Research and Team Meeting for CD Cover

Today, me and my group came together and researched different cd covers that fit our genre. It was quite difficult finding some, as not many afro beat artist's publish cds, as they mostly sell their music online. Luckily, we found a few that we can get inspiration from. We came to the conclusion that we might not shoot in the photography studio as the white background may wash out the vibrant and exciting theme afro beats represent, therefore, we are currently researching different locations where we can take pictures. We also came to the agreement that we only want the main artist in the picture, which is Jesse, and not the dancers. We may have pictures of the dancers inside of the cd case, however we are not sure about that yet, and its not our main priority at the moment. Here are some examples of the cd covers we found:

Dance For Me - Music Video (Final Video)

Colour correction

Based on the feedback we received from our class mates, we are continuing to try and fix the colours in some scenes that are quite bright. We have tried our best to keep the colour correction natural by only changing the necessary changes, such as the exposure and other things as you can see in the picture.

Dance for me - Music Video (Feedback)

Today we received a bit of feedback on what people liked and what we could improve. Some of the constructive feedback we received includes:

- we were told we could add a title of the song name at the beginning, which is something we will try to do.
- We were also told was to continue trying to work on the colour corrections as there is still some clips that clash
- We were told to get rid of the wipe transition in the middle of the video as it is not consistent with the rest of the video, and it plays no part in making it exciting since it is a bit random.

Team meeting

Today we discussed what we wanted to do next since we are finished the whole video. We came to the agreement that we need to fix the colour in some scenes as some are quite bright and others are really dark, causing them to clash. Also, we each pitched in our different opinions on what we want to do next and this it what we agreed to do.

Julia focused on the dancing and the angles making it suit the beat when cutting and scene order so it is not a big contrast when scene changes.

I focused on the lip syncing and colour correction.

Jesse focused on transitional effects and cuts.

Angel focused on colour correction making it look balanced throughout the music video and establishing shots.

Filming in Olympic Park - Last minute decision (Offical last filming day)

After discussing that we needed to film more content in order to continue editing our music video, we decided to go to Olympic Park today to get more footage. We managed to receive quite a bit of footage that will help us finish the music video. Since it was a cold day today, the weather was quite dull which isn't good for our video, however, as the sung was going down, we managed to receive shots of the sun directly hitting our dancers and artist, which gave off a nice effect.

Team meeting

As we continued editing today, we came to the conclusion that we need more footage as we are starting to run out half way through the song, also, the locations are becoming too repetitive, therefore we need more scenes in different areas. We have agreed on shooting in a different area within Olympic Park again, on the 17th November 2016.

Location release forms

Talent release forms

Filming on Leake Street

Today we went to film on Leake Street. Luckily, we all finished college early so we maaged to get there ealry so that we would have enough time to film in the daylight before it got dark (around 4:00). We manged to get lots of different shots in different areas of Leake Street including the tunnel and areas with graffiti walls. Overall, it was a successful shoot and once we start editing we will come to the decision if we will have to edit again.

Filming at Olympic Park

Today we managed to get a lot of footage of the dancers in Olympic Park. We decided to film here after noticing how ineffective the green screen was. We managed to get lots of different shots, from low angles, to high angles, to mid shots, side shots etc. All in all, I feel that today shoot was successful, and we are now planning a day to shoot more in Leake street.

Team meeting

After yesterday, we decided to have a team meeting so that we could discuss where we could go from next, since our whole green screen plan had failed. We came to the conclusion that we would scrap that idea of using the green screen, and start to look at the other locations we have previously thought about. We have decided to film in Olympic park on the 5th of November 2016.

Green Screen Fail

Last time we did the green screen, there were many creases in the curtain, which is why we attempted to film more. However, as you can see in the picture, no matter how much we tried to stretch out the green curtain, it still turned out to be a complete fail, as it is nearly impossible to make the background one flat colour, and to avoid the shadow at the back. So after today, we have come to the conclusion that we are scrapping the green screen and we are going to stick to our video fully being set outside.