FH - club scene preparation

For our club scene we are going to film on Friday 3rd Feb at The Yard in Ilkley, this is a bar that i work in and i have asked my manager if we are aloud to film and he said yes as it will promote our bar.

The only probem we may have is that we need to announce on a microphone that a camera will be filming so anyone that does not want to be involved will need to move outside while we film, however we do not want people to act different due to a camera been around them e.g. being silly in front of the camera, so this may be complicated. This is an example picture i found on google images to explain what i mean...
The setting is not an actual club but it has got a club atmosphere due to the DJ (Luke Tibble) and the lights look like what would be in  club as they are blue, red and green. If the bar is not busy we could get some really good shots that show the bar staff doing tricks with bottles and cocktails etc.

FH - Editing photos

We have been having some problems with getting used to Photoshop Elements 4.0 which is what we are editing our digipak pictures, we are getting used to it now though and the pictures are coming on very nicely as we are using phtographic effects/layer style which is putting a tinted colour over the picture of each girl so that we can represent their different personalities.

So far we have almost finished our front cover for the digipak and have done a warhole effect with a twist! Basically the digipak cover is split into 9 boxes, 5 of which have pictures of each individual girl, each with their own individual colour, and in the remaining 4 boxes we will have the band name, 'Girls Aloud', and pictures of sweets.

We have an idea for our magazine add (which shall be finished by the end of this week!) we used our original idea for our digipak as it was too rectangular but was the inspiration to our magazine add that we had no idea how to present so it worked out very well! we recycled our original idea.

Vodcast - Digipaks

Behind the scenes - sleepover and balloon scene

On January the 8^th of January we filmed the balloon and sleepover scene, the first two scenes to our music video. We started filming at 4PM and finished around 7:30PM.

Me, Faye and the girls involved in the music video helped blow up the 200 balloons for the balloon scene before we started to prepare anything else, thankfully we had an electric pump and didn’t have to use the whole 200 balloons as the room we filmed in was relatively small. It took a while and a lot of energy, but we filmed the room with white and pink balloons in no time. 

The filming with the balloons went really well and looked very impressive on camera. We actually used a small bathroom and covered the toilet and sink completely with balloons so you could never tell the difference. The girls falling into the balloons looked particularly impressive on film and the pink helium balloons also added an extra touch.  

Next scene was the sleepover scene where we used 200 feathers to create a pillow fight with pillows filled with lots of feathers. Filming this scene was a lot easier than the balloon scene as positioning and framing did not have to be as immaculate. I tried to include as much shot variation as possible in this particular scene.

I feel using a slow motion of certain shots will also look very effective. The feathers will look particularly good in slow motion. To get the bright light effect that most pop music videos use, Faye and I used desk lamps to brighten the girl’s faces, to give that flawless glow.

Overall filming on the two scenes was a success, it took a while and we had a lot of cleaning up to do afterwards, but was good fun and looks like good footage. We took photographs of filming throughout, and also took pictures of the girls for our digipak.

Rough cut 2

BOTH - Costume ideas

Ella – Girly

Kate – fashion rock

Lily – country

Luisa – preppy, sexy

Molly – 50s style