Thursday, 27 September 2012

Production Plan - Diary

24/09 - After deciding what music video we wish to reconstruct (Nirvana - Sliver) and deciding 
             the roles of our group, we will now begin to find locations where we can begin
             production. 

27/09- For simplicity we have decided to remain in college to film our reconstruction. This 
            meant finding a suitable location to replicate the setting of the original music video. 
            The choice of locations can be found in this post. 

1/10 - We began to film our reconstruction today, which also meant gathered a few props from 
           around college such as a guitar, baby (a toy from health and social) and also constructing 
           a drum kit out of boxes and other materials. We decided to film in the green room 
           because it would be easy to find an image later and place it in the background rather
           than completely constructing it ourselves. We managed to film a decent amount of 
           footage today, giving us more time for editing.  

3/10 - Continuing our filming from Monday, we managed to finish everything. We were able to
           replicate the camera movements as seen in the original video (not well, but we did it) and 
           now we are ready to edit next lesson. 

4/10 - Before beginning editing today we needed to organise our videos into our own folder on
           the computer, but after an error with the camera and dates, the footage was mistakenly 
           deleted meaning we need to re-shoot a good amount of our footage.

           Lunch time we decided to get back together to try and re-create what we had previously 

           done however with a lack of time we didn't manage to finish. Although, we have created
           a second reconstruction of another media text in the little time we had. This media text 
           is the Diary Milk advertisement featuring the Gorilla on the drums playing along to Phil 
           Collins. 

5/10 - Today we have got together one last time to film what is missing from our reconstruction. 
           Luckily we have got everything finished and a little bit of editing was done. The footage 
          is not great but it has helped us all understand some flaws that may occur when filming 
          our main production piece.

8/10 - Beginning our main lesson of editing today and we got a very decent amount of work 
          done. Syncing the lyrics up with the mouth movements was not as challenge as
          suspected, however trimming everything down and working out where everything went
          within the video did prove fairly difficult. We gathered the image for the green screen but
          it does not look as effective as we had hoped. With the camera moving , therefore the
         actors moving, the background is clearly unrealistic as it is perfectly still. Editing is 
         complete for both the reconstructions and although the Phil Collins was not our original 
         idea it is certainly our favourite. 
  
15/10- After finalising the original idea of reconstructing the Nirvana video, I decided it would
            also be beneficial to edit and fully reconstruct the second media text, the diary milk 
            advertisement, and after some time editing the sync with the drums have improved 
            greatly as well as adding in some graphics try and replicate what was seen in the 
            original. 

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