Here is the link to our finished project.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNXmE5LMSbA

We have uploaded the vidoe onto youtube after completing the final parts of our project. We had a few spaces in the video and decided on using effects to make the video run smoother. As we had already done most of this we didnt have too much to do so we uploaded our finished project onto youtube. We then checked it through and found there was no delay and the lip syncing was good which overall I was very happy with. The finished video has been successfully uploaded and is now ready to view on youtube.

I am continuing to add information onto all of my website. I started to add information onto my news page. I changed the template around a little bit as I cam up with 3 news stories that I could add onto my news page. The 3 stories all had their own box and were positioned ext to each other. I then included a big heading that showed what was on the page, and created sub headings so that if the website was real, people would see what story they would be reading. I did this beacuse it just made the website look more professional. I then went ot my video page where I added a heading. My idea for the video page was to upload my video from youtube so that people could directly be linked to my video. As the school had restrictions of uploading videos, images and music I couldnt do this today so will have to do this in the future. I then went straight to my contact page. The template was already in a good format, so I expanded on this. I added the same text boxes and came up with 4 ways of being contaced through twitter, facebook, my space and the website itself. I included this onto the page and decided that when I upload images, I can upload the logos of these companies. So far I have done information for around half of my website, however at the moment I have no colour scheme in place which I will change soon.

With the deadline being tomorrow today was our last main chance of getting everything finished. We wanted to do a lot with the video so we started by putting in the rest of the photos we had took yesterday. This was quite quick as we didnt have much to do as the majority was done yesterday. Now that our whole video ran smoothly we were still left with a problem. The original plans included a part leading up to the chorus however we believed that this was too long for a clip. We had took many different locations for these shots from last week and decided that we were going to split these up. We had decided to pick the selected clips and crop part of the video clip that looked best. After cropping this part, we cut the part off the clip we already had on our timeline and put them together. This created the same effect however there was more clips and the video looked a lot better than originally. We did this for the 2 parts leading up to the chorus and we were happy with the progress we had made. The last thing we needed to do was the rewind effect. The rewind effect occured around the 2 minute mark in the song. In our planning we came up with the idea that we wanted to use eevry clip before the rewind in a quick flash on our video. We left this till last because we didnt know what clips we would be using. We had to copy each clip seperately and paste them back into the timeline. We calculated the time that was missing from the video that our rewind had to cover so that we had no gaps again and this was roughly around 20 seconds. We then after pasting every clip, cut every clip to similar sizes until the end where we tried to speed up the end of the rewind. After doing this we watched the rewind back over and over again and finally after more editing liked what we had done. This meant that apart from the effects being added our overall video was basically done. We still had a little bit of time left so started adding slow motion effects onto the bottle drop etc but didnt finish it all.

Starting my website at first was rather hard however I started getting used to the editing. I started my website by firstly deleting some content on the front page. I focused mainly on the front page, as I created some text boxes and filled them in black and white. I also changed the title of the webpage to Ed Sheeran as well as changing the background image to one of my photos I had taken. This is the photo I have used:

After adding this as my background, I went further into the editing aspect of my website. I started to play around with the effects on my title and found a really good effect that I liked but also thought looked good on my title page. This was called the cannon emitter and made it look as a whole a bit more lively and better. I started adding in information onto my title page. I began by firstly putting information into the boxes I had created. I made up some information regarding tour dates and his new album release which will be my Digipak. I did this so that I linked both my ancillery tasks together. After adding this information into my front page I started playing aroudn with the headings option on the left hand side. The template had already gave me options to use however I started looking at other websites for artists similar to Ed Sheeran and looked at what headings they have on their websites. Some of the template was helpful however I changed the headings that werent to some that other artists have used on their website. I also added an effect to the template. At first the template was boring and simple however I created a bubble effect and added this, which also meant that when you hover over the heading the writing moves which looked really professional. The last thing I did was add a hyperlink from a part of ym information. As I had created a tour date page and was talking about his tour on the front cover, I found out how to add a hyperlink on wix by going to the option menu. I created the link to the tour date page and tried it out to make sure it worked correctly.

Today we took the photos to cover the gaps in our video. Here are some we have used:

We took these photos to put into our video. We did this to make the video flow more and also they were used to show the story of love from the emotions. For example these 3 photos show an argument, the love aspect and the fun part of the relationship.

After taking the photos, we uploaded them onto the mac computer. Here we started to add in some photos however it took longer than supposed too because of the way that the videos moved because we had to add them in near the beginning. My shot timing list again helped with this however we finsihed with most of the gaps completed.

As im nearing the end of my video I have started creating the website for my artists which is one of the ancillery tasks. I quickly realised at school that with school restrictions most of the things I wanted to do like upload images I couldnt do. I decided that in school time I would focus on my video and my other ancillery as much as possible while doing this task at home.  I had to create a wix account which is a program which allows you to create a free website. After doing this I looked around the site for a good template to start  my website. I am not familiar with the program or how to use it at all so today I have just been messing around with it and trying new things. I noticed there were 2 ways of editing and have gained some basic skills like text and fill on the program. In the next couple of days I am going to start my website fully and put some information onto it.

After our positioning of the clips on our music video timeline, we as a group knew what we needed to film. We started filming these extra clips in the lesson by going to different locations. We decided that the clothing had to be different to other scenes so that our mise en scene was different throughout. We went out to different locations to do different shots so that we could get as much video done in time for editing and our deadline. After taking these we went through the clips again choosing the best ones. This was then put into our video. As we had to get the lip syncing done perfectly, we noticed there were very little gaps like around half a second long between some clips. As the deadline was appearing quickly we decided to in some cases keep the gaps for effect in the video but in other cases add images of the 2 characters. These images would be included on our rewind part of the video. We decided that next wednesday the 28th of November we would take these images.

