Roughcut Export

We've exported a rough cut of what we have so far and posted it onto youtube, asking people to comment on it. This will be useful as audience research and hopefully we will get some positive and constructive comments.

Editing Sessions

We've done about a minute worth of editing now, it's going quite well but it just takes so long. Because the song is so faced paced and lively we've got just ridiculous amounts of shots in very short periods of time. We found some cool effects that we can use though like earthquake and image mask. The image mask effect makes all the studio shots go darker and just look awesome!

Capture and Log sheets

We've just spent a few hours in the editing suite just capturing and logging all our shots into Final Cut Pro. It was a very long and boring process but at least we can start putting together the video now!

Narrative Shoot

We've just finished shooting the narrative parts of the video. It went fairly well although the natural light dropped quite quickly and as we were shooting in a park we had no way of plugging in any lights. We managed to pick locations that were fairly well lit by street lamps though so hopefully we managed to record some usable footage.

Images From Shootings

Emam and Stephen working with Leigh (Lead Singer)














Emam with Leigh and Charles setting up kit (A friend who helped out)

The Panasonic Camera on the Manfrotto tripod, all set up and good to go

Stephen and Charles getting ready to rock out!

Emam struggling with the camera =P

Garden Shoot

We've finished another batch of filming, this time in Emam's friends garden. It was a really good location, very dark and lots of tree's and bushes. It looked really creepy. It was harder this time as we couldn't make much noise and it was outside. This meant lighting and the weather all had to be considered. We managed to light the garden up enough to see everyone clearly though so it wasn't too bad. We also hired a strobe light which was insane. We only managed to do two full takes of the song though as the band were getting quite sick after 10 minutes of playing with a 1000w strobe light flashing at them! The takes looked really good though and will definitely be used in the final video.

First Shoot

We've just finished our first film shoot, we filmed the band playing in the studio for about 4 hours and managed to recorded just over an hour of footage. It was all very exciting seeing the band play and getting some cool shots, even if we were having our ears battered by the P.A. system. We filmed three whole takes of the band together, three of each band member and two hand held takes. We really liked the hand held ones as there are some really interesting bits in them. After a long day in a hot, loud and cramped room it's good to see some real progress towards our music video.