Feedback from Final Video

Here is some feedback from other students, teachers and other random people...

Genre and use of conventions>
Effective use of genre, everything links well. Narrative matches with lyrics and conventions. The song and footage works with the typical music video conventions, but at the same time it is very unique.

Mise en scene>
Location and street lighting, as well as hand held torches work well. The scene is in touch with the genre and the lyrics. It gives a very urban look to the video, and it is shot at night. This highlights the start of the weekend and fits well. The costume and "style" of the band is appropriate, as is the outfits of the crowd scenes.

Performance and lipsyncing>
The lipsyncing is excellent, that and the imitation of playing the instruments looks real. There is an amplified link between between lyrics and the visuals. The band perform really professionally too.

Camerawork>
There is a variety of camerawork, appropriate to the genre. There are some mixed up shots, some close ups and long shots, thrown in between various interesting and stylized camerawork. It really keeps the viewer interested. There are lots of hand held and panning shots, which give a rough jumpier edge to the footage. The CCTV clip was really effective too, lots of people mentioned it to me. It gave the impression that we were not supposed to be there, as it if was illegal.

Editing>
Fast paced cuts and a different style of editing went down well with the audience. It made the video look rough, chaotic and unpredictable, almost like the scenario that the group of youth people are in. The variety of transitions really split up the video and give The exit sign that flashes on the screen during the video, was good use of final cut, and very individual.

Similarities

We started looking back at music videos that share our videos genre:

OUR FINAL VIDEO!-YIPEEEEEEEEEE

This is our final video>

Group: Alex, Josh and Tom
Band: data.select.party
Title: "She's an eyefull on the alley"

Final Cut...nearly

We've nearly finished off doing our final cut - finallyyyy. =]

Since the rough cut we have gone out and filmed the final section of the video with Dan running from the police as well as some more shots of the front man in the band. These I felt were filmed much better than the old footage we had mainly due to more efficient use of the tripod and through the experience we've had during this project.

This is how each of us feel about the video:

Alex: Now that the video is finished, I can look back on how well it went, anything we could have done differently and what i feel about it. Firstly i like the footage in the car park, i think the location suited the genre well. It is fairly obvious that we were still not 100% on what to DO in our video; we clearly had too many ideas and were not able to include them all, or how we could have collaborated. I am really pleased with the band shots and the crowd. I like the chaos and violence we used too. However I am not convinced that the narrative was as good as it could have been. Perhaps if we had spend more time on it, or changed it completely to something better suited, it would have worked better.

Tom:

Josh: I'm quite pleased with our final cut but we feel it's very unclear what is going on, our constant change of ideas is really apparent in the video. I still really like the location we used though and also think that the colour correction which gave the video a more metallic and cold feeling suited it really well.

Improvements time :D

Thats to the lovely-cool feedback and our own opinions, we've been able to compile a list of things to improve on. Yay.

>More party/crowd shots
>More fast paced cuts/cuts to the beat
>A few more closeups and variety of performance shots
>More work on the narrative (to give the audience something to follow)
>More attention to lipsyncing
>Include more slow-mo
>Colour correct footage to make it seem colder and more metallic
>More movement in shots


Looks like we've got our work cut out for us, eh?

Wouldn't have it any other way :D

<3 TomSka

Rough Stuble Cut and Feedback

'Ere is our rough cut. It's very sketchy and confusing, but at least we've got something down :)



has some glitches and stuff as well as not being complete so sorry about thatttt

ROUGH FEEDBACK.

>Here is some feedack from our rough cut....

> Genre and Use of conventions <
"We think you have captured genre and conventions of it." -And what does that mean?
"Footage conveys genre well!"
"Footage fits genre really well."

> Performance <
"Performances was lively, fitted the song well."
"Good balance of crowd + band."
"Really good lypsincking-most of the way through."
"Good lipsycing with more than one person."

> Mise en scene <
"Good location. Works really well as a theme."
"Styalised band, we like how its's not traditional. "
"Change of location on the areas work well."
"Good setting used."

> Camerawork <
"Good range of angles, close ups etc, keeps it interesting."
"Good variety"

> Editing <
"Slowed footages works really well. Adds dimention"
"Use of a variety of editing techniques was effective"

> Suggestions for additional footage <
"Fill in the black gaps :)"


>Tanya's Feedback...

"Dynamic vs Static"
"Single lipsynch narrative - for close ups"
"Movement in edit - many mid shots"
"More speed differential or edit"
"Other cut aways and effects - camera movement"


Thanks everyone :D
Tom and Alex

6 days later...

You know when you see those guys at a rough pub on the outskirts of town? The ones that have really gruff beards and only speak when they want another drink. The ones who the ones who finish there 5 hour long drunken stories with "and then she left me". Tom and I have become just that in the last couple days...

Desperately trying to piece our video together, Tom smacks his head against the keyboard and Josh goes to buy more painkillers, Alex, I don't know, she sits there being lovely, adding to the blog, that's a positive?? The problem is we got so much footage which is crazy, unorganised and generally messy, it's like trying to separate mixed paint.

There is a rough cut coming - and when I say rough, I mean Britney Spears at the VMA's rough. We really need to go and film just some solid simple shots that we can use, maybe then it will work...?

For now - here's a completely unrelated video we filmed while on shoot to practice editing.-why not?


THIS IS NOT OUR MUSIC VIDEO BUT WE DID MAKE IT, JUST AN ADDED EXTRA



-Josha x