Its Liverpool

Its Liverpool is a film competition in which Liverpool as a city would be advertised and for Production practice our tutors thought this would be a brilliant opportunity to work on filming. I loved the concept of this idea but i felt that everybodys videos would be very similar, advertising the same things over and over, so we needed to create ours to make sure ours would be better through the camera angles and movement and of course the editing. The video also had to include a time lapse feature within it so with this being new to us we needed to know what we were filming as soon as possible. We chose to focus these Liverpool representatives:

Liver Buildings
The Musuem of Liverpool
Liverpool One
Echo Arena
Albert Dock

As all of our group were from Liverpool we felt we had an advantage, we knew where some places had brilliant views of these areas and buildings and we set off immedietly to begin filming. We asked permission from a restaurant called Matou, if we could film off their balcony getting us various brilliant shots of both the musuem and the liver buildings, getting the time lapse shots out of the way already by getting the whole musuem with people walking around it.

 

 

We had our starting point and then went along the docks before going to the echo arena to film the last bit before it went dark, but on the spot we decided we could add a theme to the film as maybe 'A Day and Night in Liverpool' catching the sun going down, so we got another time lapse of the clouds coming over the echo arena in case we wanted to follow through on this and waiting to see what our rough cut would present us wit. After our rough edit we found we were very short on our clips, so we went ahead with the theme we thought would look good getting night time shots of Liverpool before making our final edit. Our final edit came out brilliantly and we had a very atmosperhic song over it called 'I am God' which went hand in hand with the footage. I was extremely proud with our final product as it just came together in the end and worked out brilliantly through the shots and editing, which is exactly what we wanted to happen.