Updates

Time for some more updates people.  So time is slowly ticking away, we are now down to roughly less than four weeks to have the whole project done and as things aren’t exactly moving along as I would like them to, me and Chloe are getting things done. I suppose first thing to mention is filming. As you know I only have half of it done, with all scenes involving the band still needing to be filmed. I had finally managed to nab everybody together today (as of writing this) only to have this curse rear its ugly head to find the room I wanted to use and the only room that’s suits the video, is already booked out. But I have had words with my team and Mr Earl and the drama room we want to use is free Wednesday and Thursday of this week and I am determined to make sure it all gets filmed this week and hopefully the start of the editing because that really does require a lot of work.

As regards towards the editing goes, once the band scenes have been filmed, rendered and uploaded, that will become the new top priority and I will take any free time I have to working vigorously to make sure the video is complete. There is still that a lot that needs to finished in the editing which I will take you through. First, the footage that has already been shot needs going over again, as Mr Earl has brought to light a few issues that need sorting out. There is a slight pause at the beginning of the first two shots, which I will need a look at, the first one is deliberate, it acts as I kind of build up to the video which will all make sense once the track is embedded on the video, as for the second pause I will definitely cut that because that is meant to be the unknown force chasing the character in the video, so that needs to be constantly moving and chasing because it is meant to be a relentless force, similar to that off the Evil Dead films, which ties in with ideas taken from my research and the themes and influences of the band. As for these point of view shots of the force, I’m going to be applying so affects to them to give off the impression that it is some living and pursuing this character. For this I will possible use a red fill affect or a smoky effect similar to that used in the Evil Dead movies, when it is a point of view shot of the demonic force, or possibly a combination of the both, it all really depends on what will look the best, give the right impression and how far my editing skills can take me, as I’ve mentioned this is my first proper time in the editing seat so it’s still very new and foreign territory for me. The final thing to draw on for editing is the sense of pace from the video, again this is hard to comprehend without the track on the video, but all the shots and time frames are worked out from off my storyboard in which I painstakingly listened to the track over and over again when drawing out the story board to make sure it fit with the track and when it seemed relevant of appropriate to cut to the band and to know how much time I had altogether for the video so I could map out the so called plot of the video. There may be times where I have to speed up the video and maybe even go out and re film some segments but I really hope it doesn’t come to that. Again all I can do is wait till I’ve got the rest of my footage and the track.

Final couple of things to mention is the print side of the project. This is the side of the project that has had the post focus lately, due to problems with getting filming done, and is going pretty well. Both me and Chloe have been designing the magazine article and the cover, which you may remember I said I wanted to do a bigger magazine package to go along with the print portion of the project, so far it is just the cover as the extension on the magazine if I have more time I will work on something else. At the moment none of my designs have been scanned in or adapted onto photoshop with a lot of them been done on publisher because I don’t have photoshop and is another software that is foreign territory for me at the moment.  A lot of my items have been hand drawn as well, mainly the digipack so that will need uploading and will need fine tuning in photoshop, on the other hand me and Chloe will be taking loads of photos of our band (the band in our video acting as representation of Pulled apart By Horses) to serve as purpose for our print products such as the magazine, and we might just compromise loads of different photos to assemble a digipack, again this is still being decided. Chloe actually already has a really excellent magazine cover created by her up on her blog, using an actual photo of the real Pulled Apart By Horses and it just looks amazing, like it has belongs on the front cover of an issue of “Rolling Stones”. I will be uploading it to my blog just when I next get to see her because she isn’t in today.  So for the mean time print products will continued to be soldiered on with, in-between the filming and editing.

One final brief note, as I have mentioned in past blogs I have had issues with my laptop, which basically is what I do all my work on when I’m at home and is just my life most of the time. Anyway it got a lot worse over the holidays because I just woke up one day and the casing on it was coming off with loads of exposed wires and one side of the screen was nearly completely unscrewed and close to hanging off. So as of last Saturday (14^th January) it was sent away to be repaired along with the other issues hopefully and will be back in about 2 weeks. So until then all my work that is done on computer will be done at school, library or on my home’s main computer which will be very little as it is in a worse state then my laptop, it is incredibly slow and close to about 9 or 10 years old, so its quite a surprise it hasn’t died yet. I’m hoping this won’t affect my work flow too much but if it does, a lot of it will most likely be charted up to me not having my usual means of working.he beginning of the first two shots