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Today, we had managed to complete our basic editing draft, however, we still have to film one more scene which will be done tomorrow. Even though it is one day before our deadline, in the industry, working to how the client wants it is more essential. This would probably be a normality, they must acess wether or not this can be viable. As I learnt organising it today that managing to pull them together for the scene on such short notice can be difficult and stressful, however luckily for myself, I had managed to get it sorted for tomorrow.

Another point is that due to everything being done until tomorrow, I had found myself being bored and not doing anything productive. So to pass the time more constructively, me and Kat decided to get evaluative feedback on our draft work. This is so that we can make any last minute edit decisions before releasing our final product tomorrow, in the industry they would conduct a focus group to make sure that it fits to what their audience would like. I feel this course of action will help us in the long run.

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Today, was the infamously dubbed "Garage Day", most of the footage would be recorded on this day to make the music video. As well as the rest of the scenes for the music video, at some point today, we also had to do a Photoshoot for our Promotional Campaign.

Unfortunately, the original Camera we had now started to play up right at the beginning and would shut down unexpectedly. Luckily, we had done what the industry would do in the pre-production process and had created a contingency plan if this problem was to happen. So we was prepared and had brought a back up camera of which filmed the for the majority of the session. Though, if we had not followed the industry standards we would have not been able to film, wasting the opportunity to get our footage. This would have destroyed the whole concept of the Narrative, effectively making the project void unless we had managed to think of a quick solution.

On the other hand, as we also had a story board, this had given us a clear list of what shots we had to do, this had helped progress go smoothly. Overall, what work I had expected to take most of the day had actually taken just the morning, I feel that this had given my group more consolation that there wasn't a need to rush. Of course, this was a great advantage for my team as we managed to produce more highly creative shots.

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We had travelled to Takeley in the morning, after reaching the conclusion that our primary location for Scene Six, Ongar Train Station, was not available to be used for filming as they were in the process of construction.

Even though we had all the day to film, I found the travelling to be what had taken most of the time up yesterday. As Travelling to Takeley had taken two hours from where I live, even though this location was a plan B from the contingency plan, it had taken four hours to get back to the other recording locations for scene 4. Though, we had stayed professional and kept the day timetabled to the production timetable of the day. I feel without this that we might have not been able to do this all in the time allowances, since the deadline is the end of next week.

It was also quite cold for Nathalie at Takeley, she had felt the cold as we rushed to set up the camera and take filler shots. So we had the problem of which Nathalie wanted to rush the shot scenes and it worries me due to the fact that potentially the shots might of had to be redone as she wasn't taking it as seriously as she would otherwise. Looking to the industry, they would have been much more prepared and set up before bringing the actors/actress onto the set, this would be by giving them somewhere to sit and be comfortable with Tea or Cookies. For Sunday, I feel I will be able to improve the environment for the actress by giving them things such as tea and food.

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So after the initial flurry and worry of what happened on the 12th, everything had gone back to production according to plan due to my camera operator Kat. They had been very helpful in the process of sorting this whole fiasco out the other day. However, today we had decided to up take the chance to film scene 2 and scene 4 in the storyboard.

In the Morning, we had gone to Harlow College to film scene Two, which was done quite quickly and easily. Though a problem was that the hair and makeup had taken longer than had planned, so had pulled us behind an hour so the filming that should have started at 10am started closer to 11am. This hadn't caused us many problems however, this would have if this was in an professional environment due to the fact that you would only have the location for however long you had rented it for. Time pullbacks like this would become a cost more than nothing to bother about...

Our second problem was that in the afternoon, we had planned to film for Scene 4. Which was an outside scene were "Linda" reveals to "Bean" the ultrasound scan, showing that she is pregnant and leaves in a upset flurry. Though sadly, it had terribly rained and would have caused a problem for us so we had to stop early and add this to the next day for filming instead.

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Many errors had occurred today that could had potentially jeopardised the production of the music video being filmed during half term at all, like we were warned about; we had problems arise. Of course, we did have an awareness of the possibilities happening, after all, what is the music video if there was no challenges to overthrow and be a victor over?

