Thursday, 17 November 2011
Monday, 14 November 2011
Week 9
Week 9 Day 1- We carried on with editing our footage to get it ready for the finaly cut, we also arranged everything on our blog so everything flowed in order from the time we had done it.
Week 9 Day 3- We continued with editing our footage to make sure it was all in place for tomorrow night which is the deadline, and also completed the blog to make sure we had explained things in as much detail as we could. We also had to film 5 seconds of filming to add in to our nearly finished video
Week 9 Day 4- This was the final day we had to finish our editing and blog, we spent all day doing this to make sure we had everything did so we would not be rushing at the last minute since the deadline was 4.30pm. We also ordered everything so they were continuous with the subject of other posts
Week 9 Day 3- We continued with editing our footage to make sure it was all in place for tomorrow night which is the deadline, and also completed the blog to make sure we had explained things in as much detail as we could. We also had to film 5 seconds of filming to add in to our nearly finished video
Week 9 Day 4- This was the final day we had to finish our editing and blog, we spent all day doing this to make sure we had everything did so we would not be rushing at the last minute since the deadline was 4.30pm. We also ordered everything so they were continuous with the subject of other posts
Week 8
Week 8 Day 1- We edited the footage we had to start creating our music video again as we had to do a full re-shoot of the whole video since we changed the stroryline and also our actors (drama students) we felt doing both of these things would bring us with a better outcome
Week 8 Day 2- We filmed more footage for our music video as when we showed our teachers the footage we had they thought it was too dark and it would not look good when put into our video.
Week 8 Day 4- We carried on with editing our new footage to make sure we had enough and that the brightness of the video was ok, we also carried on updating our blog to make sure it was up to date with everything that was needed on
Week 8 Day 2- We filmed more footage for our music video as when we showed our teachers the footage we had they thought it was too dark and it would not look good when put into our video.
Week 8 Day 4- We carried on with editing our new footage to make sure we had enough and that the brightness of the video was ok, we also carried on updating our blog to make sure it was up to date with everything that was needed on
Thursday, 10 November 2011
Rough Cut Feedback
For our rough cut the full class watched our music video and gave feedback to what they thought we could do better, and what they already liked.
This is what they liked:
Good concept/Narrative
Storyline
Locations
Performance Lighting
The feedback we received for what we could change was:
To keep the costume the same
Edit shots shorter
Better drummer
Different camera angles
Singer to learn lyrics fully
Better actors
Mis en scene
Different locations
More emotion in actors face
From this we learnt we had to change a lot to make sure we were successful when the final cut was presented to our teachers. We decided we would completely change our actors; we found two drama students who were used to being in front of the camera and would be confident enough to portray a real narrative and display more emotion due to happenings. Along with this we kept our costumes constant instead of having it changing at different points in the video. We also got someone who actually played the drums to take Callum’s place so it would look like a realistic band instead of fake. When we were re shooting our footage we made sure we got more camera angles of the shot- and also when we came to edit it we did a variety of shots instead of just one long one. Finally we used different locations as we thought the living room scene was not appropriate so we used the kitchen to show the relationship this room was not commonly used in previous music videos we had seen so we thought it would be a good idea.
Along with everything we listed above we decied to change the whole idea of our narrative to make it more original and less predictable, together with our group and our teachers we discussed potential ideas for what we could change our idea to. From this we came up with the idea which we were inspired by 'Othello', however we decided instead of using a hankercheif we would use something a bit more up to date being a bracelet. Between relationships today bracelets are commonly passed around to highlight the relationship; we decided to do this to show the relationship between the couple, and how it can slowly deteriate if the bracelet was saw on someone else. Our new idea was that we would portray the couple happy and everything fine highlighting the bracelets, then the boy out of the relationship would meet another girl at the cafe- she then thinks it something that its not and touches his hand which leads to him leaving the cafe. On his way out his bracelet drops off (which shows his signature relationship with his girlfriend). As the other girl leaves she picks up this bracelet and puts it on, however when she is waking home she bumps into the girlfriend and puts her hand on her arm to appologise. Which the girlfriend then sees the bracelet and thinks there is something going on between them.
