Okay so the edit

Too the mac, editing went well and ive done the first cut of the video and its not too bad,but i felt like i struggled to find some footage for places so i need to adress these isues.but all in all not too bad for a days work and all in time ready for the crit after half term, heres some screen shots of the process using imovie, its a good program for an easy edit, though not the best editing softwear ive used but id still recoment it for its simplicity to those who lke it that way, personally i would have prefered using amuch more nitty gritty program, i like things to get complicatd.







and heres my first cut, i warn its abit out of sync, thats due to youtube, i can assure you that it was in sync before it was up loaded

And he takes off

okay so editings been a bit iffy, first the mac we were working on crashed multiple time and lost some of what we cut up resulting in having to re edit. i then decided that i would like to make my own cut of this song as kirsty and i have our artistic differences and i feel i can knuckle down and get something knocked out ill be proud of. as there isnt enough mac in the school ii decided to use my sisters and edit at home, though this means i wont be able to use final cut pro and have to use the Imovie version on her mac but im sure itll still produce a decent video. ill let you know how it goes.

The third time?

i feel quiet bad as again i couldnt attend this film shoot as i had other engagements, but that did not stop Kirsty, herself and Martyn headed out into the cold snowy weather and shot some more ofthe video including the ending so ood work to those two, next up is the editing, well see how that gooes and ill et you know.

The next one

Off to Dartford it was to have our second atempt at filming our opening scene, scene as this was a different day we had planned to head up to barmondo and shoot it there as we orginally planned, but when we got the it was shut for staff holiday, very irritating. with our current plans in tatters we decided to regroup in Mc ds and decide what was to happen, we were worried about going back to the Old Corthouse because we didnt want to end up with poorly light footage again, so we considered some of the other pubs in the local area such as the Bull and Vic butt these were all far darker the Old Corthouse so we decided just to see what we could get from there instead. before we dont anything i took a couple of test shots for lighting and all was okay so ahead went out filming. it was a successful day of filming and we got the footage we needed so off home it was for me.

The first Shoot

Right so for the first shoot Kirsty went with martyn up to the Old Corthouse in Dartford to shoot the begining of the video, i was unable to attend as i had prior engagements on this day. We were originally going to shoot in Barmondo in dartford but were unable to as there was and event occuring on the same day we wanted to film. i believe Kirsty and martyn had a good time filming and produced some nice shots, unfortunatly the lighting was not of the best quality rendering the footage unusable so we've had to organise another shoot to get this done.

The idea

Okay so the idea behind this video is that its the bands one off acoustic track, this is why it would not seem to be the typical song our band would release. many bands of this genera do a similar thing for example, the band All Time Low wrote an acoustic song called Remembering Sunday which is not their usua sound.


Our video is going to start with the performer in a pub, he starts playing the song, after a few seconds he gets up, whilst singing, and walks over to his girlfriend and serenades her of sorts. He then gets called away by his friends and abandons her, after getting some shots of an upset girlfriend we have her leave and it cuts to the performer playing in a room. then we see more shots of the couple having relationship problems aswell as some performace shots and we finish with the performer giving her a present before leaving and then a fade to black.

Change of plan

Okay so its close to christmas and we havent started to film, so i was thinking that out current idea won't be visable to do as its hard to find a house where we could film it so, i preposed the idea to Kirsty that we choose another song and go from there. i suggested that we do an acoustic song as i feel with the locations we could get would suit an acoustic more. Also i tend to prefer the acoustic tracks over most and i like the idea of keeping the video simple like the song as acoustics tend to just be played using an acoustic guitar.
So having decided to change our song we then had to choose what one to do, i suggested 'swing life away' by Rise against but Kirsty felt that she wouldnt be able to work on a song that she didnt like, which i agreed with and then kirsty came up with a few options and we finally went with 'The Girl' by City and Colour.
Well i dont it with the other idea ill do it with this one, here is the song that i suggested to do, rise against swing life away, i like this video because its pretty simple and doesnt try to do too much and its a good video in my eyes



This next ones by green day and posibly one of my favourite, Good riddance/time of your life. i love this video and this insipred me as i want to shoot the performance part of the video slightly like this, with the guitaristt sitting in a plain, dark room/bedroom as i feel these shot are effective within the acoustic conventions


Green Day - Time Of Your Life (Music Video)
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This is also what i would like to do in our video, having the performer play in a dark room, i just think this really works for most acoustic songs.

NEWTON FAULKNER - Dream Catch Me on MUZU

And last but not least, heres the song that our video will be going too