Understanding Editing Software

From this we acquired more knowledge about the editing software we would use - Final Cut Express, and expanded our understanding from the limited knowledge we had from our preliminary task.

13th of December 2011

The band shot for our music video were in the main hall (with stage) at our school, Epsom and Ewell high school. It took us a duration of 4 and a half hours to complete the filming and we played the song with our band several times. 

We used the Sony HRV HD1000E for the majority of the filming, whilst some other SLR camera's to film obscure shots. 

Overall, the band shots today were a success and we got all the content we felt necessary. 

Some shots of the band shots we got:

High angle/birds eye shot using Pentax K-x hanging from rafters

shot with Sony HRV HD 1000E

Open letter to You Me At Six

To make sure that our video is not infringing the rights of the band we have drafted a letter to send to them, asking for permission to use their song. Here it is:

"Dear You Me At Six

I am writing to you on behalf of my school (Epsom and Ewell high school) to ask for permission to use your song “Stay With Me” in my 6^th form media class’ media coursework.

I’m an A level student studying media and as part of our coursework for the course, we have to create a music video, CD cover and advert to promote a single. Our group decided on your song and as such we are writing to you to ask for permission to use your song. We understand that under the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 we do not have to ask for permission as this is for educational and non-profit purposes, however out of courtesy we would still like to extend to you this letter asking for express written permission.

Thank you for taking the time to read this, and we hope to hear from you soon,

Yours sincerely,

Tom Burlinson, Sophie Griffin, Pryank Patel and Shanice Farley"

Mood Board

We used the mood board to visually show the styles we were aiming for with the mise en scene of the music video, there is a strong association with youth culture.

Videos That Influenced Our Product

From this we found certain elements of a stereotypical rock music video that we liked and want to emulate, even though we have seen some conventions in previous research, we still thought it was necessary to look up other music videos to look at that we already like, to find ideas that we think would work with out video.

Props, Costume, Cast and Location

Props on Prezi

and here is a wordle of all the equipment we used:

Here is a video explaining the locations we are using:

Cast list:

Singer: Dan Anstiss

Bassist: Stephen Airey

Guitarist: Tom Daglish

Drummer: Matt Oates

Girl: Molly McCambridge

Boy 1: Ollie Maidment

Boy 2: Jay Singh

Filming and Editing schedule

Here is a plan for our filming and editing schedule, showing holidays as well. Most editing will take place from 3-6pm and filming will be done after school or during free lessons on planned days.


Key
Red = School holidays
Green = Filming
Blue = Editing

This is a plan of our filming and editing schedule, which we will use to help co-ordinate amongst the group and try to keep us all on track to have the work finished on time.