The girlfriend does not let her boyfriend explain and jumps to the conclusion that she thinks- then things exulate. The conclusion to our music video is that the boyfriend gives his girlfriend a new white bracelet, this signifies their relationship starting fresh the white highlighting this.
This is our rough cut video:
This is what they liked:
Good concept/Narrative
Storyline
Locations
Performance Lighting
The feedback we received for what we could change was:
To keep the costume the same
Edit shots shorter
Better drummer
Different camera angles
Singer to learn lyrics fully
Better actors
Mis en scene
Different locations
More emotion in actors face
From this we learnt we had to change a lot to make sure we were successful when the final cut was presented to our teachers. We decided we would completely change our actors; we found two drama students who were used to being in front of the camera and would be confident enough to portray a real narrative and display more emotion due to happenings. Along with this we kept our costumes constant instead of having it changing at different points in the video. We also got someone who actually played the drums to take Callum’s place so it would look like a realistic band instead of fake. When we were re shooting our footage we made sure we got more camera angles of the shot- and also when we came to edit it we did a variety of shots instead of just one long one. Finally we used different locations as we thought the living room scene was not appropriate so we used the kitchen to show the relationship this room was not commonly used in previous music videos we had seen so we thought it would be a good idea.
Along with everything we listed above we decied to change the whole idea of our narrative to make it more original and less predictable, together with our group and our teachers we discussed potential ideas for what we could change our idea to. From this we came up with the idea which we were inspired by 'Othello', however we decided instead of using a hankercheif we would use something a bit more up to date being a bracelet. Between relationships today bracelets are commonly passed around to highlight the relationship; we decided to do this to show the relationship between the couple, and how it can slowly deteriate if the bracelet was saw on someone else. Our new idea was that we would portray the couple happy and everything fine highlighting the bracelets, then the boy out of the relationship would meet another girl at the cafe- she then thinks it something that its not and touches his hand which leads to him leaving the cafe. On his way out his bracelet drops off (which shows his signature relationship with his girlfriend). As the other girl leaves she picks up this bracelet and puts it on, however when she is waking home she bumps into the girlfriend and puts her hand on her arm to appologise. Which the girlfriend then sees the bracelet and thinks there is something going on between them.
The girlfriend does not let her boyfriend explain and jumps to the conclusion that she thinks- then things exulate. The conclusion to our music video is that the boyfriend gives his girlfriend a new white bracelet, this signifies their relationship starting fresh the white highlighting this.
This is our rough cut video:
Monday, 31 October 2011
Week Seven
Week Seven Day One- We received feedback from our rough cut we had some good veiws and also some bad- the majority was not good. We decided we would think of a whole new narrative for our music video so it wouldnt be so predictable and more interesting. We also decided to ask people that were drama students to be involved in it. By doing both of these things we thought we would come out with a better outcome- which would lead to better grade.
Week Seven Day Two- We did a lesson on narrative theory, this helped us with our ideas and how to make sure our narrative was clear and how it could compare with Todorov's theory- this also gave us more ideas of how we could play around with our idea.
Week Seven Day Four- We compared how our music video narrative compared with what Todorov's theory was and also how it constrasted with this. We thought our new storyline fitted in with what Todorov's theory was as our storyline includes a initial balance, occurance and a new equilibirum. We have wrote exactly how this fits in with our storyline above.
Week Seven Day Two- We did a lesson on narrative theory, this helped us with our ideas and how to make sure our narrative was clear and how it could compare with Todorov's theory- this also gave us more ideas of how we could play around with our idea.
Week Seven Day Four- We compared how our music video narrative compared with what Todorov's theory was and also how it constrasted with this. We thought our new storyline fitted in with what Todorov's theory was as our storyline includes a initial balance, occurance and a new equilibirum. We have wrote exactly how this fits in with our storyline above.
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