Production Diary

Meet 1
In this meet we had been given what groups we were going to be in, and at this point we had to choose what song we wanted to do so we could get straight on with what we needed to do before we could start filming the video. We decided as a group that we are going to use the song "If You Cant Afford Me" by Katy Perry. We also decided that we want this to be narrative video have the main character change into different characters throughout the video so that we have completly different scenes through the video. We printed off our lyrics and annoted them discussing what and how we wanted to do the music video.


Meet 2.
In this meet we started to time each shot by looking at the lyrics and playing the song over and over again, we realised that this was going to take a long time and that we only got through half way of the lyric during an hour. However we wanted to make sure that we got each timing of the shot correct so that we didnt have to go back and make changes to the timing of each shot.


Meet 3.
We finally finished the times of each shot by using the lyrics, and then finally started to do our storyboard to give us a rough idea of how we want each shot to look like before we start to video. We got up to shot 10 by the end of the lesson.


Meet 4.
We carried on with our shots starting from shot 10 and finished with shot 20. while doing this we decided that the next time we meet we will be disscussing weather we want to keep our origianl idea or not.


Meet 5.
At this meet we decided that we are going to keep our original idea so we then carried on with our storyboard shots. Also after meet 4 we tried looking for a model of a bank that we was going to use in our video to smash but as we couldnt find one we decided that we are going to buy a piggy bank instead. In this meet we did from shot 20 - 40 in our storyboard.


Meet 6.
We carried on with our storyboard starting with shot 41. In this meet we decided to keep the goth look but also have the charater in a rock chick look aswell. In this meet we got up to shot 53.


Meet 7
We started to video some of our storyboardup to 52. We have also carried on with the storyboard itself from shot 54. We have decided in this meet that we are going to change one of the rides from the train to a motor bike as we thought that it would be more suitable for the goth/rock chick look. Ellie and Shelagne have been carrying on with the storyboard while leonie has started to edit the storyboard on the computer. We got up to shot 79 in this meet. We are hoping to finish the storyboard next time we meet while doing the editing. Leonie edited from shot 1-16 from our storyboard.


Meet 8.
We had Ellie and Shelagne film the rest of the storyboard while leonie edited to shot 26. The shots that we had filmed were way to wide so they had to be re-filmed so they looked a lot better when being edited.


Meet 9.
Our filming of the storyboard had been filmed over so we had to refilm and capture onto the software so that we wouldnt have to lose it again and then wouldnt have to refilm.


Meet 10.
Leonie had taught Ellie and Shelagne how to edit the storyboard on the computer so Ellie and Shelagne could continue to edit.


Meet 11.
We carried on editing the storyboard starting from shot 35-69.


Meet 12.
In this meet we finally finished editing the storyboard, while shelange was finishing this Ellie started to practice filming Leonie lipsinking. We had to film this a couple of times foe more practice. We then captured the filming onto the comuper and put the song to the filming so that Leonies voice was cut out so that the lipsinking was to the music.

Meet 13.
In this meet we finished off the lipsinking and then uploaded the video onto youtube so that we were able to load the video onto the blog.


Meet 14.
We uploaded the storyboard video onto youtube and then uploaded the videos onto our blogs.


Meet 15.
In this meet we started to plan out our filming schedule, we got together all of our timetables, including the actors so we could see where we all had free lessons at the same time or where we could film at a good oppotunity during the week. We only discussed about the school week and still need to talk about when we are free after school and at the weekends. I think that we are all free on a saturday so we are thinking of doing most of our filming on them days.

Meet 16.
In this meet we have uploaded our blogs by updating the recent things we have done to plan for filming our music video also we have sorted the shots so that we know what shots need to be filmed in what setting. So when it comes to filming we wont get confused by mixing all of the shots up realising that we might have missed a shot in a certain setting. We have done this so that we are organised and that it will make filming a lot easer for us when it comes to the time.

Meet 17.
We started to plan what we were going to do for the first shots in our music video, and decided that we wouldn start with the group of shots in the setting of the drama hall. We have been planning what costumes the characters need to wear and and the props that we need so that we are prepared for shooting.

