Group: Update 28-11-13

CC: Today we have decided that we will film tomorrow in break and periods 2 and 3. We are going to film the shots of my hand and my face turning into black and white or into colour. We may also re film the shots of the leaves falling onto me in the studio depending on how yesterdays filming turned out.

LB: In todays lesson we decided that we will be filming our studio shots tomorrow. This shoot has been building up for a while and the more we go on, the more our narrative expands, this means we have new ideas and shots to try that we did not have last week. The biggest change is the new idea of Chris being in Black & White with all other footage in colour. Since then we have thought of ideas that our urban footage can be in Black & White with Chris in colour to have this small narrative and play with colour with the rest of our footage being acceptable as a conceptual piece.

After this I started to carry on with my print work, since the rough cut and talking to my peers, It is clear that the favourite Image is the close up of the mask. So today I tried to think of ways I could incorporate the title of the album as if it was a front cover of our digi-pak. Despite what we found from our print analysis, the huge typography would completely ruin the effect of the Image, as the Image is powerful itself. So far this is roughly an Idea of opacity and colour for the title, I managed to cut the custom font from an image of one of Bastilles covers.

Rough Cover Idea with Typography 

At school I also transferred some footage onto a memory stick so I could take it home and put it through After Effects. In total I took about 15 seconds of footage to see if I could use the 'Roto-brush' for a wide range of shots. All of the shots need to have a "Auto Colour" effect applied to bring out the contrast in the shots.The first shot is one fourth of the woodland side where we match cut to the music, moving into chris's eyes in the urban location and back out in the woodland location. This one was the easiest to do as the contrast difference of Chris's profile and the background was quite different, this meant the tracking and positioning of the tool was minimal.

The second shot edited was one of our stop motion shots where the other characters move closer to Chris, in this shot two characters lock arms with Chris, this made it hard to make sure that the other characters were not effected by the Black and White track, so I had to remove the selected area frame by frame so it worked well.

The third shot is very small, however in our rough cut we shown this shot in slow-motion and in reverse also. I took the original footage for the edit, and when I take this into school I can apply the effects I did last time. One problem with this shot is that it is near impossible to make a separate layer for the party popper, so when it pops at first there is half a second where it is effected by the Black and White mask. However I am still happy with the outcome of this shot.

The fourth shot I looked at today is our synchronised shot. In our rough cut we produced this idea of three different characters doing the same action of putting there hand on Chris and be jump cut to make it look like one smooth transition. I decided to use the original footage instead of the jump cut already produced as it would have been more time consuming, so now I can do the shot again with this footage when I next sit down to edit.