Hayley McCarthy created a time lapse video of London for her extended project. She filmed at various London landmarks over two days, but weather changes made filming difficult. Working in a studio gave her resources and space to work, but editing took 5 weeks as she only had limited time in the studio each week. Her idea evolved from focusing on the poor and rich areas of London to instead showing famous landmarks. In the end, she was pleased with how the sunrise and sunset footage complemented the instrumental music track in her video.

1. Hayley McCarthy

2.  I decided to work in a studio because of the resources
they offered. As they gave me my own place to work, I
went out to look for ideas.
 For my Extended project I did a time lapse of London. I
showed many different parts of London.
 With my first idea there were many complications as
to where to film.
 My idea sparked from watching a music video by Ed
Sheeran as I was working on my project at the same
place where they shot this video.

3.  I firstly
wanted to do it from the outside looking in
and that’s what I have tried to capture but in a
more upbeat and fun way.
 By using a time lapse I was able to take many
videos of London yet this took a long time due to
it being a five minute music track.

4.  Ditto gave me work experience working on a
music video around angel and at Limehouse. This
gave me a good foundation into what I needed to
do in time for my video to be completed.
 Ditto also gave me the music and a few stock
videos which were the sunrise and sunsets in the
music video. I felt this was relevant as the track is
called Sunrise.

5.  I looked into different time lapses and saw what
looked more effective. I felt using images made it
look more jumpy which I didn’t think was suitable
for my video.
 I looked at time lapses of London and how they
made them look effective. I also talked to the ditto
TV film makers and asked which effects I should
use. We agreed that this video would be more
effective with out fade in effects so I used them at
the end – for this project I used final cut.

6.  I used a mac using a mp3 track and imported it on
to final cut. I used a HD camera to capture most of
the footage I used and then used studio cameras
to capture some of the more clear images. I then
ordered them out day to night. Then sped up
there sequencing and used the videos I found
most effective and spread them out on a time line.

7.  My idea was a good realistic idea and as it was
very free going I shot what I thought would look
most effective I didn’t plan on shooting at
Borough market needless to say I’m happy I did as
I was quite happy with that shot. The thing that I
also did not think about was shooting it over a
two day period was hard as one minute the sun
was shining and the next it was raining. Filming
tower bridge also worked out to be quite tricky as
I did not have a tripod at that time.

8.  I also didn’t think much about how long it would
take me at the studio. It took about 5 weeks to
complete due to using the studio it being so far
away and each week only being able to use final
cut for 2-3 hours with some shots I had to delete
as I felt they weren't clear enough.

9.  My final decision changed from viewing the poor
and the rich to looking at the most obvious
landmarks. (big ben, tower of London, London
eye, etc.)
 I was pleased I made this decision because it was
more realistic to shoot and time wise quicker.

10.  I'm pretty happy with my final project. Looking
back I may of changed the backing track and used
more vocals but I think the sunrise and sunset is
pretty effective with my backing track.

11.  All inall I am pleased with the decisions I made
and how I went about deciding on what looks
best.