22/02/15 editing session

Today I learned how useful it is to coordinate the footage with the bars of the music - my client informed me on this. It was useful to also gain musical knowledge! DJ PLAY expressed how he values our communication as our separate creative backgrounds enable us to use unusual terminology (or nicknames for video clips) in order to refer to editing techniques.

Progress: we are half way through the main hula hoop section of the video, meaning that we are now approaching the end of the video. So far we have been extremely thorough in choice of shots (selecting only the very best) and I am pleased with the progress. We have been working through 8 bars at a time and have had lots of discussion.

Time spent: 2 hours

17/2/15 session

Today I have gone through my work and begun thinking about the final stage of my project. I am also getting in contact with my client to arrange the next edit, which will be for the hoop scene. He expressed particular interest in participating in this section, but has not been able to make it recently due to demanding work calls. I hope to have had the next session done by the end of this week, and I will be playing it by ear.

Total time today: 1.5 hours

13/2/15 editing session

More progress being made: we broke up the bridge scene with flash-forwards of the next scene. This gives the impression that our actor is thinking about what she is going to do. The shots are obscure, sun-drenched and dreamy, keeping the viewers waiting to find out what they are.

Furthermore, we added a few nature shots before the hoop scene so as to act as a reminder that the significant theme is the natural world. Again, it helps to break up the action and focus on the actor.

Lastly, my client agreed that the video is lacking in some places where the nature theme comes in, so I have decided to do another shoot when I can. The things I need to shoot better footage for are:

• Ripples in water, in river
• The sunsetting
• More plants/foliage closer up

Total hours: 2.5 hours

10/2/15 editing session

First, I had been on my way home and found a tree full of birds, so I rushed out with my camera to film them. This is my 5th shoot for the video. I am very glad I obtained this extra footage, as it has been blended into the video nicely; for example the shot where our actor jumps from the gate fades into the shot of the birds.

During editing with my client, we reached the next 'scene' of the music video, where our actor begins to hoop. This means we spent most of our time selecting, ordering and analysing our choice of shots in the 'gate/bridge' scene. This was initially difficult because we were questioning the significance of the bridge and deciding whether or not to keep the gate scene, since it was extended.

We got round these problems by: varying the shots in the gate scene, by reversing, extending, zooming into and rearranging shots (from my rough cut). The bridge scene was kept because its significance arose when connecting the last of the gate footage with a shot of the flying birds I had obtained just a few hours previous to our editing session. This is because her journey over the bridge mirrors the ascent of the birds; myself and client agreed that it symbolises the actors path to freedom (which she finds in hooping).

Time spent: 30 minute shoot + another 2.5 hours editing
Total of 3 hours

Production timetable version 2

This is a timetable of the dates in which I carried out the events for this section of my project.

9th Jan - Planning practice shoot and arranging it 

10th Jan - Researching technical elements of my shoot

13th Jan - Researching and analysing video inspiration

14th Jan - Arranged shoot cancelled due to illness

16th Jan - Preparation for shoot

17th Jan - Shoot cancelled

23rd Jan - Shoot 1 and 2 initial edit

24th Jan - Shoot 3 planning

8th Feb - Shoot 4

10th Feb - Shoot 5

Editing with DJ PLAY

Notes:

• Thinking about how to later edit in foreshadow of hula hooping
• I continued to edit, with DJ PLAY directing/ giving opinions and suggestions
• We have completed one minute of the edit

Time spent today: 2.5 hours editing my blog, making adjustments and comparing to mark scheme

                             30 minutes shoot

                              1.5 hours working on edit with client

Total of 4.5 hours

Saturday session - shoot 4

I went back to production in order to obtain extra sky shots to inject into the video where need be. I think they may be necessary in slow parts where there is not enough footage.

The sunset creates a silhouette against the harsh pink colour to the sky in contrast to the footage taken on the main shoot. Currently, it does not convey the cold mood of the video (even if it was cold when shooting it!), however it can be adapted in continued post-production, colour correction.

Here are stills of each of the main shots I took today.

Time spent on shoot: 30 minutes