Weekly Updates

Week 1

We planned our locations and we were working on our pre-production work. We had alot of suggestions for where we are to film and also had different song selections. We all settled on the "Sun is Up" by Inna at the end.

Week 2

We started to work on the cast and crew. We decided that Ashley and Daniel were the cameramans and that myself and Syed yake over the editing. We asked Ashley's dance teacher to be in our video, therefore we went to see her, toask if she was able to feature i nthe video.

Week 3

The dancer teacher couldn't feature in our music video, therefore we were on the search for another female, who had the same timetable as us- so that they can film with us. We asked some of our friends to be in our music video, but some didn't have time or weren't interested. We however tried our best to convince them, but still they couldn't do it.

Week 4

We finally found someone who could feature in our music video, it was Daniel's sister, Kim, we had to convince her to do this role because she was really shy. After 4 weeks of searching we found a good artisit, and we started to take off filming. We started to film at Lavender fields first, and then planned to film at brighton over the weekend.

Week 5

We went to lavender fields to film all the section from this location. There were very good scenery, we took a lot of good long shots. Kim cooperated very well with us and we got all the shots done in a few goes.

Week 6

We filmed all the Brighton section today, however I couldn't make it due to personal reasons. When I looked at the shots afterwards, they were to a good professional standards, with the low budget we have.

Week 7

We planned to get our London scenes done this week, but due to everyone's busy schedule and deadlines, we couldn't make it.

Week 8

This week we got our London scenes finished, and started on the editing works, we used "Final Cut". We didn't do much editing this week, because we had to get used to this software. However we were playing round and got very good effects.

Week 9

This week we started the editing works with full dedication, we start chopping off unwanted bits, and shortened any shots that were long. There were difficulties, when we had really good shots, but someone get in the way, so therefore we had to scale the shots, and some even though were good we couldn't use it, because even after scaling the shot had disturbance.

Week 10

Some of the shots taken in Lavender fields didn't come out well, therefore we had to go film again in Lavender fields, however I wasn't there in this occasion because I wasn't able to make it.

Week 11

We had all our editing work put in the right order, and now just add effects to it, however we encountered a lot of difficulties trying to shorten bits down, and to get the myhming right.

Week 12

We finished all our editing and the music video is all finished and all it is, the post production work to be done. We need to do our director's commentary and focus group- audience feedback.

Week 13

We finished all our post production work and the entire coursework is finished.