Sorry to leave such a gap between posts, basically louise and I have been really busy filming and editing!
We filmed on the 7th, 10th and 14th of this month. On the 7th we did alot of the bury shots e.g. first verse and chorus, in the ally between Stead and Simpson and the Post Office in the town centre. This look's really urban and was quite empty except for annoying pedestrians who kept walking thorugh and stopping us from filming but it was really well lit, and looks urban which is great for the look of our video. :) We then went to the multi story and filmed the last verse and chorus, this all went well despite it being absolutely FREEZEING and taking about 5 hours in total as lots of costume changes were needed!
I uploaded the footage on the 8th and realised that quite alot of it was wrong and extremely grainy. Also because we used Lousies's camera to film as the one we took from school wouldn't turn on despite checking it at school and being on charge all night, the different format means all of our footage has been automatically "letter boxed". We can't do anything to change this apart from refilming everything which neither Louise or me wants to do!
Despite these hiccups we went on to film on the 10th inside Deja Voo where we filmed most of the second verse and all of the second chorus. As the battery had died when filming on the 7th preventing us from finishing the last few shots needed from the multistory we went back after Deja Voo, and were able to redo the bits which weren't quite right the first time along with more footage which we will hopefully edit on final cut with lots of "bad louises" in one shot. We still need to film the bits with louise in some kind of "cell" for the middle section of the second verse where the line is "i feel like i'm doing time" to keep up our theme of quite visual lyrics.
Louise and I have spent a great deal of time in room 101 during the last week of term after school, during free's and lunchtimes to upload our footage and edit most of it together. It's majoritly done now, it just needs fine tuning and for us to refilm a few small bits, e.g. more ally shots for the first chorus but we're really pleased with how quickly it's come together as an actual music video not just ideas and test shots anymore!
Our experiments with final cut have been successful and the shots look really good, we've also been successful in editing the footage together where we lined out four "bad louises's" with the amp tapping feet and dancing. We have managed to cut these together accurately for the lines "people i see everywhere are tapping their feet" and "everybody's grooving to their own song". Instead of having our good character amongst lots of ordinary people dancing as this idea went with the concept of the song (her being an outsider, an addict and realising she's not alone at the end of the song.) We've decided to use this idea of her seeming even more crazy yet comforted by her delusions of herself. Also we were finding it really hard to organise a filming day and location which was ok for alot of different people, and these shots will enable us to include a better range of footage and editing techniques.
Louise has done the editing on final cut whist i edited the Deja Voo footage through to most of the multi story bits as we felt working on two computers on different sections of footage would be much more efficent than two of us trying to work on one computer. This has enabled us to get so much of the editing done in the last week of term and i'm really looking forward to finishing it in January :) hopefully before the deadline....
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