Although we faced a problem the Dance Studio which we indented to use initially was being used for exams on the Northwood Campus, thankfully there was a drama studio we could use at the Foxley Campus this similarly had dark curtains which could be drawn around the room to give the black background affect which we first planned of.
The room lead to our advantage as there was four podiums making up a stage in there which we though could be useful and look more professional if we separated them and staggered them to give the impression of separate podiums for us each to stand on. We had a few practise runs as it was slightly different to how we planned with the small stages in place we had to account for getting of those within the small set routine of the poses ( which we felt were very stereotypical of a girl band which was the genre we aimed to conform to! ) and also a slow walk of the stages to wards the camera in typical girl band style. It surprisingly took us about two hours just to get that tiny pieced of filming, which we hadn't planned for because we had to keep doing retakes as we saw on the first scene some of us were out of time and not in the cameras view as much as the rest, we sorted this issue by moving the camera and actors further apart. Also for lighting we turned of the lights within the drama studio and brought of six really large strong light lamps and pointed it on the scene and put two in the background, we found that we had to put the bulbs in these two pointing outwards as it was washing us out because of the contrast settings on the camera and the power of the bulbs. Also black blankets were used to cover the smart board in the background which didn't have a black curtain covering it like the rest of the room, the setting wasn't perfect but after alot of thought and moving things around we managed to get it all to work and to the standard of which we first intended.
After we finished recording we took it back to our class room and we uploaded the footage we had recorded on to the Apple Mac computers and on to iMovie, we though this was best to to our editing with because after researching and using trail versions of other editing soft wear such as Studio 14 and Adobe Premier we realised that iMovie suited what we were aiming to gain best, and after having used it previously in our AS Unit I felt I had more experience within this programme then starting fresh on a new one and not having a clue where to start :).
As originally planned we wanted lots of flashing colours and slow motion for the start section (20 seconds or so) of the video. Also the saturation is edited and a grainy effect
was added to the video for the start as it made it look more rustic and as the quality on the camera wasn't perfect we though it would be better to go in the total opposite direction and have the first scene more grainy and rugged effect, also iMovie enabled us to slow down the clips so the walking was more to the beat and slow motion affect.
Also when we are 'posing' in our positions when we first go to change we added a jumping affect so we moved quite a few times, which I felt looked quite professional :-D
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