Shooting Schedule

For the first week of filming, we completed the scenes based in the music practice room, along with close-up shots of various performers. We have allocated this week to shooting these scenes as they are easiest to organise the setting. The availability of the theatre and drama studio is limited, as it is the time of year when a lot of events are happening, such as the drama exams and various extra curricular groups who want to use these facilities.



Unfortunately due to the composition of the shots we used, we could not use split screen editing on our clips, so we had to use the next week and a half to re-start all of our filming. We did this within two lessons this week, and worked on Final Cut Express and Imovie HD to get to grips with the software and learn how to split screen edit, as well as standard editing.

We finally learnt to use the Final Cut Express software and eventually discovered how to create a split screen edit. We literally had to cut each shot in half and put them together. We are currently converting the file to a .mov file, as this is the only way we could transfer it into imovie HD and into our project. This didn't work so we had to instead convert to a file that could play using the quicktime player. This took around 20-30 minutes of a lesson, so we had to wait over the weekend to upload it onto a memory stick and onto the iMac we are using. We did this and uploaded the file into imovie. It is now in our timeline and featured in our music video.

We re-drafted the storyboards after deciding that the scene where our main boxhead character would have had to dance in a large circle of people needed to be altered. This was due to the fact that it would be too difficult to film and arrange, therefore we decided instead to go with our character dancing to the music in our college theatre on his own. We have now filmed it from various different angles and utilised the dolly to give the movement of the camera greater stability.

We have finally finished filming and started the editing process using imovie 09 on the macs! and also we have finished our digipak and poster final designs. We just need to print them out and get some feedback :)

We finished editing this week! and currently can't put the video onto Blogger so we uploaded it onto Youtube instead to reach a wider audience :)