Friday 29 January 2010

Filming: On-Location

Today, (thank God!), we were able to shoot and film the remaining footage which we needed to complete the process of filming our Music Promotional Video. This consisted of the flashback shots, which we will apply the "Super 8mm" (or aged-film) film effect to during the editing of our footage.

We had headed off to Christchurch Park and the tennis courts once again in hope of succeeding, and although a fine drizzle of rain started it didn't stop us from filming. When finished in the park, we walked over to the Waterfront and filmed the shots we needed in this location.

Unfortunately, (and this a big disadvantage to us), Emily Halls, the actress who was supposed to be in our video, was unavailable at the time to star in the video due to her attendance in another lecture. Therefore, Emily Swager, our Art Director, stepped-in as the female character. Fortunately for us, we always have a backup plan!!

Next week, we hope to log, capture and edit the remaining footage, and hopefully the process of editing will be completed before February Half Term (starts 12th Feb 2010).

The next task we aim to accomplish is the designing of an Album Cover and also a Poster advertising the Album CD. These tasks come under the "Digipack" task. There are two possible methods which we could use in order to succeed at this task. First, we could go out to our locations with a Digital Camera, take some photographs in these locations (possibly with the characters from our video) and select one or two of the photographs as possibilities to use as the Album cover and Poster. Or, we could draw then scan onto the computers a hand-drawing, or create a drawing on the computer using a drawing tablet and software.