Filming

We have decided to film the rest of our music video this week, on Wednesday night. The main purpose of this filming is to reenact a performance which was the topic that appeared most from the feedback our teacher and peers gave.

Our filming location is the same as last time,same props will be used although we intend to have a drum set for our performance, if it is possible. However we have built high expectations for ourselfs and feel we need to meet our standards even if we have a very short limited time to finish our project. Wednesday night is going to be essentail for us to complete the project and hopefully will bring our piece of work together.

Recreating and Reinventing our Project

After looking at all the comments we were given we decided we need to drastically change/and improve our imagery for our project to be the best it can be. We have also been looking at previous and current media projects in different colleges. After doing so we realized we need to upstage ourselves, expand our shots types, props, characters, effects and general ideas.

We then started to watch other music videos by our chosen band to see what genre we can feed from and if we can get a clearer concept as to what we need to do. We watched one of their video's from the track "Hearts on Fire".
We would put the video of "Hearts on Fire" but the Youtube video prevents us from doing so because of the embedding issue we could not put their video on our blog.

Technical Improvement

One of our main constructive critisism was to incorperate a visual performace of the band or a single member playing or singing along to the backing track. We have then decided to incorperate a performace based section into our final edit, but we are not sure wether it should be the main character (Ben) signing or random passers by singing small pieces of the song. Random passers by being other members of this group such as Charlotte and Chisanga passing the main character in the street.

Teacher Comments

Our teacher expressed her concerns about the lack of performance, and seemed to encourage us to include some sort of lip syncing, either by other characters or our main character that we presently have in our video.
We were also told that we need more editing and re-creating to the footage. I.e: Layers, effects...

We fully understood that we would need a lot of improvement as this only a rough cut, the given comments gave us a clear image of what is right and what is wrong with our current project and what needs to be done.

Peer Comments

After taking a good look at all the comments that were given by our peers it became clear that we needed some form of performance to re-create a strong indie/electro vibe. Simple shots such as lip syncing could improve our videos standard. We understood that we needed variation of characters and more introductions to the characters we did have. Some comments were unclear and rather irrelevant such as the concept that our video was too public. According to our peers we also needed more props, such as alcohol.
We also had pointers that advised us to erase and get rid of the starting shots of the video, because our starting shots were carried out in the college grounds. Unlike our idea of doing this filming in a home we used the environment we had at the time.
So with that said we feel we most definitely need to emphasis and re-create a new fresh start to the music video.
However as a total outcome we had positive feedback through out the comments, the peers expressed their thoughts about our filming techniques and added effects. I.e: slow motion, blur,rewind...

Last Day for Rought Cut Project

Luckily for us, one member of our group has excellent editing skills and has a good knowledge of computing, so Ben took most of the task of editing our project, accepting our ideas that we felt we had to re-create without objection or criticism. So myself and Chisanga knew we had to give all the help we could, by updating our blog as we had forgotten to describe the pace of our music video project. Fortunately for us we knew we would meet the deadline of this project as we executed all our procedures on time and feel contempt with all the group's efforts that we're given, even of we had some few gaps between footages.

The Roughcut Filming Procedure.

After booking our camera and meeting on Sunday evening, we were slightly disappointed with the lack of people in town because of it being Uni Freshers we'd thought there would plenty of night life activity. However we then realised it came to an advantage to us because we didn't have the problem of having people protest in being in some shots of our film. Which can effect the pace of work we could do with our evening, we were willing to stay till we had what we wanted and luckily for us we managed to make most of the footage in an hour.

As for our location we chose the shopping area of town and the bus station, the bus station has plenty of lighting which helped us make the footage clear and reinforce the concept of night time. The shopping area gave us the chance to film in-doors, as we filmed some of our footage in the "Grand Arcade" we realised that this could be the end of the characters wild night.