Lead Guy Footage

Today we filmed the 'lead guy' in school. We captured footage of George Quinnell-Harcombe playing a song on a piano and singing. The song is by my band, so there are no copywriter issues. We will use this scene at the end of our video as the non-diegetic music ends. The diegetic sound starts as the door to the room opens. We took multiple takes of George, each take from a different angle, and one mobile camera take. The scene ends with George turning the equipment of and leaving the room.

Transition 'Flash'

I found a good effect that we can use for some of our styalistic transitions that made the brightness of the video increase to the point that the sceen becomes momentarily white. This could also be useful for our camera flashes.

Trouble Editing The Scenes

We had problems today with editing because some of our scenes have been sped up to fast to accuratly edit. We had to slow down all of our work so far to make editing easier.

Normal Kids - Shooting

We have shot the footage for our 'normal kids scene'. We filmed people in our school's common room sitting on sofas set up in a circle, with space for the camera man to move through. We have also taken a photograph of a few members of the cast for this scene to use as still photograph in our project. We took the photo against a blue screen and later I will edit the image by inserting a new background.

Above: the image as it currently stands.

Nearly done filming the 'transition clips'

Rohan and I have now filmed over 25 minutes of footage of the school corridors. We used our idea (taping a camera to an office chair) to film track cam style sections of the camera moving down empty corridors. We are going to cut the best takes of each section together and then speed the footage up to use in our second section of our two minute film (the first section being the scenes shot in the lead characters homes.) We are pleased with the footage we have captured so far.

Storyboard: Part 2

•Image 1: 'Chavs' standing (maybe dancing) next to a pylon.

•Image 2: Shots of a rugby game taking place.

•Image 3: Shot of the 'rock band' recording a song together.

•Image 4: Shot of a music technician recording the 'rock band'. The band can be seen through the window.

•Image 5: Shot of a jazz group performing in the room next to the 'rock band'.

•Image 6: Shot of 'Lead Guy' practicing his singing with a friend accompanying him on a piano.

Storyboard: Part 1

•Image 1 + 2: 'Lead Guy' waking up on the morning and proceeding with classic 'school morning' activities such as brushing teeth, eating breakfast etc.

•Image 3 + 4: Front door of home slams as 'Lead Guy' leaves the house. As the door slams, the scene cuts to an establishing shot of people walking into the school building.

•Image 5: Shot of 'Emos' standing in the school garden area.

•Image 6: Shot of 'Lead Girl' practicing her singing with her teacher.

•Image 7: 'Nerds' in library - two playing chess, two playing with swords.

•Image 8: People sitting on sofas in the common room conversing as a group.

musical research before filming

Research and planning for our musical

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Re-Capturing some sections of our 'transition clips'

We noticed after uploading and reviewing our shots for cut scenes when we noticed that in some takes we have managed to capture our shadows, and will therefore have to reshoot these parts earlier in the morning when the sun is facing the other way.