Production Blog

7th October
Started pre production, and i started going into more depth of the plot and some of the shots of the video, we also found a location that we could film in and specific shots at the location we chose although we are yet to have a very specific route there. We are basing the video around the song that i pitched, that is called 'Run Boy Run' by Woodkid. We chose a mountain as the setting for the video based on the context of the song and the shots that we could take as the pitch that i did specified that we would need an idyllic when it comes to matching the song with the music.

8th October
Today we finished the pre production powerpoint and started looking at locations on google maps as we were told by tom that one of the three peaks in yorkshire would be a great setting as the land was not owned by anyone, so we chose Pen-Y-Ghent as our setting to go as the research that we did showed that our plot would fit in perfectly with the location. As a group we also started looking at the weather well in advance to make sure that the weather would be good on a day that we wanted to film on.

14th October
Me and Sam W started doing the risk assessment and also the call sheets as we would all have to meet quite early as we wanted to get a time-lapse of the sun rising, hence we will need the contact numbers for meeting up as the weather may alternate on the day.

15th October
Today we decided that we would need a lot of shots as the song is very at at times and we would need a lot of clips to fit with the beat, if we was to edit the video to the music, so we worked out that we would need around one hundred and four shots as this would be two shots every two seconds, as we found this out eddie and tom started doing the story board, implementing some of the shot ideas that we previously discussed.

21st October
Today Tom and Sam carried on making the story board whilst i did some more work brushing up the plan as we have altered the idea slightly as we have merged it into Sam's idea as we thought of ending it with a bright white light, so he thought that we could mix it into the alien idea he pitched.

22nd October
Today we were told that we could not go to the original location as the health and safety would not allow it, so Sam and Tom had some time after college so they researched a few alternate locations that we could go to, and the weather so we would still be able to film in the half term so we would have more time for filming and editing.

30th October
Today we had our first day of filming in the half term as the weather conditions were perfect for the video we had in mind. We didn't get all of the shots we wanted but we did get a large amount of filming done, we have decided that we would go filming again on another day to get more footage but the weather would have to be the same. We had a look at the footage at Toms house afterwards and we have decided on an intro to the video though.

Monday 4th November
Today we went back to a different part of the forrest to get a larger variety of scenery to film some more shots and a time-lapse as we needed some shots to edit into the instrumental section of the song and also we needed more shots in general as we wanted to time every shot to a drum beat and didn't want to replay the same footage very much, hence we would have had to go get more footage.

Tuesday 5th November
We finished off the filming now and have a variety of shots were very happy with, we went back to Toms afterwards to view the footage as we didn't want to view it on the day due to a lack of batteries. We edited the staring third of the song and will have to move the footage we did at Toms to the college macs to do some editing.

Monday 11th November
Today we added all of the work we did on Microsoft word to the powerpoint so it's all in one place, and also finished off the work. Today we also got around to getting our story boards onto the powerpoint.

Tuesday 12th November
We sent scot all of the work as he asked, we tried to move the footage from n external hard-drive that tom had and move them onto a college computer, but because of clashing versions of final cut the videos would not convert over as we had used some effects that you could not use on the older versions, and we did not want to export it as they would then be one video and if we wanted to change something it would be a lot harder.

Thursday 14th November
Today we went over to Toms to make some more progress on the editing as we would have to do it at Toms due to the issues around final cut. We got quite a lot of work done and got most of the video done, we also got all of the footage we got timed to the drum beat to make it more exciting and fast paced.

Monday 25th November
Today we started doing the edit decision list of all of the shots we did and didn't use and the reasons for   why we did/didn't use them