YAY

Our music video, album cover, and website are all FINISHED and now am working on the evaluation.

Have shown people the video and got comments like "i could really believe that this was professional" - 17 year old boy. and "ooooh" from others. which is positive! We're going to organise a formal screening tomorrow to our target audience to try and get some detailed feedback, hopefully some constructive stuff.

Video is on youtube, got 330 views so far, only been up for 5 days!

reflections on album cover shoot

We had originally planned to have two-shots of us in the locket (referencing the music video), but once we had put it into the layout, we realised it didn't quite work. But i thought I'd post the photos we were going to use as they're quite nice :)

Photoshoot for album cover and myspace

We did our photoshoot today, went well, got lots of pics, and yeah, happy with that :)

Editing

At the moment we're focusing on editing our video, and making our album cover and myspace, so haven't been blogging as much. There's some feedback on the blog about how the editing is going.

Second shoot

Here are some behind the scenes pictures from our second shoot. Since we only needed a few shots, the shoot wasn't very long, which was good.

Reflection on shoot

So our second shoot was on 11/11, and for some reason there was not much motivation. I think because it was the end of the day, dark and cold and rainy outside, and we all just weren't feeling great. Nevertheless, we powered through and managed to film all the footage we needed. The shoot wasn't our best, but it was OK. And the location looked GREAT (such a comfy bed too). I look forward to seeing the shots, hopefully we'll have a really strong beginning and end to our video (and middle of course...)

Reflection on the shoot

I think our shoot went really well. We had made a shooting schedule, and managed to be ahead of it by about an hour and a half, so we had time at the end to experiment with different camera angles and movements. We got all the shots we wanted, and met Gok Wan, fashion guru, which was cool.

I took with my digital camera (new birthday present) so we got 100s of behind the scenes photos. We still need to shoot the beginning and end parts, which will take place in Holly's Mum's bedroom, but apart from that, I don't think we need to re-shoot anything, since we got over 2 hours of footage, and it looks pretty good.

We met GOK WAN!

During our shoot, at Holborn Studios, we saw Gok Wan, who was filming "How To Look Good Naked" for Maverick TV. I decided to say hi, and managed to get him to have his photo taken with us! He was really nice, he told me he went to Central School for Speech and Drama and was very chatty. Just a little highlight from our long day of filming :)

Shoot!

So our shoot is tomorrow. We've organised all the props we need, I think we're all taking little suitcases on wheels! I've even got a folder, with our call sheets, maps on how to get there, and schedule plus all other paperwork. We've got a lot to do, so hopefully we get it all done!

WORKSHOP

I'm really excited as in a few days we will be making a class music video replica of the video to "Teenage Dirtbag" by Wheatus. It should be really fun, and also helpful, giving us an introduction into making music videos.

Plus, I LOVE the song! Used to listen to it back in the early 2000s... good times...