Journal: 30-01-2012

Here is the same effect as before but this time I changed the background colour. We used this towards the end of our music video because we feel it builds the pace and makes the ending stronger.

Journal: 29-01-2012

On Friday night Daisy and I went to film the sun setting but yet again as we got there, there was a massive cloud in the way of the sun! We stayed there for a little while anyway but it didnt move, so I said that I would try both yesterday and today however the sun has not been out. This has meant that I have not been able to get the footage that I needed for the beginning of the music video. I will keep attempting to do this and hopefully soon it will work!

Journal: 27-01-2012

Last night, I attempted to film the sunset. However, this did not go to plan! As soon as I got outside the sun set so fast my footage wasn't long enough to make into a time-lapse. We plan to film this again tonight and go outside a lot earlier and film for longer. Above is the video I started to film yesterday. I really like the shot so I will shoot here again tonight. Hopefully it will work!

To make sure we get out at the right time we decided to look up when the sun sets so we dont miss it. Here is what we found out:

Here is a picture of the view we plan to shoot at again tonight:

Journal: 26-01-2012

Here is an example of the kind of effects I have started to add into the music video. I came across this effect when I was looking around in Final Cut Pro. I think this effect looks very retro and works really well with the look we want to portray.

Feedback

Here is the feedback from we got from the first showing of our music video to the class.

6/6 said that it definitely had potential and 1/6 said why isnt it on MTV already???

I was very happy with this because we only had just finished our first draft of the music video because we changed our idea at the last minute! I am now going to edit the video a lot more to make it exactly how we want it.

The elements that work:

• Good editing
• Good effects - could add more!
• The dancing
• Nice shoes and props
• Lips
• Animations
• Split screens
• Good make up
• Split screens when getting ready
• The ballet dancing

Elements that need developing:

• Bit too short
• Clearer cuts
• Some shots are too long
• Writing on the mirror
• More split screens
• Clothing on bed sequence repeated once too many

Overall I am very happy with the feedback we gained from our class and teacher and I will put all the corrections into place.

First Attempt of our Music Video

Here is the first attempt at editing all of our music video together. We plan to show this to our class and get feedback on elements of our video that work and elements that need improving. I am really happy with how our video is looking as I think it fits into the codes and conventions of a Dance music video and is how we pictured it to be.

Picture Animations

Here are the picture animations we created that we have edited into our music video. These turned out to be very successful and look really good with the rest of our footage. The reason we decided to do these animations is because we thought it would add an exciting element to our video and we wanted to try our new ways of creating a video instead of just using a normal video camera.

Music Video Lyrics

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Projections

At the end of our music video we want to do a projection of one of the photos above and have DJ DES jump infront of it. At the moment we think that the photos that say "DES" will be a lot better as they are colourful and for the obvious reason they say "DES". However, we havent really done projections before so we are going to see which photo looks best.

Typography

We decided that we wanted to have some of the lyrics appear throughout our music video so we had to find a font that we liked. Below is a font called "Touching Letters" that we found from the website DaFont. We think this font really fits in with the style of our music video and are really happy with how it looks.

Journal: 5-1-2012

Over the holidays we started to complete our filming. We started filming by having lips singing the lyrics of our song. We bought lip transfers from Ebay, like the ones below, so they really fitted in with our theme of the dance genre.

Journal: 4-1-2012

Why we changed our idea and song:

Our idea just wasnt working!! Our idea of having boys dressed as girls didnt work because we couldnt stop laughing at the boys dressed in our clothes!! It didnt look good on camera and we thought as a group that we didnt really like the song as much as we did when we chose it the first time. We are currently thinking of a new song for our music video.