Research Log

Regulation and Constraints Grid

Production Log 9

This week i have been ill so i haven't been able to help my group as much as i would of liked to to get this music video complete but this week was our final deadline to finish of the music video and we did complete it in the end and it turned out to look very nice, our final product was 3 minutes long, the only trouble we had was we were missing performance shots which we got this week and implemented them into our work and it turned out very nice because the actors singing matches the song very well and it makes them look like they are singing which was what we were aiming for so that was great, if we got our performance shots earlier we would of had more time to touch up on the music video and make it look a bit more professional because we sometimes used the same performance shots when we could have used different location to make it look more effective because you can clearly see they are repeated due to the body language and location, the only problem was that i was really ill so i was out for mostly the whole week leaving my team with just two of them, even tho they are capable of completing the last bit of the music video i would of liked to been there and help  them out to finish it but i was really ill and had to stay at home to recover.

Music Video

Production Log 8

This week we have been doing as much editing as we can so we can have a draft ready so our teachers can tell us what we could do to improve and what we could add to make the music video better, this gives us the weekend to record, at the moment we definitely need to record over the weekend because we are missing shots to make up the time for the rest of our music video, the main shots that we are missing is performance where our actors sing into the camera to make it look like it is them singing the song in the music video, adding these shots will help us reach the end of our music video but make it much more professional to watch because at the moment all we have is our actors developing a story line and doesn't really have anything special happening in it, but so far our music video is looking good because we have made everything match the beat of the music video so it runs smoothly adding performance will give us a professional music video because it allows you to see the actors singing while hearing the exact words coming out of there mouth so it looks identical and you would think that they are actually singing.

Production Log 7

This week has been different from last week because we now have a new companion who joined our work, already he has helped us and looked through our work and put in his own ideas that we thought worked well and added them in, his name is Kesean and it is good we took him because we get along well with him and he is good at getting work done so we now have 3 people working on the music video, at the moment we have done 2:30 mins of the music video and it is looking good, we need to replace some shots due to the fact they are just too dark so when we re-shoot the shots we will have to make sure there are either lights on all the time or when its outside it has to be during the light hours. So far our music video is working very well just part from we have to many jump cuts so we will have to remove some of these to make it flow better because all we really did was chop up the motions and this stopped the music video from flowing smoothly. Next week we are planning to be finished because we only have 1:30 mins left to edit and we have a whole week to edit so we will definitely be finished with our final product by the end of next week.

Production Log 6

This week we have begun on editing and to be fair we  have got off to a really good start, we have only done the first 40 second's of our song but what we have done is we have strictly stayed to sticking to the bass of the song so every time you hear it we edit a cut so it goes to a new scene, but we ran into our clips being to long but we still needed them so i came up with the idea of using jump cuts into our song, so when Kori is walking in the park you don't see the full motion but you see him jumping forward while walking in our song and it works very well, i think this week has been the most successful because out of everything that could go wrong with editing none of that happened and we just managed to get stuck into it, so next week we are looking to do the same thing and just get stuck into our work, and what made it better was that it was fun editing so for us this means we enjoy doing our work and will put a lot of effort that is needed to make our music video the best that we can possibly do, but both of us have contributed a lot to this music video and in my opinion this is good because this allows us to get both our ideas that we both like into the music video making it something we both enjoy working on.