Equipment used to film

The equipment we used to film is shown and listed below:

HD Video Camera - Panasonic SD700

This camera was mainly used to record the music video. As it has high quality recording. Also when we wanted to record free-hand this camera did not wobble too much which meant that we got good recording done.

Digital SLR (stills) Camera - Nikon D3000 

This camera was mainly used to take pictues. for example in our music video the flashfacks of the images were taken with this camera.

Finishing editing of music video

We only had one week to edit athe video and put it together, adding effects and synchronising the videos with the music/audio. We thought that the quickest way to edit was if we split up in to two groups and edited the video clips, however because the other apple mac kept having problems us four edited the video together which was good as all of us put our views across. In process of editing I learnt how to erase parts of a frame, including how to extend the clips so each individuals frame showed. we added lighting effects and transitions between clips. On Monday, Tuesday, Wedenesday and Thursday we continuously edited our music video and also put in time after school. It was essential that we finished editing the video because on the coming Monday it was going to be shown to students, teachers and parents in an evening event in the theatre. This was good because it meant we could get feedback from a wide range of audiences and gather information on what they thought was good about it and bad about it and how they think we could improve it.

Started editing music sequences

We used Adobe Premiere to edit the videos we recorded for the our music video. Firstly we transfered the videos from the camera on to the Apple mac. We went through each individual video and decided what scenes we wanted to use taking into consideration the quality angles and movement. From there we opened the videos into Adobe Premiere.

Me and Sonya are looking at the videos to see what parts to edit

Me and Sonya are editing Sams part

This is me telling Sonya which parts i think we should erase

Mel, Zarah, Sonya and Saira are watching Vanessas part to see that it fits in well

We started editing the classroom scene which is the first scene in the music video. In the first sequence of the video the music does not play so we had to make sure it was not too long other wise it could get the audience bored. In the first scene the four girls are sitting in the classroom drifting off into their dreams about Ally. Our main focus was showing a wide shot of the girls sitting in the classroom and then dreaming  whilst the teacher is talking. We used the shot of where the camera is following each girl individually as this focuses on how each girl is feeling at that moment. Editing this scene was pretty straight forward as there was no music to synchronise with the video.