Second day of shooting

Today we were a bit pressed for time, Jazmin had to be back at school, but in the 40 minutes we had we got a good 20 minutes footage. We're planning on capturing as much as we can tomorrow before our next shoot tomorrow night.
We had better lighting today which cast far less shadows so hopefully the footage will be better than yesterday's.

BLK feedback

nice work emma, I have left you some feedback on the main blog as well.

thanks for your help today!

First day of shooting

Today we had our first shoot and it wasn't too bad after the lighting/camera issues. We got some good footage but we do need to get a lot more shots of Jazmin moving, being more animated and CUs. We're shooting again tomorrow so hopefully we can get all the stuff we need then.

We also began to edit the performance bed (as Jake Wyn said to do) tonight and seem to have quite a lot of snippets we like from today, but as I said we still need a lot more

Test shoot weekend

This weekend Angelie & I used Sunday to decorate the room we're gonna use in my house for the performance (see group blog for photos) and changing my room around to be suitable for us to use. We shot some rough footage so that we could see if we needed to change anything but so far everything's okay.
Overall we were pretty organised and did everything we needed to quickly and didn't have any issues to contend with.

What I've learnt from theory lessons

From our lessons on music video theory I learnt these five top things:

1. Music videos don't follow the rules of classic Hollywood cinema (CHC), continuity editing is almost totally forgotten in most cases. This is something that will probably be vital for my own video as our scenarios aren't going to be shot to make continual sense, we will be breaking them up and moving them around.

2. Shots can be put in for no apparent reason for example the shot of the work in Marilyn Manson’s 'Beautiful People' isn't explained or repeated throughout the video. We may use this in the video we make as we could use shots of Wonderwoman and Ava together posing randomly in the video

3. The illusion of an edit can be created through the movement of the camera, something which we will try out on our own shoot.

4. Music videos don't have to complete actions or make chronological sense, shots can also be used without explanation as well as revealing space slowly.

5. MVs showcase the star, ALWAYS!

THR Feedback on Individual Blog Progress

Hey Emma
This is going spectacularly well! I think this is the best blog, certainly in 12c! A very good effort.
You seem to have covered most aspects so all I can say on that is make sure you continue to post as you should, reflectively and analytically, labelling and making sure each post is clear in its purpose.
You do need to add links to external sites and resources that have helped you, are related or are useful resources in themselves. Make sure you link your individual posts and group posts together so if you post on one, there is a reflection or response on the other.
You could also try upping your game a bit now and responding to some theory. You could use some of what we begain the other day from Carol Vernallis OR you could add some of your own. Mike C has done this bit quite well in his most recent posts.

Overall a very good piece of blogging - well done grl!

Mrs T ;-)

Enter Shikari Website

www.entershikari.com/

"Give us a sec..." is the greeting you first see on the page as the percentage of the page loading increases. The page is very simple, a black background and white rectangle in the centre that is positioned to look like it has just been place there haphazardly. There's a drawing that appears over the top of the stopwatch like object in a hand drawn style. The top of the page has links to contact the band, the ES forum, ES Merch, ES on YouTube and ES on MySpace.

There are five further links surrounding the stopwatch which produce fall-down feature. These links are: "go home" (updates), "you nosey git" (studio blog), "you look parched" (forum), "you want the latest" (mailing list) and "you miss the bastards?" (tour dates). These are all written in an informal style using language that will appeal to fans. It all seems to be semi-home-made which is a theme that a lot of their image portrays (including MySpace blog posts/bulletins) and merch.

The page is free of clutter and is easy to navigate around. It's a page for the fans rather than to impress people. the band's sense of humour is shown through the small piece of text on the page:

http://www.heritage-history.com/maps/gardiner/gard001.jpg

This is something that fans will recognise as ES are from St Albans which is referred to in the address and will know that the album is being recorded in a house rather than a big recording studio (as the band have turned down all major record deals to date, instead creating their own label).