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

Day One - Filming

No matter how awesome your storyboard is.. It won't control a crowd of 30 people.


Josh's thought for the day:

Well, as Tom said, it went "Horribly...well...no..."
On one side of things, like hell did any of what we filmed fit with our storyboard or how we perceived to shoot the video - on the other hand, it was like being thrown in the deep end and I think we kind of learned how to deal with large amounts of people on the spot much better as the night went on. It also gave us a much more realistic and better understanding of what to plan out before we go out and film it. And most of all, you should never have the main character in your video (who by the way, needs a good memory to learn his words) be a guy who's pretty much always gunna be high on really strong skunk.
Yeeeeeeee!
Alex was just generally confused throughout-whats new?

Rough Footage

Here is some of the footage that we should be using for the video

Fight night

Proposed intro

Some test shots

we've decided to shoot the majority of our video actually at the car park location. Last night we decided to film a few test shots looking at our location.



enjoi