27-01-2012

In today's lesson we were making space for the other bits of film that we needed to include. Also we decided to continue with the split screens and line effects. To develop this further we chose to multiply the same image over and over again with more and more colours. I think this gives a great effect whilst making the music video look quite professional at the same time.

Sunrise and Sunset

    

After taking in the feedback we were given on Monday we decided to film the sunrise and sunset. We are planning to  film the sunrise and sunset to begin and end our music video. We began to research into the times of the sunrise and sunset for our area over the next few days so I got this one which is quite a detailed table. I'm going to go out and film the sunrise hopefully tomorrow morning . I would like to film a video and do a photo animation of the sunrise so we have more choice when it comes to putting it onto the video.

Sunrise/Sunset

This is the shot that we got from the first sunset, we have now researched across the internet for official sunset times for our area as we want to get accurate information ending up with a better shot. However, I think the composition of this shot is really good. I love how the buildings are all silhouetted as it emphasizes the sunset which is our aim as the sunset is the subject of the video clip.

First attempt of our music video

Photo Animations

Here are the photo animations that we created, we thought this was an interesting way to incorporate different ways of showing the imagery we wanted. We have edited this into our music video and are quite happy with how it has turned out. I think the best one is the Shoe animation that we have created. Also we have planned for the animation to go with the flow of our song choice.

23-01-2012

Today we had our first screening of our first edit of our music video so far. We had feedback sheets being filled out about our music video. We had a few different responses about our music video,various and constructive feedback. Jack and Leanne gave advice on the types of shots we have and how we can change bits of our video for the better. Also, they gave us advice to add in a sunrise and sunset to begin and end our music video as the ending wasn't as strong as we would like. I think the time lapse of a sunrise and sunset will give a good effect, this is a good element to have in our music video as it reinforces our idea of sleep all day and party all night. We will then begin the music video with the sunset to reflect this point. Also, I think its a good idea to have this in the music video as it is one of our original ideas as we wanted in our first planned video.

23-01-2012

Today we had our first screening of our music video, to get feedback from other members of our class, Leanne and Jack. We got various, constructive feedback. There were many little changes we could make to our music video to make it better and easier to understand.

14-01-2012

Period 5 yesterday we decided to shoot the clips of the projections. Emily bought in her spare clothes and bright trainers and we went over to the gallery in our Art department which is a big white room, we borrowed a projector and had two images to test out for projection but neither worked. Although the images are quite bright the projection did not reflect this. So we all decided as a group to stay behind school on Thursday to take photos for our photo shoot of Emily as DJ DES then wait until its dark outside to be able to film for our projections as it will be of a much better quality if the images are shown up. It is hard to project images as our room has a lot of daylight through windows etc. so we are hoping it turns out better after school.

Pump up the Jam lyrics

New footage.

On saturday we all met up at Daisy's house and decided to start filming more bits of DJ DES getting ready to go out. We decided it would be good to have stop motion animations incorporated into our music video. We decided to line up Daisy's heels and add a pari for each photograph so they appeared one by one.

 I think this technique works really well, we decided to use this technique throughout our music video as it works well so we decided to use it with different things. Also, after putting it onto the video we found that it works well with the beat of our songs as well. I think our music video is working out really well at the moment.

DES

We decided to make a search whilst we were searching for images to project. We are planning on projecting images onto the wall and having DJ DES stand infront of them. We were searching and I put Des Graffiti into google and these were from the outcome. We are planning to project these images. We think we will need a white room because if the image is dark and we decide to project onto a dark wall it wont work.

Lip Transfers.

Lip transfers that we decided to use

Screen Shot from Emily's desktop
 of our clips that we filmed of the lip transfers

We decided to buy lip transfers and include them in our music video. We put them on Emily (DJ DES)and we filmed her singing the lyrics to our song.

Text.

We wanted to include some text within our music video like lyrics popping up throughout the video. We took inspiration from Rihanna's videos as she uses quite a lot of lyrics in her videos. Then Daisy and I were searching for a text we like and we all decide we like this one so we put these up to show the kind of effects we prefer and how we want the text to look and the kind of colours we would want them to be. 

04-01-2012

We've decided to change our song because we weren't happy with our previous idea. Our previous song was 'Do Your Thing' by Basement Jaxx and we didn't feel it was much of a dance song and wasn't putting the message across that we wanted. We decided to change it to a song from the 80's called 'Pump up the Jam'. We are finding it easier to film to this song for our video, we just didn't feel that the last one was working out properly. However, we feel this one is much more upbeat and we are all happy with the new song choice.