Production Diary: Group Post.

5th September: Today we was put into groups for our music video task, our group consists of me, Lara and Emma. We discussed ideas we had initially come up with for our music video, we each pitched three song ideas to each other. We also worked out the best times to come together as a group not in lesson and swapped phone numbers.

	MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY	THURSDAY	FRIDAY	SATURDAY	SUNDAY
MORNING	Emma-free Charlotte-free Lara-free	Lara-Revision Emma- Swimming Charlotte-Lesson	Charlotte-free Lara-Lesson Emma- Revision	Lara-free Emma-Driving lesson	Charlotte-Going out Lara-Going out Emma-Going out	Emma-free Charlotte-free Lara-free	Charlotte-Working Lara-free Emma-free
AFTERNOON	Charlotte-free Emma-Music lesson Lara-Lesson	Lara-free Charlotte-homework Emma-Singing lesson	Emma-free Lara-Lesson Charlotte-Revision	Lara-free Emma-Lesson Charlotte-Lesson	Lara-Cinema Emma-Homework Charlotte-Cinema	Emma-free Charlotte-free Lara-free	Emma-free Charlotte-Working Lara-free
EVENING	Lara-free Emma-Dancing Charlotte-Shopping	Emma- Working Lara-Homework Charlotte-Lesson	Lara-Working Emma- D of E Charlotte-Going out	Charlotte-free Lara-Lesson Emma-lesson	Emma-Working Charlotte-Working	Emma-free Charlotte-free Lara-free	Lara-Working Charlotte-Working Emma-Homework

8th September: Today we discussed our ideas further and managed to get our ideas down to three songs which were DJ Sammy- Heaven, Ellie Goulding- Be mine and Ellie Goulding- You my everything.
This took a lot of discussion and we had to figure out what would work and what wouldn't and what would be best suited to our group as we are an all girl group so did not have a boy to lip sync if there were any boy parts within the song.

9th September: Today we brain stormed idea's for each of the songs that we had come up with this helped to finally decide on a song for our final music video. We really liked Heaven by DJ Sammy but we found that it was really slow and emotional and even though it would be a really good song to do it would be too hard to do, especially as the song is about a love theme. 

Be Mine by Ellie Goulding ft. Erik Hassle was the song we found first but as there was a man singing in it too and even though it would be easier to do than our first option we still found that it would be a lot more of a challenge than we need so we decided not to do that one.Finally, we all decided we like You My Everything by Ellie Goulding because it was a lovely song that was sung by just her. I came up with the idea about using sparklers in the night and then when we edit things put them in slow motion so the effect will look really cool and original. We came up with a more abstract idea of drugs and teenagers having fun by mucking around.

10th September: Today we worked on a PowerPoint to present our ideas to the class.

11th September: Today we presented our ideas to the class so we could get their feed back on what they think would work and what would not work for our group. They also agreed with us that You my Everything was the best choice for our group.

12th September: Today we researched music videos that were by similar artists to ours so we could get an idea of what our artist would wear and how the video would be set out.

15th September: Next we found things that inspired us for our video idea such as fireworks, sparklers and the programme skins which helped us to create a vision for our music video.

16th September: Today we worked on a time line for our music video we got the lyrics and planned out a shot for each part of the song. We decided to do this so we could put our vision for our music video onto paper and this helped to create our storyboard later on.

17th September: Today we had to decide who would be the main star for our music video so we did a lip syncing task. I lip synced to Pia Mia- Just hold on we're going home. We filmed this with a microphone in the music room and decided that I would be the main star for the music video.

18th September: Today Lara created a mood board for our music video including costume for both the male and females in the video and inspirations. We also created the website on Wix for our artist 'Grace Starr.'

19th September: Today we started on the Storyboard for our music video. I drew the pictures whilst Lara and Emma added the timings in and worked out what type each shot would be and coloured them in afterwards.

22nd September: We continued to draw the Storyboard and once we finished we photographed it and uploaded it into adobe premiere so we could add a voice over so we could explain each shot into detail. Emma was the voice over for the storyboard and I edited it.

23rd September: We continued with the Storyboard and adding a voice over. We soon realised that the shots on our storyboard were not broken down into enough detail so we began to add more shots to the storyboard.

24th September: Emma continued to draw more shots for the Storyboard and Lara recorded a voice over for the mood board to help explain our overall vision in more detail.

25th September: Today we created social media for our star, including Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. After this we had a general blogging day where we added more detail to our blogs about our production so far. Emma continued with the Storyboard.

26th September: In class today we worked on our storyboard, as there was a problem with it when we thought we had finished. Therefore we went through and added some shots because we originally made a mistake. When we had done that, we continued to do a voice over on it to add more detail.

29th September: Throughout this lesson we kept updating Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. We kept adding posts and writing tweets to promote to our fans the music video that is on its way.

30th September: Today we worked on updating our blog to make sure its up to the highest standard.

1st October: On our inset day at school we all went to my house to do a photo-shoot of the upcoming star and some lip syncing along to the song so we could use this for the lip syncing parts of our music video. We borrowed some light from the school and took them to the set to make the lighting look more professional. When doing the photo-shoot we had Lara as the make-up artist and she also did my makeup, Emma directed the shoot and suggested different angles for me to stand in.

Here are a couple of pictures we took from the shoot and a shot of behind the scenes action and the lights:

2nd October: Today we uploaded all of our footage onto the computer and looked at it. Emma, Lara and I all looked at the photos and edited them onto Photoshop to make them look more professional. Here is the before and after image of one photo we have edited.

3rd October: We continued to edit all the photographs so they looked more professional.

6th October: Today we aimed to finalise the storyboard and finish all the voice overs and editing.

7th October: In lesson today Emma and I were working on the presentation we have to present to the class on Wednesday. The presentation is about our upcoming star and how we are promoting her.

8th October: Today in class we presented the PowerPoint we have made to the class to show off and promote our artist. This was filmed by our teacher.

9th October: In our lesson today we worked individually to make a PowerPoint for an artist that we have chosen, and in the PowerPoint we have to analyse the album cover of the artist and a single that we have chosen.

10th October: Today we missed the lesson as we had a media lecture, which helped us to come up with creative ideas for our music video and make them the best that they can be.

11th October: Today is a Saturday and the day when we decided to film the rest of our footage. We went to a forest in the dark and I had picked up a generator and lights from the school so we could film outside.

13th October: Today we uploaded the footage that we had taken on Saturday and went through it all to figure out what we could use, using the storyboard we started to put the shots into order on premier.

14th October: Today we continued to update our blog.