Filming and Editing Evaluation- Sian

Our filming and editing over went well, however we did have some problems on the day of shooting. One was that it was cloudy, where as we had hope it would be sunnier with more of a blue sky. We also had the lyrics to the song but we didn't have the music, meaning it was harder to remember how the song went so we have now had more problems editing and trying to make the singing in sync with the music.

We tried to stick to our storyboard and a lot of the locations are the same however we did have to change somethings such as the alleyway as we didn't have as much time as we thought but we still managed to use a small path under a bridge, which created a similar effect and we noticed this was quite dark anyways so it may have been hard to see the artist let alone see what he was singing, which is also why we used this shot but not when the male was singing as you couldn't see.

We managed to get a tall multi-coloured umbrella which was good as it is a key feature in our video and we used it in most of the scenes, which i think helps to link the female and male singing together which is what we wanted as well as the same locations, but at different times. The costumes also worked well, especially the pink prom dress with the black converse it was a good contrast and seemed to fit the song well and what josh was wearing worked also worked with the style of the video.

The editing has taken longer than we originally thought, just to make sure everything is still in the right place and in sync and there are still quite a few gaps in the video, which we think may mean we have may to re-shoot some other scenes, maybe at a different location just to give some more variety as we still have a lot of missing gaps and time in the video.

We still have a lot of editing to do as we haven't even started on the effects yet, which is also a main feature in our video and there are somethings that may need to be changed, but we have a lot of footage which has been good and it means there are lots of different scenes which is what we wanted.

We have to sort out the gaps in our video, which may mean re-shooting some shots espicially where the miming is out of sync with the music, the effects still need to be done and we need to take the audio out of our video for when we do final cut.

Rough cut

Last years music videos

We looked at some of last years music videos to compare on what our ideas are and what we are planning to film.

The music video below has a lot of nature involved, like in the forest and down by the river, which our video is going to have. The genre is similar with the indie/rock theme.

http://www.youtube.com/longroadmediastudies#p%2Fc%2F898D7908F104924A%2F36%2FDxdrJ_ZYj2g

The video below here is one of the best we looked at, they used a variety of shots, and different locations which we also want to achieve:

http://www.youtube.com/longroadmediastudies#p/c/898D7908F104924A/27/HJSL2wmS9To

Props and Costumes list

-Prom Dress

-Black Converse

-Red Rose

-Indie outfit

-Multicolored Umbrella

-Suit Jacket

-High tops

-Sunglasses

-Wellies

-Casual outfit

Mood Board

It is always an effective way to design a mood board when trying to visualize ideas. It also helps to present to others general ideas in a more simplier way. Our mood board shows most of the things we want to include in our video such as the props: a multi-coloured umbrella and a rose, The location: a field, an a alleyway, a woods, a park and a punt. The costumes: An indie male artist and a female artist dressed in an alternative indie prom dress with black converse. Finally a heart which represents what the song as it is about romance and love.

Ed Lovelace

Ed Lovelace was a student at Long Road, he also did media and has now become a succsessful music video director. We listened to how he used to produce and achieve everything we are learning now, and how he then moved on to do a degree at Bournemouth University.

After University he went on to make a lot of Indie genre videos and worked with bands such as 'Cage The Elephants'. His videos sometimes took from all day to only a few hours and the amount spent on them varied from thousands to hundreds. After making quite a few music videos he now wants to go on to making short films and then maybe even a whole film some time later on in his career.

He gave us advice on making our music videos, having a good idea to start with was the main thing and by having this, the planning of it should be a lot easier, then filming it in order would make a more organized final product.

His next job is going to be making short advertisements for myspace, where he will be working with artists like Jay-z and Rihanna.

Animation

After thinking more carefully about how our final project will look, after drawing the animations we were going to use, we have decided as a group that will not use animations in our music video as we feel that it would look quite unprofessional and may corrupt our original footage making it a less appealing music video, but instead will use technical effects, such as using slow motion and having parts in reverse order such as : "picking petals from a daisy backwards".

Storyboard

This is our storyboard, we have converted it in to quick time so it is easier to see the sequence we intend the shots to go in. Apart from a few shots we may change, this is how we expect our video to look - except at he end the shot will be of the male and female artist... then the next shot will be the camera panning up into a shot of the sky. We haven't added this in as we thought of it after we had uploaded our storyboard, as we felt it would be a much more effective ending shot.