Editing- Day 2

We used the footage from Shoreditch, Lenya's uncle's pub and Hackney (car park and under the bridge). We put all 24 base tracks we filmed into final cut pro and cut them up. We matched the original song to the base tracks successfully. We are always coming up with new ideas and where to put what, also from our editing day 1 we received feedback saying we need more movement shots. We ought to include shots of Stephan walking and other shots of him perhaps moving around to the beat of the music and looking onto monuments such as the beach when we film at South bank on day 5 of filming. When editing we realised we still hadn't filmed a lot of these types of shots so we must film shots like these when we film on day 5, we are planning to film Stephan walking on the beach and also writing his name in the sand and him walking past it, perhaps we could use this shot to open our music video and also use it at the end of the music video if it works out well (fingers crossed).

Instagram updates

We have posted a few pictures on our own instagram's and also the group one also here are some examples of what we have posted:

Here is a picture of Traivon filming the artist (Sparkz) outside a church in Shoreditch this was a very good base track as we had used the lights effectively and also had varied shot types and angles.

Here is our instagram page, this is where we keep our fans updated about where we are with the video shoot and also other promotions that may be linked to the artist and the song, although we are still on the verge of finding followers the more we post the more we will have.

This is another picture of a different base track, this is shot around Old street, Shoreditch, i believe this is one of our best base tracks because of the Mise-en-scene, we have many different colours to make our shots look more interesting. 

Sparkz- already has fans?

On filming outside Lenya's uncles pub we managed to gather an audience when we were filming the scene where Stephan is rapping in the car. They believed he truly was famous and all gathered around for autographs and photos. Stephan does actually rap outside of media, so these 'fans' will be able to keep up with their new favourite rappers music.


Here's Stephan with his fans!

The girls were especially excited, ha!

First Day Of Editing!

We first saw our shots today and we love them! They have really come together well (woohoo!). We have edited one shot with the original song on top of the base track, we have to say it looked pretty professional. We all thoroughly enjoy editing as it is a chance to see our ideas being brought to life and we also enjoy structuring our music video to match our story board. The lip sync tutorial has really helped us to get to grips with the whole editing process, and we are not finding the process too difficult. We are planning to film 2 more base tracks, a production schedule will be made for this in another blog.

Lenya conducted a questionnaire for our fellow classmates to answer. Here it is:

 Here is what people had to say (our target audience is teenagers - young adults):

Stephan does now know the lyrics and it flows really well, and we are also planning on filming at two more locations including Hackney wick. 

Shadows- how will this work?

We have decided that shadow a will become a main element of our music video as we are filming in the dark, so shadows are bound to appear. We will work with the shadows and aim to get some great shots with shadows in the framing. This adds to our eerie theme and we are looking forward to working with the camera whilst incorporating the shadows.

As you can see Stephan's shadow is really effective in this shot as it makes him seem dominant. We like this shot, especially the fact you can see the hat in the shadow, people such as Ab Soul and School boy Q wear hats in their videos, and these are the artists that have inspired our group. The shadow almost makes Stephan seem inferior to his own self, his shadow is more present in the frame, this fits with the song as the song is very peculiar, and the artist has a dark side to him.


Tyler the Creator uses shadows in his video 'Yonkers'

Although his shadows are not the type we have formed in our music video, we still create the same atmosphere using the shadows. 

Filming: Day 3 Review

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Filming Day 3