The Church

Today we are going to film in the church. We've had a bit of a problem with the church and finding one  that would be useable. After asking 3 different churches we found one that give us permission if we had a letter off the school or teacher. We will have our student cards incase they need to get our ID and proof that we are students. 
The location is St Andrews church that is located Clubmoor.

Day 2 and 3 pictures

Second and third day of shooting

Over the past two days we were filming some long and short clips for our music video. We done the filming in Everton park. The location changed from Newsham Park to Everton Park when we seen the views and wildlife in Everton Park. Also the hills and the pathways also caught our eye because we knew they would suit some of our camera shots and movements. 

On the first day the weather was very cold but it stayed dry. This was a good thing because we knew Connor needed yo film some scenes on the floor and it wouldn't have been as good on a wet floor because he could ply have done so many shots before being soaked through. We only needed Connor in front of the camera on the first day.

 Connors girlfriend come with us on this day to do Connors make-up. We needed him to look beat up so the make-up included blood and bruising. I thought she done extremely well to make it look so realistic. As the camera man I thought I done very well because not only did I get the shots on the shooting script but I managed to get in some of the wonderful views in the background. Like the first day of shooting Michael was very organised and knew where he wanted to shoot Connor all the way through.

On the second day we didn't need any make-up so we didn't need Connors girlfriend to be there. We went to the same location because we needed more shots. We needed to film Connor being beat up by me and 2 other of our mates (Paul and Adam). These two people were very helpful and done a very good job and followed all Michaels instructions very well. I had to take on a new role as an actor. This was new to me but I thought I done well in playing the role of the gang leader. Michael needed to take on two rolled so he was the director and the camera man. I also thought I helped him out with the directing because I tired to put the other actors in a certain spot that wouldn't show us not really hitting Connor. The weather was more wet than the first day so I don't know if this will show on the music video. If it does it is a bit of a let down. 

Our first shooting day analysis

I think the first day shooting our music video went very well. I think we worked very well as a team and we all stuck to our roles that we were supposed to do. Connor done very well in front of the camera. His acting and lip syncing was very good and at some points we didn't even need to play the song because he knew the song and lyrics very well.

Michael was the producer. He was telling what shots I should get of him and what shots would look the best in a music video. I believe Michael knew what he was talking about because he done a lot of research on A2 media music videos before we started out shooting.

I think i done very well doing the shooting. At some points the camera was a little shaky but we have a software that can fix that. I tried to get as much footage as possible because the more footage I got the more footage we have to work with when we come to edit the video.   

First day of shooting pictures

Album covers we can relate to

These are 4 very well known album cover. Some recent and some older. These album covers are Jay Z and Kanye West "Watch The Throne", Lady Gaga "Born This Way", Justin Bieber "Believe" and Michael Jackson "Bad". 
From looking at these album covers the first thing I can see for three of them is that they are simple. I can see that there is obviously Photoshop work on them but we can easily come up with something like this. The "Watch the throne" album cover is a lot more detailed and more complicated. All the colours suit the artist on the front of the album cover. This is the main thing we need to focus on because this is what gives the cover meaning.

Our shooting equipment

This is our first piece of shooting equipment. This is a standard Hitachi video camera that we are lending from the school. Here is some information on what the camera can do and some of its features.

• 23 x Optical Zoom
• 120 x Digital Zoom
• 3in LCD Screen
• Full HD 1080p Recording

Accepts SD, SDHC and SDXC memory card formats




This is the Apple iphone 5c. Michael and Connor both have this phone and will both be using it to take some different kind of shots while we are filming so we can choose which shot is the best to use. Here is some information about the camera on this iphone...

• 1080p HD video recording (30 fps)
• LED flash
• Time-lapse video
• Video stabilisation
• Take still photos while recording videoFace detection
• 3x zoom
• Video geotagging