Evaluation

Yesterday our group showed the class a rough version of our music video. This allowed us to attain feedback and see things from a fresh perspective so that we could realise the things that may be good or bad about the video such as non-continuity features and narrative errors. Here is the feedback we attained from our teacher...

Our teacher suggested that we include more footage of us ending up at the gig. We did have some shots of this but we thought we may have needed to film in our drama studio and imitate the lights to make sure that this is clear to the audience, however due to a lack of time and paticular members not having free lessons or time after school to do so we have had to make do with the shots we had. We have however edited these successfully and believe that they look effective.

Here are evaluation sheets from other members of the class...

It was clear from these evaluations that our music video seemed to confuse some as the narrative was not finished. Also the sound of this video was incredibly bad quality and so some people may have marked us down on this aspect. Also there were some clips in the gig where I (Louise) could be seen to have been filming but we have edited that out now.

Shot Lists

For our narrative filming we also created a shot list which allowed us to drag and drop clips into final cut easily and find, to the exact second, the shot we wanted to use.

Posted By Louise, Michael and Bradley

Update on editing/filming

We have a vast amount of footage at the moment and are well on our way with editing, however following our show-case we were given feedback which suggested that towards the end of the music video the characters get somewhat 'lost' at the gig as we do not see them enough at the end. We have discussed today that it is, of course, very hard to be able to return to the exact same gig at the exact same venue in the time that we have so we have tried to resolve this by having the characters in our schools drama studio and try our best to match the lighting to that of the gig. We will of course have to use close-ups predominantly so that the audience is not aware of the fact that we are not actually in the gig. We hope to film this tomorrow with all of the characters. We planned to film on the 19th of march but this fell through due to two people not being able to attend due to being ill and other reasons. Here is our Facebook group reiterating this...

 Our filming day in London on the 26th of march went very well in terms of footage. We made a list/sketches (which i will scan and upload) of what we wished to attain such as extreme close-ups etc. and as we filmed we stuck to this list. We also made sure we reviewed all of the footage every single time we filmed. This footage has given us a lot to work with in terms of editing and we have progressed a lot this past week.


Posted by Louise

Update

At the moment we are converting a lot of our footage. The reason for this being that during our last (long) converting process we made a mistake in the settings and did not change one conversion setting to 'apple intermediate codec' this has set us back a lot in terms of editing and in the meantime we have had to progress with other things and so during lessons we have been filming in and around school as well as focusing on album art/magazine advertisements.

Filming (Posted by Louise)

Our group planned to film narrative in Camden...

We used Bradley to film as Michael, myself and two friends acted out some of the features that we had planned. I am not 100 percent sure about the filming we have attained as i don't believe the characters 'jolly' facial expressions are seen enough in Camden town and there is not enough action in this part. However we did manage to attain some good footage in nearby Regents Park. I believe we should have definitely looked at the footage more, straight after we'd shot it, however as a number of us were on camera and did not personally film we didn't do this as much. I was disappointed also at the lack of establishing shots, and if the footage is not up to scratch when edit we may have to rearrange another filming day and make a list of all of the shots we have yet to obtain. We need to focus on underlining the large juxtaposition between the two main groups of characters in the narrative (i.e. the 'good' rule abiding student, and the other students who skip school to have a laugh/fun day out) and I feel there definitely isn't enough shots to make the audience realise this. We are now in the process of looking through footage and categorising each clip in terms of the shot (low angle/medium/long etc) in order to make the editing process faster and easier.




We have decided to re-film since writing the paragraph above. We will film:

• Close-ups of happy faces/pulling silly faces 
• Establishing shots of Camden (i.e. shops, stools, people)
• Characters smoking sheesha
• Relaxing in a park with cans of beer

School filming will include:

• Receiving bad grades (done)
• Character being tripped over (done)
• Character receiving text on phone (close-up) dumping text followed by upset expression.
• Character leaving wallet on the bus -  a shot of wallet on the seat matching a shot of the character checking inside pockets and searching.

(Brainstorm/notes = Louise)

• The character having paper chucked at him in lesson and being told off by the teacher (who thinks he has thrown it at him/her) character flips out. Slow motion - destructive - chuck papers into air. Tips bag onto the floor of person who actually threw the paper. Kicks over chair.