Filming;

In this session myself and Stacey, took it upon ourselves to do some more filming as Sam and Thomas worked on doing some more editing on the music video.

I felt that it was a good idea that we filmed Stacey in the same way that we filmed me singing the chorus so that we could use split screen, so that we can put the shots in different squares on the screen so that it looks as if I am singing to myself. The split screen was reminiscent of Ska genre, as we had seen it in The Selector music video.

FIlming & Editing;

During today's lesson, Myself Tom and Sam went and filmed some sections that could be used for the music video.

-- We had the idea of having a man running across the screen, to add a comedic aspect to the video, we were lucky to found someone in the common room who was willing to help us out. We filmed him in a long shot running across a white wall.

-- We then filmed myself singing the chorus facing different places, (looking up, then down, then left and right) in close ups. Our idea is to put the shots in different squares on the screen so that it looks as if I am singing to myself.

We then uploaded to clips onto the Mac's in Final Cut were Tom tired to use the Chorma Key to lose the background , however the actors clothing wasnt contrasting enough for the effect to work. there was also a problem with shawdowing, so we have to re shoot this next lesson.

Editing

In this session we were editing and experimenting with the opacity of the clip were I (the main singer) is in the music studio, so that you can see me singing and my foot tapping at the same time.

We also had to re-construct what we had done in the previous session, as we were unable to save. however this was done quickly as we knew what we were doing.

Filming; Outside of School

For the line 'All the teachers in the pub, passing round the ready rub', we had decided that we were going to use stop animation to show a drink going down as if someone is drinking it.

I went outside of school and filmed a close up of the glass and the bottle of Magners so that it would add something to the shot. we decided to use stop animation as is had previously been successful in our music video and wanted to use more it as it would keep the audience engaged in what is going on.

Editing

In this session we continued with editing were we;

-- We started to experiment with splitting the screen into four clips so the audience would not get bored of watching them one after the other, also the shots relate to each other as 1 shot shows the point of view of what is going on, the other shows close up reactions of the band members and headmaster on a wheely chair and mid shot of a wheely race.

-- To do this we used super composition, however we were unable to save it but when it comes to re-doing it, it wont take us long.

This was also a response to a music video 'Gangster' by 'The Specials', this also helps add to the pace of the music video.

-- We also used the colour corrector at the beginning of the video so we had 4 square (black and white), which is again a response to the same Ska music video by 'The Specials'.

The black and whitsqaures we hope makes the audience think of the Ska genre and the original version of the song, so they can apreciate the way we have gone against and followed the conventions of Ska to bring it into the 21st century of music videos.

Editing

During today's lesson we started to edit our footage on Final Cut. We started off with the establishing shot of a school building with some trees in the shot. Most of the editing in this session was done by Tom as he is the only one in our group who knows how to use final cut and the rest of us and the class have not had a tutorial from Mr Winters yet, so Tom showed us some of the basic stuff we need to know.

Uploading

Today we decided that we have got to the point were we can start to upload our filming, this gave us the chance to remind us of what we have already shot and what we still need to shot. it also let us look at what we need to re-shot, so that we can get more interesting shots or see what we don't need and look at how we are going to piece all of these together.