Monday, 17 November 2014

Filming and Editing Finalising


                                                         
Due to the actors being busy with rehearsal and have many commitment we have not had any progress with filming also outside factors such as weather and the sun setting faster so it does get darker this deters actors and us from getting good lighting.


We hope to find two male actors and an actress. We have 5 days for filming hopefully we get enough footage. 
  • Thursday 21st at 12:50pm-13:50pm and 15:10pm-16:20pm
  • Friday 21st 13:50pm-15:10pm
  • Next Monday 24th  9:00am-10:20am and 11:40am-13:50pm 



Next week Tuesday we will screen our product to the class. 
We need to make a contingency for our lack of filming in previous weeks. Hopefully we are able to get our filming finished by the end of this week. If we do not get enough of the lip syncing we may have to focus less on the narrative and change it to a conceptual and performance based promo video. I believe that we should not leave all of the editing to the deadline so we should edit after we film. So we can focus on the effects and transitioning during the last few days of editing. 




Friday, 14 November 2014

Filming - Day 3



Calling all main actors



Changes! Shop shutter to a Green background!



Today we were going to shoot outside but it was running from 7am and it stopped raining at 1pm it was too late to go to our shop shutter location because our actors were not able to stay for an hour. One of our actors was not present, we wanted to also do the chase scene when the two males see the female actor walking past in the canteen, we decided that we will not use the canteen scene we can use a corridor scene in college instead because it will be very busy in the canteen







Osagie, Marvellous, and Michael
Osagie fresh prince of  bel air  high top hair seem to be in my frame.
 I am not certain about the DSLR camera frame.
I hope this will not be a problem, we can just move the tripod back  a feet or two.


Osagie and Michael bonding and rehearsing their actions.
We are directing them to act like they are best friends and they just saw each
other, they lip sync and dance. 










Thursday, 13 November 2014

Location Changes!

We have changed the location from the shop shutter to college location because our actors are not willing to travel far to film and they will not be available in the weekends. We will be using the green tin cargo background and the orange and yellow brick wall. Due to our new actors clashes with timetable and reliability college location seems to be the best solution as our deadline for filming is soon.




Long shot of  the cargo 

Wide shot of the brick wall where both actors will be standing.

Actors Complications

We planned to create a call sheet for this week but one of our actors had a production to rehearse for and he was not available when we needed him. I had to contact another male who would be willing to do it, Osagie is reliable and is willing to lip sync but not dance or act, I persuaded him to do it even though he Afrobeat is not his cup of tea. I printed out a lyric sheet for him and sent him the song via whatsapp. 

Wednesday, 12 November 2014

Editing Day 1





  • Only 30 seconds needed for Prince Regent.
  • Editing notes used from the music promo practical task was useful.
  • No lip sync, just the song and dancers.
  • We had to use the best footage from Prince Regent station which made it easier to edit. 
  • We could improve the 30 minutes by moving each footage of where the choreography suits the part of the lyrics where it says 'Drop'  it will be quite cool if it was in sync with the song. 


On the left hand are the remaining footages that we have from prince regent when it we filmed in the alley next to Prince Regent to have a practice run of the dancers choreography. 























We cut from the short panning  to the next choreography on  the concrete floor.




DROP! We have a pan here with a fast transitioning from to the next location which is Marsh Lane.

Sunday, 9 November 2014

Prince Regent Call Sheet 2






Day 2 of filming, we have permission for filming  in this location but we are not allowed to use a tripod next to the stairs where the public will be passing. When we are using handheld we can turn on the stabilizer to make our panning less unstable and shaky.