Ancillary Task update

Today we worked on our Ancillary Task. Grace Rewaj and I (Fatima Adam) worked together on the Album which consists of 4 sides; the front cover, the middle page, the lyrics page and the back cover, on the other hand Elizabeth Ann Robinson made the Magazine Cover. For the Album cover and magazine cover we decided to have the artist as the main focus so that the audience would be able to see what kind of a singer she is, which is a female singer/song writer.

Editing

Today we used Final Cut Express to edit our footage to get it in order so that everything would flow together. At first Final Cut Express was very complicated to use but after using the tutorial to guide us through and our many attempts, we were able to complete most of our editing. For this we all gave our fair contributions however Elizabeth Ann Robinson did a little more on the editing as she was unavailable for the filming days. Furthermore before the editing we were afraid that the idea of singing through the frame wouldnt work well in the video, however as the editing was done on it and a black and white effect was added to it we were very happy with the outcome and we decided that it did fit well with the video therefore we were glad to have taken the risk.

Filming

Today we filmed the frame scene. We filmed a frame for the length of the song and then filmed our artist (Grace Rewaj also known as Erica Shine) as she sang the whole song. We are now going to edit them both so that it looks like she is singing through the frame. We also took few pictures of our artist so that we could use them for our album cover and magazine cover.

Editing

Today We edited some of the footage we had done outdoor in the park on Final Cut Express, however we still have a little more filming to do, which would be the frame scene.

Filming

We filmed most of our footage today for 3 hours. We managed to use the snow to our advantage, and we used the park to shoot most of our footage, however this slightly changed our original idea because we felt that this would be more effective and original and would fit in with the song we had chosen. We also took a couple of shots of pictures and other scenes which are going to be used in our music video as flashbacks.