We have officially finished editing, just in time for the deadline!! I am very happy with our final product and we have been getting good feedback.
Also, we finally came up with our band name. After mind mapping a few ideas we decided to settle for 'Depuis' which means 'since then' in french. I like the fact that the band name is french, and I think it sounds cool.
Friday, 27 February 2015
Tuesday, 24 February 2015
Audience Feedback
After showing the class a first draft of our music video we were left with some feedback to think about, and some ideas to help improve our video before the final cut.
Some of the improvements included:
Some of the improvements included:
- Fixing some of the lip syncing which was out (which has been sorted)
- Breaking up some of the lip syncing (we used cut-aways and overlapping for this)
- More editing to the beat of the song (I adjusted some of the clips so they transitioned on the beat)
Wednesday, 11 February 2015
Clothing Ideas
For our video we have 4 fictional characters and our performer, and each of the 4 fictional characters have 2 separate 'personalities' and therefore slightly different outfits.
Poor/Accessories
This character doesn't really develop much so the two outfits are very much the same. (She cannot suddenly have lots of money for clothes) after looking at other media portrayals of poorer people on the streets we decided our character should be a tracksuit. To develop this for the character at the table we added a 'broken' necklace. This shows her development but also offers a link between the two scenes.
Lonely
For this character we took the stereotypical boring person not having friends/people making fun of her. However, at the table she doesn't change. She's still quiet and sits there, and at the end she's left alone but playing the game she comes across as more confident. This is why her outfit doesn't change.
Busy/Laid back
We wanted this character to go from well dressed at a well paid corporal job to laid back and more casual and child-like. This is why she goes from wearing smart clothes to a Mickey Mouse sweater.
Failing/Smart
In school this character is roughly dressed with her tie loosely done and she's failing. At the table she puts more effort into how she looks.
Poor/Accessories
This character doesn't really develop much so the two outfits are very much the same. (She cannot suddenly have lots of money for clothes) after looking at other media portrayals of poorer people on the streets we decided our character should be a tracksuit. To develop this for the character at the table we added a 'broken' necklace. This shows her development but also offers a link between the two scenes.
Lonely
For this character we took the stereotypical boring person not having friends/people making fun of her. However, at the table she doesn't change. She's still quiet and sits there, and at the end she's left alone but playing the game she comes across as more confident. This is why her outfit doesn't change.
We wanted this character to go from well dressed at a well paid corporal job to laid back and more casual and child-like. This is why she goes from wearing smart clothes to a Mickey Mouse sweater.
In school this character is roughly dressed with her tie loosely done and she's failing. At the table she puts more effort into how she looks.
For our singer we decided to dress her in normal clothes.
Thursday, 5 February 2015
Audience Feedback Video
We are half way through editing our video and decided to stop and ask some people for feedback on what we've done so far.
Sam Smith - Lay Me Down (music video)
I was scrolling through YouTube when I came across Sam Smith's new music video for his song 'Lay Me Down'. I knew he wanted to make a song/video celebrating being with the person you love regardless of who they are, and wondered how the director of the video would get Sam's message across within the length of a song.
The video is shot in one continuous take. The camera seems to be handheld but steadied to reduce shaking but allowing a lot of movement. The entire video is shot in the one location, the church, but after showing the original setup the camera tracks down the left side of the aisle, panning in on some of the people, showing their emotions. Whilst this is happening the right-hand side change clothes/positions, changing the church from a funeral setting to a wedding setting. As the camera pans onto some of the wedding guests Sam then re-positions himself for a third and final setup of him sitting alone in the church, as if gay-marriage acceptance is his prayer.
I like how you get full view of the emotions in all three settings, the sadness and heart-ache from the funeral. The happiness and acceptance at the wedding. The frustrations as people wait for LGBT marriage to accepted by everyone, regardless of faith or race. I think this is an important message to be putting our there and I'm glad that they're more videos highlighting the importance of LGBT acceptance, such as 'Hoizer -Take Me To Church' and 'Macklemore - Same Love'
The video is shot in one continuous take. The camera seems to be handheld but steadied to reduce shaking but allowing a lot of movement. The entire video is shot in the one location, the church, but after showing the original setup the camera tracks down the left side of the aisle, panning in on some of the people, showing their emotions. Whilst this is happening the right-hand side change clothes/positions, changing the church from a funeral setting to a wedding setting. As the camera pans onto some of the wedding guests Sam then re-positions himself for a third and final setup of him sitting alone in the church, as if gay-marriage acceptance is his prayer.
I like how you get full view of the emotions in all three settings, the sadness and heart-ache from the funeral. The happiness and acceptance at the wedding. The frustrations as people wait for LGBT marriage to accepted by everyone, regardless of faith or race. I think this is an important message to be putting our there and I'm glad that they're more videos highlighting the importance of LGBT acceptance, such as 'Hoizer -Take Me To Church' and 'Macklemore - Same Love'
Sunday, 1 February 2015
Editing Effects
For our music video we have had to edit effects onto some of our footage. All of our footage had to be muted as we didn't want any of the ambient sounds to interfere with the song.
We also de-saturated the lip syncing footage by the wall to break up the narrative. We thought this would add a good contrast which is common in performance-narrative mix videos, it is good to have a definitive split between the story and the performance.
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