We were lucky enough to have two men from Specsavers come in and watch through what we have of our music videos and give us feedback based on what they saw. They spent a lot of time with us one to one in order to support us to create a more successful music video. What they taught us was incredibly helpful and we will be taking these observations on with us as we continue to develop our video. Below is what we gathered from this experience and what we have been advised to work on for our final video assessment.

What we learnt

• Layers – we can use this technique to put each of our shoots into separate layers, it also enables us to change the label to a different colour. This will massively help with our organisational skills on Premier Pro
• Adjustment layers – we can add these layers in above individual shoot layers that we want to be collectively changed. For example, if we want to put a specific colour filter on a whole shoot, you just need to add the unique filter to the adjustment layer above it
• Photoshop – using Photoshop we can create images / drawings, and with a transparent layer, we can import them into Premier Pro on top of our footage. This will help us with our music video as we can now create a cam recorder appearance in Photoshop and import it on top of our footage
• Key frame – this allows imported images from Photoshop to cut in and out of our selected footage, using the opacity tool. We can make the key frames ‘hard’ so that imported images don’t fade in and out, they just effectively flash. We can use this to make the red dot on our Photoshop designed cam recorder, appear to flash more realistically
• Time stamp – this is another technique that we can use to make the cam recorder appear more realistic. It can be inserted in the centre at the bottom of our selected footage
• Lumetri colour – this tool allows us to change the filter on selected clips. We can also copy and paste the filter onto numerous other clips at same time. This saves time and enables us to create a differential between the reminiscence clips and the performance footage, this way our audience will hopefully have a better understanding of our narrative
• Curves – this is another technique we can use to blend colour onto selected clips

Targets based on feedback

• Create an extensive shot list – this will aid our organisational skills and make it so that we don’t waste any time trying to think of what to do next. Additionally, making ourselves abide to a time scheme keeps us busy and forces us to be proactive and efficient
• The video as a whole can be confusing to the audience because the narrative is split into two, and we also have the performance aspect. To aid this we need to make a more noticable difference between the reminiscent clips and the performance. Changing the colour of the clips will be the main way in which we manage to achieve this contrast
• Get more of a variety of shots and transitions – the shot list will help this
• Shoot a short story of the girl and boy to insert throughout the video. This will engage the audience more as instead of the clips jumping from location to location with no chronological sense, a small anecdote within the video will conceivably encourage a more attentive audience

YouTube tutorials that may help