Tuesday 7th October 2008 Lunch/Last Lesson

Today we accomplished alot as a group, considering we were at college and had other commitments as well as our media project; as a group we are happy and anxious with the days events...

Leo and Dan had rounded around 10 of their friends up, and asked them if they were able to wear or bring a suit into college for today as we were going to shoot the 'executives scene' and by gosh, was it a success.

I (Maili) admit I was not much of a help as i was late in due to my bus not turning up, and was too ill to be be filmed but it didnt phase Leo as she was sorting out everything and had done about half of the filming by the time I had got there.

Everyone was very considerate of the fact we were under pressure for time and it ran very smoothly, we were able to film one after the other and everyone did it in one take and was happy to be appart of it.

We captured each of them as a stressed out business man, and some of them were able to lipsync with the song making it more effective as they 'freaked out' as the music climaxed during the chorus. Having quite a few people there will make the editing alot more effective as we have such a range of shots from different people's reactions to the song. Everyone was able to give it their own personal touch and definatly stood out from eachother.

Once we had finished filming me, Leo and Dan then went back to the lesson to upload all our footage, the music from the college video cam seemed to be out of sync so Leo put some skill into sorting that back out again so we were back on track, and we then uploaded the footage from my video camera to find out that the quality was not as we had expected it to be as a size setting was different to the other cameras that we had been using and we were unable to change this.

Being the brilliance that is my group, we managed to talk it over with our teacher and decide on what we were going to do, as we didnt have enough time to reshoot everything on another camera. We decided that most of the shots that were taken on my camera were of Jake, Leo's little brother, so we decided to edit the clips of Jake at work with some filters and so on, to give a negative, boring kind of vibe to mirror his life and his feelings from it. As Dan's shots will be on a different camera all together we're not as worried about these.

Leo will be reshooting the morning shots of Jake with a school camera where he is playing the role of a little boy so the only clips that will look a bit pixelated are of Jake at work, so this is why we're using it to our advantage and playing around with effects. Although my camera has been a let down, as a group we have got past it and all i can do is say sorry as it was my camera that has caused the problems!! :(

So with the new footage being done tonight, Dan also starting to record his, and the editing starting in tomorrow's lesson, we have definatly got on with it despite hitches.

Yay for our group! and they said 13 was an unlucky number.