Production of music video: Teacher feedback controversy..

After our rough cut was shown to our teacher's and they pointed out quite a few things that needed to be sorted out. For example, one of the comments was that the use of placards for the words "darkness" and other lyrics were too basic in comparison to the sophistication of the rest of our video. This was taken on board so we tried a few other ideas instead of using them (such as adding in scenes that we had left over from the making of the video like the bunny rabbits which unfortunately didn't work) Therefore, to compromise we only used it once throughout the song in order to create a little more diversity. This is because we found that it worked really well with our music video and added to the whole essence of what our artist was feeling.

Audience Feedback from Rough Cut

In order for us to get some audience feedback we decided to each upload our Rough Cut onto our Facebook pages and see what our friends thought of it. As our target audience is quite narrow we thought it best that our friends (who are our age and love music) would be the best to give their opinion. The feedback I got was all positive overall, the teachers also made a few suggestions to help us better our video for the final product. Such as, in stead of using a speedy effect on our artist when she walks down the slope we should try and slow it down as it looks too cartoonish otherwise. Also, they told us to focus more on our artist towards the end as she is the main person to be focusing on rather than the dancers. This feedback was very helpful as it enabled us to begin of thinking about new ideas to add into our final product of our music video!

Producing Our Music Video: OUR ROUGH CUT

We hope that you enjoy it, From Group 21 :) 

Teacher feedback

Hello group 21
You seemed to have slowed up on the blogging quite a bit.  You haven't blogged for 10 days now and there are some gaps forming.....

You should be at 49+ by now and so we want to make sure that you get the marks that your hard work reflects.  Make sure there aren't any unexplained gaps in the blogging of the construction process.

Your blog has the potential to be excellent!

rough cut feedback

After putting up the rough cut on my fb page i got some more feedback from friends through bbm so i though i'd upload the munches of the conversations. The improvements they suggested were all taken into consideration (and most of them we were planing on doing anyway) and they helped to make our video even better!

(more coming soon)

Producing our Music Video- Filming extra shots!

These shots are really effective because the font in which Valeza has written it look really great and fit in well with the dark theme of our video. Erika has taken these shots in various different angles, so therefore there is some variety in our music video so it does not look too repetitive. Also with the footage of the writing speeded up it looks really great!

We needed some extra shots that can add emphasis to the lyrics of our video, rather then just the artist lip syncing herself.

Luckily Jessica's mum had loads of candles and they didnt set off the fire alarm and evacuate the college

Producing Our Music Video- Lip Syncing

Erica/Stav: camera, Jessica: lighting, Valeza: artist

We recorded one of the lipsyncing shots as a silhouette.

We thought that using the shadows of hands making patterns in the air might

look effective slowed down in the video.

So after looking through our clips at college we realised we didn't have a base track to run through the whole video, only a bunch of random shots so we decided to shoot one at my house, the day was full of complications (we forgot the memory card at college and had to go all the way back to get it) but in the end we got what we needed, and even came up with a new idea of using shadows/silhouettes to add depth to the video. Here are some pictures we took during the day (I apologise for the blurriness but my camera quality is crap in the dark)

Also this way we could get more effective shots of Valeza lip syncing against a plain white backround, this is because we can focus more on her facial expressions and her make up is clearer. It suits the feel of our video a lot more.