Tuesday, 20 March 2012

Overall Reaction to the Music Video

Today we finished the video. We converted the video to a Quicktime file and it will be uploaded to YouTube. Overall I am happy with the finished product. I feel the shots with the candles in particular have turned out really well and are interesting to watch.
I do feel that the music video would have been improved had we included a bit more narrative, maybe bringing in another character.

Audience Feedback

Audience feedback overall was very positive. They liked the candle scene in particular and felt that the shots worked really well. They also thought that the performance was good.
They felt that the lip-sync could be improved in places, in the first half of the first verse and again towards the end.
We have taken these critcisms into account and I we have gone back and fixed the lip-sync.

Sunday, 18 March 2012

My Roles & Overall Opinion Of The Video

For this music video my roles have been in charge of filming,contacting the artist,creating the storyboard and anamatic aswell as help Dureshewar with the editing. In my opinion, my favourite role that i've done throughout this project is filming the shots because i have developed my camera skills and learnt which shots work well and help create a relationship between the visuals and the lyrics/camera movement. I don't think creating the story board was my strongest role as it helps if the sketches are clear to help the filming run smoothly. As i am not the nbest at drawing, i had to annotate the sketches to help the group understand the type of shot and the mise-en-scene within that frame. As we used final cut to edit our video, i felt that it was my turn to edit some parts so everyone in the group felt as if they have contributed. However, in our preliminary task as well as our AS coursework we used iMovie, so there was a difference in what we could do to create our music video. When i started out using Final Cut i felt a bit on edge but the more and more i was using it, my confidence began to develop and now i prefer it to iMovie as there are so much more effects that we can use to produce a music video that can look professional.