Diary Enter - Filming Day 4

Our fourth day filming, was the home domestic scene in the house. It involved actors - Aoife and her Sister, and then the parents (Niamh & Chris) . We filmed on Tuesday 25th March after school.

We filmed after school, in the house were we filmed Chris and Niamh fighting while it showed younger Aoife watching them getting upset. We then filmed Aoife older sister, coming in and comforting her and then taking her out of the house to go to the park. We did this fighting scene from serval different angles and in different locations over the house to highlight the fact that this fighting between the parents happened on more than one location.






















In class on wednesday, we looked at the footage we decide that we didn't really like the filming. We thought that the acting wasn't realistic and then we went back to our target audience, they said that there wasn't enough of an obvious age different between Aoife the sister and then the Mother Niamh - This made the narrative unclear, as the target audience said they were unsure of who was in what position within the home.

Next Step:
Our Next Step, is to alter our narrative in order to make the storyline clear to the target audience. To do this we held a focus group. In this group meeting, it was decided to take Aoife out of the storyline and just use Anna, eliminating the confusion between the unclear age differences. We therefore have to film once again, the plan for this will be in the next blog post.

Editing Development

The overview Editing Development took us serval weeks of on-going week to complete, and involved a lot of group discussions about what should be done and how should be done. The development of editing involved lots of mainplulation invovling triming, croping and stabliziing in order to make the film work extactly how we wanted it. 

Our basic idea, was to have all the happy memory scenes at the beginning of the music video which would represent the past and the better times. The second half of the music video was then ameant to represent what things are like now, with domestic scences of the parents fighting and then showing the older sister take younger sister away from alll the fighting and to the park. 

Once we had began filming, the happy memory scenes worked really well and we used a filter of sephia over the top of the clip and adjusted it to make it enhance how this was the past times. Between each memory we used a cross dissovle transition, we tried fade to black but felt it took aware from the video. 

After the memory scenes had been filmed, the next scene we filmed was the domestic house scene with the parents fighting. When looking back on these clips we decided that the acting wasn't realistic enough and the age gap between the older sister and mother wasn't event enough. This therefore made us go back to are target audience to get feedback, they stated that it was too complex and the narrative wasn't clear. We therefore removed these clips and altered our storyline. 

We deicded to remove the domestic scenes, and simply use the happy memories for the first half of the video however play them in rewind. This was a feature of final cut pro which we used that allowed us to select a clip and then to have it play in reverse. Then for the second half of the video we had the young girl shown in the hapy family memories clip, back in these same places but on her own. 

The begining and end of the film uses fad to black to start and end the music video. Throughout the music video there are mostly cross dissolves used. In the scenes of the second half where the young girl is shown on her own we have used a filter used tritone, which is a blueish tone over the clip to create that isolation which the character is experiencing. 

We downloaded Paddy Sloans song from SoundCloud and imported it into the video, to allow it to play in the background whilst the narrative was unfolding. 

Website Development

Our website is currently under construction and we hope to get it complete in the next week. Throughout our website we have used inspiration from other artists as well as creating our own ideas. We also discovered that to had a better look to our final products it will be necessary to tie in the theme of the website and album cover. To do this we will have similar fonts and colours used throughout the digipack and website.

Some shots of our website so far
                                                                                   

\Throughout the process of our website we have varied between different colour schemes to see which works best. This current colour schemes of greens and greys works well however we are not completely happy with it so may need to work to find another one. The content of our website is largely based on information that Paddy has told us so what we written is not made up and therefor appears more professional. We have also went to a Gig of Paddy's and met with Paddy in different locations to gain photos that we can edit to give a more unique style.  

Next Step

Planning Schedule 

What We Need To Do?	When Needs To be Done?	Did it get Done? (Y/N)
Monday 24th Feb Racheal: -Update CD development on blog  Niamh:  -Update Filming Development Blog Page Maria  -Continue Website Development -Finish editing	Monday Class and Homework	This was completed
Wednesday 26th FEb Racheal: -CD development -Sort Font Maria  -Website Development -Update Website development Blog Niamh: -Editing	Wednesday Class + homework	This was completed
Thursday 27th Feb Racheal: -Continue CD work Maria: -Continue with website -Screenshots of website development / ask focus group feedback on things Niamh: -Editing	Thursday Class and Weekend.	This was completed
Friday 28th Feb Racheal: -Screenshots of developments / ask focus group feedback on things.  Maria: -Screenshots of website development / ask focus group feedback on things Niamh:  -Finish up Editing		This was completed

DigiPak Final Though

We are now in the final steps of development for our digipak. The 3 main ideas which we are aiming at are:

This is one cover which I made myself. I really liked this because of its simple but interesting nature. This was done with a plain image of a girl in our class and the application of various textures and effects in photoshop. I then finally applied the text last. The text I didn't think about greatly at this stage. I like the neutral colours and think that this may be an idea that could be worth while working with. 

