Gnitide

Implementing Narrative into the footage.

Where we need the narrative:

- post-its fluctuating
- TRacking into the center post its.
- Then input the narrative afterwards.

All of the footage of the post its was postboxed, so there were areas of the shot that belonged to other footage in the same area on the time line. Unfortunately, we now have to zoom in, 'pull' the footage. This lessens the picture quality, and is just too tedious.

After much trial an error, they've done it =D woooo....yeah, like a ghost...


And now, just continuing with more editing, as per usual these past few days.

Extra Shooting

We are going to do a bit more extra shooting in one of our lessons because we did not quite get enough during the actual filming time. The part that we will be filming is the end of the music video as we have everything else already in order but no ending to finish the music video off.

You guesssed it

Ricky gave back some more of our footage that he had been converting. Lots of drummer footage whoo! and Yay!

So far we've just been viewing the footage and searching for footage to put in the otherwise ...'empty areas'. Looking at the amount of footage we have nearer the beginning, and then nearer the ending, the ending looks rather plain, but still good in my opinion.

With the roughly four minutes of new footage, over the top of our already 4 minutes long video, its frustrating to time each piece, all over again.

Some of the footage cannot be used, for the pure fact that you can see what we did to the drums. We put a tea towel on one to lessen the noise.

Yet more editing.

I'm not sure how much we have left to do, but I can tell you that it looks brilliant so far.

However the day has not started off in a good way. The Mac managed to crash in some way. No blue screen, just a black one. Hannah came over and we shut it down, left it off for a moment.

It's back on now, hopefully it will work for the rest of the session.

Looking at the timeline I(Josh) can see lots of clips in all areas, I remember when I first started off, and used like..2 lines of video? So far we've managed 6 lines of footage, each with markers and such to time it to the right position and so we can lip-sync it properly.

Today, Annie brought in some more shots that she had taken. So they(Annie, Dan & Aidan) will work on implementing them into the footage.

At one point there seemed to be a problem rendering, as one piece was placed they had a problem, and then the same with another.

Unfortunately we seem to have lost some footage, regardless of searches. The memory stick or original computer seems to have lost our footage.

Continued Editing.

Today the group has been editing the footage, as would be expected. At certain points, when trying to get things in, we have had some pure luck. Placing down or deleting/editing parts of the footage and they have come out brilliant, some ideas we didn't think of and some that we did. Namely 'ghost footage' which I (Josh), thought most interesting.

Yeeeh

For the time being we're only having one bit of narrative and we replaced our original idea of having a builder turn into a ballerina with a transvestite. We have kept our ideo of post-it notes and the editing of all of the footage is going swimmingly. Plenty of time is left for effects, but as this is a fairly conventional music video we won't use transitions like 'fade' and things like that.
The silhouette idea went down the drain, but Aidan's idea of turning the lights on at the beginning of the song have opened lots of creative doors!

And now for the long awaited production shots.

I took most of these photo's myself (Josh) but a few were taken by Annie, when we were doing the original idea of someone wanting to be a punk (shown below.) That idea was scrapped, along with the idea of Aidan being the person that would look like a woman. (Also Below.)

Here Josh and Leo are setting up the drums, the drums started off being too loud, so we put masking tape on the sticks and linen on to the drums, so that the noise was quiet or non-existent.



This next one shows the end product.



Our makeshift dolly, until we finally found one at the back. And in the end, I don't think we used either of them.



As refered to above, this next picture shows me(Josh) being someone that wants to be a Punk.

Here are the two guitarists practicing their parts.

Rough Cut Contents

Our Rough Cut will only be able to contain the Guitarist and the narrative

Because of the setting it takes smages to write- ARGH!

Map of the Problematique

The format of the video as it is at the moment isn't compatible with the project at the moment, so things are sort of taking a while! Ouchies...

Rough Cut in Process

Annie and Dan have been working on getting a few shots sped up. They finally found a tutorial on youtube and the results were, to speed up the footage either:

command + J

OR

Modify - Speed


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Edit
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The problem has been rectified, we have now managed to speed up the footage.

Listen to Daisy Chainsaw

...Because I said to.

We're putting together our rough cut today, so it's not going to be TOO polished. However, it'll still give y'all a good idea of what we're doing. At this moment in time we are figuring out where to put all the shots in relation to the song. In fact, there's some footage that I've never seen before, so Annie's obviously gone off and got quite a lot!

The pressure's well and truly on, but we'll be fine!

Just Me This Time

Hullo.
I'm all alone in the media room, just waiting for half of the band footage to write to Final Cut. The other half I will bring tomorrow for the lesson (silly memory sticks).
The worrying part is that we won't get much done by the means of a rough cut. I'm considering fiddling around with the footage I have today, before next lesson.
I suppose we need all the time we get!
Everything looks okay at the moment, it's all here and we're all happy.

We're All Here!

We have just shot footage of all of our sticky notes with people's dreams on them. We took a little walk to look for a suitable wall and found one right outside our room- argh. Ah well, we need the exercise.

Anyway, the shooting itself went really well, and we left all the sticky notes up for people to take/laugh at. w00t. 'tis all captured, and t'will be edited to a suitably funderful standard.

It's pretty well edited, but we haven't sped up the newly accustomed still versions to fit the beat!

Hello, It's Annie and Dan

Well yesterday, our footage was unuploadable! (From the band location, that is.) So I (Annie), took it home last night to turn the usable bits into a Quicktime and bring it in. As my memory stick calls itself 8GB, I thought it would be perfectably cabable of the 30 minutes I cut it down to. Unfortunately, it is only 7.47GB and the file was 7.79. As Dan says: "Dayum".

Anywho, as we couldn't edit, we decided to re-shoot the dreams shots as the band location shots didn't work very well (we used an improvised dolly, consisting of the fully opened tripod and an office chair (which I wrote about on the Video Production Risk Assessment )... only later to find a real dolly in the store room.)

Final Shots

So yesterday we all but one met up at the band footage location. We had our 'back-up band members' stand in for the real band and we shot a lot of footage, I will be uploading some of the photo's I took 'production shots.'

Our ideas have changed around a bit. As we have scrapped one idea of someone being a clown that wanted to be something else. (the song is based on peoples dreams.)

The footage, I think I heard Annie say, consisted of one hour. Some of this will be the 'as live' and some will be preparing, some of Me (Josh) and Aiden as the two 'dreams'.

Test Footage 2

So we went out again today, shot some more test footage. Using me (Josh), Leo, Tom and Sam as the band. We shot the footage first 'as live' by the hall. And then some narrative shots in the quad.

More shots in the quad included the band rocking out and singing. It was ...organized mucking around, but it came out really well.

Dan is, as I write this, editing the footage and putting in the real song. He and Annie are adding in the animatics to fill in missing areas in the test footage.

Blogging t3h f33db4ck

All our posts are efficient.

"There is a lot of information on location and equipment and they have obviously put a lot of effort into their project"


"A fair bit of information, but some we couldn't understand.

Talk About Changes... Phwoar.

We're using a studio on Saturday for ALL of the as live footage, sorted. We have the new band and back up actors (all musicians, learning the songs in time for the shoot.)

Grand!
:D