Editing, Album Cover and Myspace Page

This week we have been working on editing the music video as well as the album cover and myspace page as the deadline draws closer (Friday).

We have decided now that the name of the artist will be Evie and the album cover is called 'Girl Afraid'. We are going to play on the idea of fears with the visuals on the cover of the album as this will tie in with the title and a theme of the music video. We still need to decide on an effective shot for the front cover of the album. We already know that the back will consist of a shot from the tunnel in which a silhouette of the girl can be seen in the distance.

In terms of editing, our video is coming together. We have satrted to put the ending together with the footage that was shot at the reshoot at the weekend. One option was to have the girl walk away with the the mask attached to her foot by string. However we did not like the look of this and after getting some similar negative feedback decided to have quick cuts of the girl getting up from the floor after the 'spark' bit putting the mask on. Originally the spark bit would have been the ending but we though it was not dramatic enough.

Apart from this there aren't many major issues or gaps. We did have a small gap at the beginnning where we planned to put together quick snap shots of the rest of the video. We got some feedback from Ms Blackborow who didn't like this but suggested we introduce the girl to the audience with some shots of her in the tunnel. We working on this at the moment too.

Editing Progression

The editing is coming along really well as we are steadily filling the gaps in the timeline. The footage from our reshoot in the tunnel, which we have captured and begun working on, is looking really good.


Now that we had the right footage, I have been working on the start of the sequence. Parts of it look good but the angles of the shots of Mia lying on the ground in the tunnel and forest do not match. As the shots are next to each other this is a problem. We are currently deciding whether we should have another reshoot or solve the problem in editing. We are holding a reshoot at Trent Park, but we all like the angle of the shot of Mia waking up in the forest and so ideally would reshoot the shot in the tunnel.


I have been trying to edit to the music and beat more this week. With the idea of trying to match the visuals with the music, we have also put other key shots onto the timeline. For instance we have a brilliant shot of the fire spinning when the beat kicks in.

What we have done so far looks quite different to how I imagined it would, but it still looks really good – possibly better!

Shoot 2 and 3: Grovelands Park and Trent Park

Thurday 29th October - Grovelands Park

Friday 30th October - Trent Park

Costume

MAIN GIRL (Mia)
Black/silver dress
Make-up - natural, more subtle (eyeliner, eyeshadow etc)
Converse

MASKED PERSON 1 and 2 (Selina and Mary)
Faded blue jeans
Black suit jacket
White mask
Make-up - Red lipstick (for Selina)

Props
 Black stick
Sparklers

Problems/Lessons Learnt

We arranged to meet up at 1:30 for this shoot and it took a fair amount of time for the actors to get ready so by the time we actually started filming it was fairly late and therefore getting dark quickly. We coudn't shoot much as it was getting dark and we didn't have the paglights either.

At this shoot, we did get some incredible footage of Matt fire-spinning, which looked really cool on camera, so I'm looking forward to seeing it at school on the computer.
 We learnt our lesson about arranging to meet to late and for the next shoot the next day we arranged to meet earlier at 12. We also managed to get the paglights in case we needed them, which we did.

Originally we were going to have one main masked person (Selina) and two background masked people (Mary and Matt). However, Matt couldn't make it to the shoot on Friday but we decided that we could shoot our footage without him. We shot some footage with Mary in it as a background masked person but may not use it in the real video as it might look random with just one and Selina may no longer look like the main masked person.
 I think both shoots went well and we definately have some footage we can use from both shoots.
 We will have to reshoot at the tunnel as the footage we got from there needed better lighting. So next time we will film in the day and make sure we have the paglights.