Firstly, when calling my male lead actor to check and debrief him on the days as well as the times, he mentions to me that at the last minute he has more urgent matters to press on with and not being able to be a part of the production anymore. This had lead to hours and hours panicking, though in the end, we had contacted our understudy whom is called Lee. He is a personal friend of Kats. Though, this would be a frequent problem that happens in the real life industry and I feel that we had solved the problem in a professional manner. This was by looking at our contingency plans, falling back to our plan B's, without these matters being sorted out we could have faced issues that would have caused the deadline not being met.

The second issue that was then faced was the editing of the story board, to accustom the idea to only fit around the two main roles which are respectively named "Bean" and "Linda". This was another contingency plan of which was made incase our original plan could not become fruition; The plan originally had two extra characters named "Chance" and "Benny". These two were featured within an introduction scene which was meant to express the context of the narrative, however now it is simply a shot that is deemed interpretive at the beginning.

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Today, my team had its meeting with the client about our progress with the pre-production documents we had to all do, without these documents all not being done to a high standard our client would not let us proceed to production. It was vital that we had got her assured that we were ready with all the paperwork done, as if we did not get permission now, we would miss out on filming for the majority of a week which would pull us behind on our project. Since our production timetable had leaned on filming on half term to complete the production itself, if we didn't do this we would fall behind on our production timetable we might miss our deadline for the product itself.

This pitch had required me to try and improve on my confident with talking to my clients in a vocal manner, in the industry this skill is essential to find solutions, pitch your ideas and to gather feed back for your work. I feel that the pitch had gone much better now since the initial music video idea pitch, which even though I had said had gone well, I had recorded myself beforehand so I would not have any choice to forget or make mistakes. However, I feel that this had went better due to my communication skills improving since I was able to talk and break down any concerns or worries that my client had efficiently.

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To cast away the fears I had about filming in a dark setting again, Kat and I had decided to do some lighting tests, this was to ensure that what happened in my last unit (Animation Stop motion Ident) where the footage had come out too dark to see and that the audience then couldn't understand the narrative or see the product in the positive atmosphere it was intended to be. If this was the case, they also do these lighting checks within the industry to avoid these issues beforehand.

We had not expected to take as long as we did when we were partaking within our light experiments, this was due to setting up the LED lights, in the industry I realised today they would most likely would book with the setting up time in mind. Otherwise they would waste their production time at the location due to setting up the lights, so with this in mind I'd like to make sure that when we do book the motion room for our production stage; we should make sure we have the extra time set in place for preparing to film as well.

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So due to last weeks accident, I had fallen slightly behind within the tasks I was allocated as part of my Pre-production documents. So I had sped against the clock and began to try complete my tasks, as I had spent the beginning of my pre production time allowance healing as well as getting over the shock of what happened. Of course, this was allowed to the extent that in the industry, this would be explained as a reason to not be in.

The other thing I had discovered today was that I was feeling slightly pressured to try and complete all the work, even though there was about another week to complete it at this point. So I had felt the urgency and pressure, even though there is no need to. To help the worries down, I had decided to breath and create a checklist to help me complete the selected tasks I had. This had given me a sense of perspective and order while I had worked through.

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Unfortunately, a bad accident had happened today, which had caused me to go into the A&E department at the hospital this day. Even though this was an unplanned freak event that wouldn't naturally happen in normal circumstances, due to the injuries that were sustained during the accident, I had to take today and the day after off from all work. This was so I could take the time to properly heal so I could work effectively after my time.

However, this has caused some struggles keeping up with the personal deadlines, as it has caused a 48hr work slump. Pulling me behind the timetable I had scheduled myself for this unit, in the professional world this would have been deemed as a well enough excuse to be taking rest but I would have to sort out my work and work double time afterward. Since deadlines are important to keep up with, however, since this is at an educational side I can learn from this now.

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I had used today to continue working on my task 2 (the paper) by writing through each decade. I had found out that finding the references beforehand and planning paper had made it much more easier to explain the points I had more directly, meaning that it had become more simple to not muddle my text. For my FMP and my Unit 12 evaluation, I feel that it would be an idea to plan for what I will be writing about. I feel that it would give me a more critical analysis on things and will enable me to ensure a high grade.