Meet 18.It was the thursday we had decided to film so we went to ask the drama department if we would be able to borrow the drama hall that evening. However the school was holding the annual careers convention which meant the room was in use so we wouldnt be able to film. This made us realise we should probaly check locations more in advance.

Meet 19.In our Media lesson we decided that we would film the shot that was against the lockers as it was the only shot in its location. We already had the props in school as we meant to film the night before. We did Leonie's make up and got the actors we needed before we started to film. Me and Shelagne were filming as I am in the video, we did quite a few takes for this shot as we were still getting used to bringing everything together. We then captured this to the computer and decided Leonie and Shelagne would film the motorbike shots with her Dad's bike on the Sunday.


Meet 20. 
Leonie had all her make up done by a friend studying make up at college. Then Leonie and shelagne met at the libary in Ongar so they could film our motorbike shots with a nice background. They were very lucky as it was a beautiful day, although they had to take this into consideration when deciding where to exactly place the bike. They decided here to use the prop of the leather biker jacket to add a different effect to the shot. Filming went really well with them doing 3 attempts of each shot meaning they would later be able to pick which one's looked the best. They managed to get the shots they needed while taking photo's for evidence on our blogs in about an hour.


Meet 21.We arrived in our Media lesson and captured our shots to the editing software, at this poit we couldn't wait to edit our shots to the music and see how well they had come out. Overall we were very pleased with how the setting and props looked for this section and how the lip syncing fiited in with the vocals of the music. Here we also uploaded the pictures of the shoot to the computer and all our blogs.


Meet 22.In this meet we showed our first section to others ad decided that for this verse there wasn't much variety in our shot types as we were keeping them all quite long to include the bike. Luckily Leonie and shelagne had filmed one of the shots in a close up aswell to see how it looked so we are going to use this instead. Today we also began to start up our star's myspace account.

Meet 23.
We got told that we needed to make a filming schedule, so me and shelange started to make it from the two shoots that we have already done.


Meet 24.
We decdied that with the weather this day it would be best to film the shots that are inside leonies house. We were going to film the shots that are in leonies room however we decided to change this shot from the orignal in our storyboard as we didn't feel it worked. When we arrived at my house we filmed these shots over a few times, but when watching them back on the camera we decided we wasn't happy with the lighting. Next lesson we are going to try and change the contrast on editting.


Meet 25.
As we caputured the shots from Leonies house on the computer the lighting actually looked a lot better. We decided to just edit the shots to the music and then when the video is completed we will see if we need to change the lighting. We looked at our free schedule and decided that tomorrow we could film during and after our double media lesson. In the first hour we organised props and borrowed a skateboard from a boy in our class. In the second hour we will go to the skate park and start to film.


Meet 26.We got ready to do our filming and headed to the skate park at king georges. We had a bit of a disaster as we forgot the tripod so had to go back to school and get it. Other than this the shoot was alot of fun. Leonie had to try and practice on the skateboard which made us all laugh alot. We managed to be quite lucky with the lighting although it was quite cold. We varied our shots from the storyboard a bit although keeping the main ideas. Luckily we finished our final shot just as it started to rain. We also made sure we took lots of pictures that we could use for our digi pack and myspace acount.

Meet 27.
We captured all of our filming from the day before onto the adobe premier software as well as uploading the picture we took from the shoot. Then Leonie and myself began to edit the video although we didnt get it finished as we spent lots of time getting the lip syncing in time.


Meet 28.
Leonie came back in a free lesson to edit some more of the skater shots Leonie managed to put them in the right places however we will still need to go over these more closely.


Meet 29.
We were going out to film the allsorts shots, this meant Leonie and shelange had to do Leonie's make up and get me ready in school. Then we pulled up outside sainsburys and went to get some cherries after asking permission to film in allsorts. As we went into allsorts we brought the milkshake and cupcakes. Then we found out our camera had low battery so we had to be quite efficent about filming and not waste time. We also managed to get a few photos that would be a possiblity in our digipack.


