Day 21

          Today, I have made some changes on the music video. I synced in the second part of the Chorus clips which now looks better. On the previous cut, I realised that the lip sync were out of sync. I also added a couple edits on the "hi...hi...hi..." part of the Chorus, separating the clips and add some Fade to Black transition. Moreover, I realised on the last part of the Bridge, the scene where it's overlaid with the confetti clips doesn't match in colour since the confetti were in blue colour. With that, I decrease the saturation and turn it into grey colour which matched better with the colour scheme of that Bridge scene part. And lastly, I found some unused clips that would fit the last part of the Pre-Chorus, and I edited it by applying split-screen which made it look more interesting.

Day 20

          In the afternoon, we managed to produce our 2nd cut of our music video. The new clips filmed days before were edited, and I managed to construct the 1st and 2nd part of the Chorus. Moreover, I've added more short cuts of clips and match it with the beat to make it more engaging. A lot of improvements have been made since the last cut, and we only need to sort out the last part of the music video before coming back to it to make final touches such as editing the transitions part.

          This evening, I have finished all of my digipak covers. I have come up with this design; however, I am still not quite sure if it matched my poster and the music video. I used as many pictures of the actor as I can to make it more personal, although it didn't come out the way I wanted it to be. The third outside over on the far left was quite hard to create as I tried to edit on picture to be sort of 'artsy' but I failed. Here is the design that I come up with:

Day 19

          This afternoon, I went back to Hollywood Bowl to do extra shooting for our music video as there were more lip sync clips needed for Pre-Chorus 2. We were struggling a little while filming as there were so many people walking around, which restricts us to move freely. Also, our actor couldn't act naturally as she had a little confidence problem during filming. I had to change the shot plan in order for us to get the footage that we want. We decided to stop after a short while since we thought we had enough. In addition, we can't really do much filming as there were too many people around. In the end, we reviewed the clips and they turned out to be good.

          Later in the evening, after filming at the Hollywood Bowl, I did another filming for the Bridge part of the song. The concept was very simple; actor sitting down on a chair under a spotlight and wears dark clothing. I used the video light to create the spotlight effect and a mono-pod to set the camera placement.

          During filming, I had ideas that came through my mind on using different kind of lighting, as in moving around the light to add more variation rather than only having it static. With that, I tried a couple things and I like the effect it gives. My camera was on Auto setting, so it automatically adjusts every setting which could be annoying sometimes as it changes how the clip looks. In my case, it changes how the lighting looks on camera. Despite that, the filming went well and I am quite pleased with how the clips turned out after reviewing them. I also tried to add another clip with sprinkled confetti which I could use to fill up spaces in the music video.

Day 18

          This evening, I went to film the UV confetti scene for the last part of the music video. However, before that, I made the confetti because we haven't got any. I painted white paper stripes with UV paint just to add more colours and cut them to little pieces. I didn't film our actor with the confetti; I only film confetti being sprinkled. I did have a plan to use our actor dancing around whilst being sprinkled with confetti, but it got cancelled because the actor couldn't do it.

          I had a couple ideas before filming this scene, although I only tried a couple of things. It was not that exciting, but I like how the clips turned out. I was thinking of overlaying them with the Chorus clips, or use it for transition.

Day 17

         This evening, I went down to Cribbs Causeway again to film for the Pre-Chorus 1 scene. We sort of put this plan aside as we thought it's not necessary, and we decided to wait until the editing is done to see if we need more footage. As it turns out that more footage is needed, I planned this shoot with the actor. The footage was very good and we are very happy with it as it has strong lip syncing.

          This footage is going to be combined and matched with the footage from the UV performance clips. I really like this idea as it adds more variation to the music video. I think it will create a nice transition in between different location and environment which could help raise the audience interest.

Day 16

          Here I have our first cut of our music video. We decided to upload the first cut after constructing the whole music video. It doesn't take long to do as the shot during filming was planned very well. We did get quite confused of what to include as the transition part and the little flash clip to break up the shots. There are scenes still needed to be filmed to fill in the gaps that we have, and also the other scenes as we don't have enough footage. We would like to put more variation and lip sync into the Chorus part since it looks little stale with just the dancing clips.

