This week (holidays week 2)

This week I finally got all the footage together for the narrative shots, and I've spent a lot of today putting them together as a rough cut. It's not ideal, because it'll need color correction and balancing, a little bit of stabilisation, and general tweaking in After Effects, but I won't do any of that till I have the better band shots. This rough cut also leaves room for the shots I don't have access too, of a drummer and vocalist, so the song cuts off a bit earlier than it will in the finished product. All in all, as a rough cut with work needed, I'm happy with it, it can be viewed here.

http://rapidshare.com/files/440021368/My_First_Project.m4v

This week (holidays week 1)

This week I've tried 3 times to shoot the narrative footage, but between the weather and cast members, as well as lack of transport, it's fallen through every time. I did however, using different cast to planned, get some band shots. Although these won't be my final ones I'll be using them in a first cut. They're all taken in front of a green screen, and from here I'll dump them in after effects and find a photo of a location to drop them in. I've also spent time this week on the track I'll be using, and seeking permission to use it, which I will evidence below.

This week

During this last week of term I'm spending less time on the main task, purely because I haven't got footage to work with. I'm using my lesson (there's only one, Mr Dowson is away today and it would be the last lesson of our week) to work on evaluation material. I've been looking at exemplar responses, and the idea of multiple media responses, so video interviews, a directors commentary, screenflow, powerpoints etc. I'm gonna aim to put as many of these different things in my final evaluation as is possible.

Ancillary tasks (complete)

I couldn't film last weekend due to weather and no transport for my cast, so I've had to postpone it again tothis weekend. I chose the chase idea because it will be the more effective looking option. I'mnot sure yet whether to go with 2 people in the chase or one person chasing the same person dressed differently, so he's chasing himself.
As for this weeks lessons, I'm doing an uploading run, and starting evaluation material
Starting with ancillary tasks.
The reason I didn't do this last week was there was a technical fault with Blogger which stopped me uploading images.I'll try again now

 

Worked that time. Here they are, the ancillary tasks

This week

Fate is determined to screw me over. School got called off midday on Wednesday, and all of yesterday, which has hampered me, with all my work being in school. On top of that, it's gonna carry on through the weekend, so I'm 50:50 as to whether I'm gonna be able to film anything for the new idea, which is bad in many many ways. On the plus side, I spent Tuesday finishing both ancillaries, so I'll upload those now.