Filming 8/12/10

We needed to re-film our dancing in the performance studio and so we did. However, one of our dancers couldn't make it so we had to replace them. This is not a problem because we are only using footage from this filming session in this location and the dancers are masked.


We used material to dance with to create visual interest. We chose red because it would show up well against the black background.


Cara.

Light Drawing Edits

I used Photoshop to edit the light drawing that i did.

To create the background i altered the contrast until the image behind the light was black.

In the image above i used layers of the light from one image and then altered the colouring.

For these images i just made the whole of it blue and brighter.

I added an effect to this drawing called neon glow and then selected the colour as pink.

Cara.

                                              Editing                                            


So far we have found our footage to be successful as the dancing is in time with the beat of the music and is fairly easy to slot into the video at most points. We roughly have less than about 30 seconds of footage left that we need to paste over black before we have a complete video. 


Last lesson we started editing some of the footage with the ghost trails and speed up effects to give an impression of robotic malfunction as Emma described in a previous post, however the group decided that it would be easier and much more efficient if we leave the editing until last once we have filled all gaps in the music video. 


We filmed roughly 2/3 weeks ago in the dance studio in college and when we imported the footage we noticed that the curtains in the studio had gaps in causing daylight to shine through the windows and generally make the footage seem quite tacky.  Therefor, we are re-filming this section today. 


We are also giving ourself more time to film as last time we only had a half an hour gap between 15:30 and 16:00 due to enrichment in the studio. Whereas today we are filming between 15:30 and 17:30 giving ourself more time to check the setting and framing.


Harriet. 

Light Drawing Experiments

I finally got to do the light drawing. I went out one night with my friend who showed me how to do different things with the light. For every image we used a long shutter speed on the camera to capture all the light we used.

You have to make sure the torch is not pointed directly at the camera otherwise a star of bright light shows up in the image.

In the image above we used a stick with lots of torches attached to it and swung it around in a circular motion to crate a ball.

For these images below we used a circle of wire with LED wire wrapped around it and moved the object around in different ways to achieve different effects. For the one directly below, I moved the hoop away from the camera in a straight line to create a tunnel.

With this one, we came in from the side with the hoop and wavered it up and down which creates a pipe.

For the image below we wavered the object closer to the camera which gave this staggered circle effect that looks really unusual.

We also did the same for this image, but started a bit further back wavering the hoop around. This gave more circles on the image.

To create the spiral we moved the hoop in a circular motion side to side.

For the two drawings below, both of us had a torch and ran around waving it randomly high and low.

Cara.

Late college bus 6/12/10

With my college bus being held up really badly today I missed most of our lesson and wasn't able to work on anything much. also, I was unable to get hold of my photos from the light drawing session i did a week ago because the snow fall meant it was impossible to get anywhere.


Today, i managed to find the right font and colouring for the CD cover.


Cara.

Todays Lesson - 6/12/10

In today's lesson we focused our time on our music video. The first half an hour to hour was spent on splitting clips and adding the right effects to them. The clips we were mainly looking at were the head and body jerks. The effects were chose on these were the "Fast/Slow Reverse" and the "Ghost Trails". It took us a while to choose the best speed and the opacity for the ghost trails but we got there in the end. 

We chose to have the Ghost Trails settings at:

Effect In: 00:00

   Effect Out: 04:18

Tail: Long

Steps: Long

Opacity: Opaque

We chose these settings because we wanted to be able to see the multiple trails as Harriet Gibson's head moves. We are going to use these exact settings for each body and head jerk clips.

Our next task is to re-film a dance sequence in the dance studio at college. We have planned to shoot from 3:30pm til 5:30pm on Wednesday 8th December. Our teacher Mel will stay with us during the shoot to give us help when we need it. 

The project deadline has been forwarded to January 2011. This will give us plenty of time if we need to re-film. 

Emma

Snow!

Over the past couple of days there has been inches and inches of snow falling over Nottingham and neighbouring towns. We planned to film on Wednesday 1st December. Hopefully by next week we should be able to film what we had planned.

Emma