Progress Report - 31st October

We uploaded all of our footage we filmed during the half term holidays, and tried to put the clips into order so the footage will flow with the song we have chosen, in Final Cut, we edited the colour and saturation of the clips by going to colour corrector, which allowed us to attain a black and white effect and by lowering the saturation of these shots, it gives colours more depths along with a more pleasing look for the audience.

Progress Report - 29th October

We used today to take photo's of the band for our digipak, we used myself, Tommy, Jack and Simon to get close up photo's to put in our digipak, we will surround these photo's with a polaroid looking brush on photoshop to keep with the look of our digipak.

Progress Report - 25th October

We filmed a scene with Tommy and Louise in the park, when filming we encorperated a 360 degree shot with a tracking shot to show that Tommy is alone now after his break up. We then filmed a medium shot of Tommy and Louise walking away from each other to show that the are no longer together. We felt the park was a good location as the sun was at its highest point mean we had consistant lighting.

Progress Report - 19th October

Today we focused mainly on the animation, looking at how we could attain a fluent motion within the characters. We ran in to some trouble when trying to make the characters limbs mover all at the same time, we experienced this problem as we are using Final Cut to create the animation, which is a new way of creating an animation to all of us. We had to scan in each individual limb of our characters, then move each limb seperately then move the limb back to the centre of the frame, thus creating a trail of movement for each limb. This new way of animation is one that we believe will work well as we can get a more flowing motion, than we could have if we used stop frame animation.

Progress Report - 17th October

Today we started the first phase of making our animation, we drew the characters on paper making sure we left room between all the body parts, we made sure to define each body part as it will make it easier to cut around then in Photoshop. We then scanned the images in in to Photoshop, we then cut around the limbs, before saving each limb individually before uploading them to Final Cut. This will be a new way of animation we have not experienced before.

Progress Report - 12th October

Today we went to London Victoria Station, to get shots of Mike, Tommy and Louise. Firstly we planned to use the station as a transition shot, we placed Tommy in the centre a medium shot then left the camera for 30seconds, we plan to speed up this shot so we can use it as a transition shot.

We then filmed a 360 degree shot of Tommy along with an establishing shot.

We then filmed two indetical shots with different actors in them so when editing we will be able to layer the two shots.

We also went to Camden today as we needed to get some intimate shots of Tommy to fit in with the plot of the music video, we also took some contrasting shots between the two couples which will show how Tommy has not moved on from his relationship.

Progress Report - 10th October

In today's filming, we went to one of our group members house (Mike) and filmed a scene that involved Louise 'cheating' on Tommy, we used the spotlight to get the correct lighting for the room, as there would be close ups involved. We positioned Tommy in the corner of the bedroom so we got get a close up of his face singing then slowly pan down to the bed where Johnny and Louise lay, we thought this shot will be good, as it links directly the relationship between the couple. Our filming today lasted 2 hours as we had alot of takes, with different camera angles, positions and lighting. All in all we were able to get the right shots we needed to progress our music video further.

Progress Report - 5th October

In today's session we used the footage we had already filmed to get a general outline of where possible shots could fit in to the music video, we did this by using Final Cut which allowed us to upload our song on to it and see what shots needed to go where in the sequence.

Progress Report - 3rd October

Today, we used the bedroom location outlined in our location list, we filmed in this location as we needed to get footage of our couple in bed together. We used mainly handheld shots in today's filming to create intimate shots of the couple, we also used different types of lighting to see what effect they would have on the shot. Today's filming was a success as we were able to gain the right footage neccessary for our music video.