Molly La Fosse's Media Blog

Daisy and I have almost finished editing the cut of our music video. We have spent some of our Media lessons and lots of our free time editing. We have two cuts - one with the Brighton footage and one without. Next week we'll present the Brighton cut to a 'focus group' of A1 students and ask them if they think the Brighton footage works well with the rest of the video. Once we've received this feedback we'll be in a better position to pick which cut is best.

Whilst Daisy and I are editing, Anais has been doing some research on digipaks - her findings are shown below.

This week Daisy and I spent two lessons and some of our free time editing. The first thing we had to do was look through all the footage we had and pick which shots we definitely wanted to use. We then had to sync up all the shots and rename them so they would be easier to find - for example 'Vickey Lip syncing Wide Shot'. Then we drew up a rough plan because one of Matt's editing tips was to create a plan and stick to it. This way we have an idea of how and what we want to edit before we start. We created a rough timeline.... We want it start with the wide, close ups and tracking shots of Vickey perched on the stool lip syncing : We want to edit the beginning in a very slow pace because this suits the tempo of the song and because these are our best shots. Next, we'll start to edit in the shots of Vickey sitting by the window : And incorporate in the shots of the velvet landscape : Then finally we want to introduce the ...

Whilst Daisy and I got on with the editing, Anais and Vova conducted some research on homepage conventions, the results of which are recorded below : 

Now we have filmed our video, the next thing to do was to share out the different roles in post production between the four members of our group.  Whilst obviously all major decisions will be made collectively, we only need one person actually pushing the buttons for each product - this will ensure we can maximise our efficiency and productivity. Therefore we decided that Daisy and I would edit, Vova would do the digipak and Anais would create the homepage, with some help from me because it is the biggest job.

The day before our shoot we helped to create the set in the studio. We put up the lilac coloured wallpaper and put the wooden boards on the floor so that on the morning of our shoot we would be all ready to start filming as soon as possible.  On the day of our shoot we were pretty well prepared. We had all the costumes, accessories and makeup ready and started getting the actresses ready at 8:20am. We got them into their costumes - Vickey wore a pink velvet slip dress, Lara wore a pink t-shirt and velvet trousers, and Zoe wore a fluffy pink crop top with pink trousers. We also sorted out an outfit change for Vickey - for the bed scenes she changed into pink corduroy trousers and a purple vest.  We also did all their makeup - we kept it quite fresh with pink eyeshadow and pink lip gloss. I think we managed the talent well as we got them all ready on time and made sure they knew exactly what they were doing. Thanks to the various rehearsals we had done in pre...

On this Saturday 4th November, we all went to Brighton for the day to film one strand of our music video with two members of our cast, Vickey and Josh. The idea was to shoot all of the 'couple' scenes in Brighton. We were excited to go out on location by ourselves to film.  We filmed in various locations around the city. We arrived by train at 1:30 and filmed until 5pm. I think the shoot day was quite successful as we got some nice footage and managed to film in all the locations we planned to - including on streets with pastel coloured houses, on the beach, and at the Level.  This street is the first location we filmed on. We filmed here because the houses are all pretty colours and very aesthetically pleasing. We chose to film in front of a pink door that had a pretty patterned door stop - pictured below : At first we slightly struggled to set up the tripod and bubble it etc - as you can see in the picture above ! But we worked as a team to fig...

This Saturday we are going to Brighton to film parts of our music video. We are taking 2 members of our cast, Josh and Vickey. We have prepared by coming up with a list of possible locations... The Level (park) The arches near the sea Blaker street - the coloured houses The bandstand near the sea The royal pavilion On the pier On the beach - the sunset We know we need to remember to take an umbrella in case it rains, and a rucksack to carry everything around in.  We are planning to arrive in Brighton at 1pm and get a good 3 hours of filming done before we lose the light at 4:30.