Wednesday 15th December - Digi pack begins...

OK, so again the shoot didn't go to plan. Due to band members being ill, and not being able to complete the shoot. So instead we did something far more productive, we began our digi packs. I really enjoyed using Photoshop again, its so easy and fun to use. And its the only programme i know how to use! So i started playing around with my ideas, and used my plan to lay out all the panels. Here is a little preview.

 I started playing around with fonts and stuff, which i loved doing! The background i got off Google, along with the 'B' which we have used all through our campaign.
The bullets and lips, i just added because i felt it needed a little extra thing to spice it up!!
However this isn't finished, still need to complete the other four panels and the insert!





But I'm loving it so far!

So close to the end...

OK, so we have had an awful week.
Last week we were faced with snow, which lasted the entire week meaning that the school was shut!! Meaning that we couldn't film the last remaining pieces of our story board!! Then this week came and some group members were ill and i wasn't in, so we thought all going bad and not to schedule as we had planned to be finished and start editing this week. So, on Monday the half of the group started a rough edit on iMovie as final cut has not been uploaded to the new Macs yet. Looking at it today, started to get really excited for the final product. Also today we luckily got to film small easy cuts to put in, and we also continued to edit.
The schedule has been re done for Friday, that should be our last day of filming and then editing the whole thing!!
WHooooop.

3rd Shoot...

OK, so today we decided to shoot odd bits we had left over from the story board. Pete wore his red tie, so we shot many scenes with him and they looked wonderful. So Friday should be the final day for filming for us then its a WRAP! Hopefully, fingers crossed.

2nd Shoot

Ok so we plan to shoot the second time. With some hiccups Ellis forgot the storyboard, so we had to watch the animatic and remember what shots we had to use. Also Peter forgot his red tie so we couldn't include any shots of him. So we thought OH DEAR, but we resolved this by doing individual shots of just the band in our changed of outfits.

Here's to the 3rd shoot on Friday! WHOOP.
Till next time Nanceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

Digipack plan and poster plan!!

 In toady's lesson we planned and drew our how our digipack and poster would look like here it is;

The colours i used are both similar to show the pattern and style of the group.





 

 The leopard print shows rebellious side to the band. Also a stylish print.

 Here the similar theme runs throughout for the audience to notice who we are and what were about.

Wednesday 17th November - Our first shoot!

So second time lucky, we decided to shoot! We checked with the teacher and asked her if we could use her room during the morning, and she said it was only available last lesson in the afternoon. So we thought rather than waste the time, we thought we would so the photo shoot for the digipacks and film later.
So we got all dressed up, and began shooting in the IT room with the green screen, as there was no available black backgrounds. At first we had trouble getting the lighting perfect, after that was sorted, the camera became an issue. As it was a long exposure most of the pictures were 'blurry' and out of focus, there was limited space as well for us to act our positions, so this became a challenge. We over came this by shooting individual pictures for our digipack, and getting 'quirky' pictures that we could use. This worked well given our limited time and space!

Then came the afternoon, we set up in the drama room on the stage they had, and the lighting looked perfect! But then came a problem no one had brought the music! So we found a way around that too, there was a computer, so we played it out of the speakers and it worked perfectly.

So we started filming, and then collected our microphones from the music department and everything was set. We began filming the performance scene, and all of us gave it our all! And really got into it. We managed to shoot the whole song, and then addition scenes that we thought would work.
So together the day went really well, and to plan.
We plan to shoot, on Monday and Wednesday to finish !

Wednesday 10th Novemeber - Lets shoot...maybe not?

Today we pitched our idea to the class and got great feedback on our idea and things we couldn't and should include. These were;
- not to stick too much to visuals and lyrics
- make sure lighting is perfect!

Whilst our plan was to shoot today, we decided against it, to do some test shots of lighting in our location on site. As it is in black and white we wanted to see what lighting looked right and what didn't. Here is our favourite shot, although i am blinking this type of light is perfect for our video.