Editing Log 2

Filming Log 6

In this sequence we filmed with the green screen to get performance shots of George on his own lip syncing and the shots of Shannon and George together singing and interacting with each other. These shots worked better because there was more of a block colour in the background so we could change this to a light pastel colour which looked more cohesive and the white doesn't blend into the background. The two artists had to interact and create the idea that they are flirting with each other. We used the green screen with three point lighting to give us high key lighting and so that there was minimal shadowing behind the artists. We weighed down the green screen so it had no creases in it, the shadowing was difficult to neutralize but after positioning the screen and lights to make them go away. The decision to use to green screen was made when we realized that George's part didn't work very well and the white of George's shirt blended into the white background. The pastel colours in the background will work better because it shows more of a youthful atmosphere in the video.

Editing Log 1

We edited our video on adobe and we did a large chunk of the video to add the base footage with cut aways and effects to give it a more professional finished look. The problems that occured whilst we were editing was that we noticed there was areas with our male artist that caused more of the white to be blended into the background. There was more editing put into this but we feel there needs to be a reshooting of the lip sync areas with a green screen so we can edit the background areas to give more of a block colour against our artist because it will show more definition rather than George fading into the background. 

Filming Log 5

In this shoot we filmed the lip syncing shots. We used a white background and highly lit room to create a professional looking shot, we used this area to do George's lip sync shots. We might improve on this by using a green screen as in some areas the white background blended in with George's white shirt. This made the shot look somewhat rushed so I feel this is an area which we could improve on. We wanted to also edit the shot so that as George approaches the camera he doesn't have to bend down, he goes out of frame slightly which looks slightly unproffesional, we can edit around this but we wanted to have one continuous shot so we might reshoot this part.

Practice Photoshoot

Here we took some test photos of Shannon, as our artist Ava to see what would be attractive to our target audience. I dressed Shannon in a ballerina style dress to give her a more innocent look, with a bold necklace that made the outfit look more modern. We also used heels so that she appeared taller and more model-esque as this is what is most attractive in the pop culture, the image of our artist needs to be very prominent, recognisable and consistent. The hair and makeup remained relatively natural because I thought that overloading the face with lots of makeup would make our artist look really mature, we wanted to keep her youthful look and give a sense of natural beauty. We used a white background because we thought it would contrast with what the artist is wearing and cause her to stand out, giving the connotation that she is the most important person, this reflects her confident attitude.

Construction Post

This is a construction post presenting the dance rehearsals and the construction of our dance sequence. The dancers we selected were specifically chosen, two male and two female dancers; to foreshadow the events that unfold in the rest of the music video because we thought the two pairs could represent the romantic relationship between the george and shannon and the other female artist. The dance will be edited very quickly, we also plan to use quite a few separate shots and put them together so it looks like the lights are changing very quickly. We decided that using balloons to decorate the floor space would have been impractical because the dancers might not want to break the unison of the dance if they come into contact with one of the balloons; we decided they would be too much of an obstacle to use in this portion of the video. We thought that Shannon would participate in some of the dance moves too to add some unity to the sequence rather than her just performing, this might have appeared somewhat disjointed.

Filming Log - 3

Filming Log

In this session we filmed in Kingston, near the river because we thought that this would be a conventional location as it looks like a friendly and central area. As a group, we thought that this area looked vintage with all the leaves fallen on the floor, we had planned to film here but thought the fallen leaves and the sun setting had an even better effect because it showed more of a classical image and we thought the lighting worked really well to foreshadow the artist's romantic memories. We encountered some problems with members of the public because we were filming in quite a busy area so people were stopping to watch us film which didn't look realistic so we had to ask people to walk around the area we filmed in.