Though, one issue that I had was finding sources online that had the author available to reference easily. This would have become a problem as in the industry, without proper referencing and accreditation for others works within your own, you may face legal actions under the Copyright Act. It is set up to protect peoples original works and idea's from being stolen by other people, if this is broken or jeopardised in anyway, in the industry you may be taken to court where you might have to pay lots of money. So to avoid this, I had found a Harvard referencing gadget of which helps you properly make the references correctly, this way will help me ensure that I will avoid this costly mistake in the future!

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So, in this Wednesday session of class, we were introduced to another research task of unit 12, which is task 3. Task 3 was to bring us forward with the knowledge of the different genres of music video, so for example; Impressionist, Narrative and Surrealist are three examples of music video genres. However, the task was similar to last weeks task 4, which was finding video examples and seeing how they had used the styles effectively, to see how they had used it to their advantage to keep the audience entertained.

Due to my lack of focus today, I hadn't taken all the information I had needed to take in, in. Causing some room for area when I had started my investigation on YouTube to find the examples needed, I had struggled to identify what kinds they were. To fix this, I had asked my neighbour what we had gone over briefly and I was on my way once more. I should avoid this in the future, as it really impacted against me on how long it took to find the videos to be honest.

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Today we were introduced to our task two, which was learning about the history of the music video and how contextually, society had affected the music videos of their time. So for this task we had learned that we had to write an academic paper about the development, it needed to have a minimum of 1,500 words to fit within UAL's standards for marking. We had also had a long speech by Leila, as she told us key events, political influences and celebrities of the decades, to give us an insight into what she was looking for within the paper.

So to tackle this, I decided to create a structured plan and start researching for what I would like to talk about in my paper, what was so difficult for me was finding music videos that were earlier. So it was a slight problem to find examples, as music videos weren't exactly a big thing back then. So I had to settle for live performances or just the songs themselves on videos, though it didn't cause problems finding pieces to write about in the later years so I had manages to sort it out accordingly in the end.

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So today in class, we were welcomed into the technical side of music videos and started with task 4 of our unit, which was to be introduced to what the techniques were in the industry. We were shown how these techniques came out by being shown existing examples.

I feel this had really helped on my researching skills, as I had to find the examples, though I did not complete this task without coming across problems. For example, it was difficult to find videos to feature the techniques that corresponded with it. Such as finding a music video example to relate to the techniques like Chroma key, Camera Angles and Multi-Image, these were difficult as sometimes the songs that would have come into mind would have the music videos banned in our country underneath Laws and had made the process longer than it had to be. The way I had sorted this out was by just shifting out through the suggestions of the music videos, though this had brought me to songs I hadn't come across before, it did open up the examples of the techniques that I had needed to comment on.

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Within class, we had returned to the new year with being introduced to our new project for the term. The group had discovered  that we were in fact starting a music video production, as we looked through the brief, we had to make sure that we understood the requirements and context of which this had to be produced by. Details such as the deadline, target audience and information about music videos themselves would be on our agenda today. However, that was not the case, as I had hit various highs and lows through out the day.

Firstly, I had faced the major situation of not being able to connect to the school wifi, this prevented me being able to partake in the class debate of wether or not music videos were still relatable in our current society. I couldn't effectively deal with this enigma, due to the fact I would have needed to depart from the class to go down to the IT help desk. Though, later on during my lunch time I had left to solve this problem out, preventing this issue to disrupt me during my afternoon studies. As the afternoon pursued, I had began to hit my targets for the day. I feel that one of my self targets from this new term was to focus on my organisational skills, as I had found out from last term is a weaker asset of my personality and had caused a lot of my work to be sub-standard than the preferred level that I would have liked it to be instead. I believe I had placed it into affect today as I had a lot of research tasks to initiate, creating questionnaires and planned questions to ask within my focus group plus the 1:1 interviews. I have to admit, I did face early struggles attempting to uncover the best suited questions for my investigative endeavours. Though, i had got some inital inspiration to help kick start the snowball, once that had happened it began to be like an avalanche!