Other class feedback

Genre:
You succeeded in making the video nice and mysterious.
The abstract shot of suit guy walking in field is almost creepy.

Relationships:
Relationships created between music and visuals are good. and the editing pace.
music more mellow and slightly dark matches the feel to performance shots.
Lyrics 'take me away to another place' matches the setting of a warehouse. It shows isolation.

Camera work:
Good cutaway shots, the close ups of instruments worked well. Wide veriety of angles and shots used. Effective shots of lead singer. Good shots of drummer.
Shadows are good.

Editing:
The quality and pace were good. Slow at the beginning stayed with the music. Doesnt look tacky with transitions. just fades looks effective and pro. works well. Shots on top of other shots look good. Black flashes were not faded looks not good as ruins flow.

Mise-en-scene: variety of locations, clothes which help to keep the video interesting. good guitar. most of it dark. mike at end too long. good props, instruments.
Special effects:nice use of wide screen love lights on guitar. filters good.

THIS IS EXAMPLE OF FOOTAGE OF SHADOWS SHOWN ON THE WALLS. WHICH WE HAVE IN OUR MUSIC VIDEO. TAKEN FROM THE KILLERS, MR BIGHT SIDE.

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Again anorther similar shot to which we used. This shows that we got the genre rigth for our music video and used many shots similar to the genre. Bloc Party, Banquet.

This is a similar shot to what we used and the lighting is dark which is also similar to our music video. This is bloc party, Banquet.

professional video comparison

In "Resume Ignore" by exit ten, the band are shown performing and there are many similarities between our video and theirs. Examples of this are the close ups of the vocalists face to establish a character, however in this video, the audience can see the main characters face unlike in our video.



The band also include shots that we planned to use but couldn't because of a technical fault. This is essentially a wide shot that establishes the entire band.
Some of the fades in our video are reminiscent of the fades in Exit tens video also

Final Lesson

In the final lesson...we had a problem with the sound..so this meant that we lost a lot of time in the lesson to finish the music video. So we stayed for a while after school so that we could get it finished a standerd that we would be happy with. We decided that the end shot would be off the microphone all alone with a dark setting to show that it is finished and that all the musicians had gone and that it was empty.

Marianne

Production methods

25% Planning this included storyboards, researching music videos of different genres, anamatic, and producing different ideas. we did this amount because we needed to get our ideas right so that we can move it on to how to film the music video. basically to be sure.

15% Pre production Location scouting, rehersals, test shots. we didnt do many test shots because we didnt have any equipment in long road such as guitars, drums, etc. We didnt do any rehersals because we didnt have a location sorted to do this in at the time. Location scouting, i spent most time doing this asking, around through fiends, and family. and schools. we also searched on the internet.

20% Shooting, filming and actual footage. i did this we spent 8 hours filming that day. as left it late because of location and people. we found that the footage wasnt bad but i did feel that i wanted to go back if i could of to do more movements and different shots. as we did have bad equipment on our day.

30% Editing cutting clips arranging them into narrative and motifs. spent alot of time as we wanted to make a successful music video. we edited it as much as we can but did run out of time.

10% post production Transitions, effects. we used filters but found we ran out of time to have a finished music video to play around further.

Final Music Video

feedback of FINAL

We got some feedback from the class and from friends that have watched our music video and these are some of the comments that we got:

Positives:

• The settings were good and the contrasts between the locations (sunny outside and dark warehouse) is effective.
• The guitar shots worked well and the energy of the guitare movement went really well with the genre if the song and made the video more interesting and energetic.
• The lip-syncing was done well.
• The shadows of the drummer was effective and looked good.
• The lighting in the warhouse worked well dark and low lit as it added to the stlye of the video.
• We had a large variety of shots.
• We also had strong images.
• We had generally good shots..some that were mentioned were the end shot which is out of focus and the shot with the lights shining from the guitare.
• The shots that have Ollie walking towards the camera were good and that we had a good veriety of those shots.
• The fact that the video shows the purpose for Ollie running because at the end the video shows where he was running too, this was really good and made a lot of sence to the audience.
• The props worked well and were well thought out.
• Not seeing Ollie singing clearly all the time worked well because it gave the video a sence of mystery and gave it more stlye.
• The frame was good, it was cropped well so that the right amounts are in the frame.
• The slight colour change in the begining shots and the end shots looked good.
  

Negative/ improvements

• Some people would have prefered seeing more of the snging clearer but some people liked it how it was.
• There could have been more of a veriaty of the shots used of the singer.
• Maybe use different colours/ filters
• end shot too long
• use of one shot used too much
  

Final Days

were now in the final days of editing our music video so i have been filling in my frees with extra editing time and stayed after college one evening. there is one day left i hope we finish it if we do it still doesnt give us theat time to do extra adjustments as i can imagine been slightly rushed. we have one lesson. and there is still a few gaps to fill but i am pleased with it as it could be worse. it has a variety of shots in it etc what i wanted but it could be better if we had more time. such as more shots needed more band members and i would of liked to use some ideas i have been influenced by from the killers video shown below and used the space more. but overall it hasnt been a bad music video for the first time of making one. i just hope we finish. Polly.