The group today

Today in class my whole group was finally in! Yay! We updated Neelam with everything she had missed and were finally back on track. I think the girls liked what I had done the previous day as there was not much they changed/tweaked. We have been editing the stock motion and overlapped a clip of myself and Alex laughing to show the importance of the arrow reversing the unbroken heart.

P.s i am blogging on my iPhone during lesson as it is another form of media to blog from

Editing

Yesterday I came up in my frees to sort out the ending of our music video as it was really bugging me the fact the narrative side of the song wasn't fitting with my original idea of how i wanted it to look.

It took me a few hours to figure out what I could do to sort this and in the end I decided to drag the clips we had originally used and reverse them so as "pixie mix" was thinking about the memories she has "lost". This looks far more effective and I got the opinion of another group member Trisha, and she also agreed.

Lastly I also added some clips we had filmed earlier this week and stabilized them. We re filmed and changed the shots as since looking at the marking criteria, it was evident that we needed more of a stabilized shot and more close ups. I'm hoping my group likes what Ive done and doesn't change too much of it!

Filming day 5

Editing

Again, in my free periods, myself and Sophie went to the media room to continuing editing as we want to get it finished as soon as possible so we can concentrate on the theory side to our exam. So, we edited again for another two hours and managed to produce this:





Again, in our free periods, myself and Sophie went to the media room to continuing editing as we want to get it finished as soon as possible so we can concentrate on the theory side to our exam. So, we edited again for another two hours and managed to produce this:

Research and Planning

Most of Pixie's songs are upbeat and happy songs and so bright colours and costumes are used to reflect the mood of the song. However, "cry me out" is a much sadder song and so the video is completely in black and white. I love the way it doesn't use any colour at all and I think this really portrays the emotion of the song well.

After watching this music video, I have decided that I think we should use all black and white as it fits the mood of the song and I think, overall, will make the music video look more professional.

Possibly more filming? Day 5

Having looked over our film again, Sophie and I realised we needed a variety of close ups and different shots to make our video's performance more choppy and professional, changing different clips and locations in time with the beat.

So we are going to go out to film with the camera as soon as it is charged to get more shots as I am wearing my hair up and have a completely different look to the previous shots.

Will upload the footage soon!

Fonts

Sophie and I are currently in the media room discussing different fonts to use for our digi-packs as well as possibly having 'Pixie Mix' at the opening of our song..

We googled Pixie Lotts actual font on her album cover but no luck, so we typed in 'scribble font and crayon font' and found a few to download. They're not the exact same as the original Pixie Lott, but nethertheless they look really good!

Unfortunatly 'blogger' will not let us upload these fonts onto a post!