Diary of filming

To make sure our group kept organised when filming, I decided to keep a diary of what happend whilst filming and also to keep a track of any problems that occurred. This will allow you to understand the problems we had when filming for our video and also to see how we organised our time to film outside school and other activities.
Park Footage-To ensure the location looked good on camera, we had to make sure we entered the park at a time nobody would be there. This is because we wanted the footage to look 'ghostly', therefore we did not want any unnecessary objects in the background of our shots. We decided to film at 7:30am so that the park would be deserted and also so we could get the best sunlight. When shooting the round about shot we encountered on a few problems, such as people walking in the background and also not being able to clearly see Abbi on camera in some shots.
Beach Shots- By recieving feed back from our teachers by viewing our roughcut, it was decided that we as a group had to decide on something more exciting and dramatic for the death scene. We therefore decided to shoot it at the beach where the lighting and scenery was excellent. The only problems that occured was that the tide was comming in very quickly and also the sun was setting. However, apart from them few problems we were able to get some great shots which helped our storyline to become a lot more understandable.
Performance shots- Overall we filmed at least 3 hours of performance shots for our music video. We were slightly more unorganized on this particular shoot considering camera angles and musical instruments. It also took up a lot of our time deciding on what lighting was best for each of our shots. However, in the end we managed to get the shots spot on. After our roughcut we decided to reshoot our performance shots which took place on Monday the 16th of November where we managed to get a better variety of angles whilst filming the close-ups of the drums and guitar.
Home Footage- Because a lot of our footage was being filmed at Lauren's house, we decided as a group that this would take longer than one night. We filmed at Lauren's on about 3 occassions, managing to get the shots we needed for our video. Here we filmed 'Jack going crazy' which we considered to be one of the most important shots in our video. The shots at home enabled the video to form a story and help the audience understand what was really going on.
Pub Shots- To help the audience understand how Lauren and Jack met in the video, we decided to film at the Redhouse Farm pub in Monkseaton. We filmed in this pub on Friday the 13th of November as a last minute decision, however, it worked out to look great for the final cut of our video.
Cafe Footage- Because one of our group members(Cat Power) worked in a cafe, we were able to get permission to film inside. This was great and set a fantastic scene for our video. The only problems we encountered on was that the lights were broke, therefore we had to hold them with our hands whilst filming as they were unstable. In the end we managed to get some great shots.

Turbulence Logo

The group decided to design a logo that would relate well to the theme of our video and appearance. We decided to keep it simple so that it would be easily recognised by the audience so they will be able to identify us as a band. The logo also gives our band a 'brand image' which we have been concentrating on over the past 3 months.

Final Cuts- Turbulence Dvd Cover,Inside Dvd,Advert

Rough cut of our Music Video.

For copyright reasons we have not displayed the audio in our roughcut video, however, the examiner will be able to hear the audio in our final cut.

Dvd Cover, Dvd Advert & Tour book rough drafts!

We saved our covers half way through making them as 'rough cuts' so that we could gain feedback from Mr.Bland and the rest of the media class.This is a rough cut of what will be placed inside the DVD cover. We chose to design the inside of the DVD as an extra which will make our DVD look more effective. We decided to use an image of Abbi's hands(the lead singer) on the right hand side as it looks different from the other images we have taken. It also appears quite mysterious and 'ghostly' which links in well with the theme of our music video.
For our advert we decided to make the picture the most eye-catching focus towards the audience which is why we chose this shot. The trees in the background and also the obvious theme of black and red really stands out in this image and i feel it will appeal to the target audience well. To create the text i decided to make it appear like something that would be used to advertise drum and bass. I used Adobe Photoshop to select a specific text then i used the rubber tool to remove pieces from each letter to give it a more effective look. We decided the text will be white for all of our covers so it will continue as a theme, allowing the audience to recognise us as a band. The white text also stands out well over the trees which are darker. By using a specific theme for each of our pictures, we have created a 'look' for our band which will therefore be easily identified due to our font of text, images and colour scheme.




We decided to roughly sketch our ideas for our cover,inside the cover and the advert so that they can progress. We have now been able to observe how the covers have changed form their rough cuts to the final cuts

Turbulence Photo Shoot

These few images are a some example from the group photoshoot we organised to gain a decent image for our music DVD advert,DVD cover,DVD disk and also our tour book. We used a small forest near school so that it would be easy for the band members to access. My group decided on a specific 'look' for our band photoshoot which ended up being black and red. However, we decided to keep the lead singer in a white dress to represent the 'ghostly look' we intended to keep throughout the whole music video. We took a variety of camera angles to help us discover what looked and fitted the best for our advert and DVD cover. out of the huge variety of shots, we chose about 5 good images we thought were professional looking enough to use for our cover and advert. The image below is the final image we chose for our DVD cover due to the good angle, the effect of the tree in the background and also the mise en scene such as the flowers in the hair which made us look more band material.

We experiemented with editing the photos from our shoot on Adobe Photoshop, helping us to decide on a suitable contrast and saturation for our final image. In each image we have made the lead singer(Abbi) the main focus which makes our pictures look more professional and band like. We will be using most of the photos we took on this photoshoot for our final Turbulence DVD advertisement, DVD cover and DVD disk.

Animatic Storyboard

To roughly direct us through all of our shootings, we created a rough animated story board to remind us of our storyline,shots,locations and costumes. We stuck to our original story line, however, changed some of the shots and costumes. The storyboard helped us to decide as a group what our final goal was and therefore helped us achieve it. We roughly matched our song up with the storyboard to see whether the shots would relate with the beat and lyrics of the song. This helped us a lot when it came to deciding where abouts to place each piece of footage.The storyboard has also helped us to see what changes we have made to the video from the start, making our improvements more noticable. When filming our video, we mostly decided on things being changed such as angles and locations due to them not looking as good as we wanted them. However, after creating our rough cut video we decided to change the story slightly from Jack being depressed over Abbi dying to Jack accidently pushing Abbi off a cliff which gave our story a bit more excitement.