Editing

Once we had finally done all of the filming with the green screen and got it how we wanted, we had to edit the footage together. What we wanted to do was have the main protagonist be on the screen four times at once holding up cards that say Oh Me Oh My, he would appear on the left first, and then three more times to the right.

To do this we took the green screen footage of the protagonist (Jacob) holding the card on the left, we cropped the green screen footage around Jacob to reduce the amount of shadows around, we then put this on top of a background that we had already filmed and saved it.

We opened this up in another project, this makes the green screen clip one shot. We then put the footage of Jacob standing slightly to the right on top of this clip, we repeated this process two more times until we had Jacob in the shot four times holding the cards, lip syncing the lyrics.

I think the outcome was mostly positive, we got Jacob in the shot four times lip syncing the lyrics. There were a few problems with the quality of the shot though, we didn't think it was that clear and looks slightly distorted. We don't think it was a problem with our work, we just think it was because we were limited with the amount of technology we had to make it look professional.

Lighting Experiment

In our production piece we use green screen, we decided to experiment by using the green screen and different lighting. We did this because when putting the video footage onto green screen the quality wasn't good, this was because the lighting we had on Jacob was causing shadows to appear on the green screen. We filmed it again experimenting with the amount of light and where the lights were positioned, this is a video of the different lighting experiments we tried.



We wanted to use the green screen for a shot in the in the video where the main protagonist (Jacob) would be on the screen four times at once and then walk off the screen from the right to the left, he would appear on the left hand side and would appear again slightly to the right until he is on the screen four times. He will be holding up a card each time he appears on the screen with the words Oh Me Oh My and lip syncing the lyrics at the same time.

We experimented with the placements of the lighting so we could reduce the amount of shadows on the green screen, we had a few problems when doing this. Due to Jacob having to walk a long from the right to the left of the screen we were getting a lot of shadows, we experimented to see how we would get the least amount of shadows. We couldn't have too much lighting Jacob so we had to get the right amount, we changed the position of the lamps and changed the amount of light coming out of them. In the experiment video you can see sometimes Jacob goes slightly transparent and at times there are more shadows than others. We experimented until we got the right amount of lighting to use in our production.

Another reason why we were getting shadows was because of the green screen itself, because it was wrinkled all the shadows showed up clearly. We found it hard trying to keep it straight and we couldn't get rid of all the wrinkles, one way we could reduce the amount was by editing. We could crop the green screen footage when we put it on top of another piece of footage, we cropped everything around Jacob to reduce the amount of shadows. This gave our shot a more professional feel, using the cropping tool also made it easier to fit him on the screen four times.

Digipak Idea

This is our design for our digipak, every side of the digipak is going to be a photo from the scenes in the video. We are also using the most popular font style from the survey on the digipak, we have not yet thought of an album title but when we have we will put it on te final digipak design.

  

Filming

Everyone in the group was here last friday so we were able to get some of our filming done, we filmed the scene with the homeless man on the bench in the park. We should now have all the footage we need for one of the verses in the song, but we may have a problem with continuity in our video. When we first started filming outside there was still some snow on the roads and the street, and when we filmed on friday there was a lot less snow. We wanted to make it look like it was all on different days by changing the clothing which Jacob was wearing, but the snow could make it look like a continuity error. We are going to leave it for but theres a chance we may have to film some of the scenes again.

Issues with filming

We have been having some issues with filming, we have not been able to stick to our filming schedule. On the days we were supposed to film people in the group have either been ill, had interviews or been on school trips. Another issue is the weather, because it has snowed everything is iced over which could be a hazard when filming. It is also not the right weather that we want to film, so we might have until the snow has gone. Myself, Jacob and Tori should all be here on Thursday and Friday so we have planned to film then.

Audience Research - Font Styles

We have been looking at different fonts to use for our digipacks, we thought it would be a good idea to get some feedback from our target audience. We chose four fonts which we thought would look good and asked students around the college which one they liked the best, these are the four fonts we decided to use:

These were the results:

1. Reklame - 15

2. Capture It - 7

3. Impact Label - 2

4. Seans Other Hand - 1



Filming Delay

We are currently behind on our filming schedule, last week I was ill and couldn't make it into college. The shot what we were supposed to film last week, I was supposed to be in it so we got no filming done. Whilst I was away the group started looking at digipacks and the poster and have narrowed down the choices for which one we will use, I just need to give my opinion so we all decide as a group which is the best one to use.