Our Lovely Music Video

music video commentary

Ancillary Photos

Feedback Evaluation

We appreciated the feedback, however we were confused as to how the video has intertexual reference to twilight (even though Derek looks like the main character in it!)

Editing News

We have added the filter "Glow-Dazzle" and "Glow-Bloom" to most of the daytime shots and some evening. This has given a nice effect to the shots. One of the reasons for doing this was that unfortunately we filmed on quite a dull day, and this filter adds a bit of sunshine.
The shots with Olivia riding her bike down Regent Street have been editing with the filter of "Light-Rays", this has given a really nice effect that is quite dream like.
All the effects added have definitely added a fairytale dreamy feel to our music video and we are really happy with the outcome.

Open Evening

As a group we have decided to come in on the second open evening, on Thursday. We think that we need to do extra editing out of class time. This will give us the opportunity to spend at least two hours solely editing and be able to get feedback from a large number of people.

Pictures Of Filming

What We Thought About The Feedback

As a group we took into account what the media class and what Tanya told us to improve and what needed to be added, we agreed with what needed to be added and were planning to include the stuff anyway in our final cut. The criticisms made were constructive and it has helped us to know what a lot of people felt should be changed and added, this should help us to improve our final cut. Having different members of our class and our teacher analysing our work gave a range of different opinions. It was good to hear what other people thought about our work from a subjective point of view, it was interesting to look at what other people had been creating too and looking at how all the groups differed.

What we plan to add to improve our work:

• More close ups of the performer
• Some more cuts
• Add in the night time scenes

Roughcut Feedback - Summary of Peer Comments

1. Quality of Footage: camerawork, mise-en-scene.
Clean and simple
good camerawork
mise-en-scene fits the song
camera work is great - nice lighting
great framing and angles - very appropriate mise-en-scene and lighting

2. Use of Transition: edit types, order.
Good, appropriate use of fades, seemlessly intergated with audio.
in good order
good transitions and fades - flows with music
transitions always go with the music, nice slow fades.

3. Evidence of conventions. Which ones? Which genre?
setting gives good idea of genre.
good conventions - song is about love- relates to video
yellow outfit goes well with song title, setting is also very effective. Lip syncing is perfectly done. fits genre extremely well.

4. What is missing? What needs to be added? Changed?
a few more location shots
could use more close ups
really good and long bridge - could do so much
more in the space
intro could have another shot where walking into distance of path (eg. face)
could use some more shots in general / different shots

Feedback On Blog Feedback

Our feedback was positive yet constructive at the same time. We have taken into account the points which the groups have told us to improve and are going to try and make it better than it is now. We also need to add a few more blogs to enhance everything else. Such as a timeline, some test footage and similiar band research.