Filming Blog

   Since choosing our song, our group has created the storyboard. We have decided where we are filming, and what shots and angles we will be using in each scene. We have decided our filming locations will be at the beach, one of our houses, and along a street that has nice scenery. So far, we have not began the filming process for this music video. My group members and I were unable to begin filming because all three of us were already busy with prior plans the entire weekend. We also have many other AICE classes that we already had work to do for before we were assigned this project. But, this class is very important to us. The distance between where each of my group members live is also very far. It is hard to find a day where all three of us are not busy and can get a ride to wherever we're filming. But, we will begin the filming process within the next couple days.
   To film our actual music video, we will be using one of our group members phones. On the last project we did, the Nike commercial, we used the camera provided by our teachers. But, for this project we have decided that we want to try something new. That is why we will be using one of our iPhones instead of the camera. We also believe it will be easier to access the footage if it is on a phone. To edit the music video, we will be using iMovie on one of our computers instead of Pinnacle Studios like we did with the commercial. We found Pinnacle slightly difficult and confusing to use, so we are going to be using iMovie instead. I have used iMovie many times in the past, so I know exactly how to work the editing software. I have found it is not only easier to edit with, but it is less time consuming. Using iMovie will also be simpler because we will be able to dump the footage straight from our iPhone into iMovie.
  My role in the music video filming process will be to ensure we have transportation to each of our filming locations, and to make sure we include the correct shots and angles. We will most likely be filming a majority of the shots in or near my house, so I will be in charge of making sure we have safe transportation to each location. Our transportation will probably be provided by my mother and her car. For the shots and angles, I will make sure that while we are filming we are including the right amount of angles and that we are identifying them correctly. I will ensure the shots and angles we have on our storyboard correlate with the shots and angles in our music video. One of my other group mates will be taking on the role of lighting and safety. She will make sure we have good lighting throughout the filming process and that we have the right materials to keep us safe in the unlikely event one of us gets hurt. My other group mate has the role of locations and costumes. She will ensure we are able to film at the location as well as find new locations if needed. She will also make sure the costumes and outfit we wear make sense and correlate with the location and scene.

Storyboard blog

11/22 For the past two class periods we have been going over and discussing our storyboard and planning. We have thought about most of the props we will include like money, make-up and food. We know where most of our settings are like the beach, our teammates home, and Las Olas. We have talked about the costumes and how we will be wearing it. Our group is still figuring out the types of lighting we will include in our video but we know for sure there will be LED and natural sunlight. We want to include natural makeup but a little extra for the end of the film when we are out on the town. Another thing that is important to our music video is camera angles, movements, and shots. For example for our first scene we will be in our group mates parent’s car and our mate’s mother will record a pan of all of us in the car including the background of the beach. We want to include high and low angles of all of us to show where we are and what we’re doing. We also want wide angles of all of us on the beach and couch hanging out and having fun. We want our video to mostly contain hand held instead of using a tripod because we want it to seem like normal teens are recording a young and fun video. For our editing we want to include jump cuts, fade in and out, dissolving to create a nice vibe throughout the video since our song is a fun summer vibe. Our sound is just the song we chose for our music video which is Slide by Frank Ocean and Calvin Harris.

Planning blog

For our music video, my teammates and I will have three listed locations for filming. Our group mate’s house will be used to film calmer scenes of our video. The second location, Fort Lauderdale beach, will be used to film exciting, lively scenes. These will include our group dancing and even going inside of the water. Finally, we will be filming inside of our group mate’s car. In the car we will film lively scenes, as well. The scenes will feature our group dancing and listening to music, particularly this song. We will be filmed inside the car, however, there may be some moments filmed of the outside of the car.
Health and safety will always be number one on our priorities. We will be taking precautions to ensure our health and safety. This includes making sure we are all strong swimmers for the beach. Each of us have taken swimming lessons in the past and intend to use what we learned. We will also check the weather before arriving at the beach to make sure the weather is appropriate. If the weather is threatening, we will choose a different place to film. To protect us from strangers, rapists, kidnappers, etc. we will be carrying pepper spray with us. Our group mate’s legal guardian will also be joining us.
Because we will be at the beach, we will be wearing beachwear such as sweatpants and sunglasses. We will be wearing sweatpants because, although we do live in Florida, it has been cold lately, and we are all anemic. Our props will include pretend cash, which we will be throwing around to demonstrate our wealth, despite the fact that we are not wealthy. We will lay blankets down on the beach for the video. We will also we be using our cell phones. In addition, in the house, we will use colored lights to create a “club” effect.

Intro to Music Video

   My group finished our commercial. Now, we are moving forward and beginning to start our music video. While working on our commercial, we faced some difficulties when editing our footage. We struggled to add music at first. But, now after doing our commercial successfully we know how properly edit our video and add music. We are planning on using iMovie for our music video. The filming process was very easy for us when doing our commercial. It only took us a few takes to get the ideal clip. We are going to be using our phones to film our music video instead of using the camera. Everything will most likely go as smoothly with the music video as it did for the commercial. 

   For our music video, we are doing the song Slide by Frank Ocean and Calvin Harris. It is an upbeat and happy song. We are planning to make the music video very outdoorsy and fun. We chose this song because we like that it is a happy song with a good beat. We also chose it because we believe it will be a good song to make a music video for. The genre of this song is Pop. 

   For costumes, we are going to be wearing basic, every-day clothing. We want the music video to look modern, so we are going to be wearing normal, modern clothing. For lighting, we are going to be using natural lighting. We are also going to be using color changing LED lights to add a good vibe to the music video. For actors, it is going to be me and my other two group mates. We may include a few friends from outside our group to use as background characters. We will be wearing natural makeup. The natural makeup look adds to the laid back feel of the song. For props, we will be using a car, beach supplies, and blankets. We will also use phones as props and a skateboard. For setting, we will be going to use the beach, a bedroom, and a car. We may also use other locations that we find while editing. We will be doing pan camera movements, medium close up, and tracking shots. There will be no sound because the music will be the sound for the video. We will use jump cuts to show the transition between different settings and scenes. 

   

Editing Blog

   Today we continued editing our commercial. We almost completely finished editing it. We placed all the clips in order. We also added all of the transitions in between each clip. All we have left to do is add music and text to the last clip. When we began, I tried to find the 'fade-out' transition on the computer that we could not find in the previous class. I could not find the transition, so my group mates looked for it. One of them found the transition. We used this transition in between each clip. I then cropped some of the clips so that the transition would look smooth.

   We switched around the order of the clips a few times. We did this to try and figure out the best order to make the transitions look smooth. We also cropped a lot of the clips. I turned off the original sound of each of these clips as well. I did this because we clearly wouldn't want the original sound to overlap the music. We are going to be adding the music next class. We still have not decided what song we are going to use. We are choosing between two songs. I tried to quickly add a random song to make sure we knew how to do it. But, the class period was about to be over so I didn't have the time to try.

   We did not have to do much editing on our commercial today. Our clips did not need much editing to come together to form the commercial. Once the music is added, the commercial will pull together. Today I mainly just added transitions and cropped clips. I also looked around the editing software to see if there were any cool things we could add to our video. I could not find anything that I thought we should add. But, maybe next class we will change our transitions a bit because they are slightly boring. I put one of the more interesting transitions into the video at one point. But, I ended up changing it because it didn't look smooth. We may just leave the transitions as is.