Production/Post-production (Make up challenge)

Today, we were planning on filming mine and Amy’s Make up Challenge video at about 9.30 am in the television studio. Whilst Kyle, Kenny and Luke edit Chadachino and Cooking like a Bause with Extra Sauce on Final Cut Pro back in the classroom. Jonathan was going to be doing the Get Fit pre-production paperwork so we could quickly film a little version for a VT item sequence in our video. Me and Amy changed our cameraman to be Chad as he was available at the time whilst the director of Get Fit! Was currently busy.

We were on schedule as we got into the television studio about 9.20am and started setting up. We moved the sofa towards the back corner of the studio and brought round the green screen as this felt a more appropriate colour than black and blue because it just stood out more. I began to set up the tripod with Chad as we got it at an appropriate level which was a mid-shot of us both sitting down. We wanted to go with a theme like we did shoot it ourselves without a cameraman or anything or different shots because we thought it would be more appropriate to do it this way because of the style of the show and the presenters we are crazy and outgoing so we wanted our video to be like that and not professional.

I brought my own camera with me which is a Canon 60D we used mine because it is much easier to film with and we wanted to keep going down the route of us doing it ourselves and not a real film that we cut and stop it.

When we got that set up we got a little table in front of the sofa where we put our entire make up during the video so it was easy to access but it wasn’t something we could in the actual video.

We made 3 different sections this was because of interruptions. The first section was where we introduced ourselves and said what we were doing in this week’s video we made it like that because we wanted to do this like we do a weekly video. Then we got straight into Amy putting my make up on first so this meant she was blind folded. Then we stopped the video and made a separate section for when I put Amy’s makeup on. Then the end section was just a closing message thank you for watching.

I think our filming went successfully it went exactly how we wanted and what we expected so we were happy with it. It was a shame we had a few interruptions because that got in the way where we had to cut the footage and make it look more unnatural. But I think we worked well as a team and thought that what our video was made for within the show was totally appropriate and what we wanted.

When we finished filming we decided as a group we were not to use the Get Fit! Idea it took a lot of time to realise we didn’t want to because we couldn’t film something that would look suitable enough and as good as we expected. So because of this we decided that we would use some past videos we have created before we are going to be using Chad shopping channel video where he tells a Slanket and cut it down to an advertisement then we also used Video Killed The Radio Star music video.

Me and Amy decided to edit our videos which took a very long to load on the computer which we didn’t expect so this put us back in time quite a lot. When we began editing it took a lot of time because our footage was a lot longer than we expected it to be so we had to cut out masses of it which caused a lot of stress and we didn’t know what we wanted to cut and what we wanted to keep. It took us a long time to cut a lot down but it didn’t seem to make as much sense when we did because it missed a lot of talking and just general from one piece of make up to the other. We finally edited the videos in two separate ones which were about 5 minutes apiece we ran over the deadline by a long time which we didn’t want to do.

Whilst out final cuts were exporting we recorded a few voice recording for Jonathan who were creating the opening titles so he would work through them and put on which was best and went with the show.

Overall, I feel the day went successful and that our final cut videos I were happy with and turned out how I wanted them to do. The only disadvantage was missing the deadline because of the time it took to export and import the footage to begin with.