Today as a group we didnt take any more photos as our on our schedule we didnt plan too, but instead we got our video up to scratch with everything we had already filmed and uploaded onto our mac. The video clips we had taken on the 14th and the 15th in the studio we already chose the best out of. We decided that in the lesson we will put them into our timeline and get them in the correct positions on the video in time with the lip syncing. This took quite long to do as we realised very soon that where we had imported video clips later on in the song, we had gaps in the video. This meant that when we uploaded these clips, the timings of the other clips after would change times. This was very time effective as it meant we wasted a lot more time putting the clips we had already done back in their original time places. I began to make a timing list of every different clip we had so that time was minimised doing this.

Here is my timings for the clips:
This timing sheet shows my first few clips times but also shows most of my video clip timings. This is because I had to find each clips original place to start so that the lip syncing was in sync throughout the video.

After putting the clips back in the correct places, we looked at what we needed to do next. We decided the next clips we needed to take and looked at the schedule for our locations so that we could do them quickly and be able to upload them quickly. We noticed the deadline was coming up quickly so we had to sit down and plan exactly what we would be doing for the rest of our time leading to the deadline for our video.

Today we went to the studio we had originaly booked for the 14th. The studio was located in Harlow, in the town centre just 10 minutes from school. We had to take our props from school which consisted of the camera and the tripod. We also brought other props such as a guitar to use in our filming. This was because we had researched Ed Sheeran around a month ago and had seen that he plays an acoustic guitar so by having one, it was more realistic and also looked good at the same time. The main point of the location was to get all of our choruses done. This was a running theme we wanted in the video of keeping the location the same throughout which meant we had to do it at the same time. When we arrived we went into the studio and played around with the lighting. We also found that some props were useful such as the seats we used which gave it more of an effect. We filmed all 3 parts of the chorus for our song whilst also taking the other shots we wanted to take as you can see from our shot schedule a few days ago. Looking back after on the camera we were satisfied with our shots and filming and began to take some pictures of the people we used in the film, Darren and Lauren. We took these began we need photos for our webiste and our digipak and decided that as a group we would use the same photos to keep continuity between us. Here are some shots of our location and the props we used today:

Here is the location and the lighting that we used.

 Here are some of the props we have used in this particular filming sequence.

Here are the people involved with the props they used.

Today we had planned to go to the studio we had booked for our filming. We asked for final confirmation yesterday about whether the studio was definately booked however the studio had to change the appoitment. We decided to do it tomorrow, the 15th in our media lessons so that we could just change the schedule around and stick to the other dates we put down for the filming. We decided on this because we looked at our schedule and knew we could take many more of our shots in and around school. The shots we took were the ones we had scheduled to be on the 15th and did these in the lesson. After taking these shots we uploaded all of the clips onto our mac. We again took 3 takes on every shot to make sure we had the best possible film but also to use for cropping down for certain parts of the song. This allowed us to stick to the schedule we had originally planned but also got extra clips done ready to put into our video. We then looked back as a group through our clips we had taken and decided on the better clips of the 3 we took. From here we cropped down the clip size and included them onto our video in perfect timing with the song.

After taking the first shots of our video we began to upload them onto our mac computer to get our video started. We took at least 3 shots of each of the first shots so that we could edit the best one or parts of each together. The first part was the drums and we took 2 different shots to see what would look better. We decided as a group which was the best and started to import this onto our video from our video camera. We the did this for the lips and the eyes and did around the first 10 seconds of our clip. We had to then after uploading this, get the lips in sync with the music. This meant we had to download the track to import onto our video. We did this making sure that the song was the same length of time as the song we had been using so that we didnt make the same mistake as last time in our warm up video. After getting the correct song we put the videos into the correct places. The first 10 seconds were completed and we discussed the props needed to take the next shots we had scheduled to take.

 After finishing our planning and having our schedule we decided to take the first few shots of our video which we had scheduled to do today. We saw that the first shots we needed a drum kit so we went and found one in school to take the drum beat. We also in this lesson took the close up of the mouth and eyes for the first lines of the song. This was easy to take as we found a good location which had a black background which we wanted to do to add effect. We got back from taking our first few shots and decided that we needed to have a lot of different locations for our video. For our plans the locations had to be perfect or the look we wanted wouldnt come off. We decided that we needed a 'white wall' background for our choruses. Our group member Alex asked one of his mates to use his studio which had a photo and filming location of what we was looking for. As a group we discussed what we were going to do and booked the studio. This was the main location done and also allowed us to see what shots we would be filming on what day so we knew what was covered in the video from our schedule we completed before.

Here is our shot schedule for our video.

After finishing planning we thought as a group we should have a shot schedule. This is a schedule that tells us what day we will take our shots, what props we will need for that day and also where the loaction is for that day. We began by going through out shot sequence and determining whether we could get many shots done in one particular location. We wanted to do all the choruses the same with minimal but noticeable changes and decided that all the choruses would have to be filmed at the same location at the same time. We looked back throuhg our shots and thought about locations of each. We came up with many different locations in nearby distance to one another that could fulfil the shots we wanted whilst also allowing us to do them at the same time. As you can see from the schedule we have planned this thoroughly and have came up with many different dates for filming and which shots will be filmed together starting from the 7th of November. Some of our shots havent been scheduled as we are waiting till we have finished the editing of these parts before filming the next shots.

Here is our planning completed:



We still had to plan the last part of our video but based on our other planning and the last lesson we knew we wanted to stick with the other choruses. We planned what to do differently in the last chorus which was a face view shot rather than a side view shot to show better emotions to stick with the love story. We added this onto the planning and came up with some little effects we wanted to put in such as the lights going out after the song finished.