Today, I stayed throughout school by myself to again further edit the rest of the first draft for my music video. I edited - so far - up to past the 2:30 mark of the first draft. Continuing on from what I had already began editing the previous Friday, I followed in terms of editing further the lip syncing scenes of Jazmine to the song and editing more of the silhouette scenes. By allowing myself more time to edit and manipulate Final Cut Pro to my advantage, I looked at a variety of effects and transitions to help exude creativity within the first draft of the video and make some scenes stand out more effectively the with transition of 'fading to colour'.

Today, I stayed behind after school to begin the editing process for my music video. After filming the second take of the music video for 'Love In The Dark', I used the various amounts of footage from these scenes to edit upon. To edit, I used our school's Apple iMac computers and used the editing software of 'Final Cut Pro'. I began the editing for the first minute of the first draft of the music video which consisted of the miming scenes and the silhouette scenes. Whilst editing this together with the music, I found it extremely challenging to match Jazmine's lip syncing in time with the song itself. But, in this time, I was looking for ways to try and manipulate the black and white effect for the silhouette scenes to help make the silhouette of Jazmine more prominent.

Second Music Video Shoot

For our second music video shoot, me, Jazmine and Danny stayed behind after school to use our drama room facilities containing stage lights. On this day, I managed to film Jazmine miming/lip-syncing to Adele's, Love In The Dark in various different lighting and situations. We managed to get a variety of close up shots, mid shots, tracking side to side with a combination of dim lighting to exude only Jazmine's face and dim-red lighting to exude Jazmine's physique and hair.

Test Shoot for Silhouette for the Music Video

Today, both me and Jazmine stayed after school to film our first take/draft for our music video. We used our school's drama room which features a wide dark room with stage lighting. This was very helpful because this meant that I could play around with various lighting material to make particular things stand out and be significant when being filmed. Whilst filming, I used a tripod, a camera and a dolly. The tripod and camera use worked efficiently and allowed me to get clear and concise footage. However, by using the dolly, I attempted to try and track forwards and pan around the star but, with the use of the dolly, this made the camera unstable and as a result, made it look shaky which is now ultimately footage that we can't use.

Furthermore, me and Jazmine constructed the white sheet and put the necessary lighting equipment behind the sheet in order to film our first take for our silhouette scenes in order to see how it would essentially look. We positioned 2 lights behind the screen and had Jazmine stand in front of the screen to form the impression of a silhouette figure. During this, we played around with various body movements and expressions to try and show the star being in the form of a silhouette. Whilst filming this scene, I used a camera technique of a focus-pull when the star walks in to the frame. This allowed the audience to be introduced to the dark, mysterious figure for the first time.

After me and Jazmine saw how everything appeared after our first filming shoot, it is clear that we will essentially have to re-shoot the scenes in order to make it clearer and more visually appealing.

The Magazine Poster Advert for Digipak

In order to help traditionally promote 'Jazmine's' new album, I decided to create an album/Digipak magazine advert which features key information to the general public about what is to come. My magazine advert features: the same album cover as the digipak so that the public can familiarise and identify with the album straight away, the name of the artist and the name of the album so that people are aware of what it is called,  when the album is expected to be released along with the idea to be pre-ordered so that people know when to expect the release, usefull links to the artists social media pages so that people can follow her and her latest trends along with keeping up with what ever she's doing next plus finishing out more information, a barcode in which the audience can scan on their mobiles and instantly the song will begin to play and, the different platforms in which the song can be streamed upon/listened to. 

The first shoot of our music video

Today we began shooting our music video for 'Love In The Dark' by 'Jazmine'. Me, Danny and Jazmine managed to get hold of a dark lit room with access to spotlights, meaning that we could manipulate the spotlights/stage lights to highlight certain things and manipulate the lighting to ensure it gave the feel of a spacious dark area. Today we just shot Jazmine doing miming/singing to the track and we did this with multiple takes with different camera shots and angles such as canted, low and high shots, with close ups on her face and mid shots so that we would have a lot to work with when editing happens for the music video. The stage lights worked highly effectively as we could use this to manipulate how dark and how light some of the scenes would look which was an advantage. Me and Danny both filmed on our cameras. I felt it was appropriate to use a dolly and place a camera and tripod on top so that I could get some tracking shots around the star smoothly.