Whilst I was editing our music video today, I managed to get a couple of people to watch it and give me their feedback and opinions on what they like and what they dont like.
People have said that they overall love what we have done so far and how it puts them in a happy mood as the music video is just a montage of us having fun and 'feeling free' with the camera. They have also said how they like how the editing and shots are very fast paced and how you get a real glimpse of everything as we filmed a lot of footage yet only put little snippets of each in it. People also like how we have involved a lot of lip syncing and how we have matched it up very accurately even when changing the shots, we were still able to get the lyrics matched up. Other shots people like are the way that our song/music matches up with the visuals so when there are fast paced lyrics such as the bit where it repeats "yeah yeah" we managed to change angles/shots/positions of us so it looks like it links in with the song.
However, people didnt like how some of it didnt flow as continuously as some of the other shots. And how we should include more effects such as split screen or how we could add little transitions to fill the little gaps between the shots. People have also said how although they like the hand held camera when in the car etc, they feel that there are one too many shots of it being hand held so it becomes very wobbly so it doesnt look like very good camera work or control.
Tuesday 28 February 2012
Monday 20 February 2012
In todays media lesson....
This media lesson we managed to get a lot of exciting and interesting filming done ready to edit. We went out to bury and managed to set up the tripod and camera facing towards a few steps where we positined ourselves outside the corn exchange.
The reason we did this was from some influences from other music videos where we have seen mostly bands doing it, positioning themselves on different steps and then stop and start the camera (cut the camera) so we all change places and carry on doing this so we can a variety of different positions on the steps so once we get round to editing it we can speed it up so it becomes flowing shots of all swapping places.
We also went to bury bowl where they have those different arcade games such as the dance matts and driving games, boxing and basketball games which we all had a go on. We managed to get various different angles such as close ups, over the shoulder shots, wide shots, feet shots when we were on the dance matts, then hopefully when we get down to editing it, we will reverse the shot of the sophie boxing to give it a little more affect. We will add all of these shots in more urbam colours such as yellowy or maybe tinting of pinks, blue and bright colours to show the club effect as thats what we may do at the weekend.
The reason we did this was from some influences from other music videos where we have seen mostly bands doing it, positioning themselves on different steps and then stop and start the camera (cut the camera) so we all change places and carry on doing this so we can a variety of different positions on the steps so once we get round to editing it we can speed it up so it becomes flowing shots of all swapping places.
We also went to bury bowl where they have those different arcade games such as the dance matts and driving games, boxing and basketball games which we all had a go on. We managed to get various different angles such as close ups, over the shoulder shots, wide shots, feet shots when we were on the dance matts, then hopefully when we get down to editing it, we will reverse the shot of the sophie boxing to give it a little more affect. We will add all of these shots in more urbam colours such as yellowy or maybe tinting of pinks, blue and bright colours to show the club effect as thats what we may do at the weekend.
Friday 10 February 2012
Previous media lesson....
So far we have just been putting our music video together, editing all the footage we have. As our music video is a montage of random and abstract shots, we have decided to just set out our video into small parts of footage all added together as a whole so its a very quick, busy and fun music video of how we live our lives to match the lyrics of the song being about the weekend.
As it is random we have a lot of different locations and props to show what we involve in our lives so we have gone out of school to collect more of our footage, such as singing to the camera, skatepark, fields, or in the car to get a handheld camera affect and as it was snowing a few days ago, we went out and did a lot of throwing of snow, lip syncing with the music and managed to roll a big snow ball which we will eventually change once editing to speed it up etc.
The music video is coming along, we just have a few more gaps where we still need to film but we have thought of different ideas such as split screening of us all singing the words, and tinting of the shots to show more of a dance/club genre feel to it. We also are planning to film people in our sixth form dancing in the social forum where we will get a high angle shot from the window where we are able to film them so show the urban feel in our school, yet just a fun way to get other people involved in our music video, to show how school and friends are a big part of our lives
As it is random we have a lot of different locations and props to show what we involve in our lives so we have gone out of school to collect more of our footage, such as singing to the camera, skatepark, fields, or in the car to get a handheld camera affect and as it was snowing a few days ago, we went out and did a lot of throwing of snow, lip syncing with the music and managed to roll a big snow ball which we will eventually change once editing to speed it up etc.
The music video is coming along, we just have a few more gaps where we still need to film but we have thought of different ideas such as split screening of us all singing the words, and tinting of the shots to show more of a dance/club genre feel to it. We also are planning to film people in our sixth form dancing in the social forum where we will get a high angle shot from the window where we are able to film them so show the urban feel in our school, yet just a fun way to get other people involved in our music video, to show how school and friends are a big part of our lives
Tuesday 7 February 2012
In last weeks lessons, we managed to get some more filming done. We went to the skate park where we fortunately found two bikers who were already there who let us film them, where they were able to show us some of their skills and tricks that they can do. We only managaed to get some footage of the car weaving in and out of the bins on the school field so now we have put that on final cut express, we have increased the speed so it becomes more quicker and effective.
We have also filmed outside of school, so we could get a variety of shots at night time as it was very dark at this point. We went to the skate park again as we could show the street lamp lighting elaborating the more urban effect, especially due to the setting and the graffiti.
We have also filmed outside of school, so we could get a variety of shots at night time as it was very dark at this point. We went to the skate park again as we could show the street lamp lighting elaborating the more urban effect, especially due to the setting and the graffiti.
Thursday 2 February 2012
More filming...
So far we have managed to as a group put the start of our music video together, Ella and I spent a lesson matching up the lip sync to correct position so that we could see where we had specific clips for, this left us with gaps in which we could fill in with other shots in which would then link the video together. Charlotte and Ella then took the time to fill in the games at the beginning of the song, ordering some shots so that the beginning flowed. Today when we looked at the footage we realized that we needed a few more shots for the next part of the music video. Therefore we spent the lesson completing some filming. We stayed within school and chose some specific actors/actresses so that we could ensure that they would be committed and would be able to do as they are told. Our idea was based on the scene from 'High School Musical' where people are all within a social environment and end up breaking into a dance. We took this idea and remade it into our own. the setting in which we chose was the school social forum as we felt that this would allow people to sit casually and act normal, this worked well as people were spread out but not too far apart. Whilst there we took individual close ups of each person so that we could see the connection between them before they began dancing. After this we set up an angle in which we could see everyone and had Harriet initiate the dancing, she began and the others followed resulting in the group dancing. This worked really well and the actors were very enthusiastic. We decided repeat this so that we had more footage to choose from. In addition we used different angles to show variety and to add specific effects. After we had completed this we chose to film some more lip sync with Harriet as she was keen to do so, this allowed us to have further footage.
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