Music video - First draft.

I am aware that there is many parts of my music video which I need to re-do, such as shots which are cut off at the head due to poor framing, I also need to find more shots of nature which aren't dull and more of a variety so that I can stop having to use the same ones again during the video. I also think that I may have to capture some more shots with the two characters, however, this is harder to do as it can be hard to think of things to do with them other than what I already have them doing. I am actually quite happy with the editing and the pace of it and personally believe that it fits well with the music, even if it does need slight tweaking in places. I am going to get my teacher to watch it and let him decide if he agrees with me on what I need to change or if he thinks there are other aspects of the video which are more important to change.

Image problems again.

I still can't upload my images to blogger so I am also unable to upload my different images. This is a slight problem but I'm going to talk to my teacher today and see if there is anything that I can do so that I am able to upload the images that are too big.

Images influencing my digi pack and poster .

 These are some images which I took during my filming which I believe will work well with my digi pack and poster. Although I am not focusing on nature, I believe that it is necessary to keep the theme running through the video of the characters in the woods through the art work.

I believe that the image of the guitar also reinforces the genre of music and the instruments that are played rather than sounds being made on the computer as I believe that is a curtail element of indie music.

 The masks are a reminder of the characters with the horses faces and I also believe that the weird quirky style of the horse marks also echos the genre of music as indie.

I'm unsure what angle of shot I would like to use for my work, however, I decided that I didn't want the characters to be wearing the marks any more and decided that the message of the song, with things not making sense could be reinforced through the masks no longer being worn.

Problems with my band.

My band were all very unreliable and decided that they wouldn't turn up or that they would cancel on me when I was filming and this was really starting to annoy me as I needed to get the work done fast. However, I had one reliable person who was willing to help me and I therefore filmed the song from only the singers view rather than having the band play. I wasn't happy with this as I felt that parts of the songs could do well with different instruments being focused on, however, I eventually got round that slightly by having him play a guitar.

I am not completely happy with having just the singer, although it is not as bad as I thought it would be and I believe that it is better than nothing. There are still aspects that I want to change, however, I am okay with my first draft and hope that my teacher can give me feedback so that I am able to edit areas that I'm not happy with.

This did slightly effect my digi pack and poster and I was going to have the band but I think that I am able to get over this hurdle and now have new ideas for my post and digi pack which I will be uploading shortly.

Snow -

After deciding that I would film my media coursework indoors I spoke to my media teacher and let him see the footage I already had and he advised me to keep with the outdoor theme and shoot the band outside instead. I was happy with this idea and had no problem with arranging this. However, it has snowed this week and there is now a forecast for more snow on the way, so I am going to have to try and overcome this problem somehow as the deadline is coming closer.

I have decided that within wooded areas the amount of snow is less likely to decrease rapidly as less people walk on it and therefore my aim is to try and film,edit and re-shoot within a space of 3 days so that the amount of snow is the same. I am hoping that there is more snow on it's way so that if I need to re-shoot again after that, the snow will not have totally melted.  I was going to simply do close up shots until the snow melted, however, the shots I need are likely to catch glimpses of snow in the background and therefore I think it would be better for me to try and do it all within the space of a few days.

This does also change some issues with clothing but nothing that can't be sorted quickly.