Editing Days

The last two days, Wednesday and Thursday, have been Media Editing Days, so these consisted of editing our footage. We have most of our footage and we got some editing done but we still have a long way to go. Looking at the four other groups in our Media Studies class, we need to have more varying angles, however Sean is in the process of doing this.

Track Listing

In the end our group decided that instead we should do actual titles for Audrianna Cole's songs and create a few others. Most of the titles Sean and Amelia created had 2 words.

Track Listing Planning

For our Audrianna Cole digipack, I am considering what we could call her other tracks so we can make a back cover for the digipack with a track listing. I have looked at other artists' song names as they appear on their albums. The albums I have looked at include:

Coldplay - Parachutes (2000); songs such as "Shiver", "Yellow" and "Trouble" may have short, one word titles but has a larger effect than a song title with, for instance, six words, such as "I can't have it my way". 6 of the 10 songs on the album are actually one word titles, and most of them seem effective.

Adele - 21 (2011); songs like "Don't You Remember" and "He Won't Go" have longer titles than some of Coldplay's songs but they are still as effective as them.

Despite Coldplay and Adele having a slightly different feel to our Audrianna Cole song, this research is still useful as I wanted to have a base for the song titles for our digipack and I feel that these songs have effective titles.

Audience Feedback

I asked members of the public what they thought of our music video to see if it was conventional of the genre or whether it was not a typical music video.

Jenny: I thought it was excellent, the locations were good, the timing was spot on and the acting was not bad. However, even though I enjoyed the camerawork it could look more professional but I did enjoy the Alice in Wonderland theme, I thought that was quite clever. Not being an Indie fan myself, this music video would definitely make me change my mind about the genre!

Jack: I am a massive Indie fan but I felt this was not typical of the genre. I could see particular references that were excellent but generally I didn't get the feel that you get with other Indie videos and some of the camera angles were a bit repetitive. On the other hand, it was still a good piece of work.

Overall, I think there is a positive reaction, however I can see where we need to improve.

Yesterday's filming

Yesterday, our group filmed some more of the music video. I couldn't make it again but this is what happened:
Amelia and Sean filmed the opening scene by a large tree to create a similar feel to Alice in Wonderland and the rabbit hole.

They took different angles of Amelia W to make the scene more interesting to our audience and the viewer.

Filming Progress

Our group arranged another filming session so it could be on Monday, 31st October and this time I was able to make it! We met in our Media classroom just after school.
Our first task entailed Amelia Q bringing in a doll's house she had at home to stick to the theme of Alice in Wonderland. We needed to make sure our actress, Amelia W, could fit in it, and she managed to. This was after we removed the floors of the house and put a wallpaper inside it.
This had taken about 20 minutes, so it was nearly 16:00 when we were about to start filming, and as the clocks had gone back the day before, it would get dark in the next hour, so we had to be quick. We had a few takes of Amelia W opening the door from the inside. We managed to get our takes in 15 minutes or so, before it got too dark.
Then we moved back into the classroom and filmed more of Amelia W mouthing the words to the song. Most of the shots were long shots, but we took a few close ups as well.

I think the filming session went really well, however for next time there needs to be more variation in the shots. For example, the words "Your love" are repeated in the chorus quite a few times, therefore I think we should have Amelia W mouthing these words but in different locations because at the moment, she is only in the classroom and I can see the potential for more shots.

Filming before Half-term

Before half-term, I mentioned that I was unable to make the first group filming session on the 19th October as I had other activities. However, I asked about how it went and I saw the other members of my group's blog posts and I discovered that Sean managed to get a white table cloth for the table that was necessary for the tea party (hence the Alice in Wonderland theme) and Amelia Quinn (in our group) decided that the first scene that needed to be filmed was the main one.
Our actress, Amelia Waterson, mouthed the words to the Audrianna Cole song when Sean was playing it from his iPhone. At first, she was unconfident with the task requested but in the end got the confidence. More information I got from this filming session was the weather and everyone involved was freezing, especially Amelia W who was wearing a dress!