Diary entry 11: Finishing filming!!!

Yesterday Sophie and I finished filming the last part of our music video, and from what we've seen of the footage we are hopeful that it will come out well. We filmed the opening sequence of me (the main character) getting into the car and driving away; just in case, we filmed it numerous times with different shots to enable us to chose the right one. Now that all the filming is done we have to edit, create our website and do the animatic story board.  

Grain of voice and Synaesthesia

Synaesthesia is a condition where you can picture the sounds of the music in your mind while a song is playing. For example, you could see a shape or image in your mind which you associate with the song and as each beat plays you see a shape. An example of this is the video below: 

Grain of voice is when an artist has a unique voice that cant be compared to anyone else's, Goodwin described this as like a fingerprint. There voice is so unique that there isn't anyone else in the world that has the same voice as them. Two examples of well known artists that have this are Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston.  This helps create there star image as their voice is so distinct. 

Diary entry 10: Filming performance shots

During our double media lesson's today, my partner and I thought we should use this time appropriately and go and film our performance shots. We chose Kingston as our performance location, as it is an easy location to get to and it has loads of great places where we can film, such as the riverside, bridges, fields and a high street. We managed to get all of our performance shots done, including the guitar in some of the scenes and used a range of various locations. I think this time the filming went really well, because the weather was really good and we played the song in the background so I was singing in time.   

Diary entry 9: Editing Brighton footage

Today in our media lesson, Sophie and I started to upload and edit our footage from Brighton to imovie. We looked through the shots we had taken and were happy with the result. However when it came to the performance shots of me (the main character) in the field singing it was raining when it wasn't in the other shots. However, this could be seen as an artistic representation of the sadness of the song. Furthermore, my singing wasn't in sync with the music and we didn't have enough time to use a broader variety of shots because of the weather. As a result, were going to film more performance scenes in Kingston on Wednesday and this time have the song playing out loud as a prompt, in order for me to keep in time with the music. 

Diary entry 8: Filming in Brighton

Today me and my partner Sophie drove down to Brighton to film the main narrative part of our music video. We came across a couple of problems, for instance the weather was very bad and rainy at the beginning of our filming, the wind was very strong for must of our filming and the car broke down leaving us with a shorter amount of time. Given all of this, we still managed to get all of our narrative shots done and took some location pictures. All in all it was a very good day for filming and we got a lot done, even though the weather was awful and we had scarce time.  

Diary entry 7: Editing

Today my partner and I began to edit our opening sequence to our official music video. We decided to stick with the original idea of the first shot being a mid shot of the main character in the bath with makeup smudged across her face and her eyes closed. Followed by another shot of a close up of her face while she opens her eyes and the camera slowly zooms out as the music comes in. Luckily we did practice shots before hand and filmed a lot of shots to choose from, which made it easier for us to pick the perfect one that fits with the music. We considered having the bath shots before the music came and having it in black and white but then decided we would change it later and see what looks best. In addition, we managed to edit and complete our group discussion video but had difficulties uploading it to our group blog.  

History of our chosen artist/band-Paper Aeroplanes

Paper Aeroplanes are a are Welsh pop band which formed in 2009. They were formerly part of Cardiff-based band Halflight. Richard Llewellyn and Sarah Howells, from Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire respectively, make music that has been compared to Fleetwood Mac, Suzanne Vega, The Sundays, Lisa Loeb and The Cranberries. The BBC described them as "a west coast, easy-riding, folkish indie with a pop sensibility", and The Guardian as "disarming, breezy pop that's tinged with melancholy". Llewellyn was also formerly a member of Cartoon, while Howells was part of rock/riot girl band Jylt. At the end of 2008 they joined forces with the Autonomy Music Group. In January 2009 they worked with John Reynolds (Sinéad O'Connor, Andrea Corr) on two singles that were taken from their album The Day We Ran Into the Sea, which was released in 2010, and described by the BBC's Adam Walton as "'pop' music: brilliantly crafted and stoked from a bruised heart's embers".BBC Radio Wales described it as "the finest radio album to come out of Wales since Rockferry".

The band have featured on Bob Harris's BBC Radio 2 show, being interviewed by Harris and performing a live session. They have also recorded a live video session for the BBC.

Immediately prior to the release of their album We Are Ghosts in March 2011, the band used local independent coffee shops to publicise their music. A limited edition 4-track CD was produced and these were given away at each of 12 of the band's favorite cafe's, in exchange for the purchase of food at the venue. In this way the cafe's also benefited from the publicity.

Below is a link to there official myspace website:

http://www.myspace.com/paperaeroplanes