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Improvements - 
Show off more skills with SFX and lip-syncing 
more dramatic change from bear to baby

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This has been the route of so much stress and worry but I'm fairly proud of it (even if the more I watch it the more I find faults. I'm a bit self critical. Oops.).

As a final adjustment (hopefully) for my video I want to do some colour correction to help improve the aesthetic of the video and help make it look more professional. However, this is not an area I'm particularly confident in therefore I have turned to the help of youtube for a tutorial and this is the one I found. 



I made multiple attempts with this and unfortunately it did not look right and made my video WAY too over saturated. Instead I played around with various set effects on Premiere pro and found one that works. 

The second draft of my music video ladies and gentlemen!

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After this draft I received some feedback from a peer with some ideas and alterations I could include which I found quite valuable.

I really like it Josie, it actually made me feel a lot of sympathy for her and has a real emotional punch to it. So in that sense, mission accomplished. 

1. Perhaps start with a white screen and blur in the baby clothes
2. I think there should be some quick pacing (perhaps double time to the beat) to signify how quickly her life has changed
3. Brief bit of Face time footage from someone else’s phone with you showing him/her off?
4. Come of the shots are a little blurry Shot a little blurry 
5. With the beat changes perhaps some quick cutaways (you happy, gig tickets being replaced by pics of you and bear etc)
6. Cutaways of scrolling through Facebook events that she can’t go to followed by quick cutaway of your eyes looking sad and that, eyeline match from you to ‘teddy’
7. Need to look more knackered towards the end, could use a filter for this. 
8. Shot of empty bed. Perhaps again, quick cutaway of you exhausted trying to catch 5-10 mins nap.
9. If filming again maybe make the room messier 
10. Before the bin liner shot, perhaps a cutaway of you sat staring at the pile of baby stuff, a bit of a repeat of the shot of you and teddy on the bed earlier on.
11. Last 40 seconds – think we need a few more cutaways of sad looking Josie perhaps near the end a mid shot of you zipping up your coat and leaving the house (OSS of eyeline match and CU of you looking into the distance taking a deep breath and facing your future before the sad baby shot.
12. Other idea was to have you sat head in hands on the sofa perhaps looking blankly into the middle distance or at the camera with a despondent look but film it twice and with the second take move the bear around a lot as if it is crawling and getting everywhere.
13. Picking loads of baby stuff off of the floor
14. Perhaps an over the shoulder shot of you writing a letter to the baby for the future but screwing it up or not being able to finish it.

This is the last section of the video in place obviously there'll still be some tweaking as I want to include shots of the mother without the child but I quite liked this for now. I also received a little bit of feedback from one of my peers:- 

As part of my research for my music video I found this old educational video for teenagers regarding sex before marriage in which  a young Brenda decides to have sex with her partner which results in a pregnancy and her partner leaving her at the command of his mother. As she then cannot look after the child she gives it up for adoption. After watching this video I really want to incorporate it within my music video to help the narration. I want to use it in two areas, the beginning and the end. At the beginning of my music video I want to use clips of Brenda with her partner happy, telling him shes pregnant and being shouted at by his mother edited together with elements of sound bleeding in to the music such as 'slut' from the mother to help give a sense of events before the music video. I'd also like to include the clips of Bertha giving away the child at the end to help clarify the story line of a teenage mother giving away her child.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7899356.stm

The video on the link has refused to work since I found it so this is the video but excuse the heavy 'meme' editing someone has done to it.

 

Ok. Just as my luck would have it, since I started filming I have had to move rooms. This means that I'm going to have to completely re-shoot the footage I got last time as well as continuing to film more. FRUSTRATION. My new room is quite a bit smaller than my old room which unfortunately means it'll be a little more cramped for filming but this smaller room may add to the effect of my video. It may help to portray the sense of isolation and and overwhelm the character feels at being surrounded only by her child, I mean I don't have a child I only have the stack of props in the corner of my room but its already stressing me out. To restarting!

I've finally started filming for my music video today doing a couple of scenes and this is the first outfit I've chosen to use.

Last term was the schools production of Hairspray. After months of rehearsals the cast took to the stage and it was honestly incredible and the songs are still driving me mad.
As a memento of the night Sophie Smart and I offered to film the performances to piece together some of the best bits. Naturally this was a lot of stress (however no where near as stressful, I'm sure, for the cast of production team) we filmed on two out of three nights, the first with one camera as a little test as to what the footage, sound etc would be like and on the second night we used four cameras to try and capture as much as possible. The first night was quite relaxed, as it was more of a test we didn't feel some much pressure. We had the camera set up on a full extended tripod, on top of a table in order for it to reach above the audiences stand and get a full view of the stage. The filming went fairly ok although after a certain amount of time the camera would stop filming so we had to be quick to notice and start it filming again. Our other issue was just before the interval the battery died and unfortunately I have no spares for my camera so we had to try to ensure we were able to film the last half on the second night.  
The second night we had the same set up set up of an over-view camera as well as one on each of the two side stages and one, controlled by me, at the front doing close up shots. This was definitely the most stressful night although we were more prepared. We managed to borrow several charges along with spare batteries to switch over in the interval, we also had an abundance of spare SD cards to switch round. However we still had a few hitches. As i was sat at the front I couldn't get back to Sophie (and Niamh who volunteered to help Sophie check on the three cameras she had) as so had no idea which sections of the musical they were able to capture and which I could relax on. We also had a major problem with on of the side stage cameras which kept cutting out, only recording for five seconds at a time. This was a major issue as I hadn't been as focused on covering the performances on the side stage and so there wasn't a lot of footage from that area. Luckily during the interval we managed to find Mr Welch who helped fix the issue for us to record the second half. 
Editing me and Sophie had to tag team as going through all the footage to pick the best bits was pretty laborious but hey. Here's the result and I hope you like it. 

This is my plan for the filming equipment I'll need for which aspects of my work.

Music video
- For filming the music video I'll be using my Canon EOS 1200D with my EF-S18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 III lens
 Mostly I'll be sticking to a standard tripod to stabilize my shots but at some points may use a shoulder mount as I quite like the handheld effect on some shots however worry it'll will make may shots look too shaky.
 I'll be using natural lighting for the majority of my shots as I think this helpsgive a cleanerappearence to the image rather than a yellowed hue that comes with most bulb lighting. 

Photoshoot
For the photos for the CD cover and website I'll be using my Canon EOS 1200D again and possibly a mix between 3 lenses EF-S18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 III, EF75-300mm f/4-5.6 or the EF 50 mm f/1.8 STM depending on the style photos I want E.g Close ups, portraits etc.
 I'll most likely be using a tripod if I'm in the shot but if not,I'll hold the camera.
 Again I'll be sticking to natural lighting.