Shooting planned for saturday!

Good news is that I contacted Bethany yesterday, one of our star actors and she is available for shooting on saturday as she has the day off work. This is great news for me and Abbas as we haven't being able to shoot the rest of our footage for a long period of time due to the horrendous weather conditions and also work comittments with our actors. I and Abbas have arranged to meet up at Maiden Castle at 12 to begin shooting in the broad daylight. We believe the race scene could take a while to shoot but we are going to make sure we get the final race scene shot on the day so we can begin editing immediately. We are using the same location as when the first race scene was shot as we beleive the running track located at Maiden Castle looks the most accurate and professional.

As I have explained in my recent blog, I want to have a split screen of our band which will be used for both the magazine advertisement and Digipak. Above, this is an exact example of what I want my magazine advertisement to look like. For example, I am going to take a picture of me and Bethany back-to-back which will be displayed on the advertisement and then above have individual shots of the band members in split screen just as shown above. I am also going to use the colours black, white and red because I beleive these colours contrast well together and fit nicely with the genre we are portraying which is rock.

Today is the first day back at school and unfortunatley I have being extremely ill the past few weeks with catching the flu so I haven't being able to do as much research and planning as I had hoped. I tried to access my blog last week but my internet kept crashing so ufortunately I had to wait till now to leave another blog. Alternatively, next week I have alot that I am planning to get done. Firstly, I am going to take a couple of photos of me and my friend, also actor in my video Bethany Simpson. The couple of photos I take of us two standing back to back will be used on the front cover of the Digipak and also will be placed within the magazine advertisement. Me and Abbas in the next week are also going to get in touch with our band and see if we can get permission of taking a photo of them because I have the idea of using a split screen of each member of the band which will be used on both print products including the digipak and the magazine advertisement. Additionally, as the weather before was intefering with our shooting, the weather is now suitable for us to film the final parts of our video. We are thinking of filming the rest of our footage this weekend but due to work committment, my star actor, Bethany Simpson works full-time so I am going to contact her tonight to see which days she is free to shoot. There is quite a lot that I and Abbas need to do so these next couple of weeks are crucial but I honestly beleive that everything will go to plan!

Flat plan of magazine advertisement

Unfortunately, this hasn't came out very well. You can see the idea of how I would like my magazine advertisement to look like with lots of information and pictures within the advertisement to grab the readers attention.

My school has re-opened today after being closed for a week. Unfortunately, still due to the snow and ice we cant film the final part of our footage till it clears up because me and Abbas think it will be extremely dangerous for me and my actors to run on a track which is really slippy and icy. During this week, I and Abbas are going to edit the footage we have already shot so we can show sir a slight rough cut of the innovation of our music video. The final footage however that still needs to be shot will be put on a hold for a few weeks until the snow and ice has fully cleared. Sir has informed me that what I should also do now is focus on planning our Digipak and magazine advertisement as we will be starting these after christmas anyway. So these next couple of weeks before breaking up for the christmas holidays me and Abbas are going to edit the footage we have already shot and also begin developing a planning concept for the innovation of our Digipak and Magazine Advertisement. That is all we can focus on for now until the snow has cleared up.

Unfortunately due to the snow and treacherous weather conditions the school was closed again today. Taking into consideration of the weather and school closure, I am hoping that Mr Earl will set a further deadline because Me and Abbas need to access the school media server in order to edit our footage. During the time I have being off, I have being looking at magazine advertisements to see how bands are potrayed. I have not yet analysed them in too much detail yet but I am going to purchase some more magazines over the weekend so I can see which advertisements look most effective. I am going to look at rock genre because that is the genre I and Abbas are implementing within the innovation of our music video. Hopefully, at the beginning of next week we will return to school and then begin editing our footage in class.

By school being closed the past few days, Me and Abbas havent being able to edit any of our footage yet because all our footage is on the schools hard drive. This is really unfortunate as we were meant to have our rough cut finished by the end of this week but due to the horrendous weather conditions we cant access our media server due to the school being closed. Im hoping the school will re-open tomorrow or friday so me and Abbas can make a good start at editing our footage. We will just have to wait and keep checking the school website to see when we are able to access the school grounds. Due to the school being closed, Im hoping Mr Earl will give us an extra week to finish our rough cut because the snow has really intefered with our deadlines and time management. All we can hope for now is the snow to clear up so we can then attend school and edit the footage we have shot and actually film the second and final parts for the innovation for our music video.