Here is draft 2 of our music video, below is some positive and negative feedback that we gave ourselves when watching the clip a few times. We noticed some things we need to change and some things that went well.

Reflection –

• We need more footage – performing footage, nature clips, and lots more narrative, as from putting it together we feel as if we don’t have enough to convey the story and we keep reusing old footage which lessens the quality of the video.
• We need to get more various angles like high and low so we can convey her emotion clearly and show her feeling happy versus sad.
• When we go to edit we need to play with the clips editing-wise and add colour, different effects and transitions, and lighting changes to add contrast between clips.
• We also noticed that a black border was very obvious around some of the footage that we took on our phones so we have to rescale it.

-What went well: 

• Close-ups were nice and showed a connection from the performer to the audience, and her emotion
• Nature clips helped display narrative, we picked some relevant places such as the graffiti area around the bowling alley.

This is a risk assessment to help us stay safe on our shoot and out of danger. 

In order to decide what the model was to wear in the next shoot and to help us remember what to bring to the shoot, we had a Production meeting agenda to assign each other jobs, props and equipment to remember. This has helped us with organisational skills and will ensure that our shoot goes to plan.

This exercise helped us to understand what element we needed to add in to our video shooting in order to portray a clear and interesting narrative. By completing a simple narrative structure we identified key parts of our story line and what elements we had already used:

• We identified that our narrative is amplified which gives up freedom to experiment but also means that the video is linked to the song and narrative
• We also found that we need to involve more parallelism and binary oppositions in our performance such as feeling trapped Vs freedom
• We found that so far, our video is not episodic, it is abstract and thematic. We will continue to link the theme to the narrative, just not in a specific order.
•  Also by doing this exercise it was obvious what themes we are wanting to include and what else we need to take the time to go and do.
• When doing a narrative it’s actually best to leave them incomplete because it then makes your audience want to watch it again whereas if you complete it they have seen it and won’t want to watch it again.

Here is a short draft of our music video in the White Studio.

What went well:

• Artist turned up on time
• Model brought all clothes
• Knew the words
• Able to work premiere pro easily
• Remembered all of the equipment

Things to work on:

• Some of the selected footage is out of frame
• Need various angels; ie high and low
• Want more different shots such as pan and Ariel to keep variety
• More interaction with the performer to get more personal
• Use various locations to add a bit of pace
• We need to shoot in different places to add more depth the the video and make it more interesting
• We need to add in more variation of mis-en-scene such as darker makeup to portray differing emotions