Evaluating My Evaluation

When i first found out that we had to do a spoken discussion for our evaluation i was a bit apprenhensive as we had never done anything like this before, and i was not sure how well it would go. Writing an essay would be easier as it we could re draft and adds bits in, however a filmed evaluation could only be done in one take so there wasn't a lot of room for error. Nevertheless once we started filming after the first couple of minutes it was absolutely fine, and i wasn't nervous because i felt confident with what i was saying, and i think my group felt the same.

 I think that it is a great way to evaluate because we were all bouncing off each other, and disscussing what we thought rather than just writing a rather boring essay. It was also just a far more creative way of doing it, much more appealing to us media students!

Changing Clothes Editing

Over the last couple of weeks we have been trying out some of the changing clothes wdits that we wanted to do.  I think they are going pretty well and are looking really good. We have a revoling door one, and lampost one, and a walking towards the camera clothes change. We have also been trying out some split screens and i am happy with how they are looking as well. Look out for them in our video... :)

Editing

After looking at the green screen footage, we relaised that the quality of it does not match up to our london footage therefore we won't be using it. This is annoying as i think our video would look great with a really simple glamorous performance breaking up the london shots - however we have plenty of footage from the london shots to fill the video and we will keep it interesting with our editing so hopefully it should all be ok.

Green Screen Shoot 10/11/09

We wanted to break up our london footage with some performance stuff filmed on a green screen which we will then add a white bakcground onto. We did this today and it didn't go quite as well as planned. We had pur actress Sian wearing a sequined black and gold boob tube, which looked amazing HOWEVER, Tom noticed at the end of our shoot that the sequins on the dress were reflecting the light of the camera and making some of the seqins look green! This means that when we change the background to white she will have holes in her dress! o dear.
We will capture the footage to see that it looks like, but it may be that this footage is unusable (except for the CUs and ECUs). If this is the case we will see what we can do without it, but if we really think we do need this performnace footage then we will film her again when we do the album cover shoot, as we are going to film that on a white bakcground, not a green screen.

Brick Lane Shoot 8/11/09

We did our brick lane shoot this weekend, as due to the very very heavy rain ,we were unable to do it last weekend. Although the weather wasn't grear, at least it wasn't rainy, and now looking at the footage i think it is safe to say that the shoot was a success. We got every shot that we planned to do, and got a lot of spontaneous fottage and well so we have loads to work with.

We started off filming around liverpool street staition and then moved on to spitalfields market, and then to brick lane. We didn't feel rushed for time throughout the day, and got a chance to experiement with loads of different shots such as a contra-zoom and manual focussing.

We have shown some of our footage to Mrs B and Mrs D and both think it is really good.
Now we just need to concentrate on doing some really good editing, and hopefully we will all be happy with the main product. :)

Reflections from the shoot

So over half term we had our shoots! On wednesday 28th Ot me and danni and tom went by ourselves to our location and shot some scenery shots so that we didn't have to waste Sian's time. Then on Saturday 31st Oct we did our first shoot with Sian. We shot in our Carnaby and Soho locations and i think this actually went really well.

We realised that when having moving camera-work, it looked much better if we carried the camera on a tripod to steady it, so i think that those shots look much better. However although we were planning on shooting on Sunday 1st Nov there was torrential rain. Shooting outside in October and November we knew that we may come up against weather issues, and so we planned for this by having many colourful umbrellas on stand-by, that we could work into our shoot. However, this was just too heavy and we didn't want to risk the equipment in such heavy rain. Consequently we are now shooting next sunday 8th Nov - this is when we will do our shots in Brick lane and Spitalfields.

Having looked at our footage from last sunday, we have realised that it is quite good to have a weeks gap between the shoots as we can really see what we need to do. Therefore we were able to come up with another shooting list for this weekend, meaning we won't miss anything.

Overall i think it did go well and i am happy with the footage we have. Hopefully this weekend will go well as i can't wait to get all the footage to ether so we can really get into the editing.