Editing session 3

For this session I was not available to edit due to other commitments however, it was only going to be a small session  and so I wasn't missing out on too much. In my absence, Beth and Eboni edited the scenes that were filmed in my house whilst ordering all the current footage that we had into a narrative, chronological sequence.

We had to make room for some performance footage which we decided upon as we had initially put the idea on the storyboard. This idea was to film a selfie video at the Christmas markets however, these had closed before the time that Tavonga was able to film. Instead we are tonight going to film this performance element in a car park to show Tavonga singing the song and dancing.

The footage that was filmed wrong (from a portrait perspective) was no longer going to be used however, we still filled this into the footage so that when we had the correct footage, we are able to see where it needs to go as the previous footage will still be there.

Talent Release

With Eboni and Tavonga choosing to take part in our filming footage, I ensure that we presented our permission and their agreement to do it on a talent release form. I created this sheet to make it clear the name of the people who took part and the dates that they did it in order to create a professional outlook on our filming. The names of the creators are on the sheet and some information as to where the footage will be used and what for. Tavonga and Eboni both agreed and signed the release as shown below.

Editing session 2

This was a very short editing session where we imported more filming footage onto the Apple Macs. I brought this in from the footage that I had filmed in our second filming session at my house. To continue the process I took the clips and put them onto a timeline to make the footage that we had chronological. The footage is now well sequence however, by doing this it was helpful to notice so alterations that we need to make. Firstly, the footage that I had filmed in slow motion from my phone did not appear in slow motion on the Macs and so we will use the slow motion feature that is already installed on Final Cut Pro X to ensure that the footage looks the correct tempo that we would like. I also noticed that a few shots from Eboni's iPad had been filmed in portrait which meant that the whole screen wasn't taken up by footage. To get around this, we will re-film these scenes at my house as it is no problem due to the fact that we know exactly which bits we need to film. We are soon meeting up with Tavonga for our fourth and fifth filming session so that we can edit all the footage and have the video totally filmed, edited and constructed for Friday.

Filming session 3

Today, we decided to re-film the scenes in my house where we had previous shot some of the footage from the wrong perspective. Using the iPad, a few of the clips had been uploaded from portrait which was not ideal as this would not fill up the whole screen once the footage was put onto the macs. We organised to meet Tavonga early and we all met up at my house to get this done. Eboni had all of the portrait facing footage on her phone and so we knew which scenes we needed to film to save us waiting around and being unsure on what to film.

We began with the shot taken from inside the cupboard of glasses which was very unique and shows another perspective of the action going on in the narrative. The shot was a still close up to focus of facial expressions of Eboni when she is around Tavonga as this is her partner within the video. This shot was filmed from alternatives angles to so the audience can feel the perspective of the location.

Next, we had to film some scenes where Tavonga and Eboni were arguing. I filmed this scene using the tripod so that I could shoot a slight pan shot to show the perspective of Tavonga whilst focusing on Eboni putting two glasses down onto the side. Throughout this shot we used the artificial lighting of kitchen lights which easily lit up both characters to focus on their actions. Props were used in form of the glasses that I bought and two were placed down on the side which symbolises the inner romance that they have as they are planning to have a drink together. Instead however, Eboni throws the glass on the floor as they argue however, this piece of footage was filmed correctly the first time around.

The final pieces of footage were filmed outside of the kitchen and into the hall area as Eboni storms out of the house, closely to be followed by Tavonga. The idea is that Eboni has cheated on him and they have had an argument. We therefore filmed a two shot as the pair are leaving the house and then a shot from each of their points of view. Beth used the stairs to get a raised view of Eboni running out of the house and then a separate shot was used of Tavonga running after her out of the house. The final shots were filmed outside from the other side of the door. This was done to show the footage from the outside as well as the inside from an alternative angle so that the footage will flow and ultimately match up during the video.

Magazine advert draft

This my first draft of my magazine advert and I have taken audience feedback into account whilst producing it. During our focus group, the audience were particularly fond of our choice of clothing for Tavonga. I therefore have drawn Tavonga is his smart/casual clothing with a range of colours in and attempt to bring out his lively personality. I can already however, point out failures from this draft as I have drawn Tavonga too small. Ideally I would prefer his head to be near the top of the page so that he is clearly the dominant image whilst I would like to cover as much blank white space as possible. This can be achieved easily when I edit the size of texts and images that I have used.

Contact with Tavonga

The filming schedule for our group has been heavily dependent on the availability of Tavonga is he is often booked up for time due to his studies and his music classes and auditions. It has therefore been key that we are able to film when he is free and so I took it upon myself to organise this. Here I am organising some week nights to film with Tavonga once he has finished in college and once me and my group have finished sixth form for the day. Tavonga told me that he was free on Tuesday and Wednesday and so we will film both times with him on these days to get his parts over and done with. As it has been hard to meet up with him, we have ensured that all filming where Tavonga isn't involved, we have completed. I have filmed time lapses from my bedroom and Beth has too, whilst Eboni is acting in the video and we have filmed the parts where she is alone so that we can edit this early without waiting for the footage that Tavonga features in. Once we film these last 2 days with Tavonga, we will have all of our footage in and then we are finally able to finish editing and upload the music video to YouTube for assessment and feedback.

Artist title font ideas

After picking a font for the album title, I have now researched my ideal fonts for the name of the artist. I searched for some popular RnB album covers and found that they commonly use block capitals for the name of the artist. This idea is to help the name stand out as this is one of the first things that an audience will look for in a shop. An example is R Kelly with his album for 'Double Up'. The text is printed in all block capitals and he has added his own sparkle light effect to make consistency as we can see him wearing lots of flashy jewellery and clothing on the key image. The size and colour of the text is easily recognisable and has lots of clarity to do it's job effectively. I would like to achieve the same outcome from the text that I will create on the album.


I have found some fonts that I like and have used Ne-Yo as an example. Each text is printed in block capitals and would look effective and easily noticeable on the front of my digipak. In terms of colour, I would choose when where I can make the text contrast with a background in order to make it as clear as possible. I will firstly choose the picture that I want for the background of the cover and then carefully select which of these texts I would like to print over the key image of Tavonga.

This is me researching the different fonts