A2 Production Diary 9

On Sunday 20th October Dan, Lucy, Tom, Gemma and I went out to film for a music video of Taylor Swift's song 'Fearless' that we are going to use for our documentary. However, once we got to hertford and where we wanted to film it started to rain and didn't stop for the majority of the afternoon so no filming took place. Here are some photos from the day:

A2 Production Diary 8

Today Dan and I spent a few hours in the media room editing for our first draft which is due in tomorrow. He edited the majority of the first part of the sequence at home which includes a montage of Drew when she was younger, what is supposed to be an old video clip of Drew singing in her room and an interview with Drew about her time at school and also the titles. There is also voice over included and 'You belong with Me' by Taylor Swift plays in the background. 

Today we edited the second part of our production together. We used footage from an old media production members of our group created. The footage was of a music video for Taylor Swift's song 'Fifteen.' We then had a video of Drew talking about why she wrote fifteen. 

Lastly we changed the beginning slightly. Instead of having the montage at the very beginning we have a clip of Drew playing the guitar with the sound muted on the clip, and instead have replaced the sound with a sound effect of a crowd cheering. We are also going to have audio clips of her fans reminising over their love for Drew Taylor. 

A2 Production Diary 7

During our lesson today we filmed interviews with me acting as Drew's best friend, and a fan portrayed by Lucy. In this filming session we used green screen to have the same background during these interviews. We also came up with some new ideas for the direction of the documentary. We decided that we would use it to promote he 'Autumn Leaves' world tour that we have spawned. Here is a tour poster that Dan has created: 

I have also created a tour poster which I uploaded on a previous blog.

Here is the current edit of our documentary 

A2 Production Diary 6

Today, Lucy, Dan, Tom and I filmed at Gemma's house. We used her bedroom for the set. Firstly, we filmed a sequence which is supposed to be an old video of Drew singing in her bedroom when she was younger. Secondly, we filmed an interview with her which was in the same room. Here are some photos from today. 

Potential Tour Posters

As I mentioned I was planning to make a tour poster for Drew and I have decided that I am going to experiment with a few. The first one I have made was with an image from our photoshoot on the 10th of October and to make this I used Microsoft word. I am not sure if I like it, I have spoken to other members of the group and they have said they think it looks good. However, I think it doesn't look glamorous enough especially for an arena tour.

Potential CD Covers

In a previous blog I noted that we all met up to go out on a photoshoot with Gemma. Dan managed to take some of the photos that he and I took and make potential CD covers. We have used Taylor Swift's albums as the main inspiration for this. 

My personal favourite is the autumn leaves album cover and I'm going to use the album title as the tour name for the promotional tour poster. 

A2 Production Diary 5

Today, Lucy, Dan, Tom and Gemma met up for a days worth of shooting. In the morning we managed to film some footage for the music video clips. Then in the afternoon we used the fields near Fanhamns Hall in Ware and Dan and I managed to take some photos for a CD Cover. 

For this particular photo shoot we wanted naturalistic scenery. In the end we chose an area where there were woods. It was a very pretty location that had a long winding path secluded by trees of which the leafs were beginning to fall. So the photo shoot had an autumn feel to it. We also were lucky to be taking pictures just as the sun began to set. 

In terms of the photos we took in Gemma's house, we used a dark coloured rug as a background and Gemma sat on the floor looking up at the camera. We tried having her lying down on the rug but we did not produce any flattering photos and one of the point of a photo shoot is to make the star look their best. 

Inspiration 

I did some research before our photo shoot and looked at similar artists to Drew Taylor such as Carrie Underwood and Taylor Swift. As we planned to use naturalistic scenery I only looked at photos taken outside. 

• Nina Nesbitt's 'The Apple Tree' EP cover this was where the idea for having Gemma lying in the floor came from. Although we practised that idea inside
• I looked at a photos hoot that was taken in 2012 for the release of Taylor Swift's third album 'Red.' This photo shoot is taken is set primarily in an outside setting. It is clearly taken in autumn too with leafs on the ground
• I also looked at a Carrie Underwood photo shoot that was set in fields 

Nina Nesbitt: The Apple Tree EP Album cover

Taylor Swift 'Red' photoshoot

• This photo shoot was to promote Taylor's 2012 album release for 'Red' 

Carrie Underwood photoshoot

• The naturistic background for this photoshoot inspired our own 

Here are some of the best photos we took that day 

• We took the following photos at Gemma's house using her floor rug as the background

• The next photos we took in a field near wareside a long a wooded path 

• The last two photos on this blog I took though there were many more left out as they weren't good enough 

• This is a close up of Drew and is my favourite photo we took that day 

Merchandise ideas

We have decided to make merchandise some of which will be included in our final documentary. I myself am a huge fan of merchandise and enjoy collecting posters, wristbands and t-shirts. I have come up with some ideas for merchandise ideas that we can use.

Ideas

•  T-shirts, fan made?
• Wrist bands
• Cosmetic brand
• Posters

Inspiration
As Taylor Swift is our main inspiritation I researched some of her merchandise. This helped me come up with product designs for our own merchandise as she has the same age demographic as Drew does which is teenagers, particularly teenage girls

I am now going to design products for Drew Taylor focussing on her Autumn Leaves Tour.



A2 Production Diary 4

Dan and Tom managed to complete a lot of editing on Chauncy School open evening. So far we have managed to complete the photo montage at the beginning, the audition scene, an interview with Drew and we have included an older media product for the Taylor Swift Music Video 'Fifteen.' 

Here are some screen shots of our current production process 

A2 Production Diary 3

During today's lesson Dan and Tom continued editing the video footage using Adobe Premier whilst Lucy and I went to do a photoshoot with Gemma which for a CD cover. Unfortunately, Lucy and I did not find a suitable location for a photoshoot during lesson time so we planned to shoot on Thursday 10th October.

Here is a list of uncompleted work 

• We need to find more suitable photographs for the montage at the beginning of Drew when she was younger 
• We need to create merchandise such as CD covers and posters 
• We plan to film clips of music videos from some of Drew Taylor's music videos 
• A poster for the documentary, this will be inspired by Taylor Swift's music documentary 'Journey to Fearless' 
• Lastly, we need to finish Tom's voice over that will play over the documentary 

A2 Production Diary 2

In the last lesson we used our time to edit what we had. We found this very useful to start editing early so that we could check what looked good and what didn't so we could re-film if we needed to way before the final deadline. That day we began to edit the audition section as well as some of the interviews. We also managed to create titles and get some of the voice over for the documentary.

A2 Filming locations

Chauncy school 

• We have used our school hall to film the talent show section, as well as an interview with Drew by the piano 
• We are also using the corridors by the lockers and so on to film a tour of Drew's school (the school hall has also been used for this section

Ware town 

• We are also going to film in ware town although we haven't done location shooting yet

Pictures of locations we've shot in so far 

School hall 

Corridors