PRODUCTION DIARY:

21/9/2015
Today we pitched a song each to our group with our ideas on how we thought our video could look. Unfortunatley the only song we came up with between was without a music video was this one:

This is quite an indie-rock band song so there is potential for a lot of performance and to make use of instruments like a drum kit and a guitar. However, after a lot of discussion we decided this song was not right for us. There is a very long introduction which will be hard to show visually and not making the viewer want to stop watching.
Therefore we spent the rest of the lesson looking for songs suitable and without a music video.

22/9/2015
Today we pitched two songs to the class and our ideas on how our video could look

We pitched two songs to the class: 'Mind over Matter' by PVRIS (Alex Mescudi & Scout Remix) and 'Light Me Up' by Parade







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2/10/15
Today Pete Fraser and Jake Wynne came in to talk to us. Pete Fraser is the chief examiner of OCR A level Media Studies and he gave us top tips on how to get the best grade in our A2 media coursework which was very helpful. One of his students from many years ago, Jake Wynne, is now a music video director and editor. He told us about his experiences in the industry and how he got to where he is now which i found very interesting. He gave each group constructive criticism on our music video ideas and becuase ours is quite a fast paced song he told us to not put loads of effects and fast cuts in from the beginging and to make it more gradual. He aslo did a fun filming activity with us where we had to shoot an interpretation of Robbie Williams' 'Let Me Entertain You'. This allowed us to get a feel for what fiming music videos are like. We had five different cameras rolling at once and 15 people on set for each time we shot the video.





5/10/15
Today we spent last lesson and after school doing our first photoshoot, in front of a green screen. It went really well and we took around 700 photos! We dressed in all black but different style clothes in order to keep a theme going. Today we also created our twitter account, with the name @Sweet_Nothing_3

9/10/15
Today we filmed the first few shots for our music video. We wore a mix of black and denim clothing, but we all still looked different from each other so to carry on our individual personalities within the band. We took this outfit inspiration from one of M.O's outfits in their music video to the song 'Preach' which we really liked. We filmed all the shots in front of a green screen because for some shots in our music video we are going to use lots of After effects to make our video like edgy and impressive. 

12/10/15
Today in the lesson, Frankie began to edit some of the shots we filmed from last Friday. Sophie carried on with the Steal-o-matic and I started to draw different shot ides on a storyboard.


13/10/15
Today we used the school drama studio for our second filming session. It went really well and we got lots of footage. We turned the main lights off and had two bright lights in front of the camera so we appear as silhouettes and also because we liked the glare from the lights which appeared on the camera. We used five different cameras which allowed us to get lots of footage from all different angles which we will find helpful whilst editing. Belwo is a photo of the drama  studio all set up ready for our filming (lights in the background, black backdrop, dark lighting and multiple tripods with cameras on). The second photo is a screenshot of a picture we uploaded to our instagram accound. It is a photo taken before filming, after we had put our costumes and make-up on.

This is the email which Frankie sent to the drama teacher in order to gain permission to use and film in the drama studio. 


14/10/15

Today we looked over our footage and organised the shots into different folders so when we come to edit properly, everything is neat and can be found easily. We started to put a few shots together with the music.

16/10/15

Today we designed our face paint designs for in the club scenes which we are going to film next Tuesday.

19/10/15

Today we prepared everything for our filming session in the club tomorrow. We printed off a shot ideas list, reprinted the lyrics and wrote a list of things we need to bring/remember. We also discussed everything in our group meeting and worked out how many volunteers we had.

20/10/2015

Today was our main/important filming day. We gathered 4 tripods, 5 cameras, the face paint and our bags of costumes and drove to town in Frankie's car. We arrived at Miya Nightclub at 1 o'clock and the manager (Sophie's aunt) showed us how to work the coloured light walls, lasers and sound. first of all we got some shots in front of the light walls because we thought it looked very impressive. We then put our neon make up and dark clothing on and got a wide variety of shots taken in front of the UV light. We removed that make up and put on 'normal' make up' and also wore coloured outfits. Frankie wore red (edgy/sporty), I wore mint green and Sophie wore white (innocent). Some volunteers arrived but unfortunately not as many as we had hoped even though we are grateful to the people who did come and we did manage to get some good shots. 

4/11/2015
Today we filmed outside in the dark with the theme of lights still being our focus. We used multicoloured glow-sticks, balloons and torches. With the help of some of our friends, we asked them to dance, have fun and be natural in front of the camera to portray youthfulness in our video.

5/11/2015
Today we filmed a short, casual interview which we are going to open our halfway presentation with. We got our friend Issy to sit beside thee camera and ask us a few questions. Today i continues editing our music video, Sophie continued on designing our website and Frankie started to put our halfway evaluation together.

6/11/2015
Today we presented our 'halfway evaluations' to the class which was filmed so we can get feedback from the other classes and teachers too. We spoke about our band and the members. We played our MTV interview and a preview for our music video. We also showed and talked through our website and digipak.

27/11/2015
Today we spent a lot of time editing. We go feedback from others and improved what we could and also filled the gaps we had. We managed to finished our first draft and handed it over to Miss Brookes so she can show it to the classes next week.

30/11/2015
Today we made the last few changes to the website for it to be ready to show the classes for the first draft feedback. We also spent time on the digipak- we discussed how we wanted it to look, drew a plan and started editing a panel each.