Sunday 27th January 2013

Julius and I went to Millwall Park/Mudchute Farm again, where we did the performance filming to do two more shots of Julius singing as we thought we needed more close up and long shots of him. The long shot is for the end of the video to show that he's lonely without his girlfriend and we needed more close ups of him singing so the audience can engage more with him and feel his emotions. We also took more pictures for our digipak and advert so we have a range of photos to choose from. Later on we told Agata to come so we can film the train station scene and Julius running. I found it quite fun filming this as it was really funny but it was so awkward because people were looking out of their home windows and at the train station people inside the train were staring at us. We did have some trouble with the train station filming as we needed to wait over seven minutes for each train to go past so we needed to do it right the first time round instead of waiting for each train to go past. Another problem was when I was filming the train going past; you can see my reflection on the window so I had to bend down behind the Metro newspaper stand so I was invisible. It did kind of work as you couldn’t see me as much but if you focus and look closely you can slightly see me but there wasn’t any way to overcome this. People were also looking weirdly at me as I did look like a freaky stalker. Julius said he heard people saying ‘what is she doing’ and moving their heads to see what I was doing. The last problem we had was our biggest issue as there was a tanoid for us at the train station to stop filming and leave if we didn’t have permission and we had one more shot to film. We didn’t know we needed permission to film there so we didn’t know what to do but Julius and Agata went looking for a worker to explain what we were doing but they didn’t find anyone so we thought of just leaving as it was a little shot and it wasn’t that important.   

Self-Evaluation

This is a self-evaluation that I did on my planning and research. I have made bullet points of things that I think I have done well and things I need to improve on. I used the mark scheme to guide me through what I need to have done to achieve particular grades, I graded myself a C+ because it’s on level 3 however, I haven’t met many criteria’s on level 3.

SIMS Target Grade	B
Grade I award myself	R&P: Level 3/13  C+                               Prod:
What I have done to achieve this grade	Research: ·         I have researched the genre, audience and props well
	Planning: ·         Me and Julius have thought about the costume and props and hopefully it shows that we did consider the star image in our work ·         I have kept an updated diary of all the filming we have done
	Production:
How I can improve	Research: ·         Check my spellings ·         Include more images to support my ideas especially the essays ·         Edit my Justin Bieber essay ·         Do another advert analysis ·         Do another digipak analysis
	Planning ·         Update location and filming schedule – we didn’t film in the cable carts at the end because of the timing and cost ·         Write a little paragraph for each post ·         Put all my work in order ·         Write some of my work in more detail ·         Include actor profile of Julius ·         Add more images of location ·         Possibly update my animatic storyboard including what my market research have said ·         With the results of what my target market have said, make a post of what I have learnt and what I’m going to do next ·         Upload mine and Julius practice shoot ·         Upload mine and Julius first cut of our music video
	Production:

Re-Shooting

I and Julius decided we have to re shoot the scene in his house and when he runs after Agata as the footage that we took with the Sony HD camera came out blurry and pixilated. We used the Nikon SLR as the quality is much better and clearer. We did have an issue with the Nikon SLR as some of the shot we took came out blurry on it too and we didn’t know how to make it focus. You can see the difference between the different shots that the Nikon camera footage is clearer.

Organising Folders And Rushes

We had to upload our work onto iMovie then convert it to Final Cut to do the editing and adding the transitions. As there was loads of footage we had to organise our shots into different folders so it’s easier to find specific footage as it’s more organised. We created three ‘Bins’ a ‘used’ one, ‘maybe’ and ‘deleted’ so it makes the whole process a lot more faster and easier when it comes to editing but we did have to view all the footage first. After viewing all the footage and putting them in folders I named most of the clips to make it easier and simple to find the exact clip. Some of them were the same thing that’s why I had to name them with numbers after, for example ‘paint’ and ‘paint 1’.

Sunday 20th January 2013

Julius had a last minute idea of doing filming on this day as both he and Agata were free. He didn’t really tell me to go because he knew I had to revise as I had an exam the next day and it wouldn’t have been a problem for him if I didn’t go as it was filming of just Agata.  The day after Julius and Agata filmed he updated me on what happened, he said it went really well and didn’t take much time as it was a quick scene and there was a post box right next to Canary Wharf so they didn’t have to walk round looking for one. However the only problem they had was it was very windy on that day and Julius forgot to take the tripod so some of the filming was a bit shaky and not steady but you can’t really notice and.

Thursday 15th January 2013

Julius and I went to his house to re shoot the letter scene again because some of the shots we did was blurry with the Sony HD camera so this time we used the Nikon SLR. Also, we didn’t have time to do the running down the stair shots last time. It was so much clearer but one of the issues we had was that we didn’t know how to use the camera properly and some of the shots wasn’t focused clearly but it does look better than the footage with the Sony HD camera.

Monday 7th January 2013

Me, Julius and Agata went to Canary Wharf to film the date scene after School. I thought it went really well apart from at the beginning the footage was pixilated and you couldn’t seen Julius and Agatas face clearly but after the camera got better at focusing in the dark.