During our free time today me and Beste imported all of our footage from yesturday onto our apple mac computer. We then began editing the clips together speeding them up and trimming them down in order to match the timing from the original music video. Luckily we had plenty of footage which we could split and use in later shots, for example when I filmed Beste eating crisps I filmed her eating them for about 20 seconds. This then meant that when we came to use the shot of her eating we were able to use it a number of times throughout, with the camera positioned in the same place, therefore making it look neater and more professional. We managed to actually finish the editing which we were both really pleased about.

We learnt a lot from making this prelim video, we found that our story board helped us a lot, as it kept us organised and made it clear as to what we needed to film, however at first we didn't film in chronological order as there were shots we needed to do before hand, in this case the shots with Beste's boyfriend, as he needed to leave early. It made us aware that this might happen when filming our real music video and that we in fact wont be able to do everything in order. We are also aware that if we film in one location we will need to do all of our filming on that same day despite whether some of the footage will be used at the beginning of the video and some at the end. This is because of continuity.

Here is the original so that you are able to compare it with our version..



Here is our version of Smile, we have literally just taken the first 32 seconds and copied the original..

Today Beste and I spent our evening filming in order to create our prelim video. We organised our camera equipment, props and costume, managing to do some shopping earlier in the day for the food in the video and also for some jewellery and clothes so that Beste could look as similar to Lily Allen as possible. We also had to make sure that Beste's boyfriend was available as we needed a male character to be in two of our shots. When we eventually got around to filming we found that our story board was very helpful, however we also watched the original version on YouTube over and over, shot by shot in order to make ours as similar as possible. We not only got all the footage we needed but also had lots of fun, especially finishing off all the leftover food!

In today's lesson Beste showed us some of the research she had done for our music video and we all particularly liked the song Potential Breakup by Aly and Aj. There are again two female singers and we have already come up with some exciting, creative ideas which we would do if we were to choose this as our final song.



We also spent our time practising to lip sync for our prelim music video of Smile. We had fun experimenting with different shots and then after importing the clips from the flip camera we edited on iMovie, which helped us to practise fitting the clips to the beat of the music for when we have to do it for the real thing. Practice makes perfect!



We then made another video using the Apple Mac web cam again to help us both practice lip syncing as we are both planning on being in the real music video that we will eventually make.

Today we were given quite a big task as a group in order to help us practice filming and editing a music video. We were to choose a music video which we'd be able to copy and make our own version of, looking at the first 30 seconds or so from it. We spent quite some time choosing one from YouTube which we felt wouldn't be massively difficult to replicate. We eventually decided to choose Lilly Allen's song Smile and we cant wait to get started!