Group: Fourth Film Shoot - Update 19/11/13

CC: Today we went back to Southborough woods for another shoot as the weather was a lot better than the past couple of days. We filmed some tracking shots of myself and some shots of myself with some other actors in the woods. The shots with the other actors were conceptual, for example where I hold the balloons with the actors next to me. Another example of some conceptual footage that we filmed today would be where I stood still and each character came up and put their hand on my shoulder. We have decided to jump cut that footage when I edit it tomorrow.

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LB: Today we all filmed from 11:00 -1:00 at Southborough Woods for more woodland Footage. For this shoot we were more organised then yesterday with a shot list and extra cast. We were fortunate that the weather was perfect for what we wanted to film, and in the two hours we managed to film around 20 minutes of footage which since I have edited down to over a minute of footage for our video. Tomorrow Chris will be able to look through the footage and start to place it in the correct positions on the timeline.

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After reviewing what we had filmed I am happy with what we have got, and thought that the use of jump-cuts of the other characters around Chris has worked really well. I am also pleased with some of the shots including Props around Chris that we can use to slow down. As we have got a lot of footage done today, I am sure that we should not need to go back to the Woodland are much from now and we can focus strictly on our studio work.

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After reviewing today's footage I also started to create more Ideas for my project of completing the Digi-pak. I have screen grabbed from today's footage and have created images of conceptual ideas I may be able to use for my final project. I am pleased with the turnout especially the shot of Chris holding the balloons.

Possible conceptual Cover Idea for album

The above Image is the work I like the most, the Image used was a screenshot from today's footage. I then put the image into Photoshop and cropped the Image to the correct aspect ratio. Afterwards I created two layers of the same image and made the top layer black and white. As well as changing the colour, I decreased the Hue/Saturation and decreased the brightness so the Image was slightly darker but still gave you the ability to see the main features of Chris. After this I erased the black and white from the balloons simply with a rubber tool on the Image.

Next I started to think about typography and what would look best, and thought that the connotation behind the triangle and the importance of what it has towards the band would be enough to show who the album belongs to. This is common for the type of genre also as we found when we initially looked at printwork in our analysis. This left me with the Image below, I then started to play around with tools and effects that are on Photoshop and really liked the with the Sharp Blur, and though it connoted what we were trying to show in our video 'Escaping reality, tired with life, not being subordinate to society'

Conceptual Idea without Sharp Blur

I also used today's footage of our extreme close ups with characters wearing masks and have screen grabbed them and also put them onto Photoshop. The image below is for an idea of one of the pane's for the Digi-pak. The image has been cropped down to the correct ratio as well as an enhance on colour and contrast including a small blur. A possible change that can be made to the image is a similar idea to the cover, and making everything Black & White except from the bright colours in the mask.

Pane Idea for Digi-Pak

JP: Today we were filming for a couple more hours in Southborough woods as we had some more planned shots for the outside/woodland section of the video. We had a list of shots and had extra cast for this shoot. The weather was very good and was perfect for continuity with other footage and the look we were going for.
We took about 20 more minutes of footage which we edited down into a couple of minutes to put in the timeline and we will edit it down even further to place within the video.
We got all the shots we think we needed and they all worked well. We are pleased with the footage we have got and should be able to now focus almost completely on getting more studio footage.
Some of this footage can be used for print work  and I've also been looking through some of it for an image to use for my print work.