Plot Change...

Due to uncontrollable circumstances my group and I have decided that it'll be in our best interest to change the plot of the narrative in our music video. This decision has not been taken lightly because ideally we'd all like to keep the original plot, however, due to issues with certain actors not being available or simply not showing up we feel we have no choice as we as soon running out of time.

So the new plot of our narrative is:
Shots show George with numerous numbers of girls (4) where you can see Serine in the background of these shots. At the end you see George and Serine celebrating an anniversary together where George proposes to Serine and it becomes an understanding to the audience that Serine has "put a spell on George" to be faithful.

Film Day 4: Wood Green

Our group met today to film in Wood Green Shopping City, so we started by getting permission to film on the premises from their management team, they called our sixth form and spoke to our media teacher to confirm we were being legit with them. Once they confirmed we were free to film and we just followed the couple around and shot some scenes in a couple restaurants.

We wanted to film them buying cinema tickets and/or playing games in the arcade, however, when we spoke to the manager they declined and said that we have would have to contact the Cineworld headquarters and get permission for them. collectively as a group we decided that the time it would take for us to go through headquarters that specific scene isn't just beneficial enough.

Editing Issues: Update 2

Returning to our Mac this afternoon I've discovered that nothing has changed and iMovie is still not working. As neither of my media teachers are in lesson today I went to get the IT technician to see if he would be able to help. At first he informed me that he doesn't know an awful lot about Apple Macs but he'll try his best. So long story short we were unable to fix iMovie which means all the footage my group and I have already filmed is lost. However, I found a silver lining in this dilemma; I managed to find the raw unedited footage which is great because none of the edited footage was still on the SD card.
So moving forward the nest step is to move the raw footage onto a new account on the same Mac so that we are still; able to use iMovie 9. I will then have to re-edit the old raw footage along with all the new footage we've been collecting over the past couple of weeks.

Film Day 3: Another Day at Grammar

Yesterday we had our third film day, both George and Ellie were unavailable for filming so me and Serine filmed on our own.

We started by filming at Grammar to get some more performance shots of Serine lip-syncing. We also wanted some shots of Serine establishing her as a part of the narrative and not just the performer. Therefore to achieve this we needed more casual scenes of her. One of the scenes we decided use was of serine at home which helped us tie in the Arabic and Black magic theme, I filmed her writing in a diary drinking "wine" and other short shots that we may or may not use in the music video. the other scene we shot was Serine walking through Brookfield park on her own just looking genuinely sad which I feel ties the lyrics to the footage nicely.

Broomfield Park: 

Editing Issues: Update 1

This morning when I first came into class and logged onto my groups Mac and opened iMovie the screen was still the same as we left it, I tried force closing it and when I reopened it the same message appeared. So I enlisted the help of one of my Media teachers (Ms Foster) she also tried force closing it and suggested restart the computer. I tried this a few times but nothing seemed to work, however, I've run out of time as I've got to walk over to Grammar to film some more scenes; so one hopes by next Wednesday it might of had enough time to work itself out.

Editing Issues

Having begun the editing process our Music video straight after our first film day everything was seeming to be piecing together and editing was going quite smoothly. However, today we attempted to upload some footage of a a piano scene, but instead of importing it like we usually do this time we accidentally dragged and dropped the footage into a new event. iMovie has now been stalling/configuring for approx. 2 hours but the lesson is done so hopefully when we come in for our next lesson it'll be up and running again.

Location Ideas 2

For scenes where we want couple things we are planning on going to Wood Green Shopping Mall. Where there will be an American dinner scene and scenes of them shopping together; with Serine close by.