Editing our Music video

      Today in class we started editing our music video. We begun the process by looking over all of our shots. We started by choosing a few of the clips of me playing with the dog. We really liked a few of them and decided to use them. We looked at those first because we wanted to go in order with our story board. After we decided on the few shots of those we wanted to keep we moved on. Next we looked at the shots where I begin to neglect the dog. These scenes are important because they show the dog’s motives for running away. We looked over a few and we chose a few of me watching tv and one with the dog running away. I thought these turned out really well.
      We then moved on and chose the shots for the rest of the video. We looked at the scenes where I look for her and when she gets back. After we were done with narrowing down the takes to just a couple for each shot we put them onto the editing software. It was around this time that one of our class mates told us that we were using the computer with their video on it. We gave them the computer since we hadn’t started yet and got a new computer. We put all of the shots we had selected on the editing software. It took a while for the software to begin working. After about 15 minutes we could finally start. We put the shots in order on AV track 2 and started cutting down the clips. A lot of the clips had extra footage so we definitely needed to shorten them.
      It took a few minutes before we finished cutting down the clips. Once we were done we noticed that our video was too long. We needed to cut our some clips to shorten the video. We chose one of me neglecting her because we had already established that by then. We then started adding special effects. We added a few but not enough to make it too much. There were some zooms and we are considering adding a black and white filter on some shots at the beginning. We will decide on that later. We are almost done editing the video, we downloaded the song and added it on AV track 3. Kyle did a great job editing and we will finish soon.

Filming Blog 2

      Last week me and my group mate Kyle recorded our music video. We ended up being very happy with the results at the time. We have yet to look very closely over the footage as of now. However we plan to do so this week. We will have to look over all of the footage and edit it into a cohesive story. It will be interesting to see how the clips really turned out. Over this past week was Thanksgiving, so i was very happy we got our filming done because we may not have time over the next few weeks. Filming was a fun and interesting experience and I am glad we did it. We recorded the weekend before for almost all of Saturday. The only real issue we ran into was the camera's battery.
      When we recorded, we used my dog, Daisy, as the pet being talked about in the song. We recorded scenes with me playing with her and petting her. Daisy represents Gary in the song. I am Spongebob in a sense. We then recorded me neglecting her with video games TV, and a phone. She then "runs away." I had to look for her after this. My character put u posters and looked for her all around. He then got really sad thinking she was gone for good. It was then that he hears a knock at the door.
      At the door is Daisy, who came home. This video was fun to record. We followed out story board very closely when doing it as well. We will be editing it to be as sad and dramatic as possible. I most likely won't be editing since Kyle is a very good editor. We likely wont need more shots, but it is possible. If we do we will borrow a camera this week and get the few shots we need. If not we should be finished this week. I am very excited to see how it turns out. I think it will be very good.

Weekend Recording

      This weekend me and my group mate Kyle recorded our music video. Our video is to Gary Come Home, from Spongebob Squarepants. Our video revolved around me losing my dog. We wanted to begin filming, but we realized that our camera was dead. We plugged in our camera and begun planning our shots. We determined what rooms we would record them in and how we would work with the dog. it took a while for our camera to get charged enough to use it. After about an hour and a half we had about 25 minutes of charge time. It was a t this time that we got the dog and her treats so we could begin. We started by filming me playing with her.
      We did a few takes of this, experimenting with different angles and movements. After about three tries we decided we had enough of that shot. We moved to the shot of me chasing her around the backyard. This scene is supposed to be taking place after she ran away. We also did a few takes of this scene. It was around this time that the camera died again. We waited for another 30 minutes until we started filming again. After the camera charged again we started filming in my room. These would be the scenes that show the reason for the dog to run away. These scenes showed her being ignored.
      They also showed an empty dog bowl. We took a lot of takes of these types of scenes. We were almost done filming, but we needed to charge the camera more. After it charged we needed to get my sister to help us with a scene. She needed to play a person who had found my dig, and brought her back. For the whole filming process I was the actor, and Kyle was the cameraman. We worked well to decide how to film the shots.

Story boarding

Today in Mediastudies we did the storyboards for our music video. Our video will focus on a narrative of the main character losing his pet dog. The first scene will be a flash back to a high angle of him playing with his dog. This scene will also be grayscaled.  The next scene will still be a flash back with him chasing his dog playfully . It will still be in black and white and will probably be an over the shoulder shot. Then after that we will show the man petting the dog but he gets distracted because he is handed a video game controller. He neglects the dog, wide angle. The next two scenes show the man playing video games and the dog looking into an empty dog bowl. They will both be low angles and will keep the black and white from earlier. The next scene finally brings it back to present. The black and white goes away and we see the dog running away from home from a wide angle we will also either do a pan or track for this shot depending on how it comes out. The next few scenes show the main character responding to his dogs running away. They will be is low angles to show a sad mood. We will show him finding the empty dog bowl, putting up posters, and him waiting  for the dog, this one will be a long shot. The main character also puts out a bowl of food for the dog incase he comes back. The final scene will show the boy getting a knock on the door. This will be a wide shot. As he opens the door it cuts to a close up of his hand opening the handle. And finally there is an eye-line match showing the dog waiting in the doorway. This will take place in and around a house. And the costumes and props are casual and realistic.