Meet 30.
We uploaded the photos and captured the video footage to our editing software. Then we took turns to edit it while uploading the pictures to our blog. We had just editied our allsorts shots into the right places when the system crashed without saving our work so we had to start the whole process again. We now know to save while we are going along!!!!


Meet 31.
We had our media lesson before lunch so we decided to go to Leonies house and film the for me shots against Leonies wall as we thought the pattern would look much better and when we tested this we decided we were right. We had the for me shots as a variety of close ups and mid shots. After filming these we decided to film the shots of Leonie and the bar. I'm quite pleased with how well these shots came out given the amount of time we had to do them. I also think that both the backgrounds look effective.


Meet 32.
We captured the footage onto the computer and edited what we had filmed into the rest of our video, by having the for me shots they filled up alot of gaps which as a group we were very happy about. We then started to plan when we was next going to film and decided that we were going to film the horse scene at the weekend.


Meet 33.
We couldnt film the horse scene as my friend was unable to be there at the time we wanted to film so we are going to film the scenes nect week. However in our media lesson we decided that we needed to get some more shots of the scenery leonie is filmed in so that there isnt too much of just leonie in our video. We also decided that we need to include joe more in the video as it looks as though he just appears and the video looks as if it isnt telling a story.


Meet 34.
In this meet we filmed the shots of smashing the piggy bank and the shots of leonie in her car. The car shots were going really well then all of a sudden the camera battery had died. so we went back to school to film the bank being smashed. We only had one piggy bank so we needed to make sure we got this shot first time. luckily this was a success and went very well as a group we was very happy with this shot.


Meet 35.
In our lesson we captured our footage and then started on our digi pack. shelange carried on with the websites while me and leonie started to look at pictures for what we could include for our digi pack. We are so glad that we took lots of pictures for this so that we have more of a variety to pick from so that we know what ones are our best option.

Meet 36.
In this meet we filmed the drama hall shots, we felt as though these went really well and that we had a lot of shots filmed. We had a lot of fun doing this and very proud of how they turned out. Joe was in a lot of these shots and which helped a lot however leonie and joe found it hard to keep a straight face fo some of the shots as some of them were quite long when looking at eachother. some of these shots took longer than we thought.


Meet 37.
Me and Leonie went to film the horse riding shots, as we got there my friend had two of her horses that we could choose to have in out video, we decided to have charley as our horse as he was very pretty and seemed much more friendly. My friend brushed and cleaned her horse before the filming to place while me and leonie took pictures and got the camera ready for filming. Leonie got onto the horse and had a ride before filming so that she got used to the horse. the filming went really well for this scene as charley the horse was really well behaved. and did what he was told.


Meet 38:
We meet up in the media room to capture all our footage. The horse shots seemed really light so we are going to fiddle around with these in editing to get a better quality.

Meet 39:
Today we spent lots of time editting as we had lots of shots that were just about and it was making it hard work. We also began to start our digipack looking at template fonts and thinking of some alternative track ideas.

Meet 40:
After looking at the complete part of our video with the shots and locatios we still had to film we decided that our video might appear to be quite jumpy from place to place. This made me come up with the idea of using the patterened wall as more of a feature in our video and have these shots as continous the whole way through and stringing our video together. We decided to film these shots straight away at the weekend. This lesson Leonie also set up our myspace account picking a back ground with colours and sweets as she felt this represents our artist well.

Meet 41:
The me and shelange arrived at leonie's house and we began to move the furniture in Leonie's bedroom so we could film against the wall. Then we picked four different dresses for Leonie to wear so we had a variety of choice. We made sure that we overfilmed so that we wouldn't have to come and move all the furniture again. As we were going to use these shots throughout the video we decided just to play the song and have me singing and dancing for the duration. We did this twice in each outfit.


Meet 42:We captured the shots from Leonie's house on to the edittig software. We then discussed wether or not the four costumes would make these shots more confusing so we may just stick to one outfit as we still have many shots for this.