Week 5

The main shoot and editing.

Me and Michael looked over the shooting schedule before Okapi arrived to check we knew what we were doing. We were both a bit nervous as we knew we had to get it right this morning as we wouldn't get another chance. This might be why I forgot to ask anyone to take pics of

Michael and me shooting the band!

The shoot didn't take very long, about two hours. Okapi were easy to work with and put us at ease. (I did think that it should have been the other way around.) As with the Y8 practice shoot the camera angles were still a bit limited but we had solved the short green screen problem by adding layers of thick green curtain material we found in the art department! We had two cameras set up so that we could maximise the limited camera angles a much as possible. I think I have got better at dealing with people and communicating my ideas as a result of these shoots.

The feed back we had got on including Adobe special effects from teachers and class mates last week was that they weren't needed to keep the audience interest,so the only effects we used were basic reversal footage, sped up film and of course the green screen. I personally feel these effects worked well together.

I enjoyed perfecting the editing. This is an area of strength for me although we ran low on time which meant there were a couple of things I would have liked to have added. This is something I will hopefully remember in my next production. I don't feel that it affected the overall result which we were pretty pleased with. Once we had added the titles it looked good.

Feed back from teachers and audience.

Mr Durran stated that the use of green screen was cleanly done and that we had lit it well and he liked the range of different techniques we had included.

Mr Hind saw the completed video and gave positive comments.

Y11's - " great bit with the suitcase with the clothes going backwards."

" How do you get the backgrounds?' - "why don't they move?"

" I like the quick changing clips where the girls sunglasses keep switching"

" Yeah, it almost like a real music video!"