Team Go For Gold are heading to London...

We have officially set a date for the much anticipated filming in London. We are slightly concerned about risks imposed of filming in such as busy area. For example if plan on going to busy train stations such Charing Cross and London Bridge we may have to ask permission from station managers.

We have planned to go to London on the 21st of January to hopefully get the majority of the London footage done.

I created a risk assessment for our trip to London highlighting the risks that would be imposed when we are filming in London and what we would do to reduce them and lower the risks.

sorting through footage...

Recently we've starting sorting through all the filming we've done so far. From the first lot of filming we done back in October which was for the first few seconds of the video which consisted of the main character (Kate) getting out of bed and getting ready andwalking down the road then onto the bustop scene which was Kate waiting at the stop then getting onto the bus to the footage from the studio. As we've got quite a large amount already we've had to save the footage over a number of usb's and transfer them onto the editing machines which is tedious and takes a lot of patience. The footage managed to over capacitate my usb meaning i had to delete some other things off it D;

After the transferral of footage we attempted to put some of it together on the editing machine. Nothing official but just seeing what we had and how well it went together. I feel that the process can be difficult because voicing an opinion can be hard as we all have so many ideas but so far its worked out well and we are experiencing how difficult it can be putting footage together because of the amount of different shots and seeing how well one follows on from the other but through hard work, diligence and determination I feel that this will not be a problem as Team Go For Gold are all about hard work, persistancy and determination :D

 the footage on adobe premier pro
Vanessa :D

photography for the ancillary products :D

On the 23rd of December we continued on with filming and we started getting some studio shots The filming mainly consisted of getting shots of the guitars and drum being played as this is something that  is a really important part of our video. We recreated Kings Of Leon with some musicians and recorded a cover of the song we are doing, Use Somebody.

 We also took photos for the ancillary products. These are some examples of the photos that I shall be including on my poster and gig ticket.

 I feel that the filming and taking photos was a lot more successful than the "green screen disaster" as they were very co-operative and even shared some ideas with us to help us cover all the conventions of an indie band which really helped us a lot. We got everything we needed and we are now able to edit some footage and create our ancillary products as these pictures were urgently needed.

This photo is one of my favourite photos because its a close focusing on the front man who does the singing which is an important convention of an indie Rock video and its also my favourite photo because they have the same make of guitar in very similar models which was fate. Caleb Followill (the front man of Kings Of Leon) plays Gibson's and the models are essentially the same. i found this link on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3fI7vJgQZE from 1.48 you can see the actual guitar he plays which is very similar to the one which will be included in our video.

 

Ancillary products commenced!!!

As a part of my research I have been researching typical things that are related to indie rock bands. To start with I have been looking at existing gig tickets to get an idea of some conventions. Later I will start to look at the layout of posters to see the presentation of existing posters.

GREEN SCREEN DISASTER

We planned to take photos on the green screen to recreate Kings Of Leon for the ancillary products. We gathered together a few pupils from our year who's dress codes matched the conventions of Kings of Leon. However we were only able to get a few good quality photos because of the lack of co-operation of the pupils we used. But this event helped Team Go For Gold progress because we used the green screen for the first time and we used existing Kings Of Leon posters to recreate poses. We will make a new date in the half term to do photos again with a new selection of boys. Although we may not be able to access a green screen we may use a plain background. I feel that Team Go For Gold dealt with this situation maturely and we learnt from this experience :) we shall be taking more photos in the upcoming half term break :)

An example of one of many photos that was too stupid to use.

Filming has begun!

This is Team Go For Gold setting up the tracking for the first few seconds of the music video. We wanted to film footage of the main character walking out of her house and down the road. We had to work rather quickly as we started filming in the late afternoon and we did not want it to get darker as the video is set in the daytime.

I feel that the filming was very successful. We got good quality footage as well as some stuff for our out take footage. We have now started editing the first few seconds of filming and we will continue to start filming. Hopefully we will be in London next week. :)