Exams

Now that our exams are out of the way, we are able to film properly once again, many if not all of our actors were bogged down with exams and therefore we were unable to film when we wanted/were able to. We have booked 'Goals' for this weekend with twelve actors; we have an hour to film and we film we should be able to get enough footage to complete our advert two. We have decided to take two cameras along to 'Goals' so that we can get maximum angles and the best shots possible.

Now the exams are out of the way all we need is for the weather to pick up a bit!

Frustration and how to get past it

Due to the current weather conditions being different to when we filmed Tom and I have been unable to film any more of our advert 1; instead we have decided to focus on ad 2 for the current time, until we get a day when the roads aren't wet where we filmed.

This means we have 2/3 of our advert 1 filmed and cut to our like and we only need to re-shoot a few shots and film the last few ending scenes. Still it is becoming frustrating as it's looking like we might not make our deadlines for two adverts finished and one rough to be in on the 30th of January.

We will try and get it done, but may need a few more days, sunny days hopefully.

Christmas Break

Due to both Tom and I being busy over the christmas break, we had set out a filming schedule that suited both of us for specific days in the break. Unfortunately on three of these days, there were road works on the road that we had previously filmed on, meaning we were unable to film on that road. We attempted to film on some other roads but they were too short, too busy and didn't look anything like the road we had previously filmed down. Therefore we decided not to use any of the footage.

Another problem was that I had a loose hubcap and took it off, as I had ordered another hubcap and was expecting to receive it before the end of the break as I had ordered it on christmas eve, I still haven't received it.

Therefore we were disappointed that we didn't get any filming done, but have already sorted out a shooting schedule to finish advert one and get the majority of advert two done by the start of february.

January

Our aims are that by January Tom and I will have completed our first advert and will have started/Nearly finished advert two allowing the end of January and whole of February to complete advert three which we feel will take the longest to film and edit.

We have decided to re-shoot a few of the shots for advert one and we feel advert two will take three or four shoots to get the correct type of shots to make the advert.

I will post our new shooting schedule when we have created it.

At the current time I am feeling quite confident that we will finish our adverts on time and that they will be of good quality.

Summary So Far

We started this project in September and I feel like Tom and I wasted three months before we actually started. Our problem was that we had created storyboards for adverts that we were never going to be able to complete. However when we were drawing up the storyboards we didn't think they would be that impossible. As a result from trying to arrange several things for the same day it just proved impossible and therefore we had to decide that we would never complete the adverts in time if at all. As a result we decided to create new storyboards (which I will be putting up on the blog once my scanner is returned next week) and therefore create new adverts which will be as effective but easier to film and edit and consequently complete.

Due to the problem's above we were unable to meet the deadlines and fortunately Mr Michie was very understanding about this. I feel we will complete the adverts by the end of February, we are aiming to complete it before so if need be we can improve small bits and pieces so that our adverts are as effective as possible.

I feel we have faced a few issues and we have overcome them well (issues in first paragraph) and consequently because of the issues and having to re-storyboard we are more determined to get our adverts completed as we feel we are behind some other groups.

Editing

On Wednesday last week we began editing, we have spent a few hours editing within the week and we are starting to see what our first advert will look like. The outline is looking positive and we only need to re-shoot a few shots. We have input some music and we feel that the advert is starting to flow positively.

We need to shoot the end of the race and we feel advert one will be very close to being completed. Over the christmas period we are planning on going out and filming and for this I have booked out a mac book so that I will be able to edit the footage we have gotten from this.

Filming

Yesterday (10.12.2008) Tom and I started filming for our first advert. We started filming the Mecurial Advert VI, which involves a footballer and a car having a race, the result of this will determine what is faster the boot or the car. To develop meaning and understanding that it is infact the boot that we are advertising we have decided to use a range of close up's and eventually the footballer wins, showing that with these boots the audience will become faster by wearing them.