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Just to add, the video is in HD, just to make it that bit more amazing! ......yeah as you can tell we are very excited over the finished music video.... :)

The End!

GUYS!!!!! It's over! Well done to all the members of ELJAF Productions for putting this music video together! We all worked very well in the group and believe we have produced a very professional and successful music video alongside our individual ancillary texts. 

Others Takes On Our Music Video

Below is a comment made after I posted the final video on Facebook.

Alex Bawden - "maybe you could extend how long the phone appears on the screen? its a bit hard to read it really quickly but other than that it is AMAZING i cant believe you guys did it!!! it looks proffessional!"

Connor Wood - "Thats actually very good, I say actually because I started watching it thinking "oh lol media videos these are always funny"

Our Music Video [Completed] :)

Below is our final completed, finished, finito, lovely, done, music video. We hope you enjoy watching it as much as we have enjoyed creating it! ............the end of a very good production era with the group members of ELJAF Productions! :')

Our Music Video [Draft 2]

Below is the second rough cut of our music video. This cut was shown to our teacher. She watched through this cut and she thought that overall it was very good, very well edited, performed and put together. There were some small issues which she felt were in the video, these are listed below:

• 00:51 - Sitting on the floor - possibly longer
• 01:00 - Centre the shot
• 01:12 - When she is going down the stairs she should progress further
• 01:35 - More of the artist
• 02:00 - Maybe change the shot
• 02:20 - Zoom in closer
• 02:50 - Maybe change the shot
• 02:55 - Zoom in or make the shot longer
• 03:00 - I think this part is slightly out of sync

Our Music Video [Draft 1]

Below is our rough cut which we showed to our media class and some other sixth form students. As you can see when watching the video there are some small parts missing and some clips in the wrong place, however these can be easily ironed out and corrected.

Meeting

Today we decided to finish our music video. We managed to get all the clips into place and will put transitions and effects on the clip in tomorrows lesson and after school. We have also planned the evaluation answers for the four questions and will be completing this too tomorrow, in order to met the deadline. Once everything is completed we will upload the video to YouTube in full video and audio quality and embed them onto our own blogs and the group blog.

Evaluation Of Our Day Of Filming

Earlier today we filmed the performance, however not in the drama studios as planned. Once again the drama studios were busy with GCSE performances and rehearsals. As we only have about a week until the deadline we needed to get the filming finished by the end of the week.

After hearing about drama we decided to look in the main school hall as this too has black curtains and a black flooring on the stage, luckily enough it was free.

We set up the camera and filmed both Faye and Elliot in a number of different shots and was finished in just over an hour. Tomorrow we will import the clips onto the computer, convert them and edit them into our nearly finished music video.

The only issue we had today was that halfway through Elliot's performance the SD card became full as we have been filming in 1080p. We solved this by deleting some of the early clips we have already imported.

Day Of Filming

Straight after the showcase we decided that we would stay behind after school and film some more performance shots as this was the main criticism we received during the showcase. We planned to do the filming in drama as it is all black and fits in very nicely with our genre and song track.

Plus Faye and Elliot had already brought in their performance costumes and Jamie had brought in the microphone.

Showcase!

Today was the showcase! All of what we had created so far was saved and shown to our media class, teachers and some other students within the sixth form. During our showcase we gave every person viewing the music video an evaluation sheet which explained how we wanted people to evaluate and criticize our music video.

The overall response was very good. Almost everybody liked the edits and the sound quality of the music video however some told us that some of the performance shots were too long and needed to be cut into something else.

We have taken all the feedback on board and will be tweaking the music video over the next couple of days to create our final professional looking music video.

Filming the Performance

The only thing now to complete the editing process is to film more of the performance for the video. To do this we have all decided to stay behind school tomorrow (Wednesday 30/3/211) in the drama studio and film; within in this we shall film extreme close-ups, close ups, mid shots and long shots which are all conventions of music videos.

Woooooo we are all really excited for the filming tomorrow!

Meeting

Today we had planned to film the last little part of the performance in the drama studio however the room was busy and also Elliot was not in. Instead we decided to look through all the performance we have already recorded and look what we could do with the footage we had already. As the deadline for the music video is very soon we didn't want to wait to get the footage, instead we decided to make the most of the footage we already have and if we get a chance to record more of the performance then we will import it.

Meeting

Today we imported the entire performance of the field into the Final Cut Express timeline. We did this to fill in all the gaps in the timeline, we then watched the music video through and noted down where we wanted to add the narrative.

Editing - Effects

Today we continued editing the performance for our music video. While we were editing Faye had the idea of adding a black and white effect to the beginning of the video and then gradually adding colour. We decided to do this as it makes the audience aware they are watching a music video. *SPOILER ALERT* Also the beginning shows the girl going into the bathroom where she later kills herself. As this is the most emotional and important part of the music video we wanted to emphasis it. *END OF SPOILER*

What We Have Done So Far

Well Done guys! I think we have done really well and all that is left to do now is to finish the performance side of the music video and edit it into the video using Final Cut Express! We will be able to finish by the original deadline and look forward to show everyone what us as a team have created!

Meeting

Today we planned to finish the performance part of the music video in the drama studios. However Elliot was not in today therefore Faye and Jamie decided that we should convert the forest performance and put them into Final Cut Express, ready to be edited.

Instead we are going to film the rest of the performance on Friday as this is the next available day when we have a media lesson.

Evaluation Of Our Day Of Filming

Earlier today we had planned to film as much of the performance as possible. We had planned to film in the drama studio and field using a wide range of different shots which can be edited together and used in parts of our music video.

However we found out that the drama studio was being used therefore we decided that we would film the field performance today and the studio performance tomorrow. Overall we managed to film the entire song with Faye being the lead singer in a number of different shots. We filmed her from a low angle as this is a convention of music videos and also a mid shot and close up. These shots edited with the drama performance will make the music video look professional and unique.

We were all happy with what we had filmed so transferred and converted the clips into Final Cut Express ready for editing later on in the week.

Day Of Filming

Today we decided that during our two hour media lessons we would film the performance part to the music video. As we only had a two hour time frame to get as much performance as we could we decided that we should stay on the school site to film. Two places we thought would be appropriate would be the drama studio as it has black floors, walls and curtains which fit perfectly with our piece of music and genre, and also the school field as this can represent freedom and getting away from the reality of her life. This also links into the narrative and ties the two together nicely.

Meeting

Today we carried on editing the narrative and have almost finished putting all the clips into place. We decided that tomorrow would be a good time to finish filming the performance side of the music video. Tomorrow we all have a double media lesson which we can use for filming and after school. After tomorrows filming we can convert and put together the rest of music video which we believe will be completed by the end of the week.

The Narrative Clips and Final Cut Express

Today we finished converting all the narrative clips and placed them all in the Final Cut canvas in folders to keep them all organised and ready for when we come to editing and piecing together the music video. After we placed these in the canvas we decided to place the MP3 of Bring Me To Life into the timeline as the A1 track and render it to save us time later when we need to constantly render all the video and audio tracks. When rendering was finished we saved the Final Cut project to the desktop of our group account so all of us have access to it.