DiaryBlog Entry 9: What I have done over Christmas Break!

Well, I hope you all had a fun filled Christmas; as i spent most of it filming.
I have filmed all of the scenes that involve other people, such as Tommy and Bronwen, and now all I have to do is film a majority of the bear and me.
A main problem that I faced, seemingly as it's the middle of winter now, was that I had little daylight hours for filming, meaning that I didn't have the right lighting for my filming to take place, as it's too dark.
Yet, I did turn this in my favour as I was able to use this in one of the disappearing scene with the toy bear, as he falls off the edge of one of my chairs. The darkness really worked well, as it was just light enough to see the bear, yet dark enough to create a lonely ambiance within the scene itself!
If the footage is darker than what I originally recorded, then I shall simply brighten it in the editing software (of whose name escapes me).

Other troubling aspects I came across was prioritising. As I had to prioritise scenes that involved Christmas decor, as the music video is set at Christmas (hence the relationship with the toy bear). And, I had planned to film AFTER Boxing Day, my family were waiting on me to finish filming such scenes so they could put down such decor I needed to be consistent throughout my footage. For example, I needed the tree to still be up, yet, I had several different scenes in the room where the tree was present, SO; I needed to film all of these for that room to then be free to have it's decor to be taken down.
Now as suspected, I need to keep my decor up in my room, and keep anything that may hint to the time of year consistent throughout the whole video. So to put in depressing terms, I'm going to be very unlucky by the time I take down my Christmas decorations (but hopefully still lucky enough to finish this course).

Right at this moment I am uploading my footage onto the computer, and it's taking it's time, so I shall hopefully of uploaded a full blog post of all (or for simpler reasons: "SOME") raw footage that has not been edited. This I will compare with to one of the edited pieces of footage, showing the differentiation between the two, and how this creates the effects I intended, and those of which were unexpected!

As I said I still have some filming to achieve, so the blog post will be a little while yet, BUT, I plan to use this weekend to finish all the filming I have left to do, I'm not guaranteeing everything, but hopefully all my footage will be present by this time next week!

Thanks for keeping up-to-date!

Matt