Change of charater

Unfortunately, we had to change the character of the boyfriend, this was due to the original being busy and it therefore slowing the process down for us meaning we would have to rush to get everything done. So we decided to use Laurence, him being already into acting and drama Jess thought he was the perfect match. However, he is represented as a ‘pretty boy’ and this wasn’t the representation that we wanted for this actor however, we made it work and dresses him up in the stereotypical ‘chav’ clothing. This allowed him to fit the role of what we wanted. 

Editing day 4

Today we completed the next session of our editing.

When we were editing on day number four we just continued to put together clips of Emily in order to develop more of a narrative structure.
In this editing session we started to place together the scenes where Emily is ringing and getting texts from the boy that she had previously woke up in the bed with the night before. This scene was only meant to be a short period of the music. However, I filmed a vast amount of footage from different angles so we could experiment with our editing skills. I found this slightly easy to complete when editing the footage as I used the crop tools to shorten the shots down to fit in the space that we needed, I also mention to Jess that when Emily has her phone out her lock background was a photo of her in a pretty dress with her friends, I decided to try and crop this out as I thought it would ruin the whole ‘corrupted’ vibe that we wanted, successfully I removed the background therefore this kept the representation of her not caring to how we wanted it.

Also, we edited the scene where she is leaving her house, as well as having previously filmed a lot of footage it allowed us to pick and choose what we best thought would fit where. Jess fitted these scenes together, she used the trim tool, I advised that we added a slow motion to the clip as she is walking out to create a sense of meaning to why she was leaving. This I believe worked very well and we will continue in the next editing session we have on fitting more of the narrative into the video.

Editing day 3

Today we started adding some of the footage that we had taken. We began by editing the start of the narrative where Emily is waking up in bed, this took us quite a long time to sort through the clips that we wanted to use and didn't want too. It was quite complicated as we needed to fit the last clip somehow to zoom into a blank screen which we will be experimenting with next time.
I then tried to fit the scene where Emily is being sick from after her night out,there was many shots, including many different angles and shot types, such as close ups, long shots etc. I placed them together and me and Jess then tired to cut specific clips to the amount of time that we needed it to be. We used the blade tool and crop to create these effects. 

When filming we collected a lot more footage than we will need to use. I felt that this would be a good idea as we wouldn't have to go back and re film missing pieces of footage. It also will allow us to create more angles and shot types when editing that specific scene.

Editing Day 2

We decided to come together to do another day of editing our band footage. Once we had got the initial footage of the band to fit the music 'Roll The Dice' we then decided that we would cut the bits of the band performance where the narrative would be so we could just slot it in when we came to it. We also needed to place the close ups and different angles that we had filmed into the footage. Jess tried to overlap a few of the shots but she said that she was finding it difficult to run smoothly with the music. Jess and I will come together tomorrow 3/3/17, and try to make the footage fit to the best that it can, also I am going to add the other footage of the narrative into the scene so it is all together. This may take a lot of trial and error, taking up a lot of time however, it is needed to be as close to match up as possible. 

I will experiment with the different close up shots that we filmed to see what is needed. 

Actors profile

Name: Emily 
Age: 18

Class- Working class 

Gender – Female

Ethnicity – British

Psychographics – She enjoys the indie rock genre, her favourite artist is Jake Bugg. She enjoys the outdoors, enjoys being with her friends and boyfriend. She loves the 'hipster' fashion. 

Dislikes: being unorganised, bullies, Romantic chic flicks. 

(Need to take a photo of Ettienne) 

looking through the footage

The footage that Jess and I filmed I had decided that I would just do a quick look through to make sure that everything that we needed is there and ready to import into the editing that we have already completed.
Overall, everything that we filmed seems to be the correct clips of what we were aiming for. I had noticed that I had filmed a lot of different takes of each scene that we shot, this will be good as we can decided what looks best, we want the shots to fit with the lyrics. I believe that we have taken a lot of footage that will make it easier for us when placing it with the music.
I am happy with the amount of footage that we had shot, even though we are not going to use all the footage It is a good idea that we had done so many as it means we will not have to go back and re film anything.

Digi pak draft

First of,  I have created a simplistic digipak. this will help me to get an idea of the layout that I am looking for. 
The pictures that I have chosen are of the main character and the band, mainly. I thought this was a good idea to use these photos because they gave a representation of the indie rock genre and how meaningful the narrative of the music video is. 
I do believe that the photographs that I am using suit well together as they all come across with the same vibe of Indie. The make up, costume, props and actors were all kept the same as the ones that I use within my production of the music video. 
This is my digipak before I experimented with different lighting effects and the fonts. Which I will do in my next session.