Today we didn't have media class:(, but I did do a little extra for filming to go nice an easy on Sunday. Firstly, I finished the shot list finally for the infomercial and have started printing out pictures for the poster that we have to do. Federation is a very urban and indie brand and I decided to print off pictures of models off of their official site, rip the edges and paste them on a black or white A3 sheet of thick paper. I would then rip and make the pictures look worn like how the branding is and then paint over the top, federation. It would hardly mention the phone, but that is the sort of marketing that Federation does. I am going to put a picture of just the phone and the price at the very bottom of the collage. The message that the poster will get across is that in order to be cool, you have to buy this phone. Its going to look really good if I can pull it off.

The problems with the camera have finally (touch wood) been resolved. I went along by myself to Harvey Norman today to get all my recovered data and put it on a USB. Unfortunately only a few still images were recovered, but its ok because we have used our contingency plan and organised for another day of filming! Hopefully it will be good weather and we will have a better and luckier day of footage that we will definitely use. It is in a way good that we saw what town was like, and now we wont waste time. 
Now, all i have to do is keep checking that the camera is going to work on the day and that my dad's old tripod is going to fit the camera piece. If it does, that is a huge advantage for our group because then our footage will not be moving and shaky! I'm actually really excited about
 
Today Rob and I set out on the ferry at 9.30am to Auckland City to film our infomercial. It started off excellent with good weather and not too many people on the streets so filming was easy. But, this experience proved to be another learning curve for us. The new camera mum had bought me for my birthday worked perfect, but the 16gig card broke about an hour into filming. The filming that we did get done was excellent, heaps of camera angles and movement were used all around the city, but now its all lost because of the faulty card. Luckily we have enough time to go back to town next weekend to film, and hopefully Zoe turns up this time. Its good to see dedication from Rob and I at this early stage of the filming and not backing out on final plans. It is quite annoying knowing that all of the filming done is lost, but today mum and I went and got the card replaced. A few positives came out of today, we found the spots that we want to film in so next time we wont need to walk around as much, and I discovered that Rob is very good in front of the camera! Next time, I hope that all the group members can attend and read their emails that I sent out, and that the memory card wont fail again.