Rock Music Video.

Album Cover Picture Review.

On the 20th of December 2013, our group decided to take pictures of the album cover we will be creating. Here are some pictures to some of the album cover shots that are revealing myself and Andrew Ducasse both separately and in the same shot.

As we can see, there are different types of shots taken for all 4 of the shots revealing two different situations each. Two of the pictures are revealing only the vocalist of the band which of course is Andrew. There are also two other pictures revealing myself with Andrew. All of the shots in my opinion are revealing because they all have different shots and angles revealing different imagery and backgrounds.

7th Filming Session.

On Thursday the 12th of December 2013, I had to do my 7th filming session which again took place at Andrew Ducasse's house. 

The reason why we had to go to Andrew's house again is because we had to film the band shots in the front room to fit into our music video. This did require a bit of assistance as Liam Glencross was unable to be filmed because of his injury that he previously had with his leg. So instead, we got another performer in the music video; Lee Delves. As Liam was not able to play the guitar for the filming, Lee Delves therefore had to take over the position. This left Liam filming for the whole session and also guiding Lee on what he had to do throughout the song. 

Like all the other filming sessions, we also involved a variety of different shot types and angles to make the filming more successful and highly advanced. For example, we involved close ups of the electric guitar being played by Lee to reveal that instrumentation was being used. Not only this was show, but also myself playing the drums was used involving a couple of different shots/angles. Liam was mostly filming close ups of me playing the drums as it was important for me to reveal me hitting the drum kit on the beat of the music. Not only the use of instrumentation was revealed throughout the filming session, but also Andrew was lip-syncing with the band to show that the whole band were playing together as an actual fully professional band. One shot that I personally like from Andrew's lip-syncing was when Andrew was looking at the mirror and singing to it. The reason I thought this was good is because it's a different type of shot that we have done compared to every other shot we have done throughout the whole filming schedule. Another reason why this is good is because he is reflecting his emotions to himself to give himself encouragement. 

Overall I personally think that this filming session was amazing and it did require a lot of team work in which we have successfully achieved.

1st Draft for Music Video Review.

• Positive Comments:

• The performance from Andrew was very effective and most of the lip syncing was in time. Also the use of movement was very successful. His facial expression seemed very good as well to show his emotion towards the song.
• A load of shots and various of types of angles were used very effectively and successfully. The one shot in particular was the shot were it revealed Myself and Andrew performing in the living room. 
• There were a mixture of long and short shot durations to reveal the importance for each shot. Long shots to reveal the vocalist of the band as he is the leader. There were a few shots of me playing the drums.
 

• Negative comments:

• The shots in the beginning of the music video were a bit long and it needed more cutaways and to make the cuts on-the-beat.
• There needs to be more instrument shots in the music video so it can look like a rock video. Also there needs to be more band shots involving a guitar in some of the shots.

Editing Process.

When our group were creating the music video, this obviously did require some editing. 

Personally, I'm not really good at editing clips and putting them together by involving cutaways and other methodologies for editing.

Throughout the past 2-3 weeks, our group has been doing quite a lot of editing to create a music video. Some of the editing has become brilliant but there are a few bits that could be easily improved. For example, there could be more cutaways to show that it is an actual rock music video. Also some of the walking shots that we used can be a bit more stabilised to make it look steady. 

Throughout the process, I haven't yet anything yet but eventually I will move on to the editing side of the music video in which I can progress and become more confident on the editing. All of the others in my music video group have edited some footage and I personally think that it is amazing. Overall though, I would say that Andrew's editing is the best considering he involves more cutaways which a rock video needs in order to make it look successful. The use of stabilsation is also used effectively for the footage and personally what we have done so far, I think it has become so successful.

6th Filming Session.

On the Tuesday the 26th of November, we done the 6th filming session for our music video.

Out of all of the 6 video sessions, this had to be one of the hardest filming sessions that we've tackled so far. There are many reasons for this.

The first reason is because there was only 3 of the members of the group. Liam Glencross was the only one that couldn't film with us because he was currently on crutches. This means the rest of us had to leave him behind and let him edit all of the other footage we currently filmed before. 

Meanwhile the rest of us were having a massive problem. We all had to carry separate pieces of the drum kit all the way to Andrew's house which took approximately 15mins to complete. It was quite a struggle considering their was only three of us carrying parts of the drum kit but we managed to accomplish the objective successfully.

When it came to the actual filming, it was quite challenging for myself in particular. The reason for this is because it was the first time I was playing the drums for the music video. This required me to be in time with the beat and the hits of the drum being played in the music. As I was playing throughout the filming session, I then started to progress and began to improve marvelously. There was a concern when our group were filming because I accidentally forgot my costume. However on the plus side, it wasn't a massive catastrophe because Liam wasn't with us at the time and as we know, he is the guitarist for the band so overall, it did turn out okay. Also Andrew Ducasse was continuing to do his lip syncing in front of the camera involving a variety of different shot types and angles. Sophie was the one that was doing all of the filming and also guiding me and Andrew on what we should do when each of us were doing our own individual roles. Here are a few pictures to reveal what our group done throughout the filming session.

As you can see, the top two pictures are revealing myself playing the drum kit with two different shots being used. The other three shots are revealing Andrew looking at the camera getting prepared to sing. His two different shots involve a low angle and a high angle shot.

5th Filming Session.

On Friday the 22nd of November, our 5th filming session took place at the train station. 

During the filming session, we involved a variety of different strategies in order to make the filming session reliable enough for the actual music video. This filming session involves Andrew and Liam meeting up with Myself when I was coming out of the train. This again is to show that Andrew needed more support from his band members to cheer him up and show that he is not alone.

Throughout this filming session, we involved a variety of different shot types and angles to make it more successful. The angles that we were using throughout the filming session were low and high angles to show the status that all of us were in, especially Andrew. As well as this, we were also doing some pan shots of Andrew and Liam making there way to the train station. We were also involving taking shots from behind. In the train station, we also involved shots of myself making my way towards Andrew and Liam. I would personally say that this filming session went rather well considering it required less guidance and everyone knew what they were supposed to be doing. Here are a few pictures including a short video to show what we had done the filming session in the train station.