Half Term

During Half Term, I went away with this list of tasks to do:

• Get my Digipak photos (front and back) taken
• Complete my final piece of shooting my film
• Complete the website
• Go through my Blog thoroughly, and make sure that everything I have done to this point is on it.

I first went away and took the photos for my digipak. I decided that I would use a close up of a part of my face, the eyes. I took a few photos and once I had uploaded them onto my computer, I tried different filters and effects on them ,such as making them monochrome, sepia, photo-negative, as well as many others.


On the Tuesday and Wednesday of half term, I went off and did some filming. Firstly, I used an empty room in my house (with, importantly, white walls) and did various close up shots of me singing the song - taking various close up angles of parts of the face - the mouth, eyes, nose, ears. These will make up the basis of my video, and will be used during boht verses, and maybe in parts of the chorus. I also went and took some shots of empty streets for the short intro (before the singing starts).


I went on my website using webeden, and got the last one or two bits finished, but there was a problem which I am yet to solve - the preious background is still appearing behind my new background image, and is appearing round the edge of the site, making it look messy. I will get this fixed ASAP.


At the end of half term, I looked through my Blog, and noticed that the audience research results and some of my earlier shoots were yet to be posted. This has been corrected.

Half Term Plans

During my half term, I am hoping to round up a few things:

• Get my Digipak photos (front and back) taken
• Complete my final piece of shooting my film
• Complete the website
• Go through my Blog thoroughly, and make sure that everything I have done to this point is on it.

Plan for the Holidays

For the Christmas holidays I intend to get my first filmshoot done, so that I can get started on editing it once I return to the school. I am unlikely going to be doing any work from Christmas to New Year though, for obvious reasons. This means I will try to get my film shoot done ASAP, before Christmas hopefully.

Things To Do - Deadline Extended

I have sadly not got everything done by the deadline I had set myself, so I am going to extend it until the end of the term in order for me to get it all on the blog.

New Deadline: 21st December

Things To Do

I need to get these things done by 11th December:

• Storyboards
• Two different drafts of my Digipak front and back cover
• One draft of the digipak insert
• A draft of my website - With necessary research
• Plans and outlines of film and shoot days
• Still/screenshots of filming and photography (for digipak and website)

Half Term

I tried to spend my half term as wisely as possible, as I was away from Saturday to Tuesday, so I only had 3 extra days instead of 5. Some of my video I could not film or get footage during the holidays anyways, as the majority of my filming is either school based or will involve the green screen in some way, using the schools facilities. I have storyboarded most of my video there is just a few piece that I am unsure of in terms of location, but I will likely get that sorted in the coming weeks. I also need to think of a location where I can get the room to be completely white, though I think that the green screen will help me if I cannot find a suitable room. Therefore i have tried to plan as much as possible, now i am going to finish off my storyboards, work out a date and then attempt to get in touch with some of the school staff about locations. My aim is to have around at least 1 minute of my video filmed (and if possible, edited) by the end of November.

Half Term Objectives

Over half term, I will be taking the filming equipment home with me, and will hopefully begin to start filming, but will mostly working out different shots and ways I can use the camera. I will (hopefully) begin filming the actual video as soon as possible.