Specsavers Feedback

After the completion of our second draft we got some feedback from the creative department at Specsavers. They watched through our video and gave us some very useful ideas and tips. They had some really interesting things to say and their constructive criticism was very handy at bettering our own work. Another thing they helped us with was utilising premiere to its fullest potential in which they taught us shortcuts and little tips which can make our work flow more efficient. Some of the most useful things taught to us by the supersavers people where how to make new sequences to try new things, useful shortcuts to make working easier and some general tips to make what we have more understandable and more fluent.

What they liked about our video;

• Our performance is well shot and looks good
• Our narrative is well planned and cohesive
• our editing so far is interesting and maintains the pace of the video well

Their advice to improve;

• More connections between the doll and jack to create a more cohesive link
• Some more close ups of the doll
• A wider variety of shots throughout
• Push the scenes of the doll being stabbed further back to establish the narrative a bit more and to fit the mood of the song
• Show a few more scenes of the girl to make an even balance

in conclusion it was very useful having the creative team come to help us out and give us advice. it really opened our eyes on what we can improve and how we can utilize the software to its fullest potential. it was nice to get a new perspective and was very useful to have a discussion with somebody who is an expert in the field.

Here is our second draft of our Music video!

Overall I am very pleased with how our video is going, we have a very well established idea and are doing very well to create our vision. We have added multiple effects such as color correction and we have filled out the video more. We have improved the editing so its on the beat and we have a multitude of edits varying from fast pace to slow paced. We have added adjustment layers and we have added transitions, zooms, sharpens and camera blurs.

Here is a previous students video

By watching some past videos it has allowed me to see what we can improve on more and what we can take away from their experience and how their video came out.

This video demonstrates

• Great lighting which reflects the mood of the song
• A variety of angles
• Cool effects on the screen such as text and glitch effects
• Crossover of parts of the girl and boy

In order to improve our own work I think we need;

• To fill out the middle section of the video and the end
• sync up a few more shots, mainly the guitar
• establish a greater link between the voodoo doll and our actor
• Show the girl more
• Maybe some more angles and variation
• Maintain pace throughout the video.
• Color correct entire video

Overall I am confident with how our video is coming along and I believe with more time we can really create something good. This post was very useful as watching my video through a critical eye has allowed me to see where we can improve and be the best we can be. We also asked many of our peers for feedback and this was udeful as it has given us the angle of an unbiased, average media prosumer.

Here are some of our story Sheets for our music video. 

These are our Narrative shot sheets.

Camera shot list:

• Behind the back walking longshot, potential depth of field antics
• establishing shot on bunker
• Whip pan onto voodoo doll
• extreme closeup of needle going into voodoo doll
• Jumpshot so doll appears and disappears
• Close ups to show facial expressions and acting
• Mid shot to show the doll well
• Shots showing the effect of the doll on the actor
• Pan to establish the setting
• Ped to create suspense

Overall this post details some of the shots that we will use for our narrative shoot. These shots are an important part of our video as they really help to convey the narrative and themes of the video. The voodoo doll shot in particular is crucial as it needs to stand out as it holds a large significance for the theme of our video. This task was very useful as now we are much more prepared to get these shots and we have discussed and analyzed which shots will allow us to have the most narrative impact on a scene and by doing this we are more organized and  prepared for what we hope to achieve.

This is our first draft of our music video for Rango by Catfish And The Bottlemen. Overall it went together fairly easily as we had plenty of useable footage to work with and a fairly vast choice of shots. I think what we created was decent although I think there are certainly areas which require improvement.

Positives:

• Fast pace of edit at the start
• Cuts follow the beat and pulse of the song
• Good lighting in most of it so it isn’t jarring
• Edits make sense and work nicely together

Negatives:

• Not enough variety of distances ie; Close up
• Some shots are held for too long
• Could be colour corrected in areas, potentially black and white
• Potentially more energetic performance from actors

Targets to improve:

I believe in order to improve what we have we may need to get even more shots and add in a wider variety of distances, we need to add more transitions swell as there where very few in our current video. I think we need more energy from the actors aswell. I think overall this first draft is fine but it can definitely be improved and I think us lacking some shots really impaired our ability to create it to its fullest.

• Far more transitions
• Colour correction
• Higher energy performance
• Don’t hold shots for too long
• More angles and distances