Taylor Swift - Mine

I found this video on YouTube, the storyline reminds me of our own storyline, with the memories and fight. In the memories they used different lighting and colouring, which might be useful to us.

This Weekend

Hopefully both Steven and Emma will be free to do some filming this weekend as recently they have been unavailable and we have a target to have for filming complete before Christmas so we can start on editing and work on our theme and artwork next term.

What shots/retakes still need to be done:
    - Emma walking down the street distressed (we want to have words coming out behind her as she walks away, this will be accomplished through editing)
    - Steven lifting up/setting down the photo of him and Emma
    - Light graffiti (which can only be used if we have the right device)
    - the camera evolving round Emma (she is upset and possibly in tears)

Filming

Yesterday we went to Lady Dixon to get more shots of Emmet singing at different locations in the park and at different points of view. This included a close-up of his face, tapping his foot, sitting on the bench, walking past the camera and leaning against the tree. We just filmed him singing different parts of the song. We made sure that the lip sync is better this time by using portable speakers and an iPod and then played it along while he sung. Unfortunately there was no snow so we have to see if it still works with previous shots we have had in the snow.

We also got some shots of the landscape. Most of them include quick shots of rays of sunlight shinning through branches in trees and some focus pulls. These will be useful for "setting the scene" and making the video look more consistent instead of jumping to all different locations.

Location shots - Sunday 5th December

- Cara

Filming on Sunday

Yesterday, myself and our Howie Day (Emmet Cummings) went to Lady Dixon park to film the beginning of our video, some other shots of him singing certain lines and landscape shots that we can weave into our video for transitions and generally to keep it interesting. The weather was beautiful with the sun getting ready to set and untouched snow covering everything. I've uploaded the footage to iMovie just to take a look at it and as a group we're going to decide what shots to use. So far it's looking really good and fits well with the song. Soon we'll start to upload it into Final Cut Pro to edit it and get it looking more professional. :)

- Cara

Plans for this weekend

Hey, we are going to film this weekend.

This time we have discovered a new effect we can use with the cameras called 'Light Graffiti.'

Light Graffiti is an art that blends with light painting skills. This method can only be ... by using an application called Adobe Photoshop. Excess and drew graffiti art dalah light makes the picture look more ... art and expression uses the movement of light to create incredible images and is created ... traditional media.

- that's a meaning I researched on the internet from a photography site. I shall post a few more up to show you guys what

sort of thing we are looking for. At the minute the photographs are coming up too

large on the blogger.

More than likely a glitch.

We're using an iPod light in one of the interview rooms to check out which

way we need to approach this effect. We found this video on the internet showing us how it's done, this is how we got the idea. It's basically a slow shutter effect on the camera which lets in more light for longer and somehow in this, picks up the lights as we draw it.

Hopefully the trial turns out ok (:

We're filming in ladydixon this weekend under 'our tree' which lost all of it's leaves D:

So we're taking a few shots of the guy with the guitar and also emma and stephen perhaps lying on a hill looking up at the sky, which we plan to use light graffiti on to draw stars in the sky and a few other things through the video (:

Updates soon (: x

More Ideas

We like the idea of this and would like to add it to our video where Emma and Steven are dancing around with the lights. Obviously it wouldn't be as elaborate as this but I am currently researching on how it is done. I think it would work well after the scenes that we shoot at the weekend at the continental market as it is quite dark and it would be best to do this outside. Planning on only doing a small shot of it as well.

This is the info I got when I searched online:

It doesn’t always have to be exhaustive and frankly-in-need-of-editing yammering about tone, technique and speakers, does it? Sometimes, especially at Christmas, the twinkly season, it could just be some pretty lights. Such as those seen here, where I light-painted, light-doodled or, as X-Factor sponsors Talk Talk would have it, “bright danced” my way around my guitar and amp.

The technique involves setting a digital camera to a long exposure, turning out the lights, triggering the shutter, then darting around the room with a light of some kind, “painting” in the air where you want bright lines to appear. Mini Maglites work well, as do the little LED keychains used here. I also recommend a tripod, some patience, and keen night vision.