Group: How have you represented your group across your promotional activity?

JI: Editing Studio Footage

On Wednesday we had a trip to the drama studio, and I am just now editing the footage on Premiere to see the good clips we can add in. Once we imported the footage into Premiere we decided the lighting wasn't the effect we wanted so I had to alter the 'Brightness and Contrast' and play around with the colours in the footage to gain the effect we wanted.





I also wanted to try some new effects so I used the 'Ghosting' effect to add some different looking shots in to our footage.

Group: Rough Cut Final

This is our final rough cut of our production 'JLT - Close To You'.



This is a stepping stone for our final piece which our deadline for is 2nd December.

JI: Editing Footage

After our shoot in London on Saturday I have been editing all the current footage along with our new night footage all onto a master edit. By importing our other files we have now got a whole 'rough' cut of our song, which will need to continue to fine tune this week.



The only footage we now need to capture is with a female which we are going to complete this week, to add the narative of a journey through a relationship including the good and the bad.

LF: Targets for the rest of the week

• Provide a rough cut of the print work and the video.
• Answer questions on how our band is represented throughout the promotion.
• Take still images for the printwork.
• Film shots including a female and extra close ups in the studio.

LF: London Night Footage Reflection

On Saturday we decided to complete another shoot to try and capture some night footage in London. We faced a few limitations whilst in London especially at St Thomas’ hospital as there was not a sufficient amount of light to capture a clear image of the subject. Therefore we tried to overcome the problem by using two strong torches and trying to reflect the light of a large piece of white card, however it still was not good enough for our liking.

 As a result we moved to a location which had more potential street lighting which we could use but still capture the same image when it came to framing. We tried to capture filler shots with iconic London sites in the frame such as the London eye, Tower Bridge, The houses of Parliament and the Gherkin.

A location that we felt will look extremely effective is at the base of the Gherkin building. The surrounding scenery was traditional however the modern twist of the glass Gherkin acted as a good contrast. We chose to use the area because there were circular lights coming from the ground as well as bright white lights situated on a nearby wall. We filmed some shots of an iconic boy band member sitting down on the floor under the white light.

After we decided there was not enough lighting at St Thomas’ Hospital we filmed on a very busy bridge which gave us a clearer image of the boy band and the houses of parliament.

London Night Footage Recce

Yesterday, all of us went up to London to film some night time footage for our video. We planned to shoot a bit of extra footage that was of a very high standard, while also getting some very scenic fillers to use throughout our video.

Overall the trip was a success, however, it did not start out that way as we encountered our first problem of the recce. We went back to the location we used in our last shoot, near south bank. When we turned the camera on, we realised that we couldn't actually see ourselves on the screen because it was too dark. Despite our best efforts, attempting to use the torches and reflector, we could not generate enough light to make the shot work. We decided to change location and moved to a more well lit area, right on the rivers age. We obtained a few filler shots and were getting into the swing of filming at night, however we still hadn't captured the excellent footage we were aiming to get. After this short stint of filming, we walked onto the London Westminster bridge. It was here that our recce really began to take off.

The lighting was much better and the houses of parliament provided an excellent backdrop to the shot, an iconic landmark that really lit up the frame. We also filmed a few filler shots because the lighting was so good and the atmosphere was very ''stereotypical London''.

After this filming we decided to film some footage at the base of the Gherkin. There were small lights placed around the building and there was also some blue lit lines that were on the walls surrounding it, giving the whole area a luminous blue effect. We are hoping the footage will be as good as it promised to be when we shot it.

Overall the recce was very successful and we think the night shots will accompany the other footage very well.