Final Video

Here is our finished video :)

Feedback of final video

After finishing our music video we have put it on youtube and gave and received feedback for each group.

*Visuals worked with the transitions.
*visuals suited the lyrics.
*The ripple effect transition was'nt particularly liked but unfortunately necessary.
*Liked the beginning and ending shot mirroring.
*Entrances and Exits of characters were liked.
*Liked the Playstation/ Xbox concept.
*Narrative and As Live were thought to be particularly original.
*Intertextuality of Rockband was liked.
*The angle of the shot where Amy, singer, comes, singing, down and close to the camera is liked.
*Th pitch matching the video exactly was noticed.
*Amy's performance - Great!
*The illustrative of the pieces of paper reading '19' and '20' was noticed not to work very well when we zoomed the shot in on FinalCut, as it was pixellated and grainy.
*lip syncing was said to be good.
*The concept was 'simplistic and playful'.
*Well portrayed narrative.

Planning Of As live Footage

The planning of the as live footage was much easier to accomplish than the food fight footage because we were only relying on the people in our group. We had our location planned out (above) and transport was easy. It took a couple of hours to get all the footage we wanted and it all went to plan :)

We had to do some careful planning in order to get the rockband for our filming. We had to arrange it with our friend to borrow his rockband equipment and we had to borrow a console off someone else. Our original location changed because of transport so we moved it to a closer location. All in all our planning was pretty organised and we were able to film on time and in a good location. :)

FOODFIGHT!!!

WELL THAT WAS A PIE IN THE FACE; BUT MORE ON THAT LATER...

First about the organizing of the fight...
Well Lloyd did the main bit of the organization, trying to get our friends to turn up to the shoot at the right time, they are very unreliable and most of the people who i asked could not make it but Ella phoned some of our friends at hills and they turned up only Rob, Jason and Emma showed up.

...well back to the FOODFIGHT!!! It was amazing fun to do and we shot a lot of footage using the camera in different ways and at different angles to get a varied amount of shots.

One issue we had on the day of shooting was the issue of timing. We had to try and shoot all of our food fight footage before it got dark. As we only started shooting at about 5pm we had to work fast to get everything done before the light faded.

We managed it :)

The second problem we faced was the issue of food. Because we had made up all the food before the shoot and we had a limited supply of it we had a limited number of takes. We did unfortunately run out of food before the shoot was over and so we improvised.

Test Footage

We went out with our camera and shot some test footage. We tried to fit it in time to the music and make it similar to our animatic.

Pictures & Inspiration

This is the sort of chaotic atmosphere we want for our video's food-fight.
We want the action around the singer to be in a 'world of its own' and during the song the singer is the only person who doesn't get hit by any food.
She says clean until the end of the video, when she is pelted with food.
This is our final shot.

The Rock Band idea is our 'as-live' footage.
We chose to use Rock Band instruments rather than real instruments because it gives a furter comical element to our video.

ANIMATIC FEEDBACK

• what worked?
• what didn't
• style/genre
• music video convention
• concept clear?

Drum solos shown well by shot of drums.

The other emphasized sounds e.g. guitar, were shown well with close up shots.

The as live footage was conventional to the style and genre showing instruments and close ups of band members.

Lots of different views and angles meaning the as live footage won't get repetitive like it sometimes can.

Some people were concerned about product placement (showing the Xbox) but we have come to the conclusion that it will not be a problem.

No one commented on the concept or narrative so we are hoping it is quite clear. (E.g. Shots with the food fight and the singer at the front.)

Deadline For This Week

- Construct and complete shot list and blog it; for next lesson

- Storyboard a one minute sequence from your video; for the middle of next lesson

- Capture the frames from your storyboard and create a one minute animatic in final cut; for end of the week

- Upload to Blog

Videos For Inspiration

Feist - 1234




The video is very colourful. Each person is dressed in only one colour, which makes them all stand out & gives the video a bold feel. This is contrasted nicely with the big, blank, open space in which it is set. This makes it easy for people to focus on the dance routine. This provides good inspiration for our own video especially the abstract narrative of the food fight. It will be held in a blank open space and have the focus in the middle, with bold colours. This will help emphasize and create focus on the action.



Bjork - It's Oh So Quiet



The main point that we liked about this video was the slow motion. We thought it would be something good to have in our own video. We found out that to do it the person miming has to mime twice as fast so it can be slowed down. We also liked the bold colours, especially as they were brightest in the fast scenes and duller in the slow ones. If we used this idea we would probably use it in reverse, with our food fight slow but bright.

We noticed some similarities between this video & Feist's video. The blocks of colours used as well as some techniques. The aerial shot of Bjork spinning round and the umbrellas opening matches that in Feist's video of the aerial shot where she spins round & people fall down. At the end of both videos the main character is seen being brought forward into centre shot away from the dance routine in the background.

1st Deadlines

For Wednesday's Lesson, Complete the pitch in written on the blog and paper.

For Friday's Lesson, Present pitch to the class.

For End of Next Week (Friday 19th), Complete animatic storyboard and uploaded.

Picking The Song

When choosing the song we want to use for our music video we looked at 4 different aspects to help us chose, such as:

-Genre
-Narrative
-Lyrics
-and Pace

Genre - the genre would help us to imagine what kind of video to make, for example R&B tends to be story based.

Narrative - by listening to the lyrics we could hear a clear story/ narrative.

Lyrics - It is important to be able to hear the lyrics clearly, as this would make lip-sinking a lot easier. Also the lyrics tell a story of what the composer is trying to get through to his/hers audience.

Pace - by listening to the pace we are able to ditermine what kind of video to make for example, rave or story telling.

(name the other songs we got to chose from)
Then we listened to all 13 songs and noted them on all the above points.