Music Video Planning

      My group for the music video will be filming soon. We will be recording our video to the song “Gary Come Home.” We will be recording this at my house. I asked my mom if it was ok and she gave us permission. We don’t really have very many safety concerns. However we need to make sure the dog behaves. I don’t think there will be an issue with the dogs harming anybody, but they could disrupt the shots. We won’t need any props, besides clothes, and possibly a missing dog sign. These are to advance the narrative of a missing dog. We don’t have any specific costumes. We will just use formal clothing. The story is of a normal man whose dog runs away. We plan on recording over the weekend of the 23rd and 24th and probably on the 23rd. This is the best day for the team as a whole, however Carter may not be able to make it. We are going to choose shots and edit during the following week.

Music Video Introduction

     In AICE Mediastudies we have started a new project. I am going to be working in a group with my classmates, Timothy, Carter, and Kyle. Before we start this project we created our own commercial, my group chose Gatorade. The process of creating that commercial helped us advance our film making ability. We will be more efficient in planning, filming, and editing after our past experience. I am confident about this groups ability to make a good, compelling video, even though Sean from the last project decided to work with a different group. We will start story boarding soon. I'm very excited to begin.
      We will record a music video to popular song from SpongeBob SquarePants, Gary Come Home. It is a slow, heart wrenching, ballad about SpongeBob losing his beloved pet snail Gary. However in the specific episode of the show, he was ignoring Gary, causing him to leave, the song takes the perspective of a heart broken SpongeBob after his pet fled. We will have one of my dogs take the role of Gary in the video, and one of the group members will take the place of SpongeBob. The video will be different than the portion of the show however, because the scene with the song only shows the protagonist searching for his pet. Our video will show the whole story between the main charter and his dog. For a sad ballad, the video is usually very serious, with minimal editing, and camera angles that provoke sympathy in the main charter. The Mis en Scene for a sad song like this usually are:

1. Costumes- Very realistic costumes for the setting that the song takes place. For us we will be wearing casual, normal clothing, however if the song took place in a war zone for example we would wear a military uniform.
2. Lighting- The lighting usually uses a lot of shadows, this creates a gloomy mood. This is to establish the mood the director wants to put across, so the audience feels sympathy for the protagonist.
3. Acting- The actors need to act as normal as possible to bring the audience into the video, make them emotionally invested. However they still need to be dramatic to get the feelings across.
4. Makeup- The makeup needs to be realistic, to one again make the video feel authentic and drag the viewer into the scenes. This will make them emotionally invested as well.
5. Props- We will have only props that add to the narrative. They also need to keep the scenes looking realistic.
6. Scenes- They will be following the protagonist. They also need to look realistic so the audience believes the story.

Editing Blog 2

      Today in Mediastudies we begun the actual editing process for our commercial. We started by getting a computer, we ended up with computer number 2. It took a few minutes for us to download all of our videos and open Pinnacle Studios. Once we downloaded everything and opened the editing software, we started to import our footage. We initially imported all of our footage so we could choose which shots we wanted. Kyle was the main member in charge of editing as he had the most experience in editing before this. We started with the first scene. We filmed 2 versions of this shot and we eventually decided on one after a short discussion. We dragged the footage onto AV track 2 and cut it down to what we wanted. We were very happy with how this scene ended up.
      After finishing the first scene we moved on to the next one. This was the scene where they start running. We were surprised with how much we ended up liking our shot for the scene. We also cut this one down a bit and moved on. As we reached the third scene we had a longer debate about which version of the shot we would choose. Though I eventually decided that my group mates were correct and we went with their preference. This scene was rough at first, however Kyle found some cool effects to put on the shot to make it look significantly better. The effects made it look like Sean was running faster than he actually was. However it still looked realistic. This was great as I was concerned this scene would end up being kind of bad.
      We moved on to the last half of the commercial. The other scenes were easy to decide on as we had less takes for them. We were still pretty happy with them however. We looked into changing the color scheme of the scenes, but we decided against it except for the first scene. We also looked into more effects, but ultimately didn’t. We added to Gatorade slogan to the end of the final scene also. It was at this time that we realized that we were at 33 seconds and we needed to get down to 30. We made some small cuts and got down to the correct length without worsening the quality, luckily. It was time to add music to the commercial now. Kyle quickly found a good song that fit perfectly, however Sean wanted a different song, we eventually overruled Sean and kept the other song though.