Next Step

Planning Schedule:

What We Need To Do?	When Needs To be Done?	Did it get Done? (Y/N)
Wednesday 19th March Racheal: -CD Development- Remember to update blog aswell.  -Costume Prezi Niamh: -Update blog -Edit Photos Maria  -Continue Website Development + Update Blog on development	Wednesday Class and Homework	This was completed
Thursday 20th March Racheal: -Contine with CD Development -Costume Prezi  Maria  -Website Development Niamh: -Edit Film & Remember to document on Blog. -Arrange Filming after school.	Thursday Class + homework	This was completed
Friday 21st March Racheal: -Continue CD work Maria: -Continue with website Niamh: -Edit Filming work -Update Blog	Friday Class and Weekend.	This was completed
Saturday 22nd March Racheal: -Continue CD  Maria: -Continue Website Niamh:  -Edit Filming -Update Blog		This was completed
Sunday  23rd March  Racheal: -Continue CD  Maria: -Continue Website Niamh:  -Edit Filming -Update Blog		This was completed

Diary Enter - Filming Day 3

Our third day filming, was the busking scene in the park and then in the Duke Of York in town. This involved actors - Aoife and her Sister, and then Paddy Sloan our singer/song writer. We filmed on Thursday 13th March after school.

We started in the cranmore park, were we filmed Paddy Sloan busking in the park through serval different camera angles. We then moved onto filming the scene where aoife and her sister walk past the busker in the park, and stop and throw money into his guitar box. We filmed each scene through serval times, to ensure it was exactly how we wanted it.

Once we had finished, this park scene we went into town with Paddy, to the Duke Of York, and filmed him busking again on the street through serval different angles.

PhotoShot

On this Third Day Of Filming, we decided that alongside the film that we would take a photo shot also for the website, and promotional activities.

Here our some of the Photos:

Diary Enter - Filming Day 2

Our second day fiming, was in bangor again. We decided this time, we would use a greater vairity of locations, rather than just the beach scenes. We have a selection of locations, with parks, seaside and the countryside, to help to show all the esstenially happy memories of when the family where all together.
We came across a few difficulties once again, when filming for a second time one was that the camera battery was faulty and we had to film using our Iphone 5 instead, however lucky we had a tripid for the phone. The second was that once we had finished filming in Bangor, we were ameant to go to the beach for some more memory scenes, and to add a different location however when we got back into the car it started to rain extremely heavily and therefore we decided to pospone this location filming till another day, as if would of looked silly to film the family on the beach in the rain as who reastically would go to the beach when its raining.

The next part of the filming, will be filmed on Thursday after school. This is the Home location. We have facbooked Paddy Sloan our singer/song writer, to arrange when to film his part busking in the park, the plan is to get that done this week also.

Digipack Development

From our more indepth research, we have established that we want our CD cover to use Double Exposure. We decided, that we needed to begin to come up with ideas on what type of Double Exposure effect we were planning to use. We decided to experienment with a few different photos which we had taken of the actors in the music video.

We began, with these two pictures of the girls in our video. This is in the video suppose to be the same person, only showing them at a younger age and older age.

We played around with these images.

            

Next Step

Planning Schedule 

What We Need To Do?	When Needs To be Done?	Did it get Done? (Y/N)
Monday 3th March Racheal: -Upload clips from weekend filming  -Edit film from weekend Niamh: -Continue website development -help edit film from weekend Maria  -Continue Website Development	Monday Class and Homework	All completed in Class and for homework.
Tuesday 4th FEb Racheal: -Costumes Prezi Embed -Contine with CD Development  Maria  -Website Development Niamh: -Update blog with website and CD development -Complete Diary Enter Filming day 2  -Look through blog see where there are any gaps and improve presentation  -Arrange with paddy for filming / photoshot	Tuesday Class + homework	All completed in Class and for homework.
Wednesday 5th Feb Racheal: -Continue CD work Maria: -Continue with website Niamh: -Edit Filming work	Thursday Class and Weekend.	All completed in Class and for homework.
Thursday 6th March Racheal: -Continue CD  Maria: -Continue Website Niamh:  -Edit Filming		All completed in Class and for homework.
Friday 7th March  Racheal: -Continue CD  Maria: -Continue Website Niamh:  -Edit Filming -Organize all equipment Organize Re-Filming at the weekend aunties house and park scenes		All completed in Class and for homework.