Progress Report - 31st October

We uploaded all of the footage that was taken during the half term into Final Cut Express. This allowed us to use the clips which we needed in order to match the song and attain a fluent movement from one clip to another. We experimented with the colours by decreasing the saturation to make the clips black and white in order to make them more appealing toward the audience, as well as, increasing the colours and contrast to make them stand out.

Progress Report - 29th October

We took photos today in order to get images for our Digi-Pak and our Digi-Pak advertisement. We decided to take individual headshots rather than a group shot of the band in order to make the audience feel as though it was done personally for them to make them feel as they know the Tommy, Jack, Simon and Harvey for who they are.

Progress Report - 25th October

We went to the park in order to film some more of the Tommy and the me together, as a couple, arguing and breaking up. We managed to get some good footage of a 360 degree shot around Tommy singing with a slow zoom out away from him.

We also got some of me and Tommy arguing to let the audience know that things aren't going well between the two of us.

We also had Tommy walking down a path on his own in order to show that he is now alone and trying to get over what had happened.


For the last bit of our filming, we shot a scene of me and Tommy holding hands slowly walking away from each other which shows that Tommy couldn't be with someone who had been cheating. All of the shots were filmed handheld.

Progress Report - 19th October

Today we used Final Cut Express in order to make our animation, which none of us had ever used before in order to do an animation. At first we found it very difficult in order to make the different points of the animation flow, as the limbs kept going in a different place to where we intended them to be. Each limb had to be moved one by one to the centre of the frame in order to create the trail of movement that we wanted. We think that this will look well in our music video as it is a new programme that we have used and we haven't seen it done in previous work.

We found the animation to be a very time consuming thing as whenever we made a part of the animation we were happy with, it had to be rendered every time. This could have taken up to half an hour.

Progress Report - 17th October

The group started on the preparations in order to make the animation. First off, we drew out the characters and scenery and colour them in. We then had to scan them in, in order to cut them out and make individual objects on Photoshop to insert them into Final Cut Express.

Progress Report - 12th October

Today we went to London Victoria in order to get more shots of the lead singer looking distraught and lonely, and also getting some of the singer and the actress together in order to show this as a memory of his in the music video. We did a panning shot of the station to use as an opening sequence in our music video.

A 360 degree shot of Tommy was then filmed in order to make it seem as though the world around him is spinning.
We also filmed an establishing shot of the main actress with both of the two boys, the boyfriend and the lover.


From London, we then made our way to Camden in order to get more of the storyline filmed and some of the lead singer, singing. We filmed the majority of our Camden shots, at Camden Locks by the river. Here, we were able to get the lead singer and the main actress walking as a couple by the river, as well as having her do the same with the person she was cheating with. We were going to use the two clips as a flashback of the lead singer remembering what was, and what is.


We then moved onto the other side of Camden Locks as it wasn't as busy. in this area we managed to get a shot of Tommy walking up the pathway singing, unfortunately we were only able to get one good shot from this as people kept tripping over us.


At the other end of the pathway, we filmed under the bridge where we were able to get some nice shots as their were some water reflections on Tommy.

Progress Report - 10th October

In todays session, we filmed at Mike's house in order to get footage of our main actress cheating on the lead singer with another person in bed. For this, we thought that it would be a good idea to have the lead singer, singing in the corner of the room, panning down to the cheating girl. We thought this because it makes it looks as though he has just been pushed to one side like nobody cares. In this, we also experimented with lighting, focusing on the couple in bed, leaving the lead singer in a shadowed point to give the impression of him being left in the dark about what's happening.

Progress Report - 5th October

We uploaded the footage that was filmed at Jazmine's house in order to edit and cut the clips to use in our music video. We inserted the Fireworks song in order to sync the clips with the song.

Progress Report - 3rd October

Today we used Jazmine's house in order to film the couple in bed together. We mainly used panning shots going up and across the bed and close ups to highlight the couples intimacy. We experimented with lighting in order to keep focus on the two, as well as using the light as a symbolisation of their love. By dimming the light we were able to connote the love is fading.