Rough Cut Feedback - by Josh

 This is the feedback my partners and I received after we showed our rough cut video to our class and our teacher. Click the expand icon in the right hand corner for a better view.

Madeon Live - Electric Ballroom - by Josh

 Last night, me and my partners as well as some of my friends went to see a live concert with Madeon at the Electric Ballroom (image right) in Camden, London. Quite a small venue, the main arena could only hold around 1000 people, thus making it very cramped when Madeon started playing. The doors opened at 7 but Madeon didn't start until 9.45. The opening acts, were pretty good, the latter being particularly good and got the crowd warmed up with remixes of the hit 'Don't You Worry Child' by the dance supergroup Swedish House Mafia, whom Madeon had been a supporting guest at their last ever show at the Milton Keynes Bowl. When Madeon entered the stage and the lights came on behind him the crowd went wild. His first song, 'The City' had the crowd singing and dancing in an instant, with his other more well known songs like 'Icarus' and 'Finale' coming on later in the night. He also tried out 4 new songs for the first time which all proved to be extremely good, as well as playing his remixes and such as 'Raise Your Weapon' by Deadmau5, 'The Island' by Pendulum and the massively popular 'Pop Culture' which can be said to have brought Madeon to the dance music business limelight. Below are two videos my partner, James, took on his iPhone.

 In addition to the dancing, there were also plenty of instances of mosh pits. With a solid two hours of dancing and moshing, we all had an amazing night, despite it being a long night traveling to and from the venue, we were all however very tired at the end of the night. In summary, incredible night, worth getting back late and being very tired the next day. It was a privilege to see Madeon for his first tour and his headlining concert in London and we all can't wait until the next opportunity to see him again.

Rough Cut - done as a group

 This is our rough cut that my partners and I have made using the collated video and edited them in the program: Final Cut. A post on feedback from our class and teacher will be up shortly.

Filming - Day 6 - 8th December - by Josh

 On the 8th of December we went up to London for the second time primarily to film the cinema shots which would be appearing at the start of our video. This took a long time to complete as the equipment was difficult to set up and we had to make adjustments for our CCTV footage. The filming also took a while to do since there were a lot of shots we wanted to do and at times the studio was very awkward to film in due to limited space for the camera and tripod. We spent a few hours doing this, and since we had a few hours of daylight remaining we decided to shoot some shots at the stunt location I had proposed. I looked this up the day before on ParkourGenerations.com which provided me with parkour locations and I decided on one on Whitechurch Road near White City (image below - taken from Google Maps Streetview to gain a good insight into if the location would be suitable).

 I decided on this location since I noticed that the two joining walls behind the tree would be perfect for a wall jump which one of us could use to gain an advantage in the chase. The wall on the left could also be used by one of us to 'wall run' up it. We filmed several shots of this area. When we got there Dan, Phil and myself attempted the stunts. Phil was able to do both after a few tries but unfortunately Dan was not able to. This was not too much of a problem as Dan could run on the upper level above the bins and Phil and I could make use of the stunts to catch up to him and reach his level. Our teacher suggested this during a discussion about what we could add to our video to make it more exciting and interesting (one of the aims of music videos being to be ensue repeated viewings of the video.

 One of the first shots we did in the cinema was the one below:

 An over the shoulder shot of both masked men that will be our opening show for the full video. We chose to use this as it provides the audience with a shot that opens the video with the two masked men looking at the security camera footage. The following shots are that of the two masked men watching the CCTV footage.

  We are planning to use these shows to break up and gauge the reaction from the the CCTV footage and normal footage of the thief stealing the disc. The two shots below are of the masked men leaving the cinema to chase the thief.

 These all took a while to film since it was difficult to get the lighting in the room suitable for the camera. We also had to decide on shots used since we hadn't been in the room before and so had to plan it out when we got there.

 The shots below are of the freerunning scene with Dan running along the upper walkway and myself with Phil running up the walls:

 It should be noted with this scene that we have flipped the shots horizontally so that it looks throughout the video that the 3 characters are always running from left to right, with a few exceptions. We decided to flip this since the shots leading up to this scene have the characters running from left to right.

Filming - Day 5 - 5th December - by Josh

 As posted earlier, my partners and I wanted to have a scene in which the thief hides behind a pillar in a car park. This scene would be used in the song's bridge, where the tempo slows down, and we wanted the video to match the song in terms of the pace of the music. We wanted these shots to be relatively longer than the ones in the chase scenes, and we experimented with a range of different shots from different angles.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 After we watched these videos back on the computer, we realised two major faults that we had overlooked: it is clearly visible that outside the car park the time of day has changed from day to night. The second error was that as darkness falls, the lights inside the car park change from an orange glow to green (or because of the camera adjusting to the light change).

 It should be noted that we have decided since our rough cut to re-film several parts of this scene, mostly because of the light change, but also because a lot of the footage wasn't very good and didn't suit what we wanted from this scene.