Merry Christmas!

I am currently on my christmas holidays and will resume editing once we return to school.

Another location

Today we filmed in another location; we did this in Casey's bedroom. We filmed Casey's shadow while she was singing. I think it is a different shot and it will make our video more interesting. We will upload the shot to our video and start editing it in. This shot was very spontaneous and we do not know if it will fit with the theme of our video.

Need more footage

While editing we realised we do not have a variety of locations; we decided to shoot another scene of Casey singing. This way it insures we have enough locations and shots to make the video interesting so we do not create the same mistake as last time.

We realise the deadline is very soon but we have dedicated our free time to editing this video and I am sure our end result will show our hard work.

New Digi Pak ideas

While editing we found some good shots from our footage that we thought would look good for our digi pak. These shots were:





We also would like to use this image of pointe shoes that we found on google:

Editing- Fade effect

We wanted to have two clips faded in as one so we put the two chosen clips on top of eachother, then we clicked on the ‘pen tool' in the right hand corner:


This then created a black line on all our clips, this enables us to move the black line up or down depending how much we want to fade the clip:



This is a still picture of what the clip looks like after we added the effect:

Filming day 2

Today we filmed the lip synching part of our music video, we did this at our school’s drama room.



We brought in a guitar and Christmas lights to make the scene more interesting, once we put up the lights on the black curtain we began filming:



We tried different angles and shots to ensure we have an interesting video.



We were having 'lighting' difficulties, we did not want the main lights on as they would ruin the look of the christmas lights, so we took advantage of the technology in our drama room and used their lighting programme to put a spotlight on Casey.





We had to work fast as there was a drama class after us so it was difficult to get the shots we wanted, but I think we got enough footage.

Filming day 1

Today was the first day of filming our new music video. Once we got to the dance studio, we had to work quick as we only had 30 minutes. Unfortunately there was a table tennis class after us; this meant that the caretaker had set out the tables before we went in. It took us time to put them away in the cupboard but had to push the rest to the side as they did not fit. We tried to avoid showing the tables on camera but because of the mirror this sometimes was inevitable. Once we was happy with the room, Casey put on her outfit while I set up the camera and we began filming different dance moves from different angles.

Preparing to film

Tomorrow we will go film the ballet scene in a dance studio. We have booked the time and we have 30 minutes, we must work fast to get all the shots we need.

We thought about costume and decided to use this dress:


Also Pointe shoes:





We decided to keep costume to a minimum to maintain the simple style of the video to suit the slow paced song.

New video idea

Our decision to start again took us back a couple of steps which meant we had to think of a new idea for our video. We did more research and decided that instead of having a storyline and a narrative like our old video, we will make a concept video. The concept being dancing (ballet), this is a theme that has been very frequent in videos such as:













We are fortunate as Casey is already a dancer, this is her doing 'Swan Lake' ballet:


This new idea is simple but if done well I think it will look very effective as we hope the video will have an angelic feel.

New ideas

There was too many dislikes that made the video very poor quality. Taking into consideration our feedback we decided to start again with the video idea. We have been researching new ideas and we liked to interpret the following in our new video:

-We liked the video of Eminem - Love The Way You Lie ft. Rihanna. The close-up shot when Rihanna is singing to the camera and the flames in the background are not in focus. We would like to create a similar shot like this:


-Another video we liked was Rihanna - Only Girl (In The World) we liked the idea of very fast shots to go with the beat of the song, also the repeating or rewinding of a shot.
The video is below:


-We also liked the video of Rock Mafia - The Big Bang Featuring Miley Cyrus, this video is interesting and thought provoking at the end and makes you ask yourself ‘did the event in the video really happen?’ or ‘did he imagine it all?’ We would like to make a video that gets our audience to also wonder.


-We also watched Cheryl Cole- The Flood video and liked the idea of the lighting of the match.