so far...

So far we have filmed everything and made a good start in the editing. We still have a bit to do on it, but mainly just getting the green screen perfect and the shots slotted together. we have been lucky enough to be given one more day of editing because we miss a day due to the friday being a holiday.
We did have some trouble with filming because we booked the music room for lunch and a small section of the next lesson on the monday, BUT when we got there cut it down to abit of lunch, so we couldn't get all of our 'Beatles' footage, so we decided to add in a small boyband section to also have more contract with the other footage and to also replace the other half of the 'beatles' section. The boyband we decided to do was 'Westlife' because there are a big, well known band that fit to the stereotipical boyband image.
Because we were filming our 'Beatles section on the last day of filming, and we couldn't finish it all, we had to pretty much make a rough plan of our 'Westlife' footage and the go by it because we only had limited time left. The footage came out good enough so we known that we need to reshoot it, but we know what we need to shoot.
The current order for our footage is:
-David Bowie -footage really good and all the editing is done. The green screen is really good with these section because it looks all retro and slightly old and this looks just like the Bowie section of 'life on mars' that we aiming to achieve.

-The Beatles -A small section of close up to medium shots of the drummer to fit to the beat. looks really good and the editing is finished on that, it was green screened as well but it doesn't look as good as the Bowie footage. But i think that we should put an image behind instead to make it more apealing and more bolder, we can make it fit to the retro 60's age of the 'Beatles' instead of a plain edited background. The costumes were just smart suits and we gelled our hair if we had hair that was to long to make them look like bowls.

-Elton John -The footage looks really good and quite cheesy and funny, but not intentional. we haven't green screened it but we have done many different shots, long, medium, close up of face, close up of feet, close up of keys. Just so we can get the right but of footage. So far we have only used a medium shot at the beginning and a close-up at the end because we wanted to make it it like the 'crocodile rock' video. We have put some colour hue and saturation filters over it and other editing techniques on it to make it look colourful but still keeping to the conventions on the video. The costume was smart suit and some pink heart shaped glasses and i styled my hair to make it look like his. The footage also looks effective in the way that the ginger hair is really eye catching.

-Vanilla Ice -the footage is good, but it could be better. But it looks really effective because the background is of the stage and we have lots of different props on the stage to make it look like an abanded warehouse, and we have put no natural lighting on it it all artificial and its been put only in sections, so it like light is just seeping in, it looks really effective. we also put a dance to this and there are bits that look really good and bits that don't... we have finished all the editing on this but we have the last lesson to finish this section for the rough-cut deadline. The costumes were just trackies and baggie top, a retro hip-hop look.

-Westlife -This was done on the spot because of the music department. We know what we have have to shoot, we just need to re-shoot it because the footage looks pretty bad, but on a whole it looks really effective. We all had our costumes because we had it from the 'Beatles'. When we re shoot it and finished with a slow motion editing it will look really good but for the rough-cut it will look average.

So far the editing has gone together really well and it all seems to fit. We have green screen quite a lot of our footage so it takes that little bit longer to edit because we need to get the right quantities green edited out without cutting any of the artist. The timing is good so far we just need to put it all together for the rough cut and see what we need to do to make it better or to add on more of a certain section.

Personal at the moment i am really pleased with the footage and i am really looking forward to getting it all together and finalized. It should really good and it bit quite funny but not intentional. All we need to do now is to finish all the editing on 'Vanilla Ice' and 'Westlife'.