Final race scene filmed today!

Today has been very successful as we have filmed the final race scene which will be implemented within mine and Abbas's music video. Early this morning just before 8 o'clock, Abbas picked me up from my house and then picked up Beth. He then took us all down to Maiden Castle where the running track is located and when we got there i quickly got changed into my sportswear. Abbas took several shots from different angles when filming the race scene which will hopefully make our music video look more effective. In this race scene we filmed today, I was the one that won. In the first race, I didnt win but as you will see in the music video, there will be several cuts to me training and preparing for the next race. As part of our narrative storyline at the end of the music video I become victorious. We have now got all our footage for the music video. What is left now, is final changes to editing as Sir wants us to have a fine cut ready for the end of friday.

More shooting tomorrow morning!

Yesterday after school, when we arrived at Maiden Castle it was too dark to shoot. Even though there was a light shining on the track, you couldnt see any movement in the lens of the camera. We now have arranged to go back to Maiden Castle tomorrow morning at 9 O'clock as both me and Abbas have a free period therefore we won't be missing any school. Also, by shooting in the morning it will be light so therefore our shooting will be able to go ahead. Another advantage of shooting tomorrow morning is that our star actor, Bethany Simpson is also free tomorrow morning as she doesnt start work till 10 so therefore that gives us an hour for Abbas to shoot the final race scene. As we couldnt film the final race scene yesterday after school, we still were able to film another part of our footage which was shot in a close friend's bedroom. All the shooting went to plan and we now feel that it will look effective when implemented within our music video. The footage that we shot yesterday will be implemented within the video just after the first race scene where I am upset of the distraught of loosing the race and the second part of the footage will be implemented just before the second and final race where I decided not to give up and try again with hard, frequent training.

Final shooting changed to Monday!

Unfortunately, when I and Abbas arrived at Maiden Castle yesterday lunch time, the track was unbelievably full so there was no room at all on the race track for us to film. The manager advised us to come back tomorrow which is monday in the afternoon as the track is supposed to be quiet. I have just been on the phone now to Abbas and after school tomorrow at 20 past 3, we are going to film our final footage of the race scene. We expect the filming to take about an hour the most depending on how the shooting goes. As Abbas drives, he is going to pick up and take us all down to Maiden Castle so we can begin shooting just before 4 before it gets dark. We just hope now that overnight there is no snow because last night the snow came down pretty heavy. After the shooting tomorrow, Abbas is then going to take a few photos of me and Bethany standing back-to-back because I am planning to use them for both the Digipak and Magazine advertisement. Also tomorrow night we are going to film another part for the innovation of our music video in one of my friends house called Sophie Balfour. She said we can use her room to film another part of our footage which will be me when coming home after the first race throwing a stop by throwing my trainers in the bin. This part of the footage will be implemented in the video after the first race scene. We are also going to film another part of footage which will be used before the final race scene where I take my trainers out of the bin and decide to try again while feeling extremely motivated to win.

Booked camera and tripod for saturday!

Just this minute I've been to see Mrs Gibson who is head of Media Studies. I asked her if I could book the tripod and camera out for the weekend to shoot and she said I could go and collect it from her at break-time tomorrow. All is good and set for Saturday now. Mr Earl expressed before that we need to have a rough cut of our video by the end of this week so after the shooting is finished me and Abbas are going to have to knuckle down and make sure all editing is finished by the end of next week so Sir can see an example of our piece. Some more good news is that me and Abbas asked our band for permission whether we could take photos of them for our print products and they said yes. Half an hour ago, me and Abbas took some example shots on his camera just to see whether the lighting in the room was suitable. Abbas took a photo of me against the white board in B17. Looking at the photo, it looks extremely effective. Now we know that it works well, one day next week we are going to take a single shot of each member of the band against the wide background in B17. The reason why we are going to do this so that we can split screen the band and use the pictures for our magazine advertisement. On the day we are also going to take a group picture of the band because we are thinking of using a group picture for the back of our digipak.

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!