Diary Entry #24: FINAL Rough Cut & Audience Feedback

Audience feedback

Diary Entry #23: Bloopers

I decided to make a bloopers reel of all the clips when we were filming our music video (both band and narrative):

Diary Entry #22: Editing 4

Today I finished my rough cut for my music video. Because I only had about 30 seconds left it didn't take me long to finish editing. Even though there are some flaws in the music video like the lip syncing not being completely spot on and I'm not completely happy with the different effects but when the audience feedback comes back I will change some of the things I did:

The Luma Keyer effect that I used for the band was the best I could do, as I wanted to darken down the band as it looked too 'light' and usually the conventions of the rock genre involve dark lighting. Due to the fact we couldn't use the building that we wanted to use, this was a factor that would have to be overcome when it came to editing as when we filmed it it was early in the morning. For my final cut, I will edit the effect so I am fully satisfied with the outcome and I can finish the video.

This is the effect I used for the narrative part of the music video. Because the song was actually supposed to be a dream, I decided that the best effect I could use was a dream effect. It is purely that effect as I feel if I messed around with the effect too much it would ruin the music video and the effect that it gives when the audience watch it.

Diary Entry #21: Editing 3

Today I continued to edit my music video. Due to my editing of the clips quite fast, I felt that I wouldn't haven enough clips to complete the entire music video so I cut out the second verse and chorus from the song so the music video would still look good and so I wouldn't have to resort to elongating the clips to fit to the end of the song. Here is what happened so far:

This is where I cut my song off - I tried my best to make sure the music flowed, but if I feel it is too obvious then I will try to change it in some way. I cut out a verse and the second chorus and this allowed me to effectively finish my music video and continue the quality of the work to a high standard and consistent instead of keeping the part of the song and dragging out the clips, making it look obvious what I've done and lowering the quality of the music video. I feel this was a good decision as I am happy with the outcome.

I used my favourites to filter out which parts of the band I needed as they performed the songs multiple times and each are 3 minutes long. I didn't go through them all and choose, as I was editing I was deciding which shots to use to vary which member you saw.

Diary Entry #20: Editing 2

This is what has been created so far, the effects still need to be put on but the editing of the music video is going well. I'll put the effects on last so that I don't get confused as to what has an effect and what doesn't so the music video looks consistent and flows well without any anomalies in it.

Diary Entry #19: Filming the Band

Today we filmed the band performance. Unfortunately it took longer than we had expected it to due to our original location being cut off by the council. It was chained off and there were fences around it. Although this is was good place for our music video to be filmed, we didn't want to risk anything so my mum suggested that we could go to Worlebury Woods and film by the water tower. When we got there we decided to just film in the woods and not by the water tower and set up our band there. Jess had her car and played the song out of the speakers to the band so they could perform.

Here are some photos:

Diary Entry #18: Shooting Schedule Update

Sunday 24th November - performance filming at the barn with This Ship is Ours