The setup for the music video shoot started at three. The time was spent painting wooden boxes to use for the photography shoot setting. I myself as well as painting the boxes had to head into the local town to pick up food for the cast and crew on the day of the shoot.

The day started off in a typical manner for a shoot day as we predicted, we were able to predict this due to our experience with our AS-Level thriller opening sequences, which taught us how to act and what to do on the shoot. We got the actors ready and after many times of Olivia reminding to bring the outfits that the cast need, she, herself, forgot the costume. This delay didn't cause us to start late as we hadn't finished setting up the day before so we finished that and by the time we had finished, Liv was back, the cast was ready and we were prepared to shoot.

At first, we decided to film the performance aspect of the song, this is due to that fact that if anything bad happens throughout the day and we are unable to use some of the footage, we will have the performance videos to edit, this assures that we have a plan B incase anything goes wrong. In the studio, filmmakers are relying on the fact that everything work and will work though out the entire shoot, however a light could blow or the filmmaker could break the camera, and in the eventuality of the unlikely event of that happening you have shots that you can use as a safety.

The Studio looked very simplistic, yet was a very nice aesthetic being minimalist, it consisted of the band, the instruments, a black backdrop, and a circular grid of spotlights for the first set. For the seconds set, we used a vanity mirror, an infinity loop and multiple coloured boxes, this was to give it a photography shoot styling. I believed this deviated from the original concept, however, in a good way, the final product will end up as more of a performance video instead of the behind the scenes video we originally thought, however, it may be for the better.

We gave each other fixed roles in which we had to stick to on the shoot day, Emily was the floor manager, Olivia was the director, Catherine was the photographer and I was camera operator.

I think that my camera work was good, some of the shots looked really nice and on some of the takes, I ended up directing as well as filming, so, I think I took charge well in moments when the situation was in need of it.

There was only one main problem on the shoot day and it was over a very trivial issue, this issue being the positioning of a food table, Olivia wanted it in the shot and I did not, we came to a compromise of moving its positioning, so I sneakily moved it out of frame and filmed around it as it looked severely out of place in the setting of the music video.

The shoot day was successful in my opinion as I was able to leave the set with a piece of work that I was genuinely proud of what i made.

I wish on the shoot day, that I would've been allowed more creative control as the dictation of what I needed to do even though I disagreed was annoying, however, I was always able to argue my own side and sometimes they would see my point of view and sometimes they would shut my views down.

I think we managed the actors well, they were well behaved all day and seemed to be enjoying it and at the end of the day they all thanked me and the crew for them being a part of the music video.

I enjoyed working with the blackmagic the most, I was happy to be behind a camera again and actually film something properly again and being able to be the mediator between director and audience.

I'm looking forward to seeing how the tracking shot turned out on the big screen as it is one of the only shots we used the track for and while filming I thought it looked really good.

As a team, even with the quarrels, we worked well as a team, and managed to tolerate each other even when we were sick to the teeth of the other members by about lunchtime, we managed to pull through to the end of the day and pat each other on the back and congratulate eachother for making the video.

I think if I came into the shoot with the mindset that everything about your idea can change in an instant as it did with the music video shoot, so be prepared for change but advocate to stay true to the original idea

The website has taken on a rudimentary form of design now. The design will use a panel interface similar to the idea of the google material design project, which creates a more simple a natural interaction experience as it shows the content as having different layers to it and makes the website look less cluttered there isn't lots of things squashed together, instead, the two layers allows the user interface to be less cluttered

Today we had an editing tutorial from our editor in residence, Matt. He explained to us the essentials of editing including the three main rules of editing, he insisted that we take notes during the session so this is a post that consists of the notes that I took during that talk.

Context sensitive, preview, bins and timeline - where the clips are found (bins), where they go (timeline) and where they're seen (preview)

Sync up iPad screen with music

Shot in the studio, match up with the iPad screen timecode - will make it easier to match performance and song in the edit

Either in sync or not - make sure everything is in sync!

Sync with a completely random number 

Bass and snare, to sync up with audio 

Take time to make sure everything is in sync - will look absolutely awful if the performance is out of sync with the song

Picture sync is a lot more reliable -light travels faster than sound, therefore, being able to match the video with the song will be more accurate than trying to match the sound with the song

Make sure all clips are named, ordered - makes cutting to a clip in the timeline faster as you are able to tell which clip is being edited

GROUP YOUR SHOTS TOGETHER

Pictorial match (cutting the flow of music) - seeing camera movements and cuts in time with the rhythm of a song makes the video flow more and seem more fluid

Aim for final cut first instead of rough cut - creating a rough cut will make the editor work less hard on what they are doing as it is only a rough cut so it will almost always be extremely average. If you aim to make the final cut first, then it will be of higher quality and will have been worked on harder

When editing a music video, do 10 seconds at a time - the task seems daunting and alost impossible when editing the 3 minute video which can discourage an editor, so if you break the task into small chunks, it will seem easier to do

Don't show anyone what you are working on - they may criticise good work, which could lead to disruption of a project that genuinely works

• trumpet 
• eddies trousers
• gabbi’s costume 
• august’s coat 

• food and drink
• makeup

- Good praise, some also said that it looked good enough to be the real video

- Gabbi is perfect for the role as her look fits the voice

- Add the third element to make it more dynamic

- trumpet way too fake

- sweet and sour combination works well

- backstage practice element needs to be added

- some of the costumes works

- maybe reconsider gabbi's costume

- different costume for other sections

- create batch of shots instead of single

- distinction between backstage and on camera

- middle 8 needs a new section

The feedback is mostly positive and the audience liked our idea saying it was enjoyable to watch, even when it was cut to the full length of the track. To move forward from our feedback, we have created a list of the five main elements we need to improve and we will sort them out.

For a test shoot, it was successful and that is leading the group to feel hopeful.

What we can do to fix the problems
-Olivia is getting a real trumpet to fix the fake trumpet problem
-We will have a third and maybe fourth element in the final product
-Reconsidered Gabbi's costume, the old one made her look very young, the new one makes her look a bit more like she could be the true artist of the song
-More costumes have been provided by the cast, with cool suits for one of the other elements
-To create a distinction between what is behind the scenes we will change the colour grade and lighting and maybe add channel tags
-The middle 8 will also involve the third and fourth element to make it more dynamic

The original costume for Gabby (our lead singer) we thought wouldn't be too bad, however, we thought about it as something seemed wrong, we realised that the singer looked too young in the costume as the colour scheme looked rather childish and her height made the age look a lot younger than she is, we have since changed the costume and resolved the issue so it looks more like she would be the kind of person that would be able to sing the song that we have chosen for the music video.

For August (our trumpet player), he has a completely different style, he is very tall and has long hair so it was difficult to choose a costume for him, we decided to choose an oversized look with bell bottom trousers and a funky shirt, in the shoot he won't be wearing the hoody.