Finally we have our final draft of our music video, draft 4.

What we have changed:

• Filled in the gaps of the clips where the roses were
• Did the final colour corrections (muted all the oranges and greens of the bush)
• Turned down the saturation of a few clips as this was some criticism we got when other media students left feedback on our video.
• In the previous draft, there was a clip at the end which we forgot to take the original audio out of, so we muted this.

I think that is everything we changed for this very final draft 4 of our music video The Love Club. All we need to do now is film some peoples reactions to the video and take their advice of what went well and what can still be changed.

Next, to get our final bit of feedback, we filmed some of our media peers watching our music video to give overall positive and negative feedback, in which they had no negative feedback for us!

Here is the video

Here we have the draft 3 of our music video The Love Club

What was changed:

• Edited the outdoor shot to make it less orange/green to make it more pink and cover up the tones of the bush.
• Slightly adjusted some of the clips so they are now more on the beat.

What we are still going to change for draft 4:

• Edit the outdoor shots again using colour wheels to completely remove the colour green from the clip to enhance the colour of her dress and makeup more.
• Remove the clips with the roses as they are too blue for the video, and fill the gaps with a different aesthetic clip

Here is some feedback we got from peers whom commented on our music video giving us advice on what is good and what to improve…

Positive:

-Mise en scene on point

-Good shot variety

-Good pacing of the cut clips

-Love the rose coloured filter on the clips, match the theme and aesthetic

Constructive criticism: 

-Thinks the message portrayed was about ‘going crazy over love’ rather than loving then hating love

-From 2:36 onwards cut the clips more to the beat as they don’t sound like they are to the beat of anything? (However they are meant to be fast paced as she rips the paper to portray anger.)

-2:02 over exposed/saturated filter

I used snipping tool to take a screenshot of the emails the students sent me of the feedback for my video.

After uploading draft 2, it was time for our teacher to watch our video and give constructive criticism and feedback to us to help us improve our video for draft 3. Using the application screencastify, it allows you to record your screen whilst talking over the top. This is an extremely helpful way of giving feedback as we can see exactly which parts Miss is talking about so it is clear to know what to change.

Some of the feedback that we got was:

• Bring out Millie’s blue eyes by adding saturation to the pink
• Bring drone shots slightly closer together
• Colour correct the shots as the bush has turned an orange/brown colour, maybe change this background to black and white?
• Some lip sync slightly out
• Flash of pink right after balloon shot
• Zoom in on some shots
• Nice fairy ring shot but maybe colour correct so she stands out more

We had many different professionals coming in to view and give feedback on our music videos. Lenny from Specsavers is extremely advanced at the software premiere pro so he provided us with lots of useful tips to make our video excel even more.

Overall, he was extremely impressed with what we had done so far, especially our mise en scene and effective makeup and could only help us make the video better.

He created a pink adjustment layer for us, which meant all the shots we put beneath the layer would be the same colour of pink with the same saturation, vibrance etc which was incredibly helpful as it saved us a lot of time trying to get each individual clip the exact same as the previous one.

He suggested that we moved our narrative footage to the top of the adjustment layer and the performance footage beneath to help us keep organised.

Overall, I found this specsavers feedback incredibly helpful and I don’t think our draft 2 would be as good as it is if it wasn’t for Lenny and Elliot.

We have finally completed our second draft of our music video! Here is our second draft –

In my opinion this video is very different to our first draft which I think is a good thing as it proves how far we’ve come, especially with ideas regarding editing.

What I particularly like about this video;

• We learnt how to use an adjustment layer so all of our pink shots have the exact same colour tones on them, which I think looks really effective and brightens the clips more as now looking back at the first draft it was very bland and grey.
• We added all of the summer shoot footage that we got which I think adds a really bright vibe to the video and advances the technology used a lot by using the drone to collect effective performance shots from above.
• We zoomed in on a lot of our shots, especially the teddy bear ones, to fill the frame more rather than having empty space.

Targets for next draft;

• Colour correct some, especially close ups, to make them brighter as they are quite dark at the minute
• Remove the shots with the roses as the large area of blue sky contrasts and looks disjunctive alongside all our pink clips and colour scheme.
• Add more narrative shots, to add more anger into the video.
• Sharpen some shots

Our narrative shoot went very well in my opinion, in which we gathered lots of close ups and action shots to put in our video to make it make sense.

Here are a couple of images of behind the scenes of this shoot. The first one being Faris focusing the camera when shooting the extreme close up of Millie’s eyes which is shown in our video narrative storyboard. This photo proves we did this shoot to gather the most advance shots possible, making sure we took our time to get the exposure and focus of the camera correct so we could complete getting these shots in one shoot.

The second image shows us as a group as a whole, participating in creating the prom-posal poster to be time efficient and so we were all included in providing the mise en scene of the narrative shoot

What went well:

• We got all the shots we had planned to get (and more!)
• We all had a turn at filming different shots
• We used each other as props for keeping the poster up when ripping it

Targets:

Seeing as we aren’t doing another shoot and this is our final one, I am suggesting targets for when we put it into Premiere pro and begin editing it, so these are some targets for improving the shots when editing;

• Colour correct some of the shots to match our already colour corrected video
• Edit quickly paced when ripping the poster to make it more effective and portrays anger
• Use the extreme close ups frequently throughout the video to have a running theme of her angry eyes, maybe colour correct these so the brightness of her eyes pop to match the previous clips in our draft 1.

Here is the production meeting for shoot 2 in the white studio at school, we are using the same props, costume and everything mise-en-scene as we just want to sharpen up our original shots to make them better.

There is a list of equipment and props we need to bring to remind ourselves not to forget anything for the shoot.

Here is the risk assessment for the final shoot which I am shooting in school on Tuesday 15th September in the White Studio.

We assessed everything that could be a risk to us when filming these shots. The aim for us for this shoot is to re-film shots that we want to perfect in the studio using the professional lighting and equipment to make these shots the best as they can be.

Today we prepped for a second shoot in which we would film a few narrative shot. Even though we have a complete first draft with lots of shots, we feel it would be beneficial to gain a few more even if we don’t get round to using all of them.

We are planning on getting a lot of close ups (top left box is an example) because we feel these are extremely effective in videos and this way we will have a wide range of distances within our videos, from extreme close ups to extreme long shots using the drone.

Other shots and angles we are going to add to give a variety of camera shots:

• We are getting a zoom in shot as the model walks away with the ripped up poster for dramatic effect
• We will pan the bottom left shot as she walks across the frame to add some non-static shots
• We will film a few low angles of the model ripping the poster as we need more angles throughout the video and it will look effective

Here is our storyboard containing 9 shots that we are going to shoot in the white studio as part of our narrative.

We made a google document containing the narrative development of the storyline of our video. Including the disruption, resolution and the new equilibrium as the video progresses.

In this document we have highlighted the structure with certain clips. So the ripping of the prom proposal poster shows the audience the disruption and problem of the video; in this case, anger and unwilling to love.

Some other shots that we are going to be filming during this shoot is some close up shots of her clenching her fist, batting the prom poster with her bat to portray anger again, extreme close up of her frowning; hopefully these shots will help portray our ‘hating love’ theme throughout the video.

These narrative, angry and emotional shots are what we are going to be filming in our shoot 2.