Company May Be Bad, But The News Is Good!

Have just received a message from Phil Peel of confirmation on the music video shoot for ‘Bad Company’. I’m sure I mentioned this a couple weeks back, but its only until now there has been progression. This is brilliant news as I’m still slightly lacking some Professional Project hours, so if this can help in the slightest thats great! I will spend as long as I can on my final evaluation write up, then as usual, I will be doing some research into the band!

Summary

The main piece for this Professional Project unit finally came underway This is of course the music video shoot for the ‘Wooden Pigs’ song ‘Light of Day’. The project was postponed after big troubles with booking out a location for filming. Everyone had got on with side projects till then, but we had finally booked ourselves out one of the studios in the university. Once we arrived and took in the place, we knew this wouldn’t be good enough for our video. The space was too narrow, plus there were minimal props available to create personality of anything.

Once the band arrived, we discussed the matter with them and luckily enough they were having a band practice at Josh’s place that evening. This gave us the chance to head to his and film it there. We went for a casual looking music video, with tem laid out across the couches, and performing in the garden too. My job was to keep to the perimeter of the work area and capture everything on my DV camera. I could then take this into a composition and create a featurette to partner with the final video.

The first week of editing went rather smoothly, I planned to finish everything off by the weekend to continue with other parts for the project. Yet an absolute disaster took place on Friday morning, where my hard drive corrupted and wiped the content. Without a fire wire port to use, there was no way of me importing the footage again and having to compose what I had just done over the last week in time.

Luckily my dad saved me from the matter and brought me back home to work on the featurette there solidly. I have learned to back up files much more frequently than I do, as they say “you don’t know until it happens to you”. I stand by this saying now, as the process was a disaster when everyone got lost.

Overall thought the project was fun working on, and I have learned some life long lessons about post production, and some more skills and developments on organisation, and production.

Final Version

I’m now sitting at my dining room table for the last time to work on this, as it’s back to Bournemouth on the train at midday. I’m going to do one last through check with the content before i export it as a file to my desktop. Then I have to buy my ticket and get my bits together for the journey!

Fetch the Popcorn!

At midnight, me and my parents had a screening of what I’ve made so far. I burnt the DVD using Adobe Encore, which I learnt from the Dracula sessions. As mum and dad watched for the narrative, I had my pen and pad in front of me to make any notes (as you can see in picture two). Watching it on the television in full glory made me feel proud of what i have achieved in the last couple of weeks. It had been real tough for me, but I think I have a chance again to make things right. Anyway I’m off to bed, early morning yet again on its way!

Budget

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