Day 15

          We all went down to Hollywood Bowl in the afternoon to film the bowling scene. I booked the VIP lane since we thought it's better and there are slightly more privacy. Unfortunately, this filming wasn't planned thoroughly, so we were sort of planning on set which takes up filming time. During filming, we got carried on with the game and did less filming. In the end, we did get some footage but there wasn't enough. We filmed our actor playing bowling, lip syncing, and also some recording of the surroundings.

          After finished with the game, we went to the small games area and record some more lip sync. We only did one lyric line in there, which is not enough. I didn't think about it as we forgot about doing more of it.

          Lastly, we filmed around the arcade area where there are loads of flashing lights which suits our theme. During filming, I was focused more on narrative than performance, so we didn't do any lip sync scene. We used the coin machine and tried other machines, but it didn't work quite well, in my opinion. Other than that, I recorded the machines with its flashing lights which would be good for filling up spaces and transitions.

          I can say that today's filming went well, even though it wasn't planned thoroughly and we missed a couple of things. We would definitely need to do another shoot in Hollywood Bowl, especially around the arcade area. After reviewing the clips, we thought that there is more footage needed, including lip sync clips. We are planning on doing another shooting in a week's time. However, it's going to be during holiday, which means that there is a possibility of the place to be quite busy.

Day 14

          This afternoon, I went and talk to the art teacher and asked if they have a metal shaping wire and a fixing wire that we could have for our props. Fortunately, they have a couple metres of modelling wire which we could use.

          There are variations of the wires sizes and thickness which could be used in different ways. We are going to use the thicker ones for the structure of the writing, and use clear tape and duct tape to attach the light to the wire.

          In the evening, I tried to shape the wire into this writing 'Chasing Highs' and attach the light into it. It was a time consuming process since was quite tricky to shape the wire and keep it still because it's quite bendy. It was harder to attach the light to the wire because the light is quite thick, hence why it's hard to bend it tight.

          All in all, it turned out to be very good and we're pleased on how it turned out. We are planning on using this prop in one of our performance scenes.

Day 13

          Tonight, I went down to Cribbs Causeway, and filmed Verse 1 scene. We have been planning to do this scene. The result turns out to be really good, and we are satisfied with them.

          The other day I checked out the location and came up with a plan on where and how to film the Verse 1 scene. However, the plan changed as we filmed tonight, since I thought our actor can't walk on the water stream, turns out she can. in my opinion, this made the clips composition look better.

          In our storyboard - shot list, we were supposed to film the Verse 1 and Pre-Chorus 1 scene at the same location. I was hoping for today's filming could cover both scenes, however we couldn't. With that, we would have to find some other time to go back and film the rest of the clips we need in Cribbs Causeway. I was thinking, as we have very little time left, I would like to do this soon; Sunday evening or Tuesday evening.

Day 12

          During class, we had someone coming from 'Label1'', an independent television production company that works with many other big television companies, and they were talking about what their job is, how they do their job - how they record/film, explaining about their equipment and how to get job in this industry.

          The talk was very engaging. They gave tips about filming, including the use different camera angles and how to edit - which inspired us. After the talk, the class get a chance to talk to the crews in small groups and ask as many questions, as well as taking a look at their equipment for better understanding on how to use it and how it works. They use Sony Fs7 Mark 1 camera to film and we got the chance to hold their camera, ask questions about it and the experience I had was amazing.

          On the evening, I spare some time to come down to Hollywood Bowl to ask permission for filming inside. Sam has sent an email, but apparently they are not responding after 3 days, and we can't waste any more time to wait. Fortunately, Hollywood Bowl said yes to us being able to film inside, as long as we tell the reception that we are going to do filming.

          With this, we are planning on filming in this location on the 10th of December which is on a Sunday, and we thought it would be a good day too since it won't be busy around the evening.