I finally managed to re-do my first draft for the music video again and now it is currently rendering. Looking back a week later I think that losing my coursework may have been a blessing in disguise because the multicam technique I used in the second version of my first draft means that my Music video appears and looks more proffessionally editied.

Recently I have been having trouble with the post-production stages of my music video, where I have found it difficult to use the software as well as the laptop. As a result I lost my 1st draft for the music video whilst rendering it and I now have to start over again. In order to complete the first draft as sooon as possible I will now have to make sure the draft is completed by the end of this school week.

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I did my first bit of filming today for the first half of my split screen footage and some preliminary footage of my main actress. I used the ............... camera and switched its settings to HD so that the image will vbe sharper and clearer than it would have been on normal settings. There were some difficulties at first mainly to do with my actors as there was some school photographers around which made it slightly awkward for them as they felt shy whilst being watched. However we managed to overcome this and finished shooting in less time than I'd planned.

This week was mainly catching up on any work that I had not yet completed or uploaded onto my blog, I had to go back and complete items where I had not finsihed or uploaded them to my blog. This was important as it helped me to keep upto date with my plan

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Now that my Test Shots have been finished I uploaded them with an explanation of each shot on Wednesday. I then went back to storyboarding, my Digi-pack and any other related work. I also put up a poll on my blog to gather information for my Audience Profile. These questions will help me to find out more about my audience and what they would like to see in my Final Products.

I even used social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr to advertise the polls so as many people as possible would answer them.

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Finally, I managed to completely finish off the editing for the Test Shots this Wednesday. I had a bit of a problem as the file wouldn't export but I managed to fix that as well. Here's the end result ----->


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I finished filming the Test Shots for my Music Video during our double lesson this week and have started to edit them now. Alot of the shots we took last week weren't good enough so we decided, as a group, to scrap the shots taken last week and take some new ones.Hopefully, I should be finished editing them by our next double lesson.

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This week we decided to focus a bit more on production skills, so we tried out different types of shots we could use in our Music Videos. We also learnt how to edit them and create special effects e.g changing the tint, focus, speed or even duplicating people on-screen.


I also managed to get some more work done on my second draft for my Music Video storyboard.

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Okay, so last week I received 3 pieces of feedback on my Proposal :

1. To be more precise,
2. Elaborate more on chosen platforms and
3. Stick to the word count!

I took these all into account and made the relevant changes for homework and uploaded the renewed version later that day.


This week I began looking at Design Inspirations for the Music Video and started to storyboard my official ideas for the Music Video. These will later be placed into Windows Moviemaker to create an Animated Storyboard. There was also some mind-mapping for the images I would use on my Digi-pack cover.

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This week I published my Song Lyrics analysis to my blog as a Slideshare and began writing my Proposal for the Music Video I want to produce. In my Proposal I addressed issues such as what my concept is as well as what I will do to try and reduce any forseeable problems. Furthermore I looked at the kinds of platforms I would want to showcase my music video.

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This week I started formulating ideas and plans for my music video. I drew a storyboard for potential songs and the concepts I came up with and I will upload this soon.
My resource audit and first stage of research have both been completed also but I'll be adding to them as I go on in case I have something new and interesting which I feel would be important to the project.
The Resource audit was a list of possible resources I had or could use within my music video and this will help me to maximise the potential concept of my idea. The First Stage of Research however was done to get me to understand the importance,development and the history of music videos.