Filming hope in water 2

Simran and Abbie tried filming the paper in water shot in a small stream at the back of Simran's house although these were probably the best shots we have managed to get for this section so far it is still not exactly what we want as the paper got tangled in the pebbles and rocks towards the end and it was very dark. So we have done some digging around in our clips of our actor singing and found some shots that work really well where he is sitting on a bench singing the words and doing actions. We think this works just as well int terms of matching lyrics and visuals and also keeps the focus on our actor/singer who is the main element to our video.

Filming hope in water

Simran and I have tried to film the word hope written on a piece of a paper and see what it looks like floating in a bath tub, although this was a long shot we thought we should give it a try. Unfortunately it is quite obvious it is a bath tub and so as a shot it doesn't work very well in what we were trying to achieve.

Filming day 3

Today we filmed the extra shots that didn't need Mossy in. We filmed in Gerrards Cross after school, we were hoping to use the small pond to float the piece of paper with the word hope on, to match lyrics and visuals as the lyrics are "down this river every turn, hope is a four letter word", unfortunately we could not use the pond in the end as when we got there we found there was a specific algae that was poisonous so we couldn't actually go near the pond to film. So we moved onto Abbie's house because we wanted to use her fire pit so that we could get shots that we reflect the lyrics  "make that money watch it burn" but will also add difference and excitement into the video and so we could film our shots of food colouring in water.

We filmed the shots of food colouring in water first which turned out to be fantastic and a very effective shot. We think it will be a very interesting shot to have to break up the shots of walking but I also think it will mirror the progression and journey we are overall trying to show throughout the video. This is because as the food colouring hits the water strands of the colouring develop and extend from the main body of colouring and grow and develop which is like the different paths he could take.

Then we filmed the fire pit which again was a really exciting shot, we had to print out pictures of money to actually burn to fit with the line and the meaning of song. It took us a while to actually get the fire started but once we had we got some great shots of the fake money burning, we had different camera angles, simran filmed above the fire pit, I filmed a closer shot at about the same height as the pit and we had Abbie throwing the pictures into the fire. Abbie practised a few times throwing in blank pieces of paper to make sure we would actually get them in shot and to see how quickly they burned and if then it was actually a good enough shot to use. They indeed were as the money didn't burn too quickly and so should be great to use in the video.

In terms of filming the paper in water I think we are going to have to explore more options such as perhaps going to Marlow and using the river Thames as there is a path just by it or somewhere else. Simran and I are going to try and use a bath tub filled with water and see if we can get the paper moving in that and whether maybe we could work with a shot like that. But this may be too obvious and cheapen the look of the video.

Editing

We did our first session of editing today, putting all our shots for each section on the track and editing it down from there, we want to match up the change of shots to the change of beat which we have found to be quite tricky but just means making the timeline more precise in its time and patience. It went really well and we have our first 20 seconds done!

Importing and Editing

Today we are importing our shots to start editing! As we have finished all our preliminary tasks this is what we are going to be focusing on from now on which is very exciting!

Making an Advert

We have decided to use both photoshop and InDesign, photoshop to black out the photo of Mossy so that there is just him but use InDesign to piece together everything for the final product

Making an Advert

Our main influences for our advertisement are:

I loved this advertisement because it is very eye catching with the basic colours of black, white and gold but it is also clear and concise, getting across to the reader the exact information needed.

I think this is also a great advertisement as it is again clear and concise but it is also quite different, I specifically like the type being slanted in the black text boxes. 

We noticed that the most important information like the name of the artist, title of the album, and when the album is out is quite high up on the poster and is emboldened and then as you look down the poster the type is smaller and no longer emboldened. As it is selling and promoting the artist both use large photos of the artists which is effective and intriguing. 

Creating the advertisement for a magazine

Today we started work on our preliminary task of an advert meant for a magazine for our artist and song. We brainstormed what you would normally see in ads, so what kind of information they would put on there and how this information would be worded. I looked in different magazines to clarify, magazines that focused on music such as NME but also magazines that were more focused on other things like fashion, this meant that I got a true understanding of what would catch the readers attention and what would be best to include. We also started thinking about what software we would use to create it, maybe even a poster template if only for practise.

Second Day of filming

Here is a video of our second day of filming!