come to mind are beyonce and christina aguilera both thier repsective video's for both dirty and single ladies have a lot of skin showing and despite the fact that there are debates about whether this is right or not to corporation it sells.

Research for The Music video

With the change of plan from the soap opera trailer to the music video i have had to do further research into how to construct a hardcore video.

as i used to be well into my hardcore music i know the basics of how a video is peiced together but wanted to get a few examples to influence the editing style.

Here is an advert for Westfest (Hardcore) 2010 which is the uk's biggest dance festival of the year and attracts thousands of people the editer uses quick shots of important people and at the end of each bar another shot comes in so it's a suttle kind of clever where if you wern't looking for it you wouldn't see it.



The opposite it seems in the modern world of hardcore is drum and bass but as they come under the same musical family the video's are very similar - apart from more text the editer again uses quick flashes of footage of the main attractions.(Adny C, Friction Mc's GQ etc etc.)



interestingly enough ive' just had a look through both video's back to back and they each tell a story - First you are shown footage of the surrounding area which is the hills around the Royal bath and west showground. Secondly you are shown footage of the rave itself and finally text comes onto screen showing how you can get involved in such and event so i think we could add this to the end of our music video (how to purchase, perhaps where the artist is touring)


finally Styles & Breeze - Amigos is a song that i have enjoyed since my days as a hardcore listener however there isn't a music video for the hardcore mix of it so i have chosen the official club music video
In the video styles and breeze are talked about as being car jackers. an attractive woman is seen driving a ferrari to a club, while she is insde dancing (once again a music video using sex appeal to attract interest) her car is being robbed and although it is farfetched an automatic driving system scares the robbers and parks her car back in front of the club once again establishing equilibrium. Even music video's have narrative.

Editing Software

I came in today to do some editing but unfortunatly adobe premier pro decides to freeze everytime i try to open any kind of footage, this is really frustrating me now as this continues to happen everytime i try and edit. i feel as though no software has 'played' the game right, this tied with a lack of comitment from the group has convinced me that we will not be ready at all for the deadline. I have had no contact from Alice for over a week now and i am getting increasingly annoyed with our project i feel as though after a mishap from both girls they haven't shown the drive to repair our project and we are now aimless and motivationless. i will continue trying the editing software but what can you do when it freezes repeatedly?

Problems with Editing Software

We have had some footage for a while now but everytime we go to put it onto the computer by capturing it on Adobe Premier Pro each of us had the messege 'the disk drive is full' so we had to call in the computer technition who told us we had to save it on the C/ Drive and then transfer the data to the Fs6 which is making the process seem on-going and slow which raises further concern for the deadline coming up.

Thursday

On Monday we decided as a group that friday is the deadline for ALL filming to be complete, this will hopefully enable us to edit the film in a week, adding to this is the Ancillery tasks we need to have drafted by next friday (16/12/10) so i am very worried that we will not have enough time to complete it all, we will all have to be in the media department for the majority of this next week.

Today the girls did thier filming involving thier make-up, i am yet to see the footage but i'm sure it will be fine and we can capture and hopefully start to peice together a few things in the editing process. Every second has to be used!

The Weekends Footage

this weekend the plan was to film at a party that i was Dj'ing at on Saturday night which would have got us a lot of useful footage however the event organizers decided on saturday afternoon that the music would have been to loud and the party was called off.

Instead of the party i had a few friends at my house for a drink and a spin on the turntables, over the course of the evening i got some useful footage and some not so effective stuff but at least it wasn't a wasted night. What i filmed at my house includes a panning shot showing the entire of my bedroom focusing on beer cans and the general messy'ness showing what kind of character i am and I also managed to film my friend on the turntables and my other two friends Mc'ing. Later on in the evening i got various convosations on tape including one between my two friends bantering about buying cigerettes, admittadly the footage might be useless but i have a hope that we can incorporate it into the film as really i filmed a teenage saturday night which is really what our projects all about.

I didn't just wait until the evening to film - during the day my friend ben who also featured in the evening footage came round to lend me a hand and took the role of a camera man, i was happy with the shot of my jeans being picked up, my t-shirt and the waking up process where i answer a phone call using a technique of filming me first in my mirror that is opposite my bed and then secondly panning the camera across to see me sat up in bed on the phone discussing whats going on.

On the Friday before the weekend (19/11/10) Myself and Alice filmed An 11 a side game that the football academy usually do on a friday morning conveniantly in my media lesson, i think there is potential for this footage but I'm not sure how to incorporate this into our project. This weekend as the party as not been re-organized there will probably be a second attempt at filming people at my house but this time i'll learn from my mistakes and film the footage i want before i start drinking i think that would be much more efficient.

Audio Recorded!

There are more posts to come after this that i completed over the half term and are saved on my laptop at home.

Last lesson we agreed the girls costumes and in honesty i had little to do with it adding just the occasional input when i understood what Alice and Rachel where going on about.
We also managed to complete the Phone call between the girls that will open our film, for this we asked media teacher Andrew Miller if we could get a crisper recording by using the radio studio rather than record it off the camera and risk having a 'tinny' sound. With Andrew helping us we had a 'proffesional' opinion with every clip that was recorded, he then emailed it to myself and Rachel.
Here is the script that the girls had to base the conversation on, we had a script just to make sure certain parts where said however they did have the opportunity to wander to make the phone call sound a bit more authentic:
R: Hey babes
A: Heya, you alright?
R: Yeah I’m good hun, how’re you?
A: I’m good thankyou have you been up to much?
R: Watched the lads play football, chilled out but I had to work which is a bummer.
A: Yeah I know what you mean hun I had to work to. Anyway you coming out later up
Tim’s, be a good laugh.
R: Yeah I’m still going – wanna come round mine before hand for a few pre drinks.
A: Yeah that’d be good babes, have a catch up.