Jacks first filming day

I managed to film most of Jacks lip syncing shots today, after reviewing the footage I have decided to change some parts of the song that he sings to make it easier for him as some of the filming has not gone to plan, I also didn't managed to get any pictures for my ancillary tasks so on the next filming day I will also get pictures of him aswell.

Jacks Clothing

Firstly I will be asking Jack to wear a pair of beats to resemble to the audience his love and passion for music.

When I started planning my video as Jacks hair grows into an afro style I asked him if he could grow his hair out for the music video, this is because one of the lines says "Running her hands through my 'fro", 'fro' is short for Afro so I will be able to film jack putting his hand through his hair keeping the shots linked to the music video.

Planning another filming day

For the lip syncing shots with Jack I will be using a different location, to keep the focus on Jack I will be filming against a plain coloured wall, this will show the difference between the narrative side of the music video and the performance side. I have yet to decide if I want to have Jacks shot in colour or edited in black and white.

Best Day Of My Life Style Model

Aswell as sunshine another of my style models is best day of my life by the American Authors, which is an upbeat happy song which links well with the theme of my video, one of there scenes includes them playing basketball which represents them having a good time.

Aswell as my stylemodel Sunshine influcing me to include a scene of Pippa and Penny playing football, this is also another reason why. I have taken the idea of sports from the American Authors which shows a good times and incorperated this into my video using a different sport.

Relevance to the theme

To keep the theme of happiness I added a shot of Penny and Pippa walking past a circus as the circus is accossiated with having a fun time and happiness. I used a wide shot to fit in the sign of the circus and Penny and Pippa walking past it.

Effects used

One of the effects that I have deicided to add into the end of the video is a long shot of Penny and Pippa playing and changed the opacity to 45%, underneath this I included 4 different other videos of Penny and Pippa walking and playing which almost shows a 'summary' of the day to the audience showing its nearing the end. I think ending is effective and keeps the audience engaged and almost adds an emotional touch of happiness that the audience will feel.

Diegetic and Non-diegetic sounds

While editing my video I played around with the audio of the clips and debating on keep some of the sound on to add diegetic sounds to the video. Overall I went against this idea for various reasons

• Firstly the audio of the clips wasn't the best due to filming on the seafront, as the wind was hitting the microphone on the camera
• Another thing was that on some of the clips with better audio there wasn't much sound or when there was it didn't work in time with the music and took over the audio of the music
• For the lip syncing shots I also plan to remove the audio as in the background will be the song playing so my actor can sing in time and it would also have my actors voice going over the audio which wouldn't work and would make him look like he wasn't the artist performing but instead singing along

Overall, I have chosen to remove all audio clips from the music video and not add any diegetic music ontop of the shots.

Making the video enjoyable

I want to create a happy upbeat video that the audience can enjoy and find funny, to make the audience laugh and feel happy from the video I included shots of Pippa trying to catch the sand, as this is something she already does I took advantage of this and included short videos of her doing this, and after listening to the audience feedback they agreed that it was funny and added to the enjoyment and happiness of the video.

Editing

I have finished editing all the parts with Pippa and Penny in although I may make some changes for the final piece, I have yet to film and edit in all the parts that Jack will be lip syncing although after the editing I have done so far I have changed some of Jacks lip syncing shots and deicided to give him some different parts as Penny and Pippas footage worked better in the place where Jack was suppose to be lip syncing. The editing I have done so far has given me a guideline of where to put Jacks shots and has helped to shape the music video more and I think the order of filming days I chose has helped to choose some changes I wanted to make in the video plan.