Friday 26th Feb.

Filming went well today, despite the odd shower and extremely cold winds. We managed to get all our shots of Hannah done, which at times we didn't think we would manage, having to wait for the showers to stop etc. And i am pleased with the footage that we have got so far. Next week Tom and I intend on going out and shooting a few cutaways, and start on the editing.

Thursday 25th Feb.

This is the weather forecast for today, as you can see above, from the BBC weather webpage, it is raining most of the day here, however, we do intend to go out and shoot in the couple of hours we may have in between. I hope that this all goes to plan as we are running out of time to get our filming done. There is also another problem this afternoon, as Hannah's group needs me to feature in their video, and they are shooting this afternoon, however, i should be done there by half 2, ready for when the rain has stopped for a while. If we don't finish shooting today, then tomorrow afternoon we may be able to finish up. Below is the weather forecast from the BBC site, and it looks to be brighter in the afternoon. Lets just hope the weather brightens up a little.

The filming today didn't go as well as we planned, as i spent a little longer than planned, helping film for Hannah, Louis' and Charna's video, which meant that we only had about an hour and a half to get a few shots before it started raining. But hopefully tomorrow we will get everything else done.

Wednesday 24th Feb.

This is the weather forecast for today, we planned to go out and shoot between 1 and 4. However, as you can see from the image above, taken from the BBC weather forecast, it is forecasted to rain between 12 and 6. This means that we are unable to shoot out at Milton Dump due to the weather conditions. This is a pain so we are hopefully, if all goes well, shoot tomorrow, either in the morning or the afternoon, all depending on whether Hannah is available, as she still has her lessons to attend, and it wouldn't be fair if she took her own time out of college for our video.

Friday 12th Feb.

Today we planned to do the rest of our test footage, however Tom isn't well again so this means we have no test footage for to show for this week, as he has the camera and i am unable to get there without him.

Instead today I am going to work on our digi pack, with the photo's that we already have from each of our locations and the photo's of Hannah we have on her in the costumes. By doing this, although we will behind in one aspect I will hopefully bring us a little forward in another.

Costumes

This is Hannah (our performer) dressed in the costumes we are having her dressed in our video. We have chosen, quite colourful dresses/Tops/Skirts as these almost 'clash' with the dump and together creative a really diverse image.

Thursday 11th feb

Today we were meant to film all of our test footage, however as I was late in and Tom couldn't make it to our first lesson as his car wouldn't start, we were unable to shoot all of this test footage. And we only managed to get the the test footage from Newmarket Road Scrap Yard.

Although we didn't manage to get everything done today, tomorrow we should be able to catch up on this, as in the morning we could go to Milton Dump and shoot the rest of our test footage and do our lip synching test footage there, and when we come back to Coleridge we will be able to edit this, as perhaps if we have time start on our digi pack work.

Sound of Music

I chose to put this clip up of The Sound Of Music as it has a bike scene in it, which is quite relevant to parts of our video, and is also set outside, and in parts in very rural locations, such as fields.

Tuesday 9th Feb.

Today, Tom and i planned to do our test footage at Newmarket scrap yard, and Milton dump. However, Tom was unable to come in today, due to illness, and as we needed his car to get to or locations, this has left me at a bit of a loose end today, as i can't get to either of our locations to shoot our test footage.

This means we will have to most probably to this on Thursday morning if we have enough time, though this may step into our own time if we don't get the test footage completed by the end of the day.

With Tom being ill again yesterday as well I was unable to get in contact with the construction site manager at Milton. Therefore we still have no permission to film in the Milton dump, which may be a bit of a problem.

Tom and I really need to work on our organisation, as if we both had the manager's number, we would know whether or not we had the permission to shoot at the dump. This is something we will need to talk about when Tom recovers and comes back into college.

Instead this afternoon, I intend to create our shot list, and think further about our video, and think about how Tom and i can incorporate some cut-aways in our video, and how they will fit into our video, as Steve yesterday asking about how our cut-away idea's may not fit into the theme of our video, with it based around a 'glamorous quirky' girl who sort of lives at a scrap yard.

I have spoken to Tom today, and he has suggested he can take photo's of Hannah (our performer) in the costumes and he will blog these when he gets the chance. And also write a letter to the Milton Dump and Newmarket scrap yard for permission to shoot at these locations.

After a bit of a rocky start this morning, and unfortunately not getting to do the tasks intended. We have managed to get together a clear idea for a new plan for this afternoon, basically swapping today's original plan with Thursdays plan, and doing our test footage on Thursday instead, and perhaps on Friday morning too, and get them edited and all on our blogs by the end of Friday's lesson.

I am happy that, although today hasn't gone to plan, we have managed not to fall behind by readjusting and swapping our plans around.

Friday 5th Feb.

On friday the 5th, at Coleridge, we made our animation, as you can see on a post below. This was good, and i enjoyed doing it. Having to do the task forced Tom and I to start thinking about how we wanted our video to look, and what camera angles and set ups we would want. Drawing the storyboards was a really good way to be able to visualize our video, and also for others to be able to do the same. I like the way our animatic has turned out and I'm looking forward to creating our actual video, and hope it turns out well, as we have to make sure that we position each costume change in the same place. However, as long as we continue to be precise this should go according to plan.

Storyboards

Below are a few photo's of our story board we produced in class n thursday. We had a pretty clear idea how we wanted to open our video, and i think we have managed to put these idea's down clearly in our story board.

animatic

Tilly and Tom's animatic from cmdiploma on Vimeo.

Schedule

2nd - 5th of Feb - Animatic week

This week we are going to be doing our animatics. This will be at least 30 - 40 seconds long and can be for any part of the song. Its purpose would be to give the band/manager an idea of what the video will look like. We will be trying to think of literally ever shot we could put in there so that it keeps up a pace and looks effective.

8th - 12th of Feb - Test footage week

This will involve making phone calls to get proper permission to film then once we have this we will drive over to all our locations and get as much footage as we can. We will experiment with different angles, static or moving and see how we will manage the suns position as this could very easily be a problem for us. We may then very roughly edit this together with the soundtrack and upload it to the blog.

15th - 19th of Feb

HALF TERM

22nd - 26th of Feb - Filming week

In this week we will be doing all our actual filming. We will take what we learn from our test footage and shoot everything. We will try to shoot more than what we've planned so that we can be sure we have enough footage.

1st - 5th of March - Rough cut week

This week will be focused on creating a rough cut. The deadline for this is friday the 5th. I am looking forward to this part as it is when we see all out work start to come together. Hopefully it will all go well and we won't have any problems with the amount of footage we get etc. We are tying to avoid this. Any time that we have free this week we will be spending on our digipaks as these are due in next week.

8th - 12th of March - Finished video week

Our final video has to be finished by the end of this week so we will be working hard to finish our edit. 11th of March is the deadline for our digipak.

15th - 19th of March - Evaluation week

In this week we will be doing a lot of evaluation tasks and looking back on our project.

Reflection

Over the past week or so i have enjoyed creating our idea, though at times it has been tricky, but once we were set on the idea this became easier. And the response we had to our pitch was very positive, which made me more confident with our choice.

However, we haven't managed to to pursue our idea much further yet. We still need to think about about shots and angles. Preferably we would have been better off staying at each location a bit longer to figure these out, and get more inspired by our locations. But we didn't have the time to do this within our lesson on friday.

To get the ball rolling Tom and I will sort out a plan up until our deadline, to keep us on track, and make sure Tom and I don't fall behind, and try